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Last time I was in Seattle, I ended up wading out to Pudget Sound with this jug.” He also said, “We are competing against some teams that have a lot of resources, and we’ve made it a long way. So it feels good that we’ve proven that with a small team we can do something this big.” The night got bigger for Sunburst. After Team ANB won second place for affordability, the Missoula team won the grand prize. DeGrandpre and Beck took the stage amid applause, and the presenter had to reach high to put a medallion depicting a “sea butterfly” pteropod around Beck’s neck. (The shells of such pteropods are eroded by ocean acidification.) For accuracy, second place went to Team DuraFET, and then Sunburst won another grand prize. A grinning DeGrandpre held aloft an XPRIZE trophy depicting a wave and coral reef. Sunburst had experienced the best possible outcome: two grand prizes for a total purse of $1.5 million. “I was smiling much more than normal,” DeGrandpre says with a laugh. “It was exciting, and I was relieved.” Presenter Paul Bunje, senior director of the ocean health XPRIZE, said, “You have proven XPRIZE right that innovation can come from anywhere and it can make the impossible possible. You all are heroes for stepping up and attempting to do something that most of the world thought was unsolvable. You are true ocean heroes.” DeGrandpre seemed destined for a career in science even back at Capital High, where he did an award-winning aquatics project on Helena’s water quality. He did his undergraduate work in Montana and attended grad school at the University of Washington. Beck left Montana for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he played basketball his sophomore year and studied mechanical engineering. He also attended graduate school at UW. DeGrandpre studied sensor technology in grad school. “Using fiber-optics to probe matter was a big thing to do then,” he says. “You would configure fiber-optics to take light down and back, and then you look at the signal to understand Sunburst had experienced the best possible outcome: two grand prizes for a total purse of $1.5 million. what is going on with the stuff you shine light on.” He sometimes became frustrated with researchers who developed fiber-optic technology – stick a fiber in a beaker of solution, record a signal, write a paper – but then nothing ever came of it. “I call that proof-of-concept technology,” he says. “You make something work, but then you never pursue a true application. I wanted to take that technology and really use it for something.” In 1990, DeGrandpre landed a postdoctoral position with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. In his application, he wrote he wanted to develop an ocean carbon dioxide sensor using fiber-optic indicator technology. He later learned his application literally went into the garbage because he was an analytical chemist and not an oceanographer. But Craig Dorman, the Woods Hole director at that time, overruled the search committee because he believed the institution needed more sensor development. DeGrandpre stayed at Woods Hole nearly five years, and it was a productive time for him. He met his future wife, Kate Lindner, a grad student in the Boston University marine program, while she worked at a deli. He also wrote several papers, landed grant money and transitioned into more of an environmental chemist. In 1992, he took a sensor prototype on its first ocean cruise. This version had to stay with a ship, but he soon started working on a proto-SAMI unit that could function on its own buoy. In 1993, he joined forces with an engineer named Terry Hammar to upgrade the sensor, and in 1994 it was deployed at the Woods Hole testing dock. During one test, a failed pump caused water to flood a work station on the dock. Without thinking, DeGrandpre rushed into the flooding room to unplug some equipment. That room was a dangerous mix of electricity and conductive seawater. “I was lucky I wasn’t electrocuted,” he says. “I realized then the development of new technology involves a lot of risks – sometimes even death!” DeGrandpre says his wife came up with the catchy SAMI acronym, and over the next few years six more were deployed. Though his career was going well, he didn’t plan to stay at Woods Hole, where he needed to earn grants and pay Sea froth surrounds pH sensors being lowered to 3,000 meters off the coast of Hawaii from the deck of the Kilo Moana research vessel. (Photos by Jim Beck) Vision 2016 11PDF Image | Carbon Vision 2016
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