FishSense took home the inaugural Transdisciplinary Collaboration Award at the 2024 Jacobs School of Engineering Research Expo. That one is on top of a CA CARES research award and a finalist spot in the Triton Innovation Challenge.
The collaboration award feels especially fitting. FishSense only works because it spans Engineers for Exploration, the Semmens Lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the citizen scientists at REEF, with engineers, ecologists, and divers each bringing a piece. Together, those pieces make a fisheries assessment tool that pairs a commercial dive camera and an underwater laser with optics and machine learning to estimate fish length and biomass automatically.
Congrats to Kyle, Avik, and the rest of the team.
This post is mirrored from Professor Ryan Kastner’s website.