URI engineer: Origami-inspired device enables easy capture, release of delicate underwater organisms
Thursday, July 19, 2018 - 12:40
in Earth & Climate
The open ocean is the largest and least explored environment on Earth, estimated to hold up to a million species that have yet to be described. However, many of those organisms are soft-bodied -- like jellyfish, squid, and octopus -- and are difficult to capture for study with existing underwater tools, which all too frequently damage or destroy them.