What are the similarities and differences between ocean and space? Which is more important? What is open source technologies? What is citizen science? These are relatively new concepts to us in Hong Kong but these are the trends that the world is moving towards to.

“The ocean is a responsive environment: the elixir of life, the amulet of space. We interact with space in an age of liquid realities populated by celestial bodies, interactive technologies, ecologies and embodied individuals seeking transcendence. Orbital perspectives, and space technologies, bring us back down to Earth. They highlight our fragility in the cosmos, and the importance of oceans for planetary health. We too are a body of water, and citizens of space. We must become one with the ocean, to understand how to survive as a species of a living, respiring planet in the Solar System. Space looks after itself.”— Dr Sarah Jane Pell

3 short presentations, followed by a discussion with the audience :

1. Jordan Mc Rae (30 minutes) about his innovative research in ocean and space technologies. 
2. Dr Sarah Jane Pell (15 minutes) about her extreme environment performances, expeditions and art works.
3. Cesar Jung-Harada (7 minutes) about citizen science, open technologies for the oceans in the context of Hong Kong education.
4. Questions and discussion (45 minutes)

Jordan McRae

MakerBay's first Maker-in-residence. Founder and President ofOCTO 23 Technologies, an invention firm focused on the development Space, Ocean, and Climate Change technologies. Jordan  began his engineering career with Lockheed Martin Space Systems as an Algorithms Engineer on a distributed space robotics platform.  In 2008, Jordan moved to Hong Kong to establish an R&D facility for Humdinger Wind Energy and the research and design of the Windcell Panel, a modular non-turbine wind energy generator.  In 2010 he co-founded B-Squares Electrics and led the development of B-Squares, a modular electronic systems, which went on to be one of Kickstarter's top 10 funded projects that year.  
Inspired by inventors such as Jacques Cousteau, Leonardo De Vinci, Nicolas Tesla, etc. Jordan is continuously intrigued by the convergence of invention, engineering, art, and philosophy. OCTO23 is currently focused on the development of the Ultrascope, an Open Source Automated Robotic Observatory (ARO), and OCTOtalk a smart diving mask for underwater communications and ocean conservation. 

Jordan received his B.S. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and his M.S. at Stanford University, both in the field of Aeroanutical/Astronautical Engineering with a focus in Robotics. More about Jordan in an interview. 

Dr Sarah Jane Pell

Artist exploring themes of human-aquatic adaptation to other worlds. Research Fellow, RMIT University. Artist-Astronaut, Polar Suborbital Space Upper Mesosphere [PoSSUM]. Bending Horizons, Mt. Everest Expedition. Former Visiting Fellow, Exertion Games Lab. Co-Chair, European Space Agency Topical Team Art Science [ETTAS]. Commercial Diver. Principal, Aquabatics Research Team initiative [ARTi]. TED Fellow.

www.sarahjanepell.com @sarahjanepell
www.artistastronaut.com @aquabatics
www.bendinghorizons.com @bendinghorizons

Cesar Jung-Harada

Director of Makerbay. Teacher of citizen science and invention, passionate about open source technologies for the environment. Cesar will talk about his experience with theHong Kong Harbour School students on oil spill pollution in Bangladesh, plastic pollution in the ocean in Hong Kong and radioactivity around Fukushima, Japan. Inventor of Protei, the shape-shifting sailing robots, TED Senior Fellow, former MIT Project leader, Ars Electronica Golden Nica (Austria), APEC Maker Award (Beijing), GOOD100 2015. Cesar (France-Japan) studied at the Royal College of Arts in London (UK). @cesarharada

Event page on MakerBay : http://www.makerbay.org/events-classes/2015/10/12/talk-open-source-technologies-and-citizen-science-platforms-what-role-do-they-play-in-ocean-space-and-climate-change-technologies