{"id":143641,"date":"2022-08-05T12:24:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T17:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/uncrewed-surface-vehicle-makes-studying-the-ocean-easy-and-affordable"},"modified":"2022-08-05T12:24:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T17:24:27","slug":"uncrewed-surface-vehicle-makes-studying-the-ocean-easy-and-affordable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/uncrewed-surface-vehicle-makes-studying-the-ocean-easy-and-affordable","title":{"rendered":"Uncrewed surface vehicle makes studying the ocean easy and affordable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uncrewed-surface-vehicle-makes-studying-the-ocean-easy-and-affordable2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPamela\u201d is an uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) developed as an entrepreneurial idea at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) for sampling a variety of surface water particles, from microplastic to plankton to salmon lice. The USV is a joint effort by an interdisciplinary team\u2014Andrea Faltynkova, a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Biology, and Artur Zolich, a postdoc at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics.<\/p>\n<p>Faltynkova studies microplastics in the ocean. Microplastics are bits of plastic smaller than 5 mm, which is roughly the size of the end of a pencil. While researchers know that microplastics can have negative effects on marine or freshwater organisms, there\u2019s less known about how they affect human health. But studying microplastics is a challenge because of the nature of the substance itself, she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMicroplastics are so heterogeneous. It\u2019s a very large, diverse group of particles. Not only that but they are very unevenly distributed. Microplastic is not like other dissolved pollutants that can be detected even in small quantities of water or soil. If you go and you take a liter from the sea, and there\u2019s no plastic in it, can you conclude that there is no plastic in the sea?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPamela\u201d is an uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) developed as an entrepreneurial idea at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) for sampling a variety of surface water particles, from microplastic to plankton to salmon lice. The USV is a joint effort by an interdisciplinary team\u2014Andrea Faltynkova, a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Biology, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,48,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-particle-physics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}