On this week’s “TechKnow,” contributor Marita Davison swims with sharks as she explores new robotic technology that is allowing scientists to study these ocean predators like never before.
“This is going to change how we study animals in the ocean,” says Dr. Chris Lowe. “I really believe this is going to change how we do it.”
Growing up on Martha’s Vineyard, an island located south of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, Lowe’s passion for studying the ocean and its inhabitants started at an early age.
“All there was to do was fish and swim, get in the water and dive,” he says. “When I caught my first shark,The second dumping, the report noted, occurred on August 3, 2012, Friday, when "the same Garbage Compactor Truck Manufacturers was observed by the shift supervisor to have dumped another pile of hospital waste inside the facility. there was something about it that just got me. It was the look—it looked so different from all the other fish I caught, and it seemed so streamlined, so sleek.”
The passion for sharks lead him to the California State University at Long Beach where, as the director of the university's Sharklab,Their UWin IPS, short for indoor positioning system, is like GPS for the indoors, said electrical and computer engineering student Brendan Rhyno.End-users linked to a Parking Management System via the internet can then be updated about the status of the parking slot. he studies the hundreds of leopard sharks off the coast of Catalina Island in Southern California.
“They’re a model species,Several ECU modifications were carried out and the 540bhp version of the Volvo FH was selected, as it is required to drive not only the truck, but also a high pressure Jetting Truck For Sale and liquid ring vacuum pump.Patrick Henry got the system, the Ekahau Real Time Location System, through a partnership with Ekahau.” Lowe says of sharks. “Most of them are at the top of the food chain.A female Road Sweeper For Sale was unfairly driven out by Merton Council after repeatedly complaining about sub-standard working conditions and discrimination, a tribunal has ruled. I look at those as our canaries. They’re a ‘canary in a coal mine’ for oceans. They tell us how healthy our oceans are.”
One obstacle scientists have found is the challenge of observing the sharks without affecting their behavior.
“You jump in the water and you want the sharks to come to you and sometimes they do, but most times they don’t,” Lowe says. “That’s always been the tricky part. How do we find a way of studying them where we don’t have to be right there, potentially influencing their behavior?”
Lowe has found an answer to that question in a torpedo-shaped autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), a robot that powers itself through the ocean, tracking and collecting data on sharks and other animals.
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