IS002
Advancing Technologies for the Future of Deep Ocean Exploration

Session ID#: 85803

Session Description:
Innovations and inventions in deep-sea technologies are being developed and introduced to the oceanographic community at a rapid pace. These advancements are largely enabled by reduced component cost and size/form factor, and increased rapid prototyping capabilities. The human population is 7.65 billion and rising; to ensure a thriving ocean into the future, we must invest in exploration and characterization of deep marine biogeography. Thus, we must open access to the tools of ocean exploration and redefine what it means to be an explorer.

We invite abstracts considering how to leverage new and yet-to-be-invented technologies, as well as training and enabling both experts and citizens to make and analyze discoveries. Emergent themes discussed during this session will include: (1) maximizing efficiency of discovery, especially technologies and methodologies; (2) creating a global community of explorers; and, (3) growing a global culture of exploration. This session will include advancements in bioinspired robotics, imaging, deployment platforms, in situ sensing and sample processing, and other topics to serve the deep-sea community.

A new paradigm for distributed ocean exploration will support SDG 14 and the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development’s vision of a predicted and accessible ocean.

Suggested Scope of Proposals

We expect a broad cross-section of proposals, from technology development aimed at maximizing the efficiency of exploration to capacity building programs for creating a global ocean exploration community to multi-sensory experiences for creating a transparent and accessible ocean. Abstracts that include cross-disciplinary collaboration and proof-of-concept demonstrations from the field are particularly encouraged.

Index Terms:

0855 Diversity [EDUCATION]
1920 Emerging informatics technologies [INFORMATICS]
4894 Instruments, sensors, and techniques [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
9805 Instruments useful in three or more fields [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]

Primary Chair:  Katherine Lynn Croff Bell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, United States
Co-chairs:  Brennan Phillips, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States, Kakani Katija, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States and Randi Rotjan, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Katherine Lynn Croff Bell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
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Benoit Augier, IFREMER, Brest Wave&Wind Test tank, Plouzané, France, Camil Matoug, IFREMER, Brest Wave&Wind Test Tank, Plouzane, France, Benoit Paillard, HydroQuest, Brest, France, Alan Tassin, IFREMER, Brest Wave&Wind Test Tank, Plouzané, France, Guillaume Maurice, HydroQuest, Grenoble, France and Stephane Barre, CNRS, Laboratoire des Écoulements Géophysiques et Industriels LEGI, Grenoble, France
 
Deep sea biodiversity hotspots: Time series image data acquisition from challenging ecosystems with affordable open source hardware and software. (636079)
Autun Purser1, Ulrich Hoge2, Johannes Lemburg2, Frank Wenzhofer3, Simon Dreutter4, Boris Dorschel2, Yasemin Bodur4, Elena Schiller4, Jens Greinert5 and Thomas Soltwedel6, (1)Alfred-Wegener-Institute Helmholtz-Centrum for Polar and Marine Research, Germany, (2)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (3)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Bremerhaven, Germany, (4)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Germany, (5)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Marine Geosystems - DeepSea Monitoring, Kiel, Germany, (6)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
 
The Use of Open Source Scripting to Reduce Autonomous System Complexity and Cost (636399)
Andrea Rowe, United States and Chad Collett, SubC Imaging, Clarenville, NF, Canada
 
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John Waterston, United States
 
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Robin Littlefield, United States
 
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Margaux Filippi, Triton Labs, Lone Tree, CO, United States and E C Browne, Triton Labs, United States
 
UVP6: a new low power, low cost and deep ocean rated imaging sensor for automatic quantification of particles and plankton from autonomous platforms (645064)
Marc Picheral1, Emna Abidi2, François Berry3, Jerome Coindat4, Denis Brousseau5, Fabio Dias6, Sylvain Fevre7, Lionel Guidi8, Jean Olivier Irisson9, Louis Legendre8, Fabien Lombard9, Antoine Manzanera10, Laurent Mortier11, Laurent Navarro12, Laura Picheral1, Lars Stemmann8, Simon Thibault5 and Thierry Tixier13, (1)Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), UMR 7093, Sorbonne Université, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, (2)Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), UMR 7093, Sorbonne Université, Villefranche sur mer, France, (3)Institut Pascal - UCA CNRS, Aubiere, France, (4)Hydroptic, L'isle Jourdain, France, (5)Université Laval, Center for Optics, Photonics and Lasers, Laval, QC, Canada, (6)WISIP, Clermont Ferrand, France, (7)HYDROPTIC, L'Isle Jourdain, France, (8)Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), UMR 7093, Sorbonne Université, Villefranche sur mer, France, (9)Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), UMR 7093, Sorbonne Université, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, (10)ENSTA Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France, (11)ENSTA-ParisTech, Palaiseau, France, (12)ALTIDEV, Plaisance du Touch, France, (13)WISIP, Clermont-Ferrand, France
 
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Jonatha Giddens1, Alan Turchik1, Alan Friedlander2, Brad Henning1, Whitney Goodell1, Benjamin Woodward3, Leigh Marsh4, Brian Tate3, Eric Berkenpas5, Charles Shepard5 and Jessica Elfadl1, (1)National Geographic Society, Exploration Technology Lab, Washington, DC, United States, (2)National Geographic Society, Pristine Seas, United States, (3)CVision AI, United States, (4)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (5)Second Star Robotics, United States
 
