"Eye-In-The-Sea on MARS: A Real-Time Window into the Deep" • Lee Frey, M.S. - HBOI Engineering Division About the Lecture Exploration of the deep sea has traditionally been limited to tools and vehicles which often scare away or injure the very creatures that they are attempting to study. The Eye-In-The-Sea program is intended to develop a series of unobtrusive instrument platforms which can be used to study life in the deep ocean by "seeing without being seen". The latest project, in collaboration with the Ocean Research and Conservation Association (ORCA) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), is the development of a system to be deployed on the MARS cabled observatory in Monterey Bay, California. Beginning in 2008, the MEITS package will be accessible to scientists and educators from around the world, in real-time via the Internet. About the Speaker Lee Frey, originally a Philadelphia native, came to Harbor Branch in 1997, as an intern funded by the Link Foundation. He received his Master's Degree in Ocean Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology in 2002, and has been with HBOI ever since. Lee specializes in the design and development of instrumentation, tools, and underwater vehicles for marine science and exploration. Current research thrusts include instruments for measuring bioluminescence, deepwater biological observation, distributed coastal monitoring, and intelligent swarm robotics. Lee heads the systems and software engineering group within HBOI's Center for Ocean Exploration and lives in Melbourne Beach.

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