We’ve been busy since our last Deep Dive. Highlights include an appearance on CNN, the launch of Project FIND (Float Innovation & New Discovery), a partnership with marine geologist Larry Mayer to cost-effectively map the seafloor, and much more!

Introducing Seatrec’s infiniTE™ Float — With increasing whale strikes, rising sea surface temperatures, and controversies around seabed mining, the importance of ocean data and insights into our dynamic ocean environments have become more critical than ever. Scientists have long dreamed of using profiling floats — autonomous underwater vehicles that collect oceanographic data — to conduct…

As our climate changes, hurricanes do as well. Recently, Gulf storms have been rapidly intensifying as they approach landfall, due to warmer ocean temperatures and surplus atmospheric moisture. While scientists have made significant improvements in predicting hurricane trajectories, forecasting a hurricane’s rapid intensification remains challenging. Intensity forecasting could be greatly…

Spring 2021 We certainly have lots of spring in our step as we kick off the season with a World Economic Forum video! This video highlights the biggest bottleneck to measuring, understanding, and protecting our oceans — power, which is exactly the problem we are solving at Seatrec. (And the…

Q1 2021 It’s official! The United Nations has declared the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, and Seatrec is here to help. We are committed to developing energy harvesting solutions to help further understand and measure our magnificent oceans. Our CEO, Yi Chao, kicked off 2021 with a WIRED…

Autumn 2020 As we enter autumn, it feels like COVID has warped our sense of time, sucking the bliss out of each successive season, and blending the usual fun into one long stretch of quarantine and carryout. Add heatwaves, fires, and an unusually active hurricane season, and most will agree…

Summer 2020 It’s July already? It just doesn’t feel like summer. Our usual coastal escapes have been restricted, with the beach largely out of reach. Scientific ocean observation continues to be throttled as the COVID caseload continues to increase. Critical climate research risks interruption; especially worrisome as the Arctic experiences…

Spring 2020 It seems like an entirely different universe and light-years ago when we were at the Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM) in February. …