Where might AUV science go

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Where might AUV science go? Karen J. Heywood
k.heywood_at_uea.ac.uk School of Environmental
Sciences University of East Anglia, Norwich
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• Autosub might be used to collect CTD data close
  to the sea bed in a slope current. This would
  require
• navigating say 20 m above the sea bed up a slope
• operating across a fairly strong current (say 20
  cm/s).

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Can we learn from the meteorological community in
how they study clouds? Can we fly AUVs through
clouds of frazil ice crystals?
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Autosub might be used to release, and then map, a
deliberate tracer such as SF6. This would entail
discharging the tracer, and then detecting it,
autonomously undertaking a lawnmower pattern in
three dimensions when it detects the edges of the
patch. Autosub might be used to deploy and
recover moorings in inaccessible places, such as
under an ice shelf.
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Collect data and water samples from close to an
erupting submarine volcano, or a black smoker.
Hot, caustic, sediment-laden environments.