James Bellingham

James G. Bellingham is the chief technologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. His personal research activity revolves around the development and use of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). In the process of developing these vehicles, he spent considerable time at sea, leading over 20 AUV expeditions. Bellingham leads the Autonomous Ocean Sampling Network (AOSN) program at MBARI, which uses fleets of autonomous vehicles to adapt to and observe rapidly changing oceanographic processes. Bellingham received his Ph.D. in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988. He is a co-founder of Bluefin Robotics Corporation in 1997, a leading manu8 Climate Clock San José facturer of AUVs for the military, commercial and scientific markets. Bluefin was purchased by Battelle Memorial Corporation in 2005, where he remains a member of the Strategic Advisory Group.

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  • James Bellingham
  • Steve Bishop
  • Peter Brewer
  • Tim Dye
  • Seth Fearey
  • Marc Fischer
  • Robert Gifford
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  • Saul Griffith
  • Don Kassing
  • Steve Landau
  • Eric Paulos
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  • Changing Behavior: Closing the Feedback Loop
  • The Game Plan—Making Climate Protection Personal
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  • The Data Challenge
  • Sustainable Design: Lessons Learned
  • The Challenge of New Technologies
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