Hamilton presented his work in the James Reserve and the recently-created Blue Oak Ranch Reserve, University of California research stations near the San Jacinto Mountains and in San Jose, respectively. He has worked over the past 20 years to deploy insane amounts of networked monitoring tools to create a “macroscope” view of the ecological landscape. Microclimate, cold air drainage, nest boxes, pitfall traps, camera traps, towers with video, nitrogen sensing, microphone arrays, underground root observing microscopes, autonomous underwater and flying robots. Uh, yeah, you read right. Autonomous underwater robots.