Pacific Gyre

06/06/2023

AOML/NOAA uses all means to get drifters into the oceans. The drifter seen at the end of the video is a demonstration SVP-type drifter built by Pacific Gyre.

The boats go where few scientific missions travel, making the data they collect especially valuable.

04/06/2022

Ignatius Rigor engages young people in the community with "Float Your Boat"https://www.tos.org/oceanography/assets/docs/35-forcucci.pdf

05/10/2021

Ignatius Rigor, of the Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington, is back in the field with Jim Johnson deploying his Pacific Gyre SideKick remote camera in the Arctic. Ignatius will send back 2000 images of his instrument deployment field over the next two months. The camera will provide important feedback on how the ice begins to break up as summer approaches. Another instrument in his array is a Pacific Gyre Universal Tracker to measure ice motion, temperature, and air pressure.

10/12/2020

Congratulations to all the scientists and institutions that participated in the very successful Mosaic Arctic expedition. During the cruise Pacific Gyre customers from the Alfred Wegner Institute, Oregon State University, and the University of Huddersfield deployed 8 sensor chains, 19 Universal Trackers, and 42 Ice Trackers.

The research ship Polarstern docked in Germany after nearly 13 months studying the rapidly changing region.

09/25/2020

Mark Johnson and Andy Mahoney of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, worked with Pacific Gyre to build a platform measuring sea-ice motion. An article describing the work will be included in the next issue of the Journal of Ocean Technology.

09/24/2020

The Float Your Boat project deploys a group of small wooden boat-hull shaped floats in the Artic to see where they end up. The boats are all deployed in a small cluster, typically arranged in letters naming the project or participating countries. A Pacific Gyre Universal Tracker is placed nearby to keep track of the cluster while they are still just sitting on the ice. Once the ice melts, the tracker and boats disperse and hopefully, are eventually found when they wash ashore somewhere. Boats have been found previously in places like Iceland and the UK.

https://www.facebook.com/explorethearctic/

Float Your Boat is a project where community members and students learn about the Arctic Ocean.

07/15/2020

Sailing Ship Kwai Breaks Record as the Largest Ocean Clean-Up in History

A motor-sailing cargo ship named Kwai brought home 100 tons of fishing nets and disposable plastics from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (Gyre), setting the record as the largest ocean clean-up in history.

07/14/2020

Help remove floating death traps from the ocean.

The Ocean Voyages Institute / Project Kaisei tags and recovers abandoned fishing drift nets that are floating in the ocean and killing turtles, dolphins and other ocean fauna.

The Sailing Vessel Kwai is on the second leg of a recovery cruise to pick up these nets. On the first leg they recovered 100 tons of nets, and hope to do the same this time. At this point, they have embarked without any guarantee their expenses will be covered.

Go to https://www.facebook.com/OceanVoyagesInstituteProjectKaisei/
and donate NOW.

Ocean Voyages Institute is a non-profit established in 1979, focused on the preservation of maritime arts and sciences, the ocean environment and island culture.

02/25/2020

Pacific Gyre customer Seth Danielson is part of a group of scientists studying changes in the Pacific Arctic ecosystem.

Exceptionally warm years in 2017–2019 have caused changes in the physical and biological characteristics of the Pacific Arctic Ocean. What these changes mean for the ecosystem and societal consequences will depend on if they are evidence of a transformation or anomalies in the system.

02/18/2020

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06/25/2019

" ...the largest ever Pacific ocean cleanup." This article describes a drift net recovery effort. The described drift nets were tagged with Pacific Gyre trackers.

Ghost nets float throughout the world, polluting oceans and trapping dolphins, turtles, and other sea life. A ship just docked in Hawaii with 40 tons of the stuff.