Joint projects will benefit NOAA research and operations
NOAA’s Office of Marine and Aviation Operations and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego are partnering to improve how unmanned systems (UxS) are used to collect important ocean observations and augment NOAA’s operational capabilities.
Grant Rawson of NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Marine & Atmospheric Studies at the University of Miami (left) and Julian Morrell, student at University of Puerto Rico, launching one of 30 ocean gliders that will track data this hurricane season to help improve hurricane prediction. (Both researchers are wearing face masks.) (Image credit: NOAA/CIMAS/CARICOOS)