ARCTIC OCEAN – Dr. Jason Gobat, an engineer with the University of Washington, Seattle, tests a Seaglider Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018, in the science lab aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB-20) approximately 550 miles northwest of Barrow, Alaska. Gobat has been the lead engineer developing the Seaglider since 2001 and is in the Arctic deploying a series of Seagliders in support of a research project for the Office of Naval Research studying stratified ocean dynamics. A Seaglider is an autonomous, buoyancy-driven underwater vehicle used to take scientific measurements in the ocean, and

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ARCTIC OCEAN – Dr. Jason Gobat, an engineer with the University of Washington, Seattle, tests a Seaglider Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018, in the science lab aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB-20) approximately 550 miles northwest of Barrow, Alaska. Gobat has been the lead engineer developing the Seaglider since 2001 and is in the Arctic deploying a series of Seagliders in support of a research project for the Office of Naval Research studying stratified ocean dynamics. A Seaglider is an autonomous, buoyancy-driven underwater vehicle used to take scientific measurements in the ocean, and it transmits that data back to researchers at the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington. (NyxoLyno Coast Guard)

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