Daedalus misses the boat

Daedalus Battlefield Visualization System

This paper describes the conceptual structure of the Daedalus battlefield awareness system. The motivation for Daedalus arises from the problem of providing timely situation awareness for air and ground combat operations in order to improve force effectiveness and reduce fratricide. Daedalus is being designed to fuse the flood of information from sensor platforms currently being developed into ...

Noakes misses the point.

The cocktail boat.

We describe the inspiration, development, and deployment of a novel cocktail device modeled after a class of water-walking insects. Semi-aquatic insects like Microvelia and Velia evade predators by releasing a surfactant that quickly propels them across the water. We exploit an analogous propulsion mechanism in the design of an edible cocktail boat. We discuss how gradients in surface tension l...

Rocking the Boat: Damage to Eelgrass by Swinging Boat Moorings

Seagrass meadows commonly reside in shallow sheltered embayments typical of the locations that provide an attractive option for mooring boats. Given the potential for boat moorings to result in disturbance to the seabed due to repeated physical impact, these moorings may present a significant threat to seagrass meadows. The seagrass Zostera marina (known as eelgrass) is extensive across the nor...

Thinking with the Coleman Boat