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Welcome to Marine Technology
The Marine Technology Group
The Technology Development Group at SAMS has a long history of developing innovative instrumentation. This work has been done in support of the science of other groups within SAMS and elsewhere, as well as for our own projects.
The group, along with technology teams at NOCS and POL, submitted a successful and highly-rated proposal for technology development within the context of Oceans2025, the new integrated marine science plan being funded by NERC. This Oceans2025 technology theme will underpin much of the work of the group over the next few years, and will see us addressing the overall objective of developing an optimal marine observing network. Specific work packages are focussing on sensor optimisation, smart in situ data processing, platforms and communications. The work will complement other Oceans2025 work, both at SAMS (notably with the physics and geochemistry groups) and at other NERC-supported institutes, such as the Sea Mammal Research Unit at St Andrews
The group has always been involved in the development of drifting buoys. These buoys have combined technologies such as GPS, satellite communications and advanced low power microprocessors in order to collect a wide range of environmental data sets from the oceans and the poles. In more recent years the group has also become involved in the development of "lander" technology. Landers provide a platform from which to conduct deep sea experiments that cannot be performed in any other way. As a necessary part of our drifter development work we have developed considerable experience in the use of satellite communications from floating platforms.
Group Members
- Mr David Meldrum (Group Leader)
- Dr Keith Jackson
- Mr John Bass
- Mr Alistair James
The pages listed below present in more detail some of our current areas of research interest:
Data Telemetry
HOMER Profiler 