The spirit of our organization recalls the ancient Cambrian Age, which occurred about 500 million years ago and lasted for about 80 million years, during which all life on earth was confined to water. It is also the first geological age from which we have recovered a good fossil record. The most familiar fossils of the Cambrian Period are the trilobites, the bug-like ancestors of today's crustace
ans. It is this reason that an image of trilobite fossils is used within the Cambrian Foundation logo. With education a top priority, we have a strong history of outreach to schools, universities, civic groups, youth groups, community centers and conferences, with a focus on giving ‘hands-on’ experience to students. Our dedicated group of expert technical divers also takes the lead in global research expeditions assisting with local research and conservation projects that also incorporate field/experiential opportunities for student groups and have been aired on major television networks including The Learning Channel, the Discovery Channel, The Weather Channel, The History Channel, the Canadian History Channel, NOVA, PBS, etc.. Our technical resume includes nine years of archaeological survey/artifact recovery on USS Monitor in conjunction with the US Navy and NOAA; sediment and geologic sampling from the bottom of the Great Blue Hole of Belize (408'); exploring, mapping and documenting biodiversity in underwater caves from Florida/Mexico/and Bermuda; environmental damage assessments for the US Naval Historical Center on the WWII wrecks in Ironbottom Sound (Guadalcanal); the first-ever LIVE interactive broadcast from the submerged caves of Bermuda to/with the rest of the world; etc. At the heart of our research and conservation challenge, we face the fact that many of these unique underwater environments in which we work are largely inaccessible to the wider public, and what is ‘out of sight’ is definitely ‘out of mind.’ Therefore, the broad exposure of our research expeditions has been enhanced by student participation and by a recent partnership with Interactive Expeditions, an interactive broadcast and documentary film company headquartered in Orlando, Florida.
