The Hydrous

Research the hydrous conducts research on the effectiveness of immersive virtual reality for marine education with research partners like the stanford university virtual human interaction lab, the university of oregon, and the university of gothenburg and funders like the national science foundation, national geographic, and meta.accomplishments: hamilton, j.f., kelley, b.z., monismith, s.g., kose, j.r. (2025) on the use of simplified geometries to represent turbulent flow over coral reefs. Journal of fluid mechanics: 1004, a11. Mcgivney, e., queiroz a.c.m., miller, m.r., sunny liu, beams, b., han, e., woolsey, e.s., frazier, k., peterson, x., hancock, j., bailenson, j. (2024) complexity of agency in vr learning environments: exploring association with interactivity, learning outcomes, and affect. Immersive learning research network 2024 proceedings.

Public engagementwe lead in-person learning activities and virtual dives by synchronizing virtual reality headsets at formal and informal learning institutions like schools, universities, libraries and museums. We also deliver talks and workshops at events and conferences, as well as publish our research findings in peer-reviewed journals. Accomplishments: speeches and events. The hydrous delivers in-person learning activities, talks, workshops, and virtual dives at formal and informal learning institutions like schools, universities, libraries, conferences and museums. Orpheus island: fieldwork was conducted at orpheus island on the great barrier reef in australia to collect underwater footage for hydrous educational programming as well as for dr. Woolseys tour with national geographic live. Fgcu: a series of workshops and presentations delivered at florida gulf coast universitys the water school.