Research Team Designs Technology to Measure Carbon Dioxide in Oceans
New technology developed by University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers and their industry partners would enable an unmanned underwater vehicle to measure carbon dioxide in the ocean, to help develop climate change adaptation plans.
The design is now available to the scientific community, researchers at UAF's International Arctic Research Center said Nov. 26. The design was first published in the journal Ocean Science on Oct. 29.
Over the past six years, a team from the UAF International Arctic Research Center (IARC) and private companies developed a way to equip an autonomous underwater vehicle called a Seaglider, with a sensor that monitors carbon dioxide.
The sensor communicates with a satellite to provide high spatial and temporal resolution data for weeks at a time. This c...