Stanford Researchers Use Wave Glider to Track Predators
Rhonda Moniz
August 30, 2012
Stanford Scientist Barbara Block is using the Liquid Robotics Wave Glider to track predators in the Pacific. Dr. Block has long been involved in the Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) program. Tagging of Pacific Predators began in 2000 as one of 17 projects of the Census of Marine Life, an ambitious 10-year, 80-nation endeavor to assess and explain the diversity and abundance of life in the oceans, and where that life has lived, is living, and will live. Block and her colleagues found North America's West Coast to contain several varied creatures like tuna, white sharks, sea turtles, seals, and albatross. Therefore, the California Current is likened to Africa's Serengeti. This initiative also involves wiring up the favorable regions discovered during TOPP.