Saildrone (company)

Saildrone, Inc.
Company typePrivate
IndustryOcean drones
Founded2012
FounderRichard Jenkins
Headquarters
Alameda, California, U.S.
Key people
Richard Jenkins (CEO)
Barak Ben-Gal (CFO)
Mark Cuyler (COO)
Brian Hernacki (CTO)
Websitesaildrone.com

Saildrone, Inc. is a United States company based in Alameda, California, that designs, manufacturers, and operates a fleet of unmanned/uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs), or ocean drones, known as "saildrones". The company was founded by engineer Richard Jenkins in 2012.[1]

Saildrone customers and research partners include the various departments of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration[2][3][4][5] NASA, the University of New Hampshire,[6] the University of Rhode Island,[7] the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Australia),[8] the European Center for Medium-range Weather Forecasts,[9] GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (Germany),[10] the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute,[11] and others.

  1. ^ Vance, Ashlee (May 15, 2018). "This Armada of Saildrones Could Conquer the Ocean". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  2. ^ "Autonomous vessel operations in the Arctic: Lessons learned from the Summer 2020 Mapping Mission". NOAA Office of Coast Survey. October 8, 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  3. ^ "Ocean Drone Sails into Category 4 Hurricane Sam". Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML). October 4, 2021. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  4. ^ "Ocean-Going Robots Poised to Enter Bering Sea to Start Unconventional Fisheries Survey". NOAA Fisheries. July 1, 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  5. ^ "Saildrone". Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC). NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 18 March 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  6. ^ "UNH Sails into the Next Generation of Ocean Mapping With NOAA Grant". University of New Hampshire. December 10, 2019. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  7. ^ "URI oceanographer part of pioneering study to improve weather prediction and global carbon budget understanding". University of Rhode Island. April 13, 2021. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  8. ^ Knight, Renee (January 30, 2018). "CSIRO Forms Partnership with Saildrone". Inside Unmanned Systems. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  9. ^ Dahoui, Mohamed; Pidduck, Emma; Ingleby, Bruce; Isaksen, Lars; de Halleux, Sebastien (October 2019). "Use of saildrone observations at ECMWF". No. 161. European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  10. ^ Nicolai, Maike (October 1, 2021). "Maiden voyage tracking carbon dioxide in the ocean". GEOMAR. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  11. ^ Peterson, Ken (April 20, 2018). "Voyage to the White Shark Café". Monterey Bay Aquarium. Retrieved 16 October 2021.