Dear friends, the Octopus Foundation team has the immense privilege of announcing the birth of a baby Mediterranean monk seal in the early morning of November 2nd, 2020. This happy event took place in one of the caves that we remotely monitor with our open source systems. Our cameras installed in different sites are perfectly…
On Thursday September 17, 2020, the Greek Ionian Islands were struck by a phenomenal storm. This cyclone, named “Ianos”, is the latest of a long list of low pressure systems that usually build in autumn when masses of cold air circulate over the summer-heated Mediterranean Sea. While violent storms are not that rare, their intensity…
After three years of work on our autonomous and open source prototypes to monitor the Mediterranean monk seal, the Octopus Foundation team has the immense privilege of presenting the first results of this extraordinary project. We will refrain from coming to any biological conclusions about the behavior of this endangered marine mammal, since we are…