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Looking for a detailed introduction to the Wirewalker? Here we discuss some of it’s key concepts and why it works so well.
The DMO Battery Canister is a great way to provide power to sensors to achieve the endurance your deployment requires.
Learn how to program the Carmanah M550 Marine Lantern with an IR remote control.
Getting a new Wirewalker? Here’s a checklist to help you get up and running as soon as possible.
A guide on assembling the buoy to wire coupling for real time applications.
Programming tips and tricks for a Wirewalker mounted ADCP. Includes a link to a paper describing processing steps.
Considerations for sensor placement and ballasting when customizing your Wirewalker.
Tips and tricks for getting the most out of your Wirewalker mounted RBR logger.
Some previous generation Wirewalkers are not compatible with the latest information and components. These Legacy Technical Notes are here for users that desire to continue using their early model Wirewalkers.
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| Year | Authors | Title | Periodical | DOI Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Maarten C. Buijsman, Amy F. Waterhouse, Edward D. Zaron, Badarvada Yadidya, Chengzhu Xu, Victoria Whitley, Jacob O. Wenegrat, Jinbo Wang, Alan J. Wallcraft, Dheeraj Varma, Babette C. Tchonang, Oladeji Siyanbola, Jay F. Shriver, Vitalii A. Sheremet, Uwe Send, Keshav J. Raja, Kurt Polzin, Hans E. Ngodock, Aurelie J. Moulin, Grant Meiners, Andrew J. Lucas, Matthias Lankhorst, Joseph J. Kuehl, Samuel M. Kelly, Luke Kachelein, Yonglin Huang, Caeli Griffin, James B. Girton, J. Thomas Farrar, Audrey Delpech, Zihan Chen, Eric P. Chassignet, Matthew J. Carrier, Annalisa Bracco, Brian K. Arbic, Magdalena Andres, and Mujeeb A. Abdulfatai | A Multiagency Experiment on Internal Wave Energy, Mixing, and Interactions and Their Representation in Global Ocean Models and Operational Forecasts | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Link |
| 2026 | Tamara L. Schlosser, Andrew J. Lucas, Melissa Omand, and J. Thomas Farrar | Monsoons, plumes, and blooms: intraseasonal variability of subsurface primary productivity in the Bay of Bengal | Ocean Science | Link |
| 2026 | Edward D. Zaron, Amy F. Waterhouse, Jinbo Wang, Uwe Send, and Andrew J. Lucas | Observations of Baroclinic Tides in the California Current From the SWOT Satellite Altimeter and In Situ Data | Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans | Link |
| 2025 | David A. Caron, Alle A. Y. Lie, Brittany Stewart, Amanda Tinoco, Isha Kalra, Stephanie A. Smith ,Adam L. Willingham, Shawn Sneddon, Jayme Smith, Eric Webb, Kyra Florea and Meredith D. A. Howard | Spatial Structure and Temporal Dynamics in Clear Lake, CA: The Role of Wind in Promoting and Sustaining Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms | MDPI: Water | Link |
| 2025 | Yosvany Garcia-Santos, Diego A. Narváez, Gonzalo S. Saldías, Martín Jacques-Coper, Deniz Bozkurt, René Garreaud, and Valentina Valdés-Castro | Impact of atmospheric rivers on coastal oceanographic conditions off central-southern Chile | Scientific Reports | Link |
| 2025 | Siddhant Kerhalkar, Amit Tandon, J. Thomas Farrar, Jennifer MacKinnon, Tamara Schlosser, Luke Johnson, Andrew Lucas, Luca Centurioni, and Verena Hormann | Modulation of Diurnal SST and Diurnal Warm Layer Variability by Salinity-Driven Stratification in the Bay of Bengal | Journal of Physical Oceanography | Link |
