NewsMaking Waves All Blog News Medium Newsletter Featured January 5, 2026Seatrec infiniTE™ Gulf Mission Update: 315 Profiles — Now in the Florida Straits December 29, 2025Seatrec featured in The Economist | The Quest to Chart the Sea November 4, 2025Gulf of Mexico Ocean Monitoring: 160 Profiles in 49 Days October 2, 2025Seatrec and NPS announce a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) October 1, 2025Seatrec’s Deep Dive — Fall 2025 September 24, 2025First Hydrophone-Equipped Float Deployed in the Gulf of Mexico August 21, 2025Seatrec’s infiniTE™ Float Surpasses 1,000 Dives for Naval Postgraduate School June 25, 2025Ocean Technology Poised for Bigger Role in Defense Spending June 11, 2025Seatrec Unlocks Unlimited Power in the Strategic Arctic with Successful Field Tests at Great Lakes Research Center’s Frozen Marine Testbed May 8, 2025Seatrec Wins Exclusive License from Sea-Bird Scientific to Manufacture Floats for Argo to Monitor the Global Ocean February 7, 2025Seatrec & NPS Dual-Use Hydrophone Float Featured in the War Zone January 29, 2025Seatrec + Naval Postgraduate School Achieve Historic First by Collecting Acoustic Data in Real-Time with Underwater Drones December 19, 2024Seatrec Wins Power at Sea Prize for Bold Plan to Map World’s Marine Resources Using Ocean’s Own Power November 11, 2024Autonomous, Directional Acoustic Profiling Float for Soundscape Characterization November 5, 2024LA Times: SBDC-OC’s First Climate Tech Deal Rides a Wave Into the Future October 29, 2024Seatrec’s Deep Dive – Fall 2024 September 22, 2024Seatrec Receives 2024 Marine Technology Society Compass Organizational Excellence Award September 21, 2024Seatrec CEO, Yi Chao, Named New AMS Fellow September 12, 2024NASA Spin-off Powering Subsea Robots September 8, 2024Seatrec on the Synchro Show July 6, 2024The Founders Way Podcast: Yi Chao and the Story of Seatrec June 17, 2024NASA spinoff building self-charging sea robots for limitless exploration June 12, 2024WLOX: USM Testing Seatrec’s Float to Improve Hurricane Intensity Forecasts June 4, 2024New Energy Source Powers Subsea Robots Indefinitely April 4, 2024Seatrec Names Pentagon Alum Jason Stack to Advisory Board February 28, 2024Seatrec Names Retired Rear Admiral John Neagley to Advisory Board February 20, 2024Seatrec Names Johan Bergenas to Advisory Board January 3, 2024Seatrec Wins Support, $1 Million Loan Through American Lending Center December 4, 2023[Techno-Ocean 2023] infiniTE(TM) FLOAT – ミサゴ株式会社 September 13, 2023Oceanographic Team Wins NOAA Funding for Underwater Soundscape Study September 4, 2023Seatrec’s Deep Dive Summer 2023 May 17, 2023Seatrec and The USM Team to Improve Hurricane Forecasting and Monitor Critically Endangered Rice’s Whale May 16, 2023Uncrewed Surface Systems Facilitating a New Era of Global Ocean Exploration March 7, 2023Seatrec Wins Slot at NSIN Propel Hawai’i Accelerator March 5, 2023The Mighty Quest To Unveil Our Blue Planet February 14, 2023Introducing the infiniTE™ Float November 25, 2022The Autonomous Ocean – Hakai Magazine November 21, 2022Seatrec Partners with Naval Postgraduate School to Study Ocean Soundscape November 11, 2022Seatrec Deep Dive Gulf Edition 2022 November 7, 2022Seatrec Selected for Gulf Blue Navigator Program July 27, 2022NOLA.com: A Robot Will Rove the Gulf to Study Heat and Hurricanes June 28, 2022Innovations and Partnerships in Ocean Mapping: What More Could We Achieve? April 22, 2022Seatrec Deep Dive Earth Day 2022 April 5, 2022Pasadena Angels Interview with Yi Chao March 23, 2022Seatrec and Seabed 2030 