{"id":21,"date":"2017-04-12T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/template-blue-prepop\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2018-03-07T16:39:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T20:39:52","slug":"mesobot","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/pwiebe\/projects\/mesobot\/","title":{"rendered":"MESOBOT Development Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>MESOBOT Development Project<\/h1>\n<p>A new NSF OTIC funded project is underway to design and build: \u201cMesobot: A Robot for Investigating the Ocean Interior\u201d. Mesobot will be a small underwater vehicle operated as a robot that will have an array of sensors and sufficient artificial intelligence to be able to track slow-moving individual targets such as migrating mid-water animals, descending particles, and rising bubbles and droplets either while tethered or autonomously in the upper 1000 m of the water column. It will be able to take pumped-filter samples for small zooplankton, environmental DNA, and particles as well as water and filtrate samples.This robot will be used in a WHOI project intended to develop an integrated science and technology program to understand the structure and dynamics of the Mesopelagic &#8220;Twilight&#8221; Zone\u201d including an improved understanding of midwater ecosystems, especially the biological carbon pump, and highlighting the anthropogenic threats to the ocean&#8217;s interior biota including climate change and overfishing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/pwiebe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/02\/Mesobot_Intro-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Funding Agencies<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/templates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/nsf.png\" alt=\"nsf\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>The National Science Foundation OTIC program provided funding for the development of Mesobot.<\/p>\n<h3>Partners\/Collaborators<\/h3>\n<p>This is a joint project between scientists and engineers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX, , the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, and Stanford University, Stanford, CA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MESOBOT Development Project A new NSF OTIC funded project is underway to design and build: \u201cMesobot: A Robot for Investigating the Ocean Interior\u201d. Mesobot will be a small underwater vehicle operated as a robot that will have an array of sensors and sufficient artificial intelligence to be able to track slow-moving individual targets such as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/pwiebe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/pwiebe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/pwiebe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/pwiebe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/pwiebe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/pwiebe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/pwiebe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/206"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/pwiebe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/pwiebe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}