Guest Seminar: To Sea and to See: That is the answer!

Speaker

Dr. Jules Jaffe
Researcher
Scripps Institute of Oceanography

Abstract

In this talk Dr. Jaffe will highlight his development of innovative passive robotic drifters and underwater microscopes to study a variety of phenomena related to the presence and passive transport of biological organisms by ocean physics.  In one example, a swarm of quasi-lagrangian floats, that were tracked underwater in 3D, provided data that indicated that depth keeping plankton would be either aggregated or able to “hitch a shoreward ride” on internal waves.  In another case a lab developed, towed underwater microscope recorded the maturation and transport of Grouper eggs after a spawning event on Little Cayman island.  Some consideration will also be given to future developments and opportunities such as machine learning, and a next generation of floats.