| 2025 | J. Reis, M. Merrifield, J. J. Gomiz-Pascual, C. Lucas, R. Caldeira, and M. Bruno | The Generation of Nonlinear Internal Waves over the Submarine Ridge Connecting Madeira and Desertas Islands | Journal of Physical Oceanography | Link |
| 2025 | Jinbo Wang, Andrew J. Lucas, Scott Stalin, Matthias Lankhorst, Uwe Send, Oscar Schofield, Luke Kachelein, Bruce Haines, Christian Meinig, Robert Pinkel, J. Thomas Farrar, and Lee-Lueng Fu | SWOT Mission Validation of Sea Surface Height Measurements at Sub-100 km Scales | Geophysical Research Letters | Link |
| 2024 | S. Abir, H. A. McGowan, Y. Shaked, H. Gildor, E. Morin, and N. G. Lensky | Air–sea interactions in stable atmospheric conditions: lessons from the desert semi-enclosed Gulf of Eilat (Aqaba) | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | Link |
| 2024 | Alexander Andriatis, Luc Lenain, Matthew H. Alford, Nathaniel Winstead, and Joseph Geiman | Observations and Numerical Simulations of the Onset and Growth of Langmuir Circulations | Journal of Physical Oceanography | Link |
| 2024 | Taylor McKie, Andrew J. Lucas, and Jennifer MacKinnon | Submesoscale Dynamics in the Bay of Bengal: Inversions and Instabilities | Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans | Link |
| 2024 | Sarah A. Rautenbach, Carlos Mendes de Sousa, Mafalda Carapuço, and Paulo Relvas | High-resolution observations of the ocean upper layer south of Cape St. Vincent, the western northern margin of the Gulf of Cádiz | Earth System Science Data | Link |
| 2023 | Jacob P. DeFilippis, Bruce D. Cornuelle, Andrew J. Lucas, William S. Hodgkiss, Luc Lenain, W. A. Kuperman, and Matthew H. Alford | Observations and simulations of caustic formation due to oceanographic fine structure | The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | Link |
| 2023 | Alexandria K. Niebergall, Shawnee Traylor, Yibin Huang, Melanie Feen, Meredith G. Meyer, Heather M. McNair, David Nicholson, Andrea J. Fassbender, Melissa M. Omand, Adrian Marchetti, Susanne Menden-Deuer, Weiyi Tang, Weida Gong, Philippe Tortell, Roberta Hamme, and Nicolas Cassar | Evaluation of new and net community production estimates by multiple ship-based and autonomous observations in the Northeast Pacific Ocean | Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene | Link |
| 2023 | Bofu Zheng, Andrew J. Lucas, Peter J. S. Franks, Tamara L. Schlosser, Clarissa R. Anderson, Uwe Send, Kristen Davis, Andrew D. Barton, and Heidi M. Sosik | Dinoflagellate vertical migration fuels an intense red tide | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) | Link |
| 2022 | Colleen A. Durkin, Ivona Cetinić, Margaret Estapa, Zrinka Ljubešić, Maja Mucko, Aimee Neeley & Melissa Omand | Tracing the path of carbon export in the ocean though DNA sequencing of individual sinking particles | The ISME Journal | Link |
| 2022 | Kyra Florea, Brittany Stewart, Eric Webb, David Caron, and Jayme Smith | Environmental Drivers of Cyanobacterial HarmfulAlgal Blooms and Cyanotoxins in Clear Lake: 2020-2021 | Southern CA Coastal Water Reasearch Project: Technical Report 1261 | Link |
| 2022 | Andrew J. Lucas and Robert Pinkel | Observations of Coherent Transverse Wakes in Shoaling Nonlinear Internal Waves | Journal of Physical Oceanography | Link |
