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 president of our University, Dr. Richard Rush, asked the team to teach him how to fly a drone for a recent photo/video shoot. Team leader […]
After our trip to the Cook Islands, only one of our four ROVs were functioning, and nearly half of the team graduated, leaving only a few that are able to repair the units. In addition to the necessary ROV repairs, Paul’s fixed wing mapping UAV (the Snowy Plover) is in the need of a few […]
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 to the engineering department or a machine shop that would take weeks and weeks to produce something for hundreds or thousands of dollars, we can print our needed piece for a few cents over the course of a few minutes (or hour or two depending upon the size).
With the new cooperation between the university and NOAA, we are able to share resources in multiple ways, from the sharing of equipment, vessel usage, training and much more. The NOAA Center of Excellence for Unmanned Technologies invited our team to come observe a test mission using the AeroVironment Puma UAV aboard the research vessel the R/V Shearwater. […]
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 included the official signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Center of […]
In looking at larger scale trends in environmental quality, we have pulled together population data over time across the Cook Islands. This is the overall trend (summing across all 15 of the islands that comprise the Cook Islands): Here is a bit more complicated graph wherein an island representing each of the temporal patterns we […]
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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 (see the pic below) while we were dealing with our Oil Spill down here in SoCal. By all accounts this unit is […]
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 spent the last days moving through the jungles and creating maps of the last watersheds, and finally the main harbor. All […]
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