Team

Principal Investigators: Andrew D. Bowen¹, Dana R. Yoerger¹, Christopher German¹, James C. Kinsey^1, Louis L. Whitcomb^1,2 Larry Mayer³

Engineering Team: Michael V. Jakuba¹ (lead), John W. Bailey (electrical systems), Stefano Suman (software systems), Casey Machado (mechanical), with supprt from Christopher L. Taylor¹, Daniel Gomez-Ibanez^1, and many others.

¹Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
²Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Dynamics, Johns Hopkins University
³Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, University of New Hampshire

Acknowledgements

Vehicle development was funded under NSF’s Office of Polar Programs ANT-1126311. Additional funding is provided by the James Family Foundation, the George Frederick Jewett Foundation East and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

We gratefully acknowledge support for field expeditions from NASA, NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences, NSF's OFfice of Polar Programs, NOAA's Office of Exploration and Research, the Office of Naval Research and WHOI.  We are also grateful for the contribution of ship time aboard the RV Polarstern from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar Research, Bremerhaven, Germany.