Last month NASA mission scientists began to map the shallow sea floors around the world’s coastlines. The NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite’s green laser beam, penetrating up to 40 meters into the ocean, will generate bathymetric data that could be game changing,…
NASA NeMO-Net Wants YOU To Help Classify Coral Ecosystems
NeMO-Net NeMO-Net is an intelligent, space-aged iOS app, where players help NASA classify coral reefs by painting 3D and 2D images. Data from the game is fed to NASA NeMO-Net, the first neural multi-modal observation and training network for global…
Friday Smorgasbord: Winter wonderland edition
Its the first Friday of winter and with the holidays and new year right around the corner, it sure is starting to feel like a winter wonderland. To kick off the winter, we’ve got some fun stories to share in…
NASA to study Great Barrier Reef by air
NASA is taking to the sky to help do an extended study of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. The two-month study is part of the space agency’s COral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL) mission. By collaborating with Australian researchers, the plan is to…
NASA To Provide A New Look At COral Reefs
You may associate NASA with stars and the cosmos before linking the American space agency to coral reefs. However last week NASA launched their year long COral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL) field campaign focusing on entire reef ecosystems. According to the…
NASA gets the reefing bug
NASA is spreading its interest to the underwater world as the agency we typically associate with outer space begins a three-year NASA CORAL field expedition gets underway this year to survey more of the world’s coral reefs. The NASA-led study…
Fish in Space: The Aquatic Habitat is how you build an aquarium in space
Leave it to the Japanese to be responsible for sending up an aquarium into outer space with the Aquatic Habitat research mission. The Aquatic Habitat space aquarium sent to the International Space Station by the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) is…
Friday Smorgasbord: Tracy Morgan, Saturn’s moon hides an ocean, shark diversity, and oceans vs. Kardashians
Not too often we get to get some celebrity news on Reef Builders but with the big news with the Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes split taking up the news today, we figured we’d shift the focus to someone cooler. We lead…
Friday Smorgasbord: Underwater art, resort get scrapped, library won’t get ‘Tanked,’ staycations, and finding NEEMO
It’s Friday and we have a slew of fun, interesting and unusual posts for our Friday Smorgasbord. In this week’s edition we have underwater art, a library that won’t be getting ‘Tanked,’ an interesting take on staycations and we’ll be…
Bobtail squids are now the first cephalopods in space
With today’s successful launch and orbit of the Endeavour space shuttle, its precious cargo of earth life include the first cephalopods in space, Space-Squids! Among the usual fare of water bears and extremophile bacteria is a small cohort of bobtail…
