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
Rest — Notice the swallow behind and to the left of the boys.
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Last weekend we went to the Mystic Seaport’s 29th Annual Sea Music Festival, (more on the music later) we all had a blast at the festival and Johann had a grand time. One of the things he always wants [...]
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Tammy and I figured out a potentially cheap way to make our own little plankton tow which we could use to make monthly or biweekly plankton community surveys. Real plankton tow nets run $150+ for a small one (I’m hoping we can “buy” one off a pair of retiring professors). We [...]
Kiribaiti doesn’t have the luxury of climate change denial, and they are sending the rest of the world a wake-up call.
The president of Kiribati, Anote Tong, announced that century old villages had to be relocated, “Where they have been living over the past few decades is no longer there, it is being eroded.” Every other [...]
As many of you many know I have been working on some video to portray the beauty and diversity of deep sea mounts and the devastation caused to them by deep sea trawling. I stumbled upon an old news article from New Zealand in which I found a great quote by Steve O’Shea on deep sea trawling [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
