Revealing ocean-scale biochemical structure with a deep-diving vertical profiling autonomous vehicle

2020/11/18 by J. A. Breier, Michael V. Jakuba, Mak A. Saito +9 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Environmental Monitoring and Data Management #Marine and coastal ecosystems #Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

paper · doi:10.1126/scirobotics.abc7104

openalex publication_date 2020/11/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31

Abstract

conducts high-resolution sensor surveys and sample return missions, including a mapping of 1144 kilometers of the Sargasso Sea to a depth of 1000 meters. We further show how the samples obtain filtered biomass from seawater that enable genomic and proteomic measurements not possible through in situ sensing. These results demonstrate a robotic oceanography approach for global-scale surveys of ocean biochemistry.

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• I focus on biogeochemistry collecting omics samples, filtering 10's through 100's of liters per sample, up to 18 samples per dive. I've been used for metagenomics, metaproteomics, metatranscriptomics [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]

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