From 6972e6e642d62632f39fb00e9b3644e7bd3416f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik van Sebille <erikvansebille@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 07:55:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] First update of features

---
 src/components/features.js |  4 +---
 src/data/features.js       | 32 ++++++--------------------------
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/components/features.js b/src/components/features.js
index 1c4fa02..e083130 100644
--- a/src/components/features.js
+++ b/src/components/features.js
@@ -22,9 +22,7 @@ export const Features = () => {
           Key Features & Capabilities
         </Heading>
         <Text fontSize={'lg'}>
-          Parcels can be used to track passive and active particulates such as
-          water, plankton, plastic, icebergs, and fish using data from flow
-          datasets.
+          The Virtual Ship can be used to simulate and teach the planning, execution and analysis of ocean-based fieldwork
         </Text>
 
         <SimpleGrid columns={{ base: 1, md: 2, lg: 4 }} spacing={8} my={8}>
diff --git a/src/data/features.js b/src/data/features.js
index b0321c4..0256b6d 100644
--- a/src/data/features.js
+++ b/src/data/features.js
@@ -1,34 +1,14 @@
 export const Features = [
   {
-    title: 'Use data from any (curvilinear) grid',
-    text: 'Parcels works on model outputs including NEMO, POP, MITgcm, and more.',
+    title: 'Simulate CTD, ADCP, drifter and Argo data',
+    text: '',
   },
   {
-    title: 'Combine data on different grids',
-    text: 'Create a single Parcels FieldSet from multiple different model outputs.',
+    title: 'Works with Copernicus Marine Service data',
+    text: '',
   },
   {
-    title: 'Define and execute custom kernels',
-    text: 'Encode custom particle operations such as swimming or sinking.',
-  },
-  {
-    title: 'Advect particles in 2D and 3D',
-    text: 'Use built-in kernels for Runge-Kutta4 and Runge-Kutta45 schemes.',
-  },
-  {
-    title: 'Diffuse particles in 2D',
-    text: 'Use built-in kernels for the Milstein and Euler-Maruyama schemes.',
-  },
-  {
-    title: 'Start and stop particles during execution',
-    text: 'For example, to simulate oil spills or fish spawning.',
-  },
-  {
-    title: 'Simulate particle-particle interactions',
-    text: 'For example, to simulate aggregation or mortality.',
-  },
-  {
-    title: 'Output particle data in zarr format',
-    text: 'For highly efficient output of particle data.',
+    title: 'Integrate with the Marine Facilities Planning Portal',
+    text: 'Plan your fieldwork at the marinefacilitiesplanning.com portal to and then execute with the Virtual Ship',
   },
 ]

From 735e18c9cfea726b09ef9e6711229381cb024d7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik van Sebille <erikvansebille@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 08:47:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Updating the full set of features

---
 src/data/features.js | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/data/features.js b/src/data/features.js
index 0256b6d..be702f0 100644
--- a/src/data/features.js
+++ b/src/data/features.js
@@ -1,14 +1,34 @@
 export const Features = [
   {
-    title: 'Simulate CTD, ADCP, drifter and Argo data',
-    text: '',
+    title: 'Train students and researchers',
+    text: 'The Virtual Ship is a tool to train students and researchers in marine sciences for working at sea.',
   },
   {
-    title: 'Works with Copernicus Marine Service data',
-    text: '',
+    title: 'Plan and execute your own expedition',
+    text: 'The Virtual Ship allows you to plan your expedition, including the route, instruments and data collection.',
   },
   {
     title: 'Integrate with the Marine Facilities Planning Portal',
-    text: 'Plan your fieldwork at the marinefacilitiesplanning.com portal to and then execute with the Virtual Ship',
+    text: 'Plan your fieldwork at the marinefacilitiesplanning.com portal and use the downloaded route in the Virtual Ship.',
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Works with Copernicus Marine Service data',
+    text: 'The Virtual Ship uses the copernicusmarine tool to seamlessly download hydrodynamic and biogeochemical data.',
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Simulate CTD, ADCP, drifter and Argo data',
+    text: 'The Virtual Ship simulates data retrieval from CTD, ADCP, XBT, surface drifters and Argo float instruments.',
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Experience life on board with VR',
+    text: 'The Virtual Ship includes 360 videos for VR headsets to experience life on board a research vessel.',
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Use with OceanParcels',
+    text: 'The Virtual Ship is built on top of OceanParcels, a Python library for simulating particle trajectories.',
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Open source and free to use',
+    text: 'The Virtual Ship is open source and free to use. You can find the code on GitHub.',
   },
 ]

From d24ae1f3a10d862fc552e14472c5862e31053b0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik van Sebille <erikvansebille@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 08:48:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Update title so that it shows up well in browser tab

---
 src/pages/index.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/pages/index.js b/src/pages/index.js
index a3b3889..ca57202 100644
--- a/src/pages/index.js
+++ b/src/pages/index.js
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ export default function IndexPage() {
   return (
     <Layout
       url={`/`}
-      title={'Virtual Ship: Explore the ocean with a virtual research vessel'}
+      title={'VirtualShip: Explore the ocean with a virtual research vessel'}
       card={
         'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OceanParcels/oceanparcels_website/main/public/virtualship-assets/virtual_ship_logo_no-text.png'
       }