Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association
Join fellow alumni and friends at Pier 15 on December 18th for a winter solstice-themed evening at The Exploratorium and hear Johns Hopkins’ pioneering marine technologies inventor and expedition leader Dr. James Bellingham’s presentation “Oceans Full of Robots: Illuminating the Wild Dark Seas” at 7:00 p.m. in the Kanbar Forum.
• Explore how autonomous underwater vehicles—now essential to industry, national security, and ocean science—are transforming our understanding of the ocean’s resources, risks, and needs.
• Hear expedition stories, including evacuation as ice flows break up.
• Discover how agile, energy-efficient marine robots dive miles into the deep to uncover hydrothermal-vent ecosystems, shipwrecks, and rare-earth minerals—and how similar technologies may one day search for life in the oceans of other worlds.
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James Bellingham, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Institute for Assured Autonomy and the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Exploration Robotics at Johns Hopkins University. He previously led robotics programs at MIT, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, and has been the expedition leader for numerous autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) research expeditions from the Arctic to the Mediterranean to the Antarctic. He is the author of How Are Marine Robots Shaping Our Future?
Event DateThursday, December 18, 2025Start Time: 6:00pm PSTEnd Time: 10:00pm PST
Pier 15San Francisco, CA 94111
ContactOffice of Alumni RelationsJenn FisherRegional & Young Alumni Programs (800) JHU-JHU1JennFisher@jhu.edu
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