{"id":618,"date":"2016-12-05T02:34:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T02:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/?p=618"},"modified":"2016-12-05T02:35:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T02:35:19","slug":"rosetta-ice-launches-first-alamo-float-in-ross-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"ROSETTA-Ice launches first Alamo float in Ross Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Springer (ESR) was part of the team making the first successful launch of an Alamo (air-launched autonomous micro observer) profiling float in the Ross Sea. The Alamo float measures profiles of temperature and salinity from the surface to the seabed in this difficult-to-reach part of the world. About once per day, the profiler comes to the surface and makes a phone call to send its data home to researchers in the US.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ldeo.columbia.edu\/news-events\/antarctica-has-new-explorer-testing-water-along-critical-ice-shelf\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Springer (ESR) was part of the team making the first successful launch of an Alamo (air-launched autonomous micro observer) profiling float in the Ross Sea. The Alamo float measures profiles of temperature and salinity from the surface to the seabed in this difficult-to-reach part of the world. About once per day, the profiler comes to the surface and makes a phone call to send its data home to researchers in the US. Learn more here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}