Pacific Gyre

AOML/NOAA uses all means to get drifters into the oceans. The drifter seen at the end of the video is a demonstration SVP-type drifter built by Pacific Gyre.

Grueling sailing race takes competitors 36,000 miles around the world while collecting climate data The boats go where few scientific missions travel, making the data they collect especially valuable.

Ignatius Rigor, of the Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington, is back in the field with Jim Johnson deploying his Pacific Gyre SideKick remote camera in the Arctic. Ignatius will send back 2000 images of his instrument deployment field over the next two months. The camera will provide important feedback on how the ice begins to break up as summer approaches. Another instrument in his array is a Pacific Gyre Universal Tracker to measure ice motion, temperature, and air pressure.

Mark Johnson and Andy Mahoney of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, worked with Pacific Gyre to build a platform measuring sea-ice motion. An article describing the work will be included in the next issue of the Journal of Ocean Technology.

Article Preview – The Journal of Ocean Technology

Sailing Ship Kwai Breaks Record as the Largest Ocean Clean-Up in History

Sailing Ship Kwai Breaks Record as the Largest Ocean Clean-Up in History A motor-sailing cargo ship named Kwai brought home 100 tons of fishing nets and disposable plastics from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (Gyre), setting the record as the largest ocean clean-up in history.

" ...the largest ever Pacific ocean cleanup." This article describes a drift net recovery effort. The described drift nets were tagged with Pacific Gyre trackers.

How to collect 40 tons of plastic from the ocean in a month Ghost nets float throughout the world, polluting oceans and trapping dolphins, turtles, and other sea life. A ship just docked in Hawaii with 40 tons of the stuff.