The ARL:UT team launches the ATLAS sonar into Lake Huron.
Charles Loeffler, senior research engineer at the Applied Research Laboratories, and Russ Green, deputy superintendent and research coordinator of the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, are writing logs about their activities at Thunder Bay.
Stay in touch with the project which runs through Aug. 27, 2010, at its Web site. It includes the logs, photos and video.
Sonar mounted on the nose (left end) of the autonomous underwater vehicle will find unidentified shipwrecks at the bottom of Thunder Bay.
A group of researchers at the Applied Research Laboratories at the The University of Texas at Austin (ARL:UT) are cruising the Thunder Bay Maritime Sanctuary on Lake Huron, mapping the lake-floor for undiscovered shipwrecks and a prehistoric archeological site.
They are deploying an ARL:UT-developed sonar device, the Autonomous Topographic Large Area Survey (ATLAS) sonar, to gather high quality images of the
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