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Seed Group: MESOS
Pages 71-77

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... Seed Group MESOS 25
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... This presents a conundrum where ocean-loving scientists on a limited budget have to ask the question of what is a more valuable; reducing marine debris by collecting broken drifters or investing in new drifters to continue ocean research. The average failure time of an Argo drifter is about three months, noted Chris Scholin, president and CEO of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute "What if we had an ambulatory system to recover them," he asked, suggesting that scientists furlough the boat and crew and use robotics to rescue robotics.
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... The team hoped their project would address questions from the scientific community about ecosystem organization, food web dynamics, surface to deep-sea connectivity, predator prey relationships, aggregations, and more. Solution "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," was Arthur C
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... Scholin dubbed this the R-cubed system, meaning refresh, recover, and rescue. Fully Loaded "We want to see, hear, feel, and taste the ocean," said Amy Mass, assistant scientist at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, as she presented MESOS to the NAKFI community.
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... "Are we trying to be all things to all people, or do we have a specific question and goal? " asked Kelly Benoit-Bird, a marine scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
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... There are substantial conversations across the scientific community about open sourced data, and the MESOS team was no exception. They all agreed that they want to make the data openly available.
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... They are considering expanding the flock of mother ducks and stationing them across the globe to create multiple data sets for comparative analyses geographically. Other groups at NAKFI are striving to create virtual reality worlds for public outreach and education.
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