Welcome to the Drifter Blog where college faculty share their experiences with building and deploying drifters. Click on any of the blog titles to see the full post.
Feb
3
2010
MPC’s drifter, released Nov 14, 2009 flowed south to nearly Pt Conception and then turned around and flowed north to the latitude of Ano Nuevo, which is several miles north of where we released it. The Davidson Current Lives! Read more…
Jan
22
2010
We are in the final stages of putting together our river drifter. It’s our plan to use this drifter to show the path that trash takes from the urban areas of Los Angeles County out to the ocean. The drifter is a hybrid utilizing both the Amateur Radio APRS (http://www.aprs.org ) tracker and Jim Manning’s [...]
Dec
8
2009
Drifter Newsletter #4
December 2009
NOAA’s Adopt-a-Drifter Program
This initiative (www.adp.noaa.gov) has similar objectives to ours in that they engage teachers and students. We are considering ways to merge our respective projects in order to share resources.
In a proposal recently submitted to NOAA’s Northeast Consortium, we suggested a formal collaboration. The ADP program is already connected [...]
Dec
2
2009
Bristol Community College’s drifter project was featured in The Herald News. Check it out!
Nov
18
2009
Abstract notions of gyers, geostrophic flow, endless names of boundary currents, Ekman flow, and the Coriollis Effect can be overwhelming for students. At MPC this image of a CFCC drifter following the Gulf Stream helped make it all relevant.
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Nov
17
2009
MPC deploys their drifter again, but not before asking the students to predict where it will be in 2 days and in 4 days after deployment.
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Nov
13
2009
Our first community webinar was held on November 12, 2009. If you were not able to attend (or you just want to relive the experience) you can now watch the online recording of the session. LISTEN NOW!
Nov
10
2009
In an effort to plug gaps in knowledge about key ocean processes, the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s division of ocean sciences has awarded nearly $1 million to scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. The Scripps marine scientists will develop a new breed of ocean-probing instruments.
Nov
10
2009
More miscellaneous notes on drifters in mid-November 2009 …
Oct
20
2009
As Jim mentioned in the Newsletter, CFCC has succesfully deployed both drifters and are on their wayward endeavor.
Here at CFCC, everyone is getting in on the drifter madness as coordinates keep coming in and the drifters keep drifting.