| 2022 | Jinbo Wang, Lee-Lueng Fu, Bruce Haines, Matthias Lankhorst, Andrew J. Lucas, J. Thomas Farrar, Uwe Send, Christian Meinig, Oscar Schofield, Richard Ray, Matthew Archer, David Aragon, Sebastien Bigorre, Yi Chao, John Kerfoot, Robert Pinkel, David Sandwell, and Scott Stalin | On the Development of SWOT In Situ Calibration/Validation for Short-Wavelength Ocean Topography | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology | Link |
| 2021 | Azevedo, C. C., Camargo, C. M. L., Alves, J., & Caldeira, R. M. A. | Convection and Heat Transfer in Island (Warm) Wakes | Journal of Physical Oceanography | Link |
| 2021 | Le Boyer, A., Alford, M. H., Couto, N., Goldin, M., Lastuka, S., Goheen, S., Nguyen, S., Lucas, A. J., & Hennon, T. D. | Modular, Flexible, Low-Cost Microstructure Measurements: The Epsilometer | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology | Link |
| 2021 | Garwood, J.C., Lucas, A.J., Naughton, P., Roberts, P.L.D., Jaffe, J.S., deGelleke, L. and Franks, P.J.S. | Larval cross‐shore transport estimated from internal waves with a background flow: The effects of larval vertical position and depth regulation | Limnology and Oceanography | Link |
| 2021 | MacKinnon, J.A., Simmons, H.L., Hargrove, J. et al. | A warm jet in a cold ocean | Nature Communications | Link |
| 2021 | Melissa M. Omand, Deborah K. Steinberg, and Karen Stamieszkin | Cloud shadows drive vertical migrations of deep-dwelling marine life | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Link |
| 2021 | Bofu Zheng, Andrew J. Lucas, Robert Pinkel, and Arnaud Le Boyer | Fine-Scale Velocity Measurement on the Wirewalker Wave-Powered Profiler | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology | Link |
| 2020 | Drysdale, Lewis; Hopkins, Joanne ; Wakelin, Sarah | The impact that resolving the internal tide in shelf sea models makes to the dynamics and variability of phytoplankton growth with the subsurface chlorophyll maximum | [Poster] In: Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego, California, 16-21 February 2020 | Link |
| 2020 | Fearon, G., Herbette, S., Veitch, J., Cambon, G., Lucas, A. J., Lemarié, F., & Vichi, M. | Enhanced vertical mixing in coastal upwelling systems driven by diurnal‐inertial resonance: Numerical experiments | Journal of Geophysical Research | Link |
| 2020 | Feen, Melanie | Chlorophyll Fluorescence Corrections From A Rapid-Profiling, Autonomous Wirewalker | Open Access Master's Theses | Link |
| 2020 | Garwood, J.C., Lucas, A.J., Naughton, P., Alford, M.H., Roberts, P.L.D., Jaffe, J.S., deGelleke, L. and Franks, P.J.S. | A novel cross‐shore transport mechanism revealed by subsurface, robotic larval mimics: Internal wave deformation of the background velocity field | Limnology and Oceanography | Link |
| 2020 | Grimes, D. J., Feddersen, F., Giddings, S. N., & Pawlak, G. | Cross-Shore Deformation of a Surfzone-Released Dye Plume by an Internal Tide on the Inner Shelf | Journal of Physical Oceanography | Link |
| 2020 | Mahadevan, A., Pascual, A., Rudnick, D. L., Ruiz, S., Tintoré, J., & D’Asaro, E. | Coherent Pathways for Vertical Transport from the Surface Ocean to Interior | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Link |
| 2020 | Poulain, P.-M., Cozzani, E., Pennucci, G., Lewis, C., Lathuiliere, C., Bordoix, L., and Centurioni, L. | High-frequency dynamics near the shelf break southwest of Svalbard | EGU General Assembly, Online, 4–8 May 2020 | Link |
| 2020 | Smith, J. A. | A Comparison of Two Methods Using Thorpe Sorting to Estimate Mixing | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology | Link |
