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Meghan Donohue and Andrew Davies assembling X-Spar buoy at the dock.

Meghan Donohue and Andrew Davies assembling X-Spar buoy at the dock.
Meghan Donohue and Andrew Davies assembling X-Spar buoy at the dock.
Meghan Donohue and Andrew Davies assembling X-Spar buoy at the dock.
Meghan Donohue and Andrew Davies assembling X-Spar buoy at the dock.
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Kostel, Kenneth
Meghan Donohue and Andrew Davies assembling X-Spar buoy at the dock.
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02/13/2015
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X-Spar is an expendable buoy developed by Carol Anne Clayson and John Toole that collects air-sea data from hard-to-reach places.
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Technicians Meghan Donohue (left) and Andrew Davies worked through a bitterly cold morning in February to assemble a new expendable spar (X-spar) buoy conceived by WHOI scientists Carol Anne Clayson and John Toole. The buoy is designed to gather a variety of oceanographic and atmospheric data from remote and hostile locations. Places like the Southern Ocean are poorly studied compared to other locations on Earth because of its distance from major ports and the storms that regularly circle Antarctica. X-spar should help to fill the gaps in data that scientists need to better understand the planet's climate system.
Photo by Ken Kostel
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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