Launch Project NEMO, the “Last Great Expedition” to Map Ocean’s Most Remote Spot March 16, 2022Morning Brew: Seatrec’s Self-Replenishing Batteries Could Make Ocean Research Cheaper February 7, 2022Forbes: It’s Time To Listen To The Ocean… Literally February 2, 2022Wave Makers’ Podcast with Tamara Kahn and Yi Chao January 3, 2022Industrial Talk Podcast: Seafloor Mapping with Yi Chao and Scott McKenzie December 21, 2021Forbes: All Hands On Deck: How Ending Parachute Science Could Help Save The Ocean December 7, 2021H4XL Spotlight: Seatrec is changing the way we understand the ocean November 11, 2021Seatrec Quarterly Deep Dive Autumn 2021 October 28, 2021Seatrec Launches Initiative to Boost Cost-Effective Seafloor Mapping October 27, 2021CNN: Electric robots are mapping the seafloor, Earth’s last frontier September 30, 2021Seatrec Launches Project FIND September 25, 2021EarthSci Show with Aryan Shah and Yi Chao September 24, 2021ON&T July 6, 2021Tacos and Tech Podcast with Yi Chao June 28, 2021Scott Amyx Interview with Yi Chao May 20, 2021Yi Chao’s Journey Started With a $500 Loan May 14, 2021Forbes: Mapping the Seafloor (Time to Hit the Accelerator) May 4, 2021Seatrec Quarterly Deep Dive Spring 2021 May 4, 2021Seatrec Selected as Finalist in General Excellence by Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards May 1, 2021World Economic Forum Highlights Seatrec in Video April 22, 2021Reset: Seatrec is Harnessing Green Energy From the Depths of the Sea April 22, 2021海洋観測フロートのエネルギー問題を解決！ 深海からの浮上で自家発電する新技術の実用化目前 April 20, 2021World Economic Forum Features Seatrec March 22, 2021Seatrec Moves to Vista to Take Advantage of Region’s Burgeoning Bluetech Industry March 9, 2021New Atlas: Seatrec Tech Uses Changes in Temperature to Power Underwater Gliders February 12, 2021Forbes: DARPA Building an Energy-Harvesting Submarine that Never Runs Out of Power February 9, 2021Seatrec Quarterly Deep Dive Q1’21 January 12, 2021WIRED: The Plan to Build a Global Network of Floating Power Stations November 16, 2020Forbes Tech Council: Hurricanes Blow, But Our Forecasting Sucks October 27, 2020Seatrec Raises $2M Seed Round to Commercialize Technology that Harvests Clean, Renewable Energy from the Ocean October 16, 2020Seatrec Deep Dive Autumn 2020 September 28, 2020Ocean Science Radio – Harnessing Energy from the Ocean September 24, 2020Seatrec, Northrop Grumman Receive DARPA Award for Developing Deep Sea Robots to Study Climate Change and Support Blue Economy September 3, 2020These Underwater Drones Use Water Temperature Differences To Recharge August 19, 2020Northrop Grumman And Seatrec Recognized For Self-Sustaining UUV Charging Station July 29, 2020Teaming Up for Right Whales Using Gliders July 20, 2020Cleantech Companies Ride the Sustainable Investing Wave in LA July 17, 2020Seatrec Deep Dive Summer 2020 May 8, 2020Postcards from The Field (Eos) April 23, 20207 Start-ups with Sights Set on the Seas (Silicon Republic) April 17, 2020Seatrec Deep Dive Spring 2020 April 10, 2020Seatrec Honored as Winner of the Powering the Blue Economy™ Ocean Observing Prize February 18, 2020Seatrec Sea Trial Demonstrates that it is Possible to Extend Life of Oceanographic Profiling Floats January 23, 2020SEATREC Raises $970,000 April 8, 2019Seatrec Demonstrates Energy-Harvesting Solution for Ocean Instruments July 24, 2018NOAA awards Seatrec Phase I SBIR contract June 6, 2018Seatrec receives Phase II SBIR award from ONR April 11, 2017Seatrec receives grant from Schmidt Marine Technology Partners June 3, 2016Interview with Breakout Labs
