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    Matthew Oliver posted an update: 10 months ago

    We made a fun time-lapse video of a day in the life of our lab ORBLAB doing public outreach.

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    Matthew Oliver wrote a new blog post: Trip to Penguin Colony on Biscoe Point 1 year, 3 months ago

    ThumbnailFolks seem to like penguins….so much so that we even made the front page of the University of Delaware website! Hurray! This shot is of the Adelie penguin colony on Humble Island. We had just deployed a satellite transmitter on one of the birds so we would know where to send the underwater robots (Gliders and [...]

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    Matthew Oliver wrote a new blog post: Antarctic Storm Moves In 1 year, 3 months ago

    Thumbnail Our streak of excellent weather has officially come to an end with a large low pressure system in the Drake Passage . The weather was even tough tough for the ever-working “birders” who were going to deploy a few satellite tags on penguins today. REMUS missions are cancelled for the day. That might be good since one sprung [...]

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    Matthew Oliver wrote a new blog post: Penguins, AUV’s, Satellites: together at last 1 year, 3 months ago

    Thumbnail Is it possible to follow penguins from space to understand where and how they are feeding in Antarctica? Absolutely!..but not without an excellent team from University of Delaware, Rutgers University, Polar Oceans Research Group, and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. The sequence starts with the “Birders”. The “Birders” are from Polar Ocean Research…[Read more]