Author: pirateaarr
January Santa Rosa Island Video
Watch the highlights from our trip to Santa Rosa Island in January... Read More
Crossing the Channel STEM program
We are very passionate about getting kids excited about Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). Currently we run mentoring programs at three K-12 schools: a VEX Robotics Competition club at... Read More
Over 120 Dives!
At first we were nervous about such an inexpensive and user created platform such as OpenROV for performing oceanic research. Comparable systems cost 10 times the price, but are unfortunately out of ... Read More
Coming and Going
We have had a great time on the islands, and have had many successes, but unfortunately all things have to come to an end (for some of us). Team leader Paul and Dr. Dilly’s intertidal team head... Read More
Another awesome day!
In complete contrast with last trip to Santa Rosa Island, things have gone quite well! The rest of our intertidal team arrived and brought us a patch kit for the boat, and it’s holding air! We h... Read More
Success and setbacks!
The Marine Protected Area survey is run by team member Chris, it consists of 20, 40, 60 and 100 meter line transects. The pier on Santa Rosa is the dividing line where the Carrington Point MPA star... Read More
Exploring the island by land and sea
We have been regularly running transects for the mpa study, and have had less problems since we’ve upgraded our ROVs to the 2.7 models. We took some of out new members on a hike around Santa Ros... Read More
We made it to the islands!
The majority of the team is now on Santa Rosa Island! We have a great ride aboard the ship, The Ocean Ranger, courtesy of the national park service. We arrived and immediately consumed work space with... Read More