

The Aquarius Project: The First Student-Driven Underwater Meteorite Hunt



Iceland’s Shallow Hydrothermal Vents



Search for Slave Shipwrecks


Search for Slave Shipwrecks


From Search for Slave Shipwrecks.

Connecting our Keiki to their Deep-Sea Backyard

In many places around the world, the deep-sea is not an unknowable vastness far from shore, but a local ecosystem critical to culture, health, and sustainability. Graduate students from the University of Hawai’i are using ROVs and other underwater tools to help connect students to the deep ocean in their own backyards.

From Connecting our Keiki to their Deep-Sea Backyard.

Sea Turtle Restoration Program

Tracking sea turtles around the world, Exhibit A:

Sea Turtle Program_Bangladesh, a program of Marinelife Alliance research organization conducting sea turtle monitoring and restoration along entire Bangladesh coast and in marine areas. Program involved greatly local community, scientist and government to protect these magnificent marine megafauna group along with other species like cetaceans and sharks, coral and total marinelife. Program involved many activities like nest protection, scientific research on foraging, awareness campaign, training, school education, beach protection, mitigation, bycatch reduction trough offshore fishermen activity ad migration study by satellite tracking. This is ongoing program and already we have attached 27 satellite tags on olive ridley and green turtle. In coming winter we will fix more satellite tags on sea turtle at cox Bazar beach.

Sea Turtle Restoration Program.

Conserving Dominica’s Sea Turtles

Tracking sea turtles around the world, Exhibit B:

Leatherbacks have been around, and largely unchanged, for over 100,000 million years. Yet despite the longevity of this species, in today’s climate, their population is declining, particularly in Dominica. While once a popular nesting ground for these sea turtles, it is estimated that as few as 20 total leatherbacks currently call this Caribbean country home.

This is where the Dominica Sea Turtle Conservation Organization (DomSeTCO) comes in. We provide community-based sea turtle conservation initiatives and population monitoring across Dominica. And while we do place a concerted effort of the wellbeing of sea turtles—their goal is to ensure the pragmatic conversation of the ocean habitats that both humans and animals depend on.

Conserving Dominica’s Sea Turtles.

Sperm Whales of Dominica

I’m also pretty excited to follow along tracking Sperm Whales in Dominica, though my recent work has a strong bias towards Dominica.

Southern Salish Sea ROV BRUV Exploration

Robert Haan does phenomenal work making baited remote underwater video in the Salish Sea. I can’t wait to see what he does next!

A Round Trip to Davy Jones’s Locker

Who doesn’t love a trip through history? A Round Trip to Davy Jones’s Locker is revisiting William Beebe’s first forays into the deep sea through historic documents. Tag along an relive the first great deep-ocean adventure!

From A Round Trip to Davy Jones’s Locker.

Ghost Fleet of the Potomac

War. Salvage. Scandal. Sanctuary.

At the peak of World War I, with German U-boats laying waste to the Atlantic merchant fleet, the United States initiated an unprecedented shipbuilding effort. The Emergency Shipbuilding Corporation issued contracts to build almost 800 new merchant ships to support the war effort.

Less than 100 ships were completed before Armistice.

Ghost Fleet of the Potomac

Join me and a small team of explorers as we visit the largest collection of modern shipwrecks on the US East Coast and talk about the history and significance of creating a new National Marine Sanctuary at the headwaters of our nation’s capital.