How autonomous vehicles and sensors could help reduce carbon and boost ocean discovery

We need to know if ocean-based technologies to reduce carbon dioxide and climate risk are viable, safe, and scalable.

Deep below the ocean surface, the light fades into a twilight zone where whales and fish migrate and dead algae and zooplankton rain down from above. This is the heart of the ocean’s carbon pump, part of the natural ocean processes that capture about a third of all human-produced carbon dioxide and sink it into the deep sea, where it remains for hundreds of years.