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SGER: A Solar Powered Beacon for Autonomous Floats

<p>The PIs have requested a Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER) investigate the technology of solar powered floats while solving an important practical problem by building a "Solar Beacon" for floats. The beacon will power an ARGOS satellite tracking beacon with solar cells thus allowing a float to be tracked nearly indefinitely and making it much easier to recover. </p>

Contact Info

Principal Investigator

D'Asaro, Eric

PI Email

dasaro@apl.washington.edu

Program Manager

Alexandra Isern

Organization

University of Washington

Organization Address

4333 Brooklyn Ave NE

City

SEATTLE

State

WA

Zip

98195

Phone

2065434043

Information

Award Number

346615

Award Amount to Date

64885

NSF Directorate

GEO

NSF Organization

OCE

Award Instrument

Standard Grant

Programs
  • OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN
Program Element Codes
  • 1680
Program Reference Codes
  • OTHR
  • 9237
  • 0000
Field of Applications
  • 0204000 Oceanography
Start Date

2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last Amendment Date

2005-01-14T00:00:00Z

Expiration Date

2005-12-31T00:00:00Z