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
Preparing for Santa Rosa Island Research Projects
Two of our AARR team members, Chris and Blake, have already been deployed to Santa Rosa Island! They left this Tuesday, March 3rd, and are running transects on the island to survey MPAs. They are us... Read More
Building the New Fleet of OpenROVs, and STEM Out Reach
The AARR Team has been working to complete the three new updated 2.7 OpenROV units for deployment at our upcoming expedition to Santa Rosa Island. Currently the team has finished two of the 2.7 units ... Read More
Learning CIKeys
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Expanding the AARR: our trip to visit OpenROV and TechShop SF!
CSU Channel Islands is working to increase professionalism in regards to aerial and aquatic Remotely Piloted Systems. (RPS) The university has started a class led by Dr. Sean Anderson with assistanc... Read More
New members and new projects!
It has been quite the busy season for us! As mentioned before, we are working to release a 7 video series of our trip to Santa Rosa Island. As mentioned in the previous post, due to some hardware issu... Read More
New videos coming soon!
Due to some hardware issues, the video blog series of our last trip to Santa Rosa Island has been delayed, but should be up soon. There has been some exciting news such as new ROVs, new equipment and ... Read More
Day 3 at the Research Station
Unfortunately we lost the satellite internet on the Island, so we will be releasing our multi-day diary of our expedition. Day 3: The Channel Islands have been called the northern Gallapagos. The isla... Read More