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The SCINI team divers practiced their diving, coring, and photography skills in the murky waters of Monterey Bay on August 23rd. One of the student experiments we will be doing in Antarctica relates to the image quality of the invertebrates that the SCINI ROV and divers with cameras can take

Location - Punta Arenas, Chile Latitude: 53° 10 S Longitude: 70° 54 W Temperature: 7.1 °C (44.8°F) Barometric Pressure: 1005.3 mBar Relative Humidity: 71.1% **Antarctic trivia question **(answer at the end of this journal entry): What is the coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth? We've gotten

Being a subsistance people, the Inupiat rely on the animals from their environment for food. I don't want to mislead the general public to think that skin boats and ivory harpoons are used to hunt whales in the Arctic. Whaling and other subsistance hunting have incorporated modern technology. There

Location: ****Punta Arenas****, ****Chile Antarctic trivia (answer at end of this journal entry): Icebergs are pieces of glaciers that have broken off and fallen into the ocean. Because they are composed of fresh water they float in the salty sea water. A commonly used expression "the tip of

Location: Drake Passage, Straits of Magellan, Punta Arenas Latitude: 53° 10 S Longitude: 70° 53 W Air temperature: 7.1 °C (44.8 °F) Barometric pressure: 1020.8 mBar Relative humidity: 72% Breaking news…if we get clearance to continue the cruise we will depart no earlier than next Tuesday or

The experience of a lifetime is one of the first things I tell anyone about my adventure in the Arctic. My life has been changing for over a year. I moved from North Carolina and left the formal education classroom to pursue a career as an informal educator at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery in

The email that I just received says; Mr. Beckendorf, our doctors have examined your tests results and we now need for you to have an echocardiogram, a stress test and we also need additional explanations from your doctor. I have already had an EKG, blood tests which looked at over thirty different

Research Experience Reflection The dynamics of studying a bird are very involved. Birds, by their nature, do not sit still very often. In my classroom experience, the animals that have be studied have been small and have had very short life cycles. Students have always greatly enjoyed the experience

I have been a teacher for a long time, long enough to know some teaching strategies that work. When you have to teach others about what you know, you truly learn. So my science club kids are learning all about the Bering Sea and the research done onboard the Healy during the Spring of 2007. They are

Location: In the Drake Passage between the Antarctic Peninsula and South America. Antarctic trivia (answer at end of this journal entry): Crabeater seals are the most numerous large mammals in the world, but they don’t eat crabs! What do they eat? Disappointment turned to action today – we know that