The Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) ROV Competition is an annual competition of High School and undergraduate college teams to design an underwater ROV and complete a simulated mission using their ROV in a controlled environment (think swimming pool). This year the mission (pdf) was to deploy an ROV to a hydrothermal vent [...]
I’m currently out on the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster, working for NURC but thought I would throw out a quick hello and a picture for everyone…
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Cetecea
Sub Order: Mysticeti
Family: Balaenopteridae
Genus: Megaptera
Species: Megaptera novaeangliae
Bleeding Heart
Originally uploaded by eclectic echoes.
I love languages and learning about the origins of words and phrases. I collect quotes. I also love gardens. It shouldn’t have been surprising at all, but it just dawned on me that the majority of my quote collection is linked to gardening in some way. One of my particular [...]
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Tagged bee, buterfly, Coleoptera, flowers, garden, home, inverts, Johann, quotes
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I’m currently setting up a shiny new 17″ MacBook Pro for one of the professors I’m working for (it’s going to be a very interesting summer with 3 part time jobs and 4 bosses!). Being that the University and NURC have licenses for a variety of software he uses that are PC licenses or are [...]
I’m so close to being done with the semester. I have one last exam. It’s for a great class, but the final exam is killing me. It’s a take home exam, which means it’s far harder than what we would be subjected to in an in class exam. Well, except maybe the Marine Reaction and [...]
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Tagged book review, books, CO2, echinodermata, ecology, environment, history, inverts, marine, menhaden, ocean acidification
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Summer is almost here…
It’s just one more week and I’m through with the semester from hell.
It’s not that any of the classes were that hard, though Marine Reaction and Transport comes close enough. The problem is that I got involved in many other activities and overextended myself again.
My last class was yesterday with Prof. A. [...]
The semester is almost (but not quite) over, and already the summer is filling up fast.
I will as usual have 20+ hours a week working IT for the Science Department.
May and June will be making a 10-15 minute video DVD for deep sea trawling impacts on seamounts. Of course that means I have to go [...]
At Avery Point the Earthday celebrations were yesterday (tree planting, drum circle, giveaways of CFL lights, recycled reusable water bottles, speeches, ice cream, CT DEP demonstrations, hybrid car showings - not bad for a campus of only 500 or so people.
Since today is the more widely recognized day though… a few quick quotes / links
“Never [...]
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Tagged avery-point, earth, earthday, environment, Johann, UCONN
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Last week we went to Providence for two science conferences. I had fun. I sat in on some really neat talks. One was about lobster larvae and another was about Alaskan oyster farming. I ate mussels. I worked behind the front desk. We went to the beach party and had fun playing all the games [...]
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Last week was very busy for us here. I volunteered to help out one of the people at the University who was in charge of organizing and putting on the NSA conference and the Benthic Ecology Meeting which were held back to back in Providence. Ostensibly I was supposed to be there primarily for IT [...]
