Dr. Art Trembanis
Associate Professor
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
http://cshel.geology.udel.edu
302-831-2498
"We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
-T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding
"Il faut aller voir" -JYC
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Dr. Art Trembanis
Associate Professor
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
http://cshel.geology.udel.edu
302-831-2498
"We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
-T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding
"Il faut aller voir" -JYC
Dr. Art Trembanis
Associate Professor
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
http://cshel.geology.udel.edu
302-831-2498
"We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
-T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding
"Il faut aller voir" -JYC
Continuing our "what happens when you drop stuff into stuff?" series is this short video segment from the BBC. As with dropping a magnet through a copper pipe, many of you probably know what to expect, here. But it's nonetheless cool to see. Mercury is so beautiful; such a shame it's also so toxic.
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This simple demonstration of eddy current braking (Wikipedia) will probably be familiar to many of you, but this video from YouTuber JamesRB1995 is a short, well-shot, impressive documentation of the effect. Keep in mind that copper is not ferromagnetic, and there is no direct magnetic attraction going on here.
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Kinetic Sculpture Manipulates Rare Earth Magnets
The Aquarius Habitat supports Saturation Divers at a depth of 47 Feet Sea Water. The commercial diving industry conducts saturation diving to much greater depths utilizing chambers on board a Dive Support Vessel (SDV) and a Diving Bell for lowering divers to the sea floor. One of the largest and most modern saturation diving systems in operation today is the DSV Skandi Arctic. Aquarius Reef Base's Operations Director, Saul Rosser, also happens to have been heavily involved in the design of this system which can take divers to 350 Meters Sea Water (1,150 Feet Sea Water). Discovery Science recently produced an episode of their Mighty Ships series on the Skandi Arctic and it can be viewed at the following link:
Interesting to consider the aquatic implications
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/b_eJSMDNOsk/us-sentinel-drone-fooled-into-landing-with-gps-spoofing
Tragic and valuable lessons in controls, situational awareness, and chain of command and of the importance of communication between team members.
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Fingers crossed that they include a NEEMO image in the calendar.
Dr. Art Trembanis
Associate Professor
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
http://cshel.geology.udel.edu
302-831-2498
"We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
-T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding
"Il faut aller voir" -JYC
Time to get your quill and ink out pupils...good luck!
This week I am giving the last in the semester series lectures on technology's impact on us as part of the Osher Life long learning academy. On Wednesday I will also be giving a science cafe talk.
Here's a clip of Liquid Robotics founder and CTO Roger Hine talking, at the most recent