02/23/2026
🌊 Sometimes the best science starts with a chance conversation.
At Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024, our CEO Yi Chao started talking with two leading oceanographers — Mark Altabet from UMass Dartmouth and Eric D'Asaro from the Applied Physics Laboratory-UW. What started as a booth chat turned into a full scientific collaboration.
The mission? Push our infiniTE™ float into territory no profiling float has gone before.
Unlike battery-powered floats that ration profiles to conserve energy, the infiniTE™ harvests power directly from the ocean's own temperature gradients. That means no power penalty for more data, more profiles, more resolution. The float can also park at multiple depths, remaining long enough for sensors to collect reliable measurements — something no existing float could do.
The result: first-of-its-kind fine-scale ocean vertical structure captured — new ground for studying turbulence, ocean mixing, and carbon cycling.
We're proud of what this collaboration produced — and even prouder to say it all started with a conversation. 🤝
đź“Ť If you're at Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026 this week, come find us at Booth 129. We'd love to tell you more.
đź”— https://seatrec.com/seatrecs-infinite-profiling-float-captures-first-of-its-kind-fine-scale-ocean-vertical-structure/
Seatrec’s infiniTE™ Profiling Float captures first-of-its-kind fine-scale ocean vertical structure, powered by temperature gradients. A serendipitous AGU meeting sparked this mission to transform ocean measurement with thermal energy harvesting and advanced sensors.
