UW’s robotic fleet will probe under Antarctic ice shelves for clues to future sea-level rise

Later this month, a University of Washington researcher will heave a half-million dollars’ worth of robotic sensors into the frigid waters off Antarctica — and hope for the best.
If all goes well, the drones could gather some of the most extensive measurements ever from beneath the continent’s vast and vulnerable Western ice shelf. If things go wrong, the bots could vanish into the labyrinth of cavities and crevasses under the ice, never to be heard from again.  http://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article191577664.htmlArticle courtesy of The Olympian by Sandi Doughton / The Seattle Times

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