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Severine Martini1,2, Christian Tamburini2, Carl Gojak3, Jacopo Aguzzi4, Aurelien Arnaubec5, Laury Barnes-Davin6, Karim Bernardet3, Vincent Bertin7, Olivier Bocquet8, Bruno Bombled9, Pierre Chevaldonne10, Paschal Coyle7, Viorel Ciausu5, Philippe Cuny2, Xavier Durrieu De Madron11, Marc Garel2, Laurence Le direach12, Elodie Rouanet12, Christian Grenz2, Zouhir Hafidi3, Patrick Lamare13, Celine Laus3, Dominique Lefevre2, Nadine Le Bris14, Karim Mahiouz3, Simone Marini15, Marjolaine Matabos16, Cécile Militon2, David Nerini2, Thierry Perez10, Laura Picheral1, Marc Picheral1, Romain Piasco5, Christophe Rabouille9, Jozee Sarrazin16, Delphine Thibault2 and Laurenz Thomsen17, (1)Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), UMR 7093, Sorbonne Université, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, (2)Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Marseille, France, (3)INSU/CNRS, DT, France, (4)Institut de Ciències del Mar, ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, (5)IFREMER, La Seyne-sur-mer, France, (6)VICAT, L'isle d'abeau, France, (7)Centre de physique des particules de Marseille, France, (8)Tangram Architectes, France, (9)Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, UMR CEA-CNRS-UVSQ et IPSL, Gif sur Yvette, France, (10)Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie, Marseille, France, (11)Centre de formation et de recherche sur les environnements méditerranéens - Université de Perpignan, Perpignan, France, (12)GIS Posidonie, Marseille, France, (13)Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS/IN2P3 / CPPM, Marseille, France, (14)Sorbonne Université, Laboratoire d'écogéochimie des environnements benthiques, Observatoire Océanologique, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France, (15)Institute of Marine Sciences (ISMAR-CNR), Italy, (16)IFREMER, Centre de Bretagne, Plouzané, France, (17)Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany
 
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Adam Trahan1, Blake J Landry1, K Todd Holland1, Samuel P Bateman1, Adam Seyfarth2, Sofia Bascle1 and Rebecca Bickett1, (1)U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (2)Formerly U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
 
Towards an open, underwater image repository (FathomNet) for automated detection and classification of midwater and benthic targets using machine learning (652650)
Kakani Katija1, Benjamin Woodward2, Brian Schlining3, Lonny Lundsten1, Kevin Barnard3,4 and Katherine Lynn Croff Bell5, (1)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (2)CVision AI, United States, (3)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, United States, (4)Colorado School of Mines, United States, (5)Ocean Exploration Trust, Narragansett, RI, United States
 
What’s Out There? Recovering Underwater Scenes Using Computer Vision (653177)
Tali Treibitz1, Deborah Levy1, Yuval Goldfracht1, Naama Pearl1 and Derya Akkaynak2, (1)University of Haifa, Charney School Of Marine Sciences, Department of Marine Technologies, Haifa, Israel, (2)Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Florida Atlantic University, Ft. Pierce, United States
 
My Deep Sea, My Backyard: Building Deep Sea Capacity in Big Ocean Developing States (653736)
Katherine Lynn Croff Bell1, Randi Rotjan2, Diva Amon3, Brian Kennedy2, Brennan Phillips4 and Alan Turchik5, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Boston University, Boston, United States, (3)Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, (4)University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States, (5)National Geographic Society, Exploration Technology Lab, Washington, DC, United States
 
Persistent Power for Next-Generation Ocean Observing (653828)
Trent Dillon, United States, Brian L Polagye, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Mechanical Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States and Benjamin Maurer, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, United States
 
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Marcus Pearson and Katie Holsinger, Adventure Scientists, Bozeman, MT, United States
 
Quality Assessment and Enhancement of Crowdsourced Video Annotations (655433)
Caitlin Ruby1,2, Megan Cromwell3, Susan Talley Gottfried3 and Mashkoor Malik4, (1)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NOAA NCEI, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (4)NOAA, Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States
 
The MiniROV: A Multidisciplinary Research and Development Tool for Deep-Sea Exploration (655450)
Alana Sherman1, Kakani Katija1, Michael Risi1, Stephen Rock2, Paul Roberts1 and Dale Graves1, (1)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford, CA, United States
 
MINIONS: Small, cheap, Lagrangian floats for measurement of the biological carbon pump (655702)
Jackson Thomas Sugar, University of Rhode Island, Saunderstown, RI, United States, Melissa Omand, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, Allan Adams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Kakani Katija, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States, Aleck Zhaohui Wang, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Ken Buesseler, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Dana Yoerger, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Ivona Cetinic, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States and H. Thomas Rossby, Univ Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States
 
The Deep-Sea Coral Observatory (DiSCO) Project (656714)
Steven Yitzchak Litvin1, James Barry1, Chris Lovera1, Charles A. Boch1, Erica J Burton2, Andrew P DeVogelaere2, Dale Graves1, Thomas P Guilderson3, Amanda S Kahn4, Kakani Katija1, Chad D Kecy1, Chad King5, Linda Kuhnz1, Paul McGill1 and Alana Sherman1, (1)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (2)National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Monterey, CA, United States, (3)LLNL, Livermore, CA, United States, (4)Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (5)Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary - NOAA, Monterey, CA, United States
 
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Sharon L Walker, NOAA Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
 
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David Lees1, Tamar Cohen2, Matthew C Deans2 and Darlene Sze Shien Lim2, (1)Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley, Moffett Park, CA, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
 
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Whitney Goodell, Jonatha Giddens and Alan Turchik, National Geographic Society, Exploration Technology Lab, Washington, DC, United States
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