The Benthic Rover II is a fully autonomous underwater vehicle capable of back-to-back long-duration deployments to 4,000 m depth. It provides key data about carbon in deep-sea ecosystems. Read more
Smith Jr, K. L., Sherman, A. D., McGill, P. R., Henthorn, R. G., Ferreira, J., Connolly, T. P., & Huffard, C. L. (2021). Abyssal Benthic Rover, an autonomous vehicle for long-term monitoring of deep-ocean processes. Science Robotics, 6(60), eabl4925.
https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens/ST-133/full (link to free version of paper)
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- Upper-ocean systems
- Midwater research
- Seafloor processes
- Areas of study
- Past research
