Kim Martini

Kim Martini

Seattle, WA

Tini Scientific

Physical Oceanographer

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Published on Nov 26, 2024

Our code is open source and on GitHub!

One of the goals of this project was break down the barriers that allow people to get good ocean data. That's why one of our milestones was to release our prototype app on GitHub. If you have a Ma...

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Published on Jul 17, 2024

I'm on a boat...evaluating the temperature sensor

How do we figure out the accuracy of a temperature sensor? By throwing it off of a boat! Actually, it's a little more complicated than that....Last week, we tagged along with scientists from the Un...

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Published on Jun 27, 2024

From framework to data - Smartwatch App V1

Over the last three weeks, we have completed some major milestones in app development! Stored the full motion data to the watch memory. Transferred that data to the companion iPhone App. Exported ...

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Published on Feb 13, 2024

Kim and Virginia at Ocean Sciences

Hi all, we've been really quiet...but it's because we have been really busy. The app is moving forward, and we are really excited that we ALMOST have a version ready to test in the water. More on t...

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Published on Nov 10, 2023

The pieces are coming together to build an app

I've said this in a previous post, but learning to code in a new language is really hard. Like any language, you know exactly what you want to do, but you don't know the words and you don't know ho...

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Published on Oct 07, 2023

When you are at the ocean, you throw things into the water

Last week, I went down to San Diego to meet with a bunch of other scientists and talk about "cheap and deep technology" to explore the ocean (more info here). We pondered how we can make ocean tech...

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Published on Sep 15, 2023

It's been a busy week at Tini

First we took the Apple Watch Ultra to the UW pressure vessel and took it down to 100m. It didn't implode!Then I took the bus to Tacoma to join the September WOAC Puget Sound cruise with NANOOS on ...

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Published on Sep 08, 2023

We got some data!

I am so excited to report that we made our first temperature and pressure profile with the Apple Watch Ultra in Seattle's Lake Washington!There's still a lot to unpack about the performance of the ...

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Published on Jun 23, 2023

It's been a cold, coding Spring!

Hi all! Kim and Virginia here giving you an update on what we have been up to.Virginia spent three months sciencing in cold, cold Antarctica.Kim spent three months coding in SwiftUI in her cold, co...

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Reply to:Lisa BealLisa Beal
I’ve been doing that too! Super helpful.
Top of the main project page next to the main project photo. https://experiment.com/projects/can-we-use-a-smartwatch-for-coastal-monitoring-and-research