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As the CTD rises out of the water, we line up in the hallway, donning life jackets and ensuring all of our bottles are properly labeled and ready for samples. We watch Lead Marine Technician Leighton Rolley secure the CTD and wait for the signal that it is safe for us to enter the starboard … Continued
Life on the Falkor requires a balance of being in the flow and keeping on your toes. I sketch in many breezy corners of the upper decks, observing science operations from all sorts of interesting angles. In the library, I have read an account of Jacques Cousteau, as well as former artist-at-sea Lucy Bellwood’s “Tall … 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?
Originally from Palma de Mallorca, Miquel Massot is a PhD student in Systems, Robotics and Vision research group in the University of the Balearic Islands. His PhD focuses in real time three-dimensional reconstruction using laser and imaging sensors. He has worked with ROVs and AUVs both using custom or ROS middlewares and has also experience … Continued
“The ocean will always be an unpredictable to work in, but that unpredictability is inherent to what we do and what we are trying to understand.” – Dr. Andrew Babbin. Learn how the scientists and engineering team on Falkor work together to develop a new way to collect water samples with the newly developed in-water … Continued
Just before 7am, as the rest of the science team is still waking up, I dash around the wet lab, organizing bottles. I finish setting up some incubations right as the CTD rosette brings the next round of deep seawater onboard. I am tired after working through the night, but looking out at the morning … Continued
Koike Tetsu is a technician of Kaiyo Engineering Co., Ltd. and a cooperative researcher of the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo (IIS-UT). His work includes undersea survey using multi beam sonar, programming data analysis, machine maintenance, and so on. He frequently boards ships on fishery survey, ocean bottom topography survey, seabed resource survey … Continued
Kiminori Shitashima is a professor of School of Marine Resources and Environment at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology in Japan from 2016. His background is marine geochemistry, and he has been developing in-situ chemical sensors (pH/pCO2/ORP sensor, gamma ray sensor, trace metal sensor, etc) and applying them for various oceanographic researches. Kiminori gained his Ph.D. degree … Continued
Jonghyun Ahn is an Assistant Professor of Human Intelligence Systems at Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan. His research field is underwater imaging system, which contains image enhancement, analysis and acoustic transmission for images. Jonghyun received his Ph.D in Underwater Robotics at Kyushu Institute of Technology in 2017. Research keywords: Computer vision, Acoustic communication, Robotics
