The Saildrone is a wind powered autonomous vehicle controlled from shore via satellite communications. As part of the Innovative Technology for Arctic Exploration program, PMEL partnered with two NOAA Cooperative Institutes and Saildrone Inc. to deploy two Saildrones on a 97 day mission in the Bering Sea in the spring of 2015 . http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/itae/
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From November 29 - December 21, 2014, scientists traveled to the Submarine Ring of Fire for a two-part expedition. The first part of the expedition focused on the study of iron-oxidizing bacteria at hydrothermal vents. During the second part of the expedition, scientists explored how the emission of carbon dioxide from active submarine volcanoes acidifies the local marine environment and how that in turn affects the unique biological communities living around the vents. See http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/14fire/