DIY Robotics Education Inspires Interest in Ocean
ROV TOUR is a tiny educational tech company with an aim to bring underwater robotics education to schools. If young students can get direct access to learning about, and interacting with, the underwater environment, it will help them develop empathy for the ocean and...Big Blue Cruise at SF Climate Week 2025
As cited in E&E News, a proposal from the White House Office of Management and Budget seeks to drastically reorganize NOAA and plunder most of its climate research programs in fiscal 2026, with a possible budget reduction of 38 percent–from $4.8 billion in...Positives for mCDR in the Ocean Environment
mCDR focuses on enhancing the ocean’s natural ability to store harmful carbon dioxide. Research suggests that marine carbon dioxide removal can be ‘permanent’ (in that carbon dioxide removed does not return to the atmosphere for centuries…
Emerging U.S. Seaweed Sector: Does San Francisco Bay Area Have a Role?
Seaweed has been cultivated and used as a food stock for centuries, but a new cadre of climate-focused start-ups are using seaweed as a more environmental-friendly replacement to traditional materials.