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Claire Barnett posted on the forum topic Student Impact in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years agoThanks, Loris!
I will try that!
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Loris Chen posted on the forum topic Student Impact in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years agoTry saving it as a quicktime movie and post it at your school webpage or YouTube. As a quicktime movie, it might be a smaller file and allow posting here.
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Claire Barnett posted on the forum topic Student Impact in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years agoWell, I guess it isn’t here after all. Evidently it is too big to post. I’ll see what I can do to edit it down…
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Claire Barnett started the forum topic Student Impact in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years agoI made this powerpoint show to present at the last week’s workshop, during which we were invited to share our stories about the student impact of the Ross Sea Connection. It didn’t seem appropriate to show it at the time, but my students and I spent a bit of time making it, so here it [...]
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Kate Florio started the forum topic Opportunity to try new middle school curriculum on climate change in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years agoTeachers, Lawrence Hall of Science is looking for middle school science teachers interested in being involved in field trials of the upcoming GEMS/MARE Ocean Sciences Sequence for Grades 6–8 focused on climate change. Check out their announcement for details, and how to get involved if you’re interested:…[Read more]
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Laura Dunbar posted on the forum topic Schedule for Live Calls in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years, 2 months agoThank you so much Sage for bringing this all together. My students had a wonderful time on their phone call to the ship. It’s hard to express here, we had 2 classes come in so 40 people crammed into my classroom. And they were listening intently. The PowerPoint slides that you put up during the [...]
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Hugh Powell wrote a new blog post Saying Hello and Goodbye at the Same Time in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years, 3 months agoI woke up this morning to strange voices shouting. I was disoriented. Part of me felt like I was still on the bridge watching the Palmer wedge itself between ice floes, which is what I had been doing at 5 a.m. The ship was quiet then, though it shuddered and weaved among ice floes 12 [...]
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Hugh Powell wrote a new blog post Valentine Over the Dateline in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years, 3 months agoHow do you stay close from half a world away? Long absences are a part of oceanography, and months away from home are something that all sailors cope with. In centuries past, sailors left home for two, three, or more years at a time, often not knowing when they would come home and communicating only [...]
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Hugh Powell wrote a new blog post Feeding Time on the Palmer in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years, 3 months agoFar up in the bow of the Palmer, past the cold rooms, beyond the dry labs, and five stories below the bridge, two people are at work in a gleaming steel room. They mix compounds in metal bowls, sprinkle in precisely measured powders, and then arrange their mixtures on trays to put into calibrated heating [...]
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Chris Linder wrote a new blog post Bow Splash in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years, 3 months agoWaves wash over the bow of the Palmer during a storm.
Download the Quicktime Version (3.7 MB)
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Hugh Powell wrote a new blog post One Minute, Forty Seconds in the Engine Room in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years, 3 months ago
Almost all the scientific work today was canceled as 40-knot winds buffeted the Palmer and seas pitched the ship forward and back. Not good weather for dangling a 750-pound, $100,000 instrument like a CTD rosette over the side . On land, bad weather can disrupt a science plan, but only in the ocean can the very surface rise up [...] -
Sage Lichtenwalner posted on the forum topic Schedule for Live Calls in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years, 3 months agoToday we had our ninth and last Live Call with the ship. I think overall they were a big success and also a lot of fun for both the participating scientists and students. Plus, we’ve heard from several scientists that they loved hearing and answering all the great questions asked by your students. The questions [...]
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Chris Linder wrote a new blog post CTDcam in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years, 3 months agoFollow the CTD over the side of the Palmer and into the Ross Sea on a short cast. Look for Niskin bottles closing at 24 and 32 seconds in the video.
Download the Quicktime Version (13 MB)
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Hugh Powell wrote a new blog post Keep It Going: Recycling in Phytoplankton Blooms in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years, 3 months ago
Dr. Adam Kustka has been wearing the same gray-and-black windbreaker for about two weeks. He doesn’t appear to sleep at all except for short naps, which consist of pulling his hood up and putting his head down on his desk in front of his computer monitor. His hands remain over the keyboard so that when he [...] -
Hugh Powell wrote a new blog post Sizing Up the Food Chain in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years, 3 months agoThe microscope room on the Palmer is just big enough for a slide preparation table and two bulky microscopes. It’s dark inside, and the microscope tabletops are designed to rock back and forth on an air cushion to counteract the ship’s rolling. As they do this, they make a deep sighing that sounds like Darth [...]
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Hugh Powell wrote a new blog post Zodiac, Blizzard, Iceberg in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years, 3 months ago
It’s 7 a.m. and I’m just sitting down to write about yesterday. I can scarcely remember the emergency glider recovery that Dr. Josh Kohut and Eli Hunter put into motion at 2:30 a.m. yesterday morning. Then the clouds descended and the wind picked up, and the chief mate closed the decks, keeping us all inside for [...] -
Hugh Powell wrote a new blog post Oozing with Life, and Maybe Iron in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years, 3 months ago
The Palmer has an ample supply of Dutch hot chocolate mix to warm people as they come in from the wind, spray, and snow on deck. Today I fixed my cup as normal, but I walked away from the galley without a spoon. As I sloshed and swirled my cup, hoping the hot chocolate powder would [...] -
Chris Linder wrote a new blog post Wave cam in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years, 3 months agoDownload the Quicktime Version (3.8 MB)
Large waves wash along the starboard (right) side of the ship during a storm.
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Hugh Powell wrote a new blog post Checking in With Our Hypotheses in the group
Ross Sea Connection: 2 years, 3 months agoWe’ve been on the Palmer for 20 days, we’ve been to 49 sampling stations, taken thousands of water samples, flown three separate gliders, and started dozens of incubations. So, have we learned anything? It’s not a rude question—for decades oceanographers have been mostly unable to look at the results of their work until after they [...]
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Hugh ~ I’ve been “tagging along” on expeditions for the past 12 years and this one was, by far, the best ever. Your wonderful blog entries and Chris’s amazing photos gave us an insight I’ve never experienced before. My students often marveled at your “voice” (the words you chose to use to describe things and how you put them together). …[Read more]