Ross Sea Resources (5 posts)

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  • Profile picture of Sage Lichtenwalner Sage Lichtenwalner said 2 years, 8 months ago ago:

    Hi everyone, I just wanted to let you know that we’re hoping to post some updates to the Ross Sea Blog later this week. Also, I hope all of you will find a chance soon to fill out the Live Call survey.

    In the meantime, I wanted to share this link to a list of resources on the Ross Sea that some of our undergraduates put together.

    This semester, as part of a seminar class on Antarctica, several groups are focusing on different parts of the Antarctic where we will be sending gliders this year. While you might be interested in all of them, you’ll probably definitely want to follow the Ross Sea group. You can subscribe to the I-COOL RSS Feed to follow along with their reports.

    Have any of you found any other interesting Ross Sea related sites?

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  • Profile picture of Laura Dunbar Laura Dunbar said 2 years, 8 months ago ago:

    On your list, the link for The Last Ocean is a beautiful (3 minute 17 second) voicover of pictures showing the Ross Sea and the animals that call it home. Poetic in nature ~ wonderfully narrated ~ a good general introduction to the Ross Sea.

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  • Profile picture of Katie Gardner Katie Gardner said 2 years, 7 months ago ago:

    As we mentioned in the webinars last week, there are many resources available for teaching about Antarctica. I’ve listed just those available on COSEE-NOW that you can use with your classes. As you find and use resources related to this project, please share them with us, here.

    Ocean Gazing Podcasts:
    Music from the Bottom of the Food Chain: http://coseenow.net/podcast/2010/06/foodchain/
    The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, composed: http://coseenow.net/podcast/2010/01/compose/
    Clearing a Carbon Catastrophe: http://coseenow.net/podcast/2009/10/carbon/
    Antarctica Melting: http://coseenow.net/podcast/2009/09/melting/
    Penguins in the Hot Seat: http://coseenow.net/podcast/2009/06/penguins/
    Gliding on Earth: http://coseenow.net/podcast/2009/08/goe/
    (These are just some of the podcasts with direct relation to the Ross Sea Connection, please check out all the others too.)

    Multimedia:
    Antarctica Melting: A story in 4 acts: http://coseenow.net/blog/antarctica-melting/
    Phytoplankton Sampling in Antarctica: http://coseenow.net/blog/phytoplankton-sampling-in-antarctica/

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  • Profile picture of Kate Florio Kate Florio said 2 years, 5 months ago ago:

    Hi everyone,

    Lori contacted me looking for some animations of the Slocum gliders. I found a couple of videos that might be helpful so I wanted to share them here.

    Here is an animation of a glider diving:

    This one can also be seen on the Atlantic Crossing Mission Blog. Also here is a nice video of a real glider diving. I think it shows the motion and speed pretty well. Feel free to look around at the suggested/related videos on YouTube, there are quite a few more.

    Unfortunately I couldn’t find any animations that show the inside of the glider – the pump working and such. There is one of a Seaglider, but those work a little bit differently so I left it out to avoid confusion.

    I hope these help!

    -Kate

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  • Profile picture of Sage Lichtenwalner Sage Lichtenwalner said 2 years, 4 months ago ago:

    Check out this recent satellite image of chlorophyll in the Ross Sea on NASA’s Earth Observatory site.

    http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=48949

    Sometimes it’s cool to take a step back to just absorb how amazing all those phytoplankton blooms look swirling together.

    I’m sure you’re students will love analyzing all the intricate features as well. Can they figure out where the Palmer was when the image was captured?

    At the bottom of the post, they actually link to our Ross Sea blog? How cool is that?

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