SCUBAnauts Operation Deep Climb – Day 2
This is the second installment of the SCUBAnauts blog. Go to the Web and check out the pictures of the fish that they saw (Search for “Hawaii state fish” instead of Humu… — it’s easier!). Day 2 – 12...
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There is much exciting wildlife below the water, as you will see below, and some beautiful pictures! Again — you might want to look on the Web for more images of some of the sea creatures the bloggers...
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The blog below is about underwater archaeology. Making discoveries is fun, but mapping is an important part of all science. GLOBE has GPS and Site Characterization Protocols to characterize the...
View ArticleSCUBAnauts Operation Deep Climb – Day 8
The students went to 100 feet on the dive — that’s about 30 meters. From my introduction to the Day 5 blog, 10 meters of water weighs about the same as the entire atmosphere. Thus at 30 meters below...
View ArticleSCUBAnauts Operation Deep Climb – Day 12
What an exciting dive! The students made several interesting observations. First, it was very dark by the time the submersibles made it to the sea floor, at about 400 meters. Life that depends on...
View ArticleSCUBAnauts Operation Deep Climb – Postscript
As you saw in the last blog, two of the SCUBAnauts — Collin and Anna — descended in submersibles to about 400 m beneath the ocean surface to explore the seas of Hawaii. What kind of environment did...
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As noted in previous blogs, many of us don’t understand the terms people use in describing climate change; nor do we always understand how ideas related to global climate change relate to everyday...
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