{"id":20321,"date":"2012-03-13T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T01:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?p=20321"},"modified":"2012-03-13T17:00:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T01:00:30","slug":"marine-robots-break-record-for-journey-from-sf-bay-to-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2012\/03\/13\/marine-robots-break-record-for-journey-from-sf-bay-to-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Robots Break Record for Journey from SF Bay to Hawai&#8217;i"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wave Gliders are collecting data as they travel across the Pacific<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure  id=\"attachment_20333\" class=\"wp-caption right\" style=\"max-width: 285px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20333\" title=\"red-flash_0092_blog\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2012\/03\/red-flash_0092_blog-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"188\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Wave Gliders&quot; use wave energy to move and solar energy to power their scientific instruments.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Four ocean-going robots called <a href=\"http:\/\/liquidr.com\/technology\/wave-glider-concept\/\">Wave Gliders<\/a> have made their way from San Francisco to the Big Island of Hawai&#8217;i, setting a Guinness world record for distance traveled by an unmanned, wave-powered vehicle. They&#8217;re not just long-distance voyagers though, they&#8217;re also collecting data on ocean conditions and the weather.<\/p>\n<p>Wave Gliders, created by Sunnyvale-based\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/liquidr.com\/\">Liquid Robotics<\/a>, are about the size and shape of surfboards, but they do more than catch waves. They&#8217;re attached to a cable and a set of fins below the surface of the water, which capture wave energy and move the vehicle forward, and they&#8217;re equipped with solar panels and <a href=\"http:\/\/liquidr.com\/pacx\/pacxspecs\">scientific instruments<\/a>. They collect data and send it back via satellite, saving the time and money that go into manned research expeditions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The four gliders &#8212; each one is <a href=\"http:\/\/liquidr.com\/pacx\/names\/\">named after an oceanographer<\/a> &#8212; will continue their trip across the Pacific. Two of them will head across the Mariana Trench to Japan; the other two will veer south, to Australia. You can follow their progress and the data they collect on the <a href=\"http:\/\/liquidr.com\/pacx\/\">PacX Challenge website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Climate Watch<\/em> reported on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2009\/08\/29\/how-a-data-gathering-ocean-robot-was-born\/\">genesis of the idea<\/a> of Wave Gliders, and on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiareport.org\/archive\/R908310850\/a\">an early test<\/a> of the robots.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see one in action, this video from NOAA describes how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmel.noaa.gov\/edd\/wave_gliders.html\">they&#8217;re using Wave Gliders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mLAwcXt8_3I\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wave Gliders are collecting data as they travel across the Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[401],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-20321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thescience","tag-oceans"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - 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