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LEGO Wayfinder

The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for budd...

in ML Learning · Open Ocean
Katy Croff Bell · Jennifer Chow +4 more
#robotics #environment #kids +5 more
Project Research

Battery-Free Underwater GPS

Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem,  we seek to bring it to ba...

in Signal Kinetics
Reza Ghaffarivardavagh · Osvy Rodriguez +2 more
#robotics #environment #sensors +4 more
Project Research

Battery-Free Subsea Internet-of-Things

We present Piezo-Acoustic Backscatter (PAB), the first technology that enables backscatter networking in underwater environments. PAB rel...

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib · Sayed Afzal +4 more
#communications #data #energy +9 more
Project Research

Scalable and Ultra-Low Power Ocean IoT

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of 𝑈2𝐵, a technology that enables scalable ad ultra-low power ocean IoT.  At t...

in Signal Kinetics
Reza Ghaffarivardavagh · Sayed Afzal +2 more
#communications #data #energy +6 more
Project Research

Large Interactive Laser Light-Field Installation ~ LILLI

LILLI is an immersive, volumetric, reflective lightfield display using a hybrid of video and laser projection to visualize marine wildlif...

in Object-Based Media · Open Ocean
Tyler Schoeppner · Daniel Novy +1 more
#holography #interfaces #ocean +1 more
Project Research

Tracking Marine Snow

Biological Carbon Pump (BCP), which refers to the transport of particulate organic carbon (POC) from the ocean’s surface to the bottom, d...

in Responsive Environments · Open Ocean
Junsu Jang
#environment #sensors #engineering +1 more
Project Research

Wireless communication from underwater to the air

Did you know that submarines today still cannot wirelessly communicate with airplanes? For decades, communicating between underwater and ...

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib · Reza Ghaffarivardavagh +1 more
#robotics #communications #networks +3 more
Project Research

Envirome Monitoring with CRISPR Biosensors

Microbial monitoring plays a critical role in informing governments, researchers, and locals on the health of their ecosystem.  Unfo...

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative · Open Ocean
Devora Najjar
#environment #sensors #ocean
Project Research

Maka Niu ~ a low-cost oceanographic camera and sensor platform

"Maka" - Eye, "Niu" - CoconutMaka Niu, aka the "CocoCam,"  is a low-cost oceanographic camera and sensor platform that enables ...

in Open Ocean
Katy Croff Bell · Daniel Novy
#ocean
Project Research

Ocean Cultures

The Māori of Aotearoa (New Zealand) have a long and deep connection to their island and ocean ecosystem. Concepts such as ...

in Open Ocean
Avery Normandin · Devora Najjar
#developing countries #environment #genetics +2 more
Project Research

Project Prometheus

Most of the underwater world remains far off the map. For many of the most exciting exploration challenges—from Maya cenotes to urban aqu...

in Open Ocean
Katy Croff Bell
#imaging #mapping #visualization +1 more
Project Research

Big Ocean, Big Data

More ocean data has been collected in the last two years than in all previous years combined, and we are on a path to continue to break t...

in Open Ocean
Katy Croff Bell · Neil Gaikwad
#data #environment #machine learning +3 more
Project Research

My Deep Sea, My Backyard

Seventy percent of nations have deep-sea environments within their maritime Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs), yet only 16 percent of them ...

in Open Ocean
Katy Croff Bell · Alexis Hope +1 more
#developing countries #environment #history +2 more

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