antonella wilby | field notes

I'm Antonella, a robotics engineer, deep-sea ROV pilot, computer scientist, and National Geographic Explorer. When I'm not working in the lab or in the field, I enjoy a variety of outdoor adventure sports (the gnarlier the better) and photography. This journal is where I log my adventures, travels, and ridiculous projects.

Lately I've been enjoying canyoning, caving, kayaking, cooking, and pretty much any other activity whose name starts with a velar plosive consonant. I've also been trying (and mostly failing) to learn whitewater kayaking. I would like to learn to sail, surf, and spearfish so that I can eventually enact my dream of becoming a fearsome pirate. In the meantime I've had to content myself with land-pirating as the captain and hopelessly newbie mechanic of a VW bus with ever-questionable brakes.

"bus" is just "sub" spelled backwards. I haven't yet figured out how I plan to act on this revelation but I guarantee it will be time-consuming and expensive.

I'm originally from Los Angeles, California, and currently live in Sydney, Australia. I aspire to be a semi-nomadic hobo, but really I just spend a lot of time in a research lab and sometimes get to do fieldwork in cool places. I usually only write about the cool stuff.

Unless otherwise credited, all photos and videos appearing here are my own work.