Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Researchers from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science have deployed an innovative, sensor-studded mooring – as tall as the Empire State Building – beneath waters in Antarctica usually inaccessible through the winter.

When people are attempting to clean up oil spills at sea, one of the key things they need to know is the amount of oil that's been spilled. In order to make that process easier, scientists have developed an ROV that does the job by measuring the thickness of oil slicks from below the surface.