| 2019 | Katherine Adams, Jennifer MacKinnon, Andrew J. Lucas, Jonathan Nash, Emily Shroyer, J. Thomas Farrar. | Multi-platform observations of small-scale lateral mixed layer variability in the northern Bay of Bengal | Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography | Link |
| 2019 | S. C. Cumbee | WireWalker Experiences with Two Navy-Funded Systems Utilizing Iridium Communications | OCEANS 2019 MTS/IEEE SEATTLE, Seattle, WA | Link |
| 2019 | Madeleine M. Hamann | The dynamics of internal tides and mixing in coastal systems | 2019 PhD thesis | None |
| 2019 | R. Pinkel, A. J. Lucas, M. A. Goldin, M. H. Alford and J. MacKinnon | Ocean Current Measurement in a Density Following Reference Frame | IEEE/OES Twelfth Current, Waves and Turbulence Measurement (CWTM), San Diego, CA | Link |
| 2019 | Shaun Johnston , Jennifer A. MacKinnon, Patrick L. Colin, Patrick J. Haley Jr., Pierre F.J. Lermusiaux, Andrew J. Lucas, Mark A. Merrifield, Sophia T. Merrifield, Chris Mirabito, Jonathan D. Nash, Celia Y. Ou, Mika Siegelman, Eric J. Terrill, Amy F. Waterhouse | Energy and Momentum Lost to Wake Eddies and Lee Waves Generated by the North Equatorial Current and Tidal Flows at Peleliu, Palau | Oceanography | Link |
| 2019 | Mazzini, P. L. F., Chant, R. J., Scully, M. E., Wilkin, J., Hunter, E. J., & Nidzieko, N. J. | The impact of wind forcing on the thermal wind shear of a river plume | Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans | Link |
| 2019 | Schlosser, T. L., Jones, N. L., Musgrave, R. C., Bluteau, C. E., Ivey, G. N., & Lucas, A. J. | Observations of Diurnal Coastal-Trapped Waves with a Thermocline-Intensified Velocity Field | Journal of Physical Oceanography | Link |
| 2019 | Schlosser, T. L., Jones, N. L., Bluteau, C. E., Alford, M. H., Ivey, G. N., & Lucas, A. J. | Generation and Propagation of Near-Inertial Waves in a Baroclinic Current on the Tasmanian Shelf | Journal of Physical Oceanography | Link |
| 2019 | Walcutt NL, Knörlein B, Sgouros T, Cetinić I and Omand MM | Virtual Reality and Oceanography: Overview, Applications, and Perspective | Frontiers in Marine Science | Link |
| 2018 | Fernández‐Castro, B., Gilcoto, M., Naveira‐Garabato, A. C., Villamaña, M., Graña, R., & Mouriño‐Carballido, B. | Modulation of the semidiurnal cycle of turbulent dissipation by wind‐driven upwelling in a coastal embayment | Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans | Link |
| 2018 | Grant C. Pitcher, Francisco G. Figueiras, Raphael M. Kudela, Teresa Moita, Beatriz Reguera, Manuel Ruiz-Villareal | Key questions and recent research advances on harmful algal blooms in eastern boundary upwelling systems | In: Global ecology and oceanography of harmful algal blooms | Link |
| 2018 | Ramachandran, S., Tandon, A., Mackinnon, J., Lucas, A. J., Pinkel, R., Waterhouse, A. F., Nash, J., Shroyer, E., Mahadevan, A., Weller, R. A., & Farrar, J. T. | Submesoscale Processes at Shallow Salinity Fronts in the Bay of Bengal: Observations during the Winter Monsoon | Journal of Physical Oceanography | Link |
| 2018 | Jayme Smith, Alyssa G Gellene, Katherine A Hubbard, Holly A Bowers, Raphael M Kudela, Kendra Hayashi, David A Caron | Pseudo-nitzschia species composition varies concurrently with domoic acid concentrations during two different bloom events in the Southern California Bight | Journal of Plankton Research | Link |
