Project: Impact Engineering Bristlemouth Curriculum

  • Adaptive Learning Platform

  • CLASSROOM WORKSHOPS

  • SPOTTER + SMART MOORINGS + AQUALINK

This project is supported across many sectors, including academia, government, NGOs, and the private sector.

SPONSORS

The project team and supporters are seeking sponsors to realize the full vision of the Impact Engineering Bristlemouth Curriculum project. Please contact the team to learn more about this sponsorship opportunity.

Project Goals

  • Facilitate global understanding of the oceans and enable the future blue economy

  • Support global standardization and widespread adoption of Bristlemouth

Online training addition to the current suite of Bristlemouth documentation

Online adaptive learning plus experiential training creates engagement, motivation and educational impact. Students, researchers and blue tech developers around the world enjoy open and equal access to the WHALEFALL, Area9 Lyceum adaptive learning platform.

Prototype Bristlemouth enabled hardware developed in the classroom

Anyone can access the online training to learn why remote sensing, a marine data network, and standardization are important. Educational institutions and organizations will need to purchase Bristlemouth development kits to complete the curriculum.

Additionally, students and schools will have access to educational workshop development kits, real world applications, and deployed Spotter + Smart Mooring systems through WHALEFALL facilitated programs.

Prototypes field tested on a deployed Spotter + Smart Mooring systems

All data collected will be open science and streaming live to aqualink.org

Spotter + Smart Mooring systems will all monitor reef and surface temperature as long term deployments in addition to the short term hardware prototype deployments.

The first phase of the project to be complete by December 2026

With sponsorship in Q1, 2025, work will begin on the adaptive learning platform. The completed online program and first classroom workshops will begin in the Fall semester of 2025.

  • 1,200 Students

  • 100 Classrooms

  • 7 Buoys Deployed on Real World Projects with Open Scientific Data

WHALEFALL’s announcement of the next phase of the Bristlemouth Education program at BristleCon 2025

Vision to Reality

$340,000

WHALEFALL is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit for environmental impact and equitable STEAM experiential education domestically and internationally. We collect open scientific data and support open-source development, empowering global innovation, collaboration, and scalable solutions for a healthier planet.

Special thanks to the teams at Sofar Ocean, Bristlemouth, and Aqualink for making this project possible.

We would like to express our gratitude to George and Lisa Williams for their generous donation to this project.

Project  Acknowledgements (Alphabetical)