a directory of ways to participate in sea exploration
Help develop autonomous vehicles to explore the ocean floor. The Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE is a $7 million global competition to advance deep-sea technologies for autonomous, fast, and high-resolution ocean exploration. Teams will explore an area of the sea floor producing maps and images. Register by June 30th, 2016.
An international competition for elementary through college level students to design and build underwater remotely-operated vehicles (ROVs) to tackle missions modeled after scenarios from the ocean workplace. This year’s competition theme highlights the role that ROVs play in exploring and documenting shipwrecks...
A $2 million global competition to improve our understanding of ocean acidification. The Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE challenges people to create pH sensors that will affordably, accurately and efficiently measure ocean chemistry at any depth. New sensors are urgently needed for scientists to study...