Remote Underwater Exploration
We are about all things ROV, but this news wasn’t what we were expecting. Researchers at University of Richmond’s Lambert Behavioural Neuroscience Laboratory are studying rats trained to drive a “Rat Operated Vehicle” in order to advance human mental health treatment. Maybe an underwater ROV will be the next training session for the rats?
Full article at: CNN 23oct19
Our standard BlueROV2 was diving with Moon Jellies (Aurelia aurita) at Balmain, Sydney yesterday.
It is very exciting to see more Citizen Science projects happening around Australia and globally. Here are just a few:
You can also check out the Australian Citizen Science Association for other projects near you.
So great to hear such excitement in the voices of the NOAA researchers!
We spotted this eel-tailed catfish (Tandanus tandanus) in Lake Parramatta today. It is native to eastern Australia, also known as dewfish, freshwater catfish, jewfish, or tandan. As you can tell, we were lucky to see much of anything…