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.
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…
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 [...]
Bristol Community College’s drifter project was featured in The Herald News. Check it out!
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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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!
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.
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.