Teaching the President to Fly!
Our research team has been gaining more and more attention at Cal State Channel Islands in recent months, leading to interesting and unique opportunities popping up all over! Most recently, the pres... Read More
Training and Repairing
After our trip to the Cook Islands, only one of our four ROVs were functioning. Then there was the issue of nearly half of our team having graduated, leaving only a few students that are able... Read More
CI’s Disruptive Manufacturing
Our array of 3D printers in the AARR laboratories allow us to print replacement parts of create new capabilities by generating new parts we have brainstormed. Rather than sending some schematic off t... Read More
First NOAA collaboration
The 6 kg (13 lb) Puma is hand-launched, has a typical effective flight time of around 45 minutes, and then hard lands upon water where it can be quickly recovered and prepped for relaunch within in fe... Read More
New Partnerships and Opportunities!
This has been an exciting week! We recently moved into our new lab space at Sierra Hall, and this week was the grand opening. The opening ceremony was led by the university's president, Dr. Rush, and ... Read More
Next Gen OpenROV
Our friends up at OpenROV have (almost) formally opened up their new Kickstarter project to fund their next generation ROV named Trident. This was the unit vetted this summer up in Lake Tahoe.... Read More
We Have Returned!
We have successfully returned from our trip to the Cook Islands! The team continued on collecting data, right up to the very last hours before the plane departed from Aitutaki. Paul, Chris and Guy spe... Read More
Service Learning
I may have spoken a bit too soon about having stable internet! The heavy work load, coupled with a very congested, slow and often unavailable internet connection has led to slow posting. Two of the ma... Read More