Gliders Labrador Sea – Glider News from the Sea

News Article on our Glider Work

The gazette released a new article on our glider work in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Labrador Sea, featuring the work we are doing as part of the TReX and HOTSeALS project. The article link is here: https://gazette.mun.ca/research/the-right-tools/#

VITALS CO2 Glider Study Published

Paper including 2016 and 2018 glider deployments using the Aanderaa CO2 Optode published in Ocean Science https://os.copernicus.org/articles/17/1/2021/os-17-1-2021.html

Pearldiver Recovered

Thumbs up for a successful 7 month glider mission (and back!) into the Labrador Sea!!! In December 2019 we deployed a glider into the Labrador Sea to collect temperature, salinity and oxygen data in the winter time as part of the HOTSeALS project. Now we have our glider back safely in our lab almost fullContinue reading “Pearldiver Recovered”

Recovery of Scapa and Ziggy

Last week, we were able to retrieve gliders for our TERIFIC (link) friends at NOC after collecting data for 5 months in the Labrador Sea. After figuring out a safety plan to minimize health concerns due to COVID-19 we got out our field work gear and went to Trinity Bay, NL. We had to goContinue reading “Recovery of Scapa and Ziggy”