| 2018 | Yalin Fan, Ewa Jarosz, Zhitao Yu, W. Erick Rogers, Tommy G. Jensen, and Jun-hong Liang | The Effect of Background Salinity Gradient on Langmuir Turbulence | Ocean Sciences Meeting, Feb 2018, Portland, OR | Link |
| 2017 | Alberty, M. S., Billheimer, S., Hamann, M. M., Ou, C. Y., Tamsitt, V., Lucas, A. J., and Alford, M. H. | A reflecting, steepening, and breaking internal tide in a submarine canyon | Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans | Link |
| 2017 | Centurioni, L.R., V. Hormann, L.D. Talley, I. Arzeno, L. Beal, M. Caruso, P. Conry, R. Echols, H.J.S. Fernando, S.N. Giddings, A. Gordon, H. Graber, R.R. Harcourt, S.R. Jayne, T.G. Jensen, C.M. Lee, P.F.J. Lermusiaux, P. L’Hegaret, A.J. Lucas, A. Mahadevan, J.L. McClean, G. Pawlak, L. Rainville, S.C. Riser, H. Seo, A.Y. Shcherbina, E. Skyllingstad, J. Sprintall, B. Subrahmanyam, E. Terrill, R.E. Todd, C. Trott, H.N. Ulloa, and H. Wang | Northern Arabian Sea Circulation-Autonomous Research (NASCar): A research initiative based on autonomous sensors | Oceanography | Link |
| 2017 | Hosegood, Phil & Nightingale, Philip & Rees, Andrew & Widdicombe, Claire & Woodward, E. & Clark, Darren & Torres, Ricardo | Nutrient Pumping by Submesoscale Circulations in the Mauritanian Upwelling System | Progress in Oceanography | Link |
| 2017 | Lucas, A.J., R. Pinkel, and M. Alford | Ocean wave energy for long endurance, broad bandwidth ocean monitoring | Oceanography | Link |
| 2017 | Meredith D.A. Howard, Raphael M. Kudela, Karen McLaughlin | New insights into impacts of anthropogenic nutrients on urban ecosystem processes on the Southern California coastal shelf: Introduction and synthesis | Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science | Link |
| 2017 | Omand, M., Cetinić, I., & Lucas, A | Using Bio-Optics to Reveal Phytoplankton Physiology from a Wirewalker Autonomous Platform | Oceanography | Link |
| 2017 | J. Smith | Fall 2015 Hyperion Treatment Plant Effluent Diversion to the 1-Mile Outfall Comprehensive Monitoring Program Final Report. April 26, 2017. Environmental Monitoring Division, City of Los Angeles | Environmental Monitoring Division, LA | None |
| 2016 | Balfour, C.; Hopkins, J. ; Kenny, J.; Jones, D.S.; Jones, E. | NOC Liverpool report for the Wirewalker underwater profiler deployment for the RidgeMix research programme | National Oceanography Centre Research and Consultancy Report | Link |
| 2016 | Feddersen, F., M. Olabarrieta, R. T. Guza, D. Winters, B. Raubenheimer, and S. Elgar | Observations and modeling of a tidal inlet dye tracer plume | Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans | Link |
| 2016 | Lotliker, A.A., M.M. Omand, A.J. Lucas, S.R. Laney, A. Mahadevan, and M. Ravichandran | Penetrative radiative flux in the Bay of Bengal | Oceanography | Link |
| 2016 | Lucas, A.J., J.D. Nash, R. Pinkel, J.A. MacKinnon, A. Tandon, A. Mahadevan, M.M. Omand, M. Freilich, D. Sengupta, M. Ravichandran, and A. Le Boyer | Adrift upon a salinity-stratified sea: A view of upper-ocean processes in the Bay of Bengal during the southwest monsoon | Oceanography | Link |
| 2016 | T.L. Schlosser , N.L. Jones , C.E. Bluteau , A.J. Lucas and G. Ivey | A dominant near-inertial internal wave field on the Tasmanian Continental Shelf | 20th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, 5-8 December 2016, Perth, Aus | Link |
| 2016 | Son, Y. T., Chang, K. I. , Nam, S., Kang, D. J. | Variation of subsurface chlorophyll maximum layer from the vertical profiler and in-situ observation in the eastern coastal region of Korea (the East/Japan Sea) | Conference proceedings Ocean Sciences Meeting, Feb 21-26, 2016. New Orleans, LA | None |
