Studying Coastal Upwellings in Chile with Unmanned Gliders
In this fall series of podcasts, we introduce some of the winners and general entrants from the 2020 Teledyne Marine Photo Contest. Teledyne's annual Photo/ Data Contest concluded with over 80 qualified submissions that helped the company donate over $1200 to Save the Children as part of a charitable giving campaign.
In this episode we talk to Maria Valladares Antón, an oceanography technician and glider pilot at AquaPacífico Aquaculture Innovation Center at the Universidad Catholica de Norte. Maria submitted photos taken while deploying a Slocum glider in La Herradura Bay in Coquimbo, just north of Chile. Maria and an integrated team of scientists from other universities have been using the Slocum glider to study coastal upwellings and other oceanographic processes in the waters around Chile.
To learn more about the work that Maria and her colleagues are doing you can visit the AquaPacifico website at www.aquapacifico.cl. You can also find them on twitter at @AquaPacificoCL and on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/centroaquapacifico/
If you have any questions or comments about this show you can email host Melissa Rossi at [email protected].