In collaboration with the Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation, Student Drifters is as an educational program for formal and informal learning. Educators can address multiple disciplines including Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM), and customize their lesson plans with existing resources from simple concepts of latitude and longitude to complex studies of dispersion.
Students are able to use hands-on skills to create a drifter that tracks marine data. The idea is that the drifter can be built in any high school shop class.
Get in contact with a local captain that can help deploy your drifter. If you need help finding someone to launch your drifter we can help.
Students are able to see real-time data from their drifter. We provide educational lesson plans that compliment the hands-on building.
Built primarily by students at various schools, the drifter has evolved over the years to be easier to build, less costly, and involve much less plastic.
*Base price is listed. Additional charges may be added for shipping, tracking, etc.
$1,200*
For those looking to track a deeper subsurface current, we supply the drogue, tether, surface float, and tracker needed to do so. We follow the oceanographic standards in configuration to provide the 40-1 drag ratio spec as set by the World Ocean Circulation Experiment.
*Base price is listed. Additional charges may be added for shipping, tracking, etc.
$1,300*
