What’s life like aboard a scientific research vessel plying the California coast deploying robots to unlock important data about climate change?
A team of scientists and engineers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley have just set out on such a venture. And they took along lab writer Sarah Yang to document the scientists’ work — and, along the way, to provide answers to burning questions like “how do the scientists keep their coffee mugs from sliding when the boat tips back and forth?” (See slideshow to find out.)
The team took off over the weekend on a mission to test updated versions of a robotic float used to measure carbon dynamics in the ocean.