Hard to miss: little red truck and bright yellow boat
Thanks to a fully funded initial seed investment, Headwaters & Marine Stewards (HMS) is spending 2026 in a deliberate engineering and infrastructure phase. We’re laying the groundwork behind the scenes so we can hit the water running.
Our public enrollment, community deployment, and field operations will officially launch in Spring 2027.
The Two Pillars: What You’ll Do & What We’ll Do
Pillar 1: The Community (You)
Certified Citizen Scientist
We’re designing turnkey water-testing kits and an interactive, self-paced online academy. Starting in 2027, you can grab a kit, walk down to your local shoreline along the Great Bay Watershed or Piscataqua River, and collect and record lab-grade data on your own schedule.
Pillar 2: The Fleet (Us)
High-Resolution Robotic Sensing
While our community monitors the shorelines, our team deploys the HMS ‘Ghost‘—our custom-engineered, shallow-draft drone. The drone maps deep-column water quality in environmental hotspots and shallow estuaries that traditional research vessels can’t reach.
The Strategy: Connect, Understand, Protect
Connect
Join our 2027 Steward Cohort
Get trained, get armed with a professional field kit, and claim ownership over your local waters.
Understand
The Single Source of Truth
We will layer your community shoreline observations directly over the HMS ‘Ghost’ forensic telemetry.
Protect
Science for Good
Empowering the Seacoast with clear, trusted data—giving our towns the agency-grade evidence to heal our waters, stop pollution, and safeguard our shorelines for generations to come.
The 2026 Progress Tracker
| Phase | Project | Status | What We’re Doing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Fleet Prep | In Progress | Custom rigging and safety outfitting on the R/V HMS Buttercup. |
| 02 | Hardware Engineering | In Progress | Calibrating automated telemetry and building the HMS ‘Ghost’ drone chassis. |
| 03 | HMS Digital Academy | In Progress | Structuring our custom LMS learning modules for the 2027 Steward Cohort. |
| 04 | Community Launch | Spring 2027 | Opening public enrollment, kit distribution, and active data logging. |
Join our 2027 Steward Cohort
We’ll send you a single update once our programs are officially in place.
No spam, and absolutely no hidden “opt-ins” for anything else.