But it really, really is a fantastic instrument that revolutionized oceanography. The CTD literally enables us to see inside the ocean. Conductivity, temperature and pressure are converted into other ...

For the first time it really felt like what I imagined the Arctic Ocean would be: cold, windy, slate gray. Most of yesterday’s work involved launching and retrieving the CTD off the ship with ...

Researchers in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica (and elsewhere) have developed a sealCTD—a (small) CTD instrument strapped to a seal, which then gathers data that is otherwise quite hard to ...