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Now that all of our three AUVs have been successfully deployed and taken more than 1,000,000 images of the seafloor, it is ROV SuBastian’s turn to hit the water. Artificial intelligence has run unsupervised clustering of those images, showing us the distribution of similar features on the seafloor. That information is fundamental for us to … Continued
Conducting research with multiple underwater vehicles takes a huge amount of deliberation and coordination that is based on data gathered well before the work even takes place. But what happens if the environment you work on is constantly changing? Then the information you are basing your research on isn’t up to date. Additionally, there is … Continued
The team onboard Falkor has an intense couple of weeks ahead of them. Racing to keep up with the colossal amount of information being collected by the robots is not an easy task, but the spirits of both the crew and the resident engineers remain high. The long hours have not quieted the banter and … Continued
All four robots involved in the Adaptive Robotics expedition have now gotten wet and proved that they are ready to carry out their main scientific missions on this cruise. This marks the end of Phase 01, meaning the team will now be able to concentrate in what really brought them to Barkley Canyon and Hydrate … Continued
Vogt, D., Becker, K., Phillips, B., Graule, M., Rotjan, R., Shank, T., Cordes, E., Wood, R. and Gruber, D. (2018). Shipboard design and fabrication of custom 3D-printed robotic manipulators for the investigation of delicate organisms. PLoS ONE 13 (8): e0200386, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200386. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].
Originally from Brest, France, Léo-Paul has been an engineer at WHOI since 2011 after graduating with a Masters in Electronics Engineering from ENIB (Ecole Nationale d’Ingenieurs de Brest). He has since been working on WHOI’s Optical Modem series of instruments, enabling fast Ethernet connectivity underwater anywhere between 10Gbps at contact, to 10Mbps at 100m as … Continued
Hello, my name is Blair and I am chief scientist on board the R/V Falkor for our expedition “Adaptive Robotics.” Today is day two, and all systems are go! What we are trying to achieve on this expedition is to build multiresolution maps of the seafloor, where the resolution of the maps gets higher and … Continued
It has been a short, sweet, inspiring expedition for this scientist. I have never sailed with six artists in my 25+ years as an oceanographer. As a seafloor mapping specialist, I have always valued the beauty of seafloor data, and now water column data as well. As this expedition comes to a close, I have … Continued
My paintings offer short stories intended to compel the viewer to consider an unfamiliar place. I use humans, animals and scientific equipment to stress the human connection with the natural world. My current interest in painting gained fresh energy when I was in Antarctica working for the National Science Foundation. I traveled to Antarctica on … Continued
Jessica Pruitt is a first year Marine Biology Master’s student at Scripps Institute of Oceanography. She is studying Eastern Pacific deep habitats and biogeography in Dr. Greg Rouse’s lab. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA in 2016, with a major in Oceanography and a minor in Marine Biology. Before … Continued
