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June 4, 2018
TAS Susan Dee releases a drifter buoy off the side of NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow near the confluence of the Labrador current and the Gulf Stream.

Photo: Jerry Prezioso

When we were near the Northeast Channel in the Gulf of Maine, Latitude 41° 53.2′ N and Longitude 65°47.0′ W, I deployed a satellite-tracked Drifter Buoy decorated with our school name May River Sharks. The drifter buoy will send GPS and temperature data to a NOAA website and students will be able to track its path. This area was chosen to deploy because the Labrador current from the north meets with the Gulf Stream and hopefully the buoy will get caught up in one of the currents. It will be fun for students to track the buoy path in the fall. Wonder where it will go???
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