{"id":279,"date":"2026-05-12T15:15:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/isc\/?page_id=279"},"modified":"2026-10-08T13:32:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:32:52","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/isc\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/isc\/about-us\/about-telepresence\/\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/isc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2243\/bal0-021.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>About Telepresence<\/h2><p>The evolution of telepresence in ocean exploration began as a visionary concept by Dr. Robert Ballard in 1981, aiming to use satellite technology to broadcast deep-sea discoveries in real time.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container button\">Read More<\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/isc\/about-us\/isc-history\/\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/isc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2243\/20181101_Salerno_URI_InnerSpaceCenter-0016-scaled.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>ISC History<\/h2><p>The Inner Space Center was established at the University of Rhode Island\u2019s Graduate School of Oceanography as a permanent hub for telepresence-based ocean exploration.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container button\">Read More<\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/isc\/about-us\/our-team\/\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/isc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2243\/IMG_3875-scaled.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Our Team<\/h2><p>A multidisciplinary team of engineers, technicians, marine research specialists, and media producers dedicated to connecting ship and shore through telepresence technology.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container button\">Read More<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1726,"featured_media":342,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-279","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/isc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/isc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/isc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/isc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/isc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/isc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/isc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/isc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/isc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}