Dr. Lauren Olinger

@reefecologist.bsky.social

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Building a marine robotics and AI lab on an island 🏝️ Director: @the-vicar.bsky.social Caribbean reefs 🐠 robotics 🤖 AI 🧠 code 💻 stats 🧮 inverts 🦀

AI-based identifications of AUV-based video of schooling groupers and snappers at 35m depth, Grammanik Bank, USVI, 2026
A half hidden brown tabby peeking out from behind a fridge
A cat looking longingly back at the camera, an underwater robot in his favorite spot.
A screenshot of an article in Science about nsf grants being killed by gov, with pop up notifying I have to pay 2.99 month to read it.
boat full of dive gear
A valentine showing a photograph of a heart shaped red sponge with text saying "you bore into my heart"
a white SUV in a garage on jacks with no back tires
A cabinet in a science lab containing cameras, robots, and tools.
a gray tabby cat relaxing in a box
A photorealistic 3D model of a ~10 x 1 m deep-water coral reef site, showing steep vertical buttresses adorned with plating corals and massive sponges, separated by wide, sand-filled valleys.
five women scuba divers on a safety stop
a pale (light red) giant barrel sponge surrounded by bleached corals and other sessile Caribbean coral reef organisms
A sleeping tabby cat named Michael. He’s a silly goose, afraid of most harmless things but enjoys the roughest scritches, maiming cockroaches, and showing off his beans.