Abstract Improved designs for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) are becoming
increasingly important due to their utility in academic and industrial applications. However, a …

Addressing growing threats of overexploitation to the world's oceans is especially
challenging in the High Seas, where limited data and international jurisdiction make it …

Benthopelagic animals are an important component of the deep-sea ecosystem, yet are
notoriously difficult to study. Multibeam echosounders (MBES) deployed on autonomous …

This article focuses on the coordination and communication aspects of multi-robot systems
(MRS) and explores what, how and when robots should coordinate and communicate in …

Mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) continue to be understudied, especially in island
locations spread across the Indo-Pacific Ocean. Pohnpei is the largest island in the …

An ongoing challenge for fisheries management is to provide cost-effective and timely
estimates of habitat stratified fish densities. Traditional approaches use modified commercial …

Autonomous platforms and vehicles are a growing component of the ocean research fleet,
producing data sets crucial to our understanding of oceanographic and fishery ecosystem …

A dichotomy between depth penetration and resolution as a function of sonar frequency,
draw resolution, and beam spread challenges fish target classification from sonar. Moving …

Seamounts support populations of isolated coldwater corals, sponges and other structural or
functional components of vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs). Many seamounts are also …

Cobb Seamount is a 27 million-year-old submarine basalt volcano (Budinger 1967) located
in the Northeast Pacific Ocean approximately 500 km west-southwest of British Columbia …