With funding from Santa Clara University's Technology Steering Committee, the Triton team is building an underwater ROV to search for hydrothermal vents in Deception Island, Antarctica in April 1999. Inpartnership with Oregon State University and the NASA Ames Research Center, Triton will be an intregal part of the Oregon State Santa Clara Extreme ROV (OSSCER) mission.  We've also partnered with Tohoku Universtiy in Japan to design, construct, and integrate a robotic arm for Triton. For more information on this international collaboration please visit the website: http://screem.engr.scu.edu/tako

In August 1998, Jeremy Bates (Anthropology '99) and Aaron Weast (ME '99) along with SCREEM Lab co-director Jeff Ota led an Arctic Expedition to find the shipwreck site of the 1871 New Bedford Whaling Fleet. The mission also tested NASA's Mars Pathfinder 3D image processing software for use in marine research.

In April 1998, a team of Santa Clara University engineers restored the NASA Telepesence Remotely Operated Vehicle (TROV) for the Arctic and Antarctic Access Workshop. The successful restoration project led to the initiation of the Jeremy Project.