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The project in images

Instruments, wave channel, workshops, and fieldwork in Havana Bay, documented throughout the project's reports.

Prototype of an autonomous buoy floating on the water, fitted with sensors and LoRa wireless communication.
Prototype of an autonomous buoy floating on the water, fitted with sensors and LoRa wireless communication.
Wave generator of the channel built at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, with green-colored water.
Wave generator of the channel built at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, with green-colored water.
Green 3D-printed buoy hull, fresh off the printer.
Green 3D-printed buoy hull, fresh off the printer.
Daniela Martínez-Ortiz calibrating the professional spectrophotometer in the lab.
Daniela Martínez-Ortiz calibrating the professional spectrophotometer in the lab.
Empty can floating and drifting toward the artificial beach of a laboratory wave channel.
Empty can floating and drifting toward the artificial beach of a laboratory wave channel.
Floating cylinder drifting under wave action in the FabLab-ULB wave channel, with its path marked.
Floating cylinder drifting under wave action in the FabLab-ULB wave channel, with its path marked.
Close-up of a copper mesh covered in blue-green copper-chloride crystals after exposure in the bay.
Close-up of a copper mesh covered in blue-green copper-chloride crystals after exposure in the bay.
Underwater frame with AI detection of a jellyfish and biofouling, with recognition bounding boxes.
Underwater frame with AI detection of a jellyfish and biofouling, with recognition bounding boxes.
Project team aboard a boat, getting ready to board a buoy in Havana Bay.
Project team aboard a boat, getting ready to board a buoy in Havana Bay.
Fisher on a handmade raft in Havana Bay, with a cargo ship in the background, March 2025.
Fisher on a handmade raft in Havana Bay, with a cargo ship in the background, March 2025.
Project team's first meeting with fishers from the Casablanca recreational fishing base.
Project team's first meeting with fishers from the Casablanca recreational fishing base.
Student in front of a monitor demonstrating drinking-water quality measurement.
Student in front of a monitor demonstrating drinking-water quality measurement.
Professors and students manually unloading acrylic sheets from a truck.
Professors and students manually unloading acrylic sheets from a truck.
Project students boarding up a vulnerable window of the Physics building with acrylic.
Project students boarding up a vulnerable window of the Physics building with acrylic.
Window reinforced with a panel in the room where the project's wave channel will be built.
Window reinforced with a panel in the room where the project's wave channel will be built.
Doctoral students during FabAcademy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Doctoral students during FabAcademy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Luis Abel Rodríguez presenting the project at the CIMAB workshop on climate change and women.
Luis Abel Rodríguez presenting the project at the CIMAB workshop on climate change and women.
Pre-university students working on electronics during the 2024 Physics Summer School.
Pre-university students working on electronics during the 2024 Physics Summer School.
Group photo of the workshop on scientific tools at the University of Havana, March 2024.
Group photo of the workshop on scientific tools at the University of Havana, March 2024.
Group photo of the workshop at Espoleta Tecnologías, November 2024.
Group photo of the workshop at Espoleta Tecnologías, November 2024.
Group photo of the project's international PhD Kick-off workshop.
Group photo of the project's international PhD Kick-off workshop.