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IBM 5 in 5: AI-Powered robot microscopes will help save our oceans

Oceans are vast—and vastly complicated. They’re difficult to study, as even the most technologically advanced sensors struggle to analyze such a complex ecosystem. But over the next five years, IBM is working to tap the help of tiny little creatures—plankton—whose changes in behavior can point to hard-to-spot changes in the environment. IBM researchers are building a real-time network of autonomous microscopes that will monitor ocean plankton—the more data they collect, the better they’ll be able to predict threats like red tides. And in the future, AI technology can equip these microscopes to report abnormalities in real time. It’s a microscopic innovation with a massive effect.

See how AI microscopes will create a sea change for our oceans within five years ->

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Glowing phytoplankton in the waves on the beach at night in the Maldives, some pictures from another beach near Hong Kong.

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Algae and rotifers swimming about. 

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glacierbayalaska The whale watchers were in the splash zone today🐋💦 Gustavus, Alaska- home of the best whale watching!

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Interaction between non-humans and humans

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IN STUDIO TASK - Photomontage

The pufferfish and mussel are on board the hot air balloon but the direction the balloon is going is ambiguous; are they taking off or landing? There is a clear divide between land and water but we see the presence of both in each element, which is very telling of the sometimes unnoticeable connections between things. Noah’s Ark can be seen in the backdrop signifying the impending doom which is to befall the land - rising sea levels. The audience waving at the hot air balloon are unaware of the danger they’re in, but maybe all that matters is that the pufferfish and mussels are safe and protected on this inflatable device.

I think through this task I was able to search deeper into the relationships between different clients, while relating it to environmental thematics. However, the actual proposal is still unclear and needs greater refinement. I would still like to take this idea of pneumatics and bring it into my proposal to not only protect and care for the non-humans but the humans as well. There also needs to be more development as to how humans might learn from the experiences of the non-humans.

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IN STUDIO TASK - Manifesto

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IN STUDIO TASK - Sketch Exploring relationships between old and new clients and expanding TASK 1B to carry out the protection and caring between species as required of TASK 2A. Taking the idea of pneumatic architecture forward and the shape of my original protective cast, the new cast might comprise of inflatable bubbles (’units’) for each single pufferfish. The modular nature of my initial cast works well in a larger scale as it opens the possibility of expansion and contraction, but the brief becomes more complicated with the addition of another non-human client, especially that of the relatively static nature of mussels. 

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IN STUDIO TASK - Diagram Relationships between clients, the site and project requirements for task 2A. While the categorization into distinct sections to make me understand the new brief worked well, this diagram might have over-simplified the task causing me to miss out other points or aspects. Even though this condensed diagram was made to look like there is a linear flow or showing a certain hierarchy, the fact is that all the elements of this diagram are interconnected and correlate to each other. 

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Photomontages Looking at shared experiences between the puffer-fish and other animals within Victoria Dock.

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A Pufferfish’s Dream

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Refinement of proposal 2

Maybe it’s not something can grow but something that is flexible and that can change it’s shape easily according to the needs of the pufferfish. However one of the limitations with this is that we have to rely on the waste produced by the fish to form bigger entrances for the fish as time passes.

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Refinement of proposal

Could there be a way for the cast to grow bigger as the pufferfish grows bigger? Currently researching materials and maybe organisms that might grow as time passes, providing the right amount of space for pufferfish to hide in.

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Water Research Strategy - Swimming (in danger) Rapid movement of tail fin usually only takes place when the fish senses danger and is trying to swim away. They rely on this burst of movement to escape, however this means that my cast would have to withstand sudden movements of the fish.

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Process development for 10s videos.

We will be making a series of 3 x 10 second videos, each representing two/three of the listed conditions found on our mini-site.

Video 1: Floating + submersion

Video 2: Diving + swimming

Video 3: Encountering the water’s edge, stranded at sea, changes in tides

Splitting the research on the effects of these conditions on our clients into three separate videos allows us to focus each video on particular aspects without overwhelming the viewer.

Group members: Erika, Jeff, Nick, James

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Reviewing Axonometric Drawings

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Protective cast proposal for the Diodon Nichthemerus.

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Clay model of client - Diodon Nichthemerus