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Category: Expeditions
Join me and my colleagues as we embark on the Benthic Assemblages in the Twilight Zone (BATZ) expedition to characterize benthic assemblages in the mesophotic or "twilight zone" (50-200 m) using a deep-diving Phantom II remotely operated vehicle in the Gulf of Mexico August 25 - September 2nd, 2008.
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Category: Expeditions
...the ocean is our final frontier. Besides if we need to explore it before it is overfished, mined, covered in trash, or a sink for all our excess carbon. Mars can wait. Of course I say this in partly in...
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Category: Expeditions
It was only 3 years ago when the northernmost vents were found in the Arctic Ocean at 71 degrees, just above Iceland. Dr. Rolf Pedersen is a geologist at the Centre for Geobiology at Norway's University of Bergen and led...
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Category: Expeditions
Nature News reports: "Many of the research projects launched as part of the International Polar Year (IPY), which runs from March 2007 to March 2009, are under threat because of the steep rise in marine-fuel costs. Hundreds of Arctic and...
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Category: Expeditions
This ship is EVERYONE's ship. Make it a reality! Find out more at The Beagle Project, follow their blog, buy the shirt and donate a couple bucks!...
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Category: Expeditions
People seem fascinated by the prospect of purchasing virtual real estate at Second Life, but if you ask me, Google Earth is a better place to stake your claim. For instance, I study deep sea-fans, or gorgonians. Many of these have their first description in the reports of the HMS Challenger expedition 1873-1876. The maps are now online at Google Earth.
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Category: Industry & Government
Rising gas prices may have one more causality, one you many not have thought of...oceanographic science. Our main tool is the research vessel, large contraptions we use to steam across the vast oceans collecting data. The R/V New Horizon from...
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Category: Expeditions
Congratulations to the Phoenix landing team for an absolutely best-scenario landing! I tuned in for the landing on NASA TV online. Seeing all the tension and excitement at Mission Control got me positively bouncing in my desk chair. I...
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Category: Expeditions
Shiver me timbers! The RV Tangaroa has a poet on board, and he's makin' jingles at sea. The mate is there up on the bridge, steering us south down the Ridge. It's blowing a lot when he gets to the...
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Category: Expeditions
Gaelin Rosewaks was one of a dozen people who changed my ideas about what it means to live an inspired life when I dropped out of the film business after ten years in Hollywood, and enrolled in the summer session...
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