Jaffe Laboratory for Underwater Imaging

Dr. Jaffe along with Scripps professor of biological oceanography Peter Franks, and UC San Diego professor of computer science and engineering David Kriegman have recently been awarded a $1 Million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to build the first ever 3D, multiresolution, video, underwater microscope.Scripps Oceanography ArticleUnion Tribune Article 

Recently, our work in using broadband, multivew acoustics to estimate animal orienation was published in the September 2011 Physics Today Quick Study and the Acoustics Today article on Signal and Image Processing Techniques as Applied to Animal Bioacoustics Problems.

Dr. Jaffe was recently featured in the Union Tribune's article "A Scientist's Life: 10 things Jules Jaffe has done" The article reviews some of Jules' past, present and future including a great photo of Jules' early interest in oceanography:The Union Tribune article can be accessed here: link

Last week the CVCE team returns from a very productive trip to Bocas Del Toro in Panama. We worked out of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Bocas.The field work included a large array of different imaging systems including LUMIS2.LUMIS2 in BocasThe first few days were devotoed to maintaining tags of over 250 corals. After completing the maintenance work, we set out to collect images from all tagged corals setup new transects, and focus in on nearly 45 targeted corals with six different sample modalities including:

• White light RGB imaging
• Fluorescence and reflectance spectrometer data
• LUMIS and 5D fluorescence imaging
• PAM data
• Tissues samples
• Genetic samples

All told it was a great trip with many successful imaging studies happening in parallel. A big thanks to the whole CVCE team!

On July 7, 2011, the members of Jaffe Lab set sail from MARFAC on the R/V Sproul to deploy the OmniCam in the Pacific Ocean!  To learn more about our omnidirectional imaging system, visit our OmniCam page.