The Aircraft Center for Earth Studies is combining aerial mapping, underwater photography, and artificial intelligence to help scientists and stakeholders assess damage, track recovery, and guide restoration of coral reefs.
A new airborne imaging approach developed at the Rosenstiel School can detect underwater munitions with high precision, which can help advance global coastal safety efforts.
A team of Rosenstiel School seniors built a new approach to assessing coral reef health, putting ACES sensing techniques into the hands of the next generation of student researchers.
Los Angeles Times Short Doc Chasing Whales follows an international team of scientists, including ACES Director Dr. Ved Chirayath, as they conduct groundbreaking whale research in Antarctica. The film explores the challenges and rewards of field science in one of Earth’s most remote environments while highlighting efforts to collect critical data that can inform future marine conservation and protection measures.
A 2026 commencement profile of Isaiah Wang, who paired computer science with marine research at ACES, a reflection of the cross-disciplinary work the lab is built on.
A look at Director Ved Chirayath's mission to map the ocean floor at the resolution astronomers use for the cosmos, and why the seafloor remains one of Earth's last unexplored frontiers.
The Moore Foundation profiles Chirayath beyond his research, tracing the path that led him from astrophysics to ocean exploration as a Moore Inventor Fellow.
Ved Chirayath has worked for a decade toward what he calls the holy grail of oceanography: a technology that can image the seafloor the way telescopes image the cosmos. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation named him one of five 2024 Moore Inventor Fellows.
Decades ago, Florida's reef tract was one of the ocean's greatest treasures, stretching 350 miles. This NASA feature examines its decline and the work to document what remains.
Ahead of ABC News and National Geographic's "Eclipse Across America" coverage, Chirayath discusses the technology used to study solar eclipses and the research opportunities they create.
When Ved Chirayath says he has the dream job, it’s hard to disagree. He’s turned his lifelong passion for NASA and space exploration into a career developing technologies and instruments that help us better explore something closer to home—Earth.
The University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science will take delivery of the first flying electric research vessel in the United States in May, through a unique collaboration with Candela, a Swedish company accelerating the transition to sustainable electric boating.
A field profile following Chirayath into remote and often dangerous waters in pursuit of mapping the world's oceans.
Photo by Rebecca Hale, National Geographic
