Science – The Ocean Memory Project https://oceanmemoryproject.org A Cross Disciplinary Approach to Global Scale Changes Fri, 28 Apr 2023 23:35:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://oceanmemoryproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-OMP_Logo_Hand_1_WHonTransp-32x32.png Science – The Ocean Memory Project https://oceanmemoryproject.org 32 32 Unlocking Ocean Memory from Marine Vertebrate Fossil Time Capsules https://oceanmemoryproject.org/unlocking-ocean-memory/ Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:00:47 +0000 http://www.dev.oceanmemoryproject.org/copy-of-invisible-kelp-forest-from-smell-to-sound/

Unlocking Ocean Memory from Marine Vertebrate Fossil Time Capsules

Unlocking Ocean Memory from Marine Vertebrate Fossil Time Capsules

What if ocean memory from long extinct organisms were still accessible by the traces they left behind? What if we can access ancient ocean memory by experiencing it through the senses of marine animals who no longer swim the seas? What did these individual marine animals sense over their lifetime?

This project seeks to analyze and utilize fossilized sense organs to unlock long hidden ocean memories and expand our human concepts of senses and sensing beyond the terrestrial anthropocene. The approach combines research methods from geology, biology, and paleontology, with artistic practices from painting and music, with technological approaches from data logging and modeling, all merged with science communication.

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Yinan Wang
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Insley Haciski
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Heather Spence

Marine and Science Advisor, Water Power Technologies Office, U.S. Department of Energy

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]]> OIOM: Octopus Cognition https://oceanmemoryproject.org/octopus-cognition/ Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:00:47 +0000 http://www.dev.oceanmemoryproject.org/copy-of-copy-of-the-ocean-memory-cabaret/

OIOM: Octopus Cognition

OIOM: Octopus Cognition

Human social intelligence, and the associated ability to conceptualize the individuality, agency and mental state of other beings, provides us with an incredible capacity for empathy.

This capacity, however, is limited by our sensations, perceptions, and motor abilities. Technology, when catered to these elements of our behavior, can extend our capacity for empathy by interfacing humans with unique capabilities of information acquisition and movement. The ancient evolutionary path of the octopus in parallel to vertebrates has led to highly divergent cognitive and morphological characteristics.

These animals serve as an appropriate model for testing the potential for technology to augment our empathy. Octopuses will be given computer designed 3D printed behavioral tasks to complete. These tasks will be used to test theories of octopus sensation, perception, and 3 Sivitilli, Dominic 02704618803 cognition, and this information will be used to intuitively interface a human controller with the body of a virtual octopus in virtual reality (VR).

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Dominic Sivitilli
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]]> An Analog Analysis of the Ocean and Climate https://oceanmemoryproject.org/analog-analysis-of-the-ocean/ Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:00:47 +0000 http://www.dev.oceanmemoryproject.org/copy-of-copy-of-the-ocean-memory-cabaret-2/

An Analog Analysis of the Ocean and Climate

An Analog Analysis of the Ocean and Climate

Knowledge of how the global ocean evolves on geologic timescales is key for identifying potential “priming” events for ocean memory. Our understanding of past ocean conditions comes from scientists such as PI Rafter, who use the geological archives (e.g., fossils in ocean sediments) to create time-series of past ocean conditions and analyze this reconstructed ocean history using standard statistical methods.

Here, we propose a new method for analyzing ocean history that draws upon traditional Ocean Memory Project tools (e.g., ideation among artists and scientists) to investigate the history of the ocean and climate via canonical datasets. Among the datasets to be used include the history of ocean oxygenation during the Paleoproterozoic, the Cenozoic change in deep-sea temperature (Figure 1), and the mid-to-late Pleistocene global ocean salinity. Each of these well-known datasets include large changes that can be considered potential “priming events” and therefore would be part of a collective Ocean Memory

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Patrick Rafter

Scientist in the Department of Earth System Science at UC Irvine

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Mixed-media Artist

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]]> OIOM: Genomic Transcoding https://oceanmemoryproject.org/genomic-transcoding/ Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:00:47 +0000 http://www.dev.oceanmemoryproject.org/copy-of-an-analog-analysis-of-the-ocean-and-climate-2/

OIOM: Genomic Transcoding

OIOM: Genomic Transcoding

Sensory-interactive engagement with complex data deepens the understanding of our biology and reinforces profound visceral connections to distant lifeforms. Translation/transcoding of complex data to alternative sensoria (from scientific data to interactive 3D soundscapes) enables a shift in cognition, conceptual dialogue, generation of novel interpretations and transformative experiences for art-science public audiences.

An extension of this paradigm would reinforce the perception of space and time through access to sonic-based equivalents of trans- species genomes/morphologies – as representations of the moments, conditions and residues of ocean origins 3 Weaver, Timothy 02704623262 and memory. This proposed project will design, develop and prototype a multimedia environment coordinated by data- transformation software for spatial interaction to expand the understanding of the foundations of life and memory between cephalopods and humans as intelligent free-moving beings.

As an art-science investigation the goal is to empower audiences thru body movements/embodied cognition to create novel listening environments and sound pattern compositions for the presentation of data for expressive, investigative purposes and public/exhibition outreach – offering the listening experience as a comparative bridge between lifeforms from oceans to the terrestria

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]]> The Ocean Carries ‘Memories’ of SARS-COV-2 https://oceanmemoryproject.org/memories-sars/ Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:00:12 +0000 http://www.dev.oceanmemoryproject.org/?p=82 The Ocean Carries ‘Memories’ of SARS-COV-2

A weekly meeting to discuss the connections between the pandemic and ocean memory leads to a collaboratively authored piece exploring what ocean memory can tell us about SARS CoV-2, published August 15, 2020, in Scientific American


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