rough draft of presentation explaining why we need to create an immersive VR experience for scientists and archeologists to explore shipwrecks and submerged cultural resources ahead of time for improved outcomes.

1. IMMERSED IN
CONSERVATION
DIVERLAURA PRESENTS

2. ...BUT THEY MUST KNOW
IT TO LOVE IT
PEOPLE PROTECT WHAT THEY LOVE...

3. LONG HISTORY OF CONSERVATION
PHOTOGRAPHY
NATIONAL PARKS

4. YOSEMITE AND CARLETON WATKINS
Yosemite, whose establishment in 1864 is largely credited to a photographer
named Carleton Watkins.
Watkins’ stereographic photos of the park were some of the images of Yosemite
that made it back to the East Coast.

5. “PARTLY ON THE STRENGTH OF WATKINS’S PHOTOGRAPHS,
PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN SIGNED THE 1864 BILL THAT
DECLARED THE VALLEY INVIOLABLE, THUS PAVING THE WAY FOR
THE NATIONAL PARKS SYSTEM”
- Getty Museum

6. "THERE CAN BE NO GREATER
ISSUE THAN THAT OF
CONSERVATION IN THIS
COUNTRY."
Theodor Roosevelt. - Confession of Faith
Speech, Progressive National Convention,
Chicago, IL, August 6, 1912.

7. Roosevelt used his authority as president to protect wildlife and public lands by
creating the United States Forest Service. This service established 150 national
forests, 51 federal bird reserves, 4 national game reserves, 5 national parks and
18 national monuments.
Roosevelt was not alone in his conservation efforts. In perhaps one of the most
famous camping trips in history, President Roosevelt spent three nights camping
with John Muir. During the 1903 camping trip in the Sierra Nevada mountains,
Muir persuaded Roosevelt to return the Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove to
federal protection as part of Yosemite National Park.

8. IMMERSIVE MEDIA

9. WHAT ABOUT
IMMERSION?
IF A PHOTO IS GOOD

10. Many environmental issues are complex and difficult to explain
fully. Phenomena like climate change, ocean acidification,
extinction, and glacier erosion are especially challenging to
illustrate, either because they’re happening in slow motion or
because they’re evolving in remote places that few people see.

11. WE LIVE IN A FAST PACED
DISTRACTED WORLD

12. YOUR OWN
PRIVATE THEATER
ANYWHERE, ANYTIME

13. EMERGING MEDIA IS FUTURE FOR
OCEAN CONSERVATION AWARENESS

14. IMMERSED WITHOUT
DISTRACTION

15. DIVERLAURA’S PYRAMID FOR CONSERVATION
“Stick” - regulations, legislation
“Carrot” - Engaged, activated public
Without public support
You can’t pass legislation.
Small actions that empower
Your public matter.

16. COMMUNITY ACTION LEADS TO POSITIVE BEHAVIOR CHANGE

18. HOW DID I
GET HERE?

19. ▸ 1980’s - TELEVISION AND NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BROUGHT THE WORLD TO MY CHILDHOOD LIVING ROOM
(COUSTEAU OCEAN ODESSY, WILD KINGDOM, NOVA, 3-2-1 CONTACT, ETC…)
▸ 1990 - CERTIFIED TO DIVE (LIFELONG NORTHWEST RESIDENT)
▸ FELL IN LOVE WITH THE UNDERSEA WORLD
▸ REALIZED THERE WAS SO MUCH GARBAGE AND TRASH UNDERNEATH THE BREATHTAKING BEAUTY
▸ 1993 - WANTED TO SHARE WITH THE WORLD, BECAME SCUBA INSTRUCTOR BUT OUR WATER IS COLD, DARK
AND EQUIPMENT IS MODERATELY HEAVY
▸ 1990’S - STARTED SHOOTING STILL IMAGES AND THEN MOVED ON TO VIDEO TO BRING THE UNDERWATER
WORLD TO THE SURFACE
▸ 2014 REALIZED LIVE ACTION 360 VIDEO WAS PART OF THE KEY TO SHARING NATURAL WORLD, 2015 STARTED
FILMING ENVIRONMENTAL 360, BUT KNOW I NOW NEED TO DO MORE

20. PLACE MATTERS

21. PUGET SOUND
IS OUR BACKYARD

23. UNDERSEA WORLD OF
MAGNIFICENT BEAUTY

25. BUT WE ARE MAKING A
MESS OF THINGS…

31. REMEMBER THIS SLIDE?

32. TIME TO DO MORE

33. COLLABORATION IS KEY
▸ TO FOSTER ENGAGEMENT THE PUBLIC
NEEDS TO KNOW ‘SOMETHING’ EXISTS
▸ STARTED OUT WITH IDEA OF EXPERIENTIAL
DIVING GAME
▸ COLLABORATING WITH MARINE IMAGINING
TECHNOLOGIES / EVAN KOVACS (WHOI,
NOAA, NATIONAL PARKS)
▸ REALIZED BEFORE GAME WE NEED A TOOL
TO HELP ARCHEOLOGISTS AND SCIENTISTS
PRESERVE OUR CULTURAL RESOURCES
EXPLORE AND INVESTIGATE
PLACES OTHERWISE OUT OF REACH

34. SEA ARRAY
PHOTOGRAMMETRY

35. NO TOUCH DATA COLLECTION
BY 3D AT DEPTH
LIDAR

37. PUTTING IT ALL
TOGETHER

45. SS ADMIRAL SAMPSON, PUGET SOUND footage by DAN WARTER/DCS FILMS

46. THIS IS WHERE YOU COME IN!
▸ WE HAVE THE CONTENT
▸ WE HAVE THE SKILLS FOR CAPTURE
▸ WE HAVE THE WILL
▸ WORKING ON NSF GRANT FUNDING
▸ WE NEED LIKE MINDED INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN HELPING US
BUILD THE NEXT GENERATION OF CULTURAL RESOURCE EXPLORATION TOOLS
▸ GAMIFICATION!!!

47. BREAK OUT SESSION!

48. THIS IS WHERE YOU COME IN!
▸ WE HAVE THE CONTENT
▸ WE HAVE THE SKILLS FOR CAPTURE
▸ WE HAVE THE WILL
▸ WORKING ON NSF GRANT FUNDING
▸ WE NEED LIKE MINDED INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN HELPING US
BUILD THE NEXT GENERATION OF CULTURAL RESOURCE EXPLORATION TOOLS
▸ GAMIFICATION!!!