| 2016 | H. Wijesekera, E. Shroyer, A. Tandon, M. Ravichandran, D. Sengupta, S.U.P. Jinadasa, H. Fernando, A. J. Lucas, et al | ASIRI: An Ocean-Atmosphere Initiative for Bay of Bengal | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Link |
| 2015 | Kudela, R.M., Lucas, A.J., Hayashi, K, Howard, M. | Death from below: Investigation of inhibitory factors in bloom development during a wastewater effluent diversion | Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science | Link |
| 2015 | Lucas, A.J., Kudela, R.M. | The fine-scale vertical variability of a wastewater plume in shallow, stratified coastal waters | Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science | Link |
| 2015 | Spydell, M. S., F. Feddersen, M. Olabarrieta, J. Chen, R. T. Guza, B. Raubenheimer, and S. Elgar | Observed and modeled drifters at a tidal inlet | Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans | Link |
| 2014 | Lucas, AJ, Pitcher GC, Probyn TA, Kudela RM. | The influence of diurnal winds on phytoplankton dynamics in a coastal upwelling system off southwestern Africa | Deep-Sea Research Part II-Topical Studies in Oceanography | Link |
| 2014 | Lucas, A. J., E. L. Shroyer, H. W. Wijesekera, H. J. S. Fernando, E. D'Asaro, M. Ravichandran, S. U. P. Jinadasa et al. | Mixing to Monsoons: Air-Sea Interactions in the Bay of Bengal | Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union | Link |
| 2014 | Pitcher, GC, Probyn TA, du Randt A, Lucas AJ, Bernard S, Evers-King H, Lamont T, Hutchings L. | Dynamics of oxygen depletion in the nearshore of a coastal embayment of the southern Benguela upwelling system | Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans | Link |
| 2012 | Omand, M. M., Feddersen, F., Guza, R. T., Franks, P. J. S. | Episodic vertical nutrient fluxes and nearshore phytoplankton blooms in Southern California | Limnology and Oceanography | Link |
| 2012 | Ullman, D. S., Codiga, D. L., Hebert, D., Decker, L. B., and Kincaid, C. R. | Structure and dynamics of the midshelf front in the New York Bight | Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans | Link |
| 2011 | Lucas, AJ, Dupont CL, Tai V, Largier JL, Palenik B, Franks PJS. | The green ribbon: Multiscale physical control of phytoplankton productivity and community structure over a narrow continental shelf | Limnology and Oceanography | Link |
| 2011 | Lucas, AJ, Franks PJS, Dupont CL. | Horizontal internal-tide fluxes support elevated phytoplankton productivity over the inner continental shelf | Limnology and Oceanography | Link |
| 2011 | Omand, MM, Leichter JJ, Franks PJS, Guza RT, Lucas AJ, Feddersen F. | Physical and biological processes underlying the sudden surface appearance of a red tide in the nearshore | Limnology and Oceanography | Link |
| 2011 | Pinkel, R, Goldin MA, Smith JA, Sun OM, Aja AA, Bui MN, Hughen T. | The Wirewalker: a vertically profiling instrument carrier powered by ocean waves | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology | Link |
| 2011 | Smith, JA, Pinkel R, Goldin M, Sun O, Nguyen S, Hughen T, Bui M, Aja A. | Wirewalker dynamics | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology | Link |
| 2001 | Rainville, L., and R. Pinkel | Wirewalker: An autonomous wave-powered vertical profiler | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology | Link |