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Tinkerer, sailor, real-time data guy
June 28, 2010Under the watchful gaze of his dog Little Bear, engineer Marshall Swartz adjusts an instrument in his lab at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Swartz recently discovered a way to turn ordinary sea cable into a data superhighway capable of relaying massive amounts of data from deep underwater to researchers at the surface. Swartz and a team of scientists from WHOI are using the new system to help track plumes of oil deep within the Gulf of Mexico. They are deploying instruments, including a current profiler and an underwater mass spectrometer, to determine the composition and movement of oil and other chemicals from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Real-time data from the instruments will reach them via Swartz’s cable. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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