The Bio-optical Research Group is run by Dr Richard Zimmerman and Dr Victoria Hill.
We spend our time characterizing the optical properties of natural marine waters.
05/24/2018
Here's a quick article on our recent seagrass project.
Explore the Role of Seagrasses in Coastal Carbon Flow ODU scientist, Richard Zimmerman and his colleagues, ODU professors David Burdige and Victoria Hill, are working on a new research project that’s currently being funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA.
Landing on the Arctic sea ice, March 2017.
02/26/2018
Taking the quadcopter out for practice, in the run up to our trip to the Arctic ice.
02/12/2018
There is finally enough light at our buoy location for us to get daily pictures again. Yikes! Now we can see that the buoy is precariously situated at the edge of a recently iced over lead. Fingers crossed that it doesn't get squashed. Location 76N, 164.6W
01/30/2018
Flash back to the Catlin 2011ice camp. Tuk our polar bear guard was lying down on the job.
01/30/2018
Here's a snap from last year's buoy deployment on the sea ice about 150km north of Prudhoe. We are busy gearing up for our 2018 deployment, stay tuned.
Photo credit. Kirby Broyles
06/19/2017
Dr. Victoria Hill working with ODU Blast students.
05/21/2017
Are in Florida, working in the seagrass meadows.