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This project supports the deployment and real-time data delivery of autonomous underwater gliders in the coastal ocean to better resolve and understand essential regional ocean features. The goal of the project is to provide realtime, baseline data on the thermal structure of the Mid-Atlantic Bight shelf waters. The glider will be deployed out of Tuckerton, NJ and will transect in a “W” pattern offshore to the shelf break and back inshore, while traveling southward toward Chincoteague, VA.