Hardshell Labs Inc.

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Hardshell, as seen on TV! Kelley Moody of Palm Springs CBS affiliate KESQ interviewed Dr. Bill Boarman, our science director, and Tim Shields.

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Floating Above Mexico's Great Mayan Reef

Floating Above Mexico’s Great Mayan Reef

Hardshell Labs’ philosophy includes the idea that all of us need to get outside and explore our beautiful, one-of-kind planet. Less than a week ago this was me! I flew submerged over the second largest reef on the planet, the Great Mayan Reef! In case you can’t tell, I’m the one in the foreground with the cavefish-white skin ;-)

In addition to lots of beautiful coral forests and sea fans, I saw…

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USING SOCIAL GAMING TO PROTECT ENDANGERED SPECIES – WAIT, WHAT?

USING SOCIAL GAMING TO PROTECT ENDANGERED SPECIES – WAIT, WHAT?

As Hardshell’s ex oficio media wrangler, I just had the simple thought that I could get a search results kind’a feeling for the current reach of Hardshell’s Guardian Angel Rover initiative. Using one of the well-known search engines, I queried the string, “guardian angel rover hardshell,” and got 7,200 results. Pretty good for startup which is only three years old!

I’ve seen many of the articles…

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Tower Time September is pistachio harvesting time in Inyokern. Not coincidentally it is also the time when ravens do their worst damage to the crop.

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Hardshell Labs in Digital Trends 9-23-16 Article Hardshell got a little word-of-mouth bump today from a decent article at the Digital Trends' news site. Our thanks to Luke Dormehl and his editor. Click this link or the screenshot below to have a look.

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How to Help Ravens: Made in the Shade We Make Watching ravens over the course of decades has attuned me to the many ways they take advantage of the changes our kind has made in the desert.

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Hardshell Labs on CNN Digital This nice two-minute clip about Hardshell is on CNN Digital. Please click the link to the left to see it?

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I Am The Great and Powerful Oz (sort of) Tawanda Scott-Sambou wanted to see lots of ravens. She is a CNN producer working on a story about Hardshell and after seeing the Guardian Angel Rover in action with captive tortoises she asked to see the dark side of the tortoise conservation equation, to understand what all the fuss is about.

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Her She was one of those tortoises completely at ease with my presence, a wild animal unintimidated by the presence of a nearly hairless ape.

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History of the Rover- Chapter 1

History of the Rover- Chapter 1

[embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZQTmetUr0w%5B/embedyt%5D In the fall of 2013 I returned to my hometown, Haines, Alaska with the idea to turn conservation into a series of games. I had an idea for a tortoise observation device, a vehicle to accompany tortoises as they made their way through their world. I had vague notions of Mars rovers. This was at the dawn of the drone age and I knew…

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My First Sting Operation Hardshell is running a sting. We’re combining 3D printing, cutting edge mechanical engineering and knowledge of raven behavior to create a device, the Techno-tortoise, that will allow us to observe raven predation close up and, thereafter, to deliver stark lessons to them about the inadvisability of eating baby tortoises.

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Hardshell: Where the idea came from As a visual artist I am used to having pre-formed images pop fully formed into my head.

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Hope for the Future

Hope for the Future

Some of the most amazing experiences of my career had occurred on the Control Plot, where I was part of a crew doing focal observations. We would follow an individual tortoise over the course of days, recording their every behavior. It showed me the true individuality of tortoises and gave me a window into the complexity of their behavior and interactions. Then, in the midst of a drought in the…

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How to Help Ravens: Nest Sites To a bird so obvious in its comings and goings and so careful in its choices the thousands and thousands of high-tension power line towers that slice across the desert are a huge boon.

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How to Help Ravens: Nest Sites To a bird so obvious in its comings and goings and so careful in its choices the thousands and thousands of high-tension power line towers that slice across the desert are a huge boon.

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How to Help Ravens: Nest Sites To a bird so obvious in its comings and goings and so careful in its choices the…

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Handsome Jojo's TV Cameo on Discovery Channel Canada

Jojo set the ladies atwitter when he was hired as lead POV camera-tortoise for the TV

Jojo is a remarkable, handsome tortoise at California’s special Lewis Center for Educational Research. Discovery Channel Canada’s Daily Planet hired Jojo to record his tortoise-eyed view for a segment to be aired tomorrow, April 19, 2015, on Daily Planet about Hardshell’s ground-breaking collaboration with Lewis…

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