RoBoat - Source: Carlo Ratti, MIT senseable.mit.edu SuBastian - Source: Schmidt Ocean Institute

SuBastian and the Roboats Jesse H. Ausubel National Ocean Exploration Forum 20-21 October 2016 The Rockefeller University, New York City

autonomous surface vehicles

Autonomousunderseavehicles

AUVs of all kinds

Autonomous and remotely operated cameras

Passive and active acoustic devices

Estuary fish eDNAs in NYC estuary

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•  eDNAdetects>40marinespecies•  Mostspeciesseasonal•  Includesspeciesatrisk

eDNApresence/absence

Americaneel

Winterflounder

Atlan?csturgeon

EastRiverHudsonRiver

eDNAvstradi?onalmethodseDNAseasonalabundancematchesfishseasonalabundance

Seiningdatafrom2013LongRiverSurvey,HudsonRiverMonitoringProgram

WSL, 26 de marzo 26, 1895

NimbusLab,U.ofNebraska

Future of biodiversity surveys - Vessels loaded with people and equipment … or robotic aerial ecologist?

Source: Yogesh Girdhar “Curious exploration robot” programmed to focus on everything unfamiliar to its data bank brain Photo,: http://bit.ly/2dXV9fz, credit WHOI video: http://bit.ly/2dq4eA3

http://volcano.si.edu/E3/ Source: Elizabeth Cottrell, Smithsonian & Deep Carbon Observatory

Power of big data: What could we do comparably for, e.g., shipwrecks?

Thanks! http://phe.rockefeller.edu