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Multidisciplinary team, led by URIL, demonstrates success of new technology in conducting deep-sea research on fragile organisms

New paper in Science Advances presents a new technology-based workflow for creating cybertypes of delicate deep-sea species.

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Formlabs highlights open-source 3D-printed pressure housing designs

We collaborated with our friends at Formlabs to test multiple stereolithography materials and highlight the open-source POP housing design by Breanna Motsenbocker (URIL PhD candidate).  Check out the design guide!

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New paper on bioinspired pressure housings is out!

A new paper, led by former URIL lab member Madeline Karp, highlights the power of using high-resolution SLA 3D printing for underwater housings and also sheds new light on how the chambered nautilus’s shell withstands deep-sea pressure.    

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URIL PhD student Alex Yin mentors Narragansett middle school robotics team

Alex has been working with the Quest Montessori School since 2021, and continues through the 2023/24 academic year.

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Great URI article on Alexa Runyan’s Stereo Camera Project!

Alexa shares her work on a low-cost stereo camera system for imaging and measuring coral reefs.  

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Formlabs highlights the URIL for 3D-printed underwater enclosures!

Deep-sea housings, endcaps, molds, viewports, fiber optics, you name it: we’ve printed it and tested it!  Formlabs SLA printers have made so many things possible in our lab, read the user story!

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The Fiber Optic Reel System (FOReelS) system is now published online via open access!

URIL and NUWC complete field tests in Bermuda

Wired Magazine features Dr. Phillips

URIL’s COVID-19 response highlighted in URI’s Momentum research magazine

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Vampiroteuthis shot w/ ME20
Solomon Islands June 2019
Solomon Islands expedition team, June 2019
Soft manipulator system, Brazil 2017
NUWC Collaboration, Bermuda/BIOS July 2021
NUWC Collaboration, Bermuda/BIOS December 2020
RAD Sampler
3D-printing at sea, Okeanos Explorer w/Stephen Licht, November 2018
Low-cost deep-sea BRUVs for Discovery Shark Week, January 2020
FOReelS fiber optic reel system
RAD2 Sampler testing, June 2021
Solomon Islands June 2019
Launching a DEEPi BRUV in Bermuda, July 2021
FOReelS system, Bermuda, July 2021
DEEPi-enabled live video benthic grab system, September 2019
Deepstaria enigmatica, shot w/ Canon ME20
Bermuda July 2021
RAD2 and McLane SuPR Sampler testing, June 2021
DEEPi cameras, lights, and FOReelS system
First deep-sea video from DEEPi, sixgill shark in Bermuda
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