Search and Help Aquatic Mammals UAS (SHAMU)

SHAMU will design an unmanned aerial system to carry an instrument payload capable of locating sperm whales in the ocean.Ìý The unmanned aerial vehicle will be launched and recovered from a research vessel’s helipad.

Sponsor: Cetacean Echolocation Translation Initiative (CETI)

Faculty Advisor: Donna Sue GerrenÌý

Project Manager: Severyn Polakiewicz

Team Members: Ben Mellinkoff, Jesse Holton, Micheal Shannon, Brandon Sundahl, Lauren Mclntire,Ìý Severyn Polakiewicz, Grant Dunbar, George Duong, Ian Barrett, Sam Kelly, Justin Norman