Coral Reef Mapping: Project Updates
D-SEA Paper Presentation at REUNS 2019 Workshop
During this past summer’s E4E REU program, Charmaine Beluso, Anfeng Xu, Eamon Patamasing, and Brian Sebastian wrote a research paper based on the work they conducted when creating the Depth-Sensor Enclosed Application (D-SEA) prototype. On November...
D-SEA Prototype Testing
In order to get a deeper understanding of the growth patterns and local impact of coral reefs, researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) are building 3D virtual reality environments of coral reefs to help preserve the visual integr...
Coral Reef Classification: 2016 REU
Coral reefs are large, diverse, and extremely important ecosystems spread throughout the world’s oceans. Unfortunately, in the past year a significant portion of this ecosystem is suffering in recent years, heavily due to rising ocean temperat...