Robots to the Rescue

Victoria Preston talks about the ChemYak, an autonomous surface vehicle in an Oceanus feature. “When we think about the power of putting instruments on robotic machines that can place those instruments optimally, it’s so different than the oceanography of just a few decades ago,” says Preston, who is now a postdoctoral investigator at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). “Having access to so much data is changing the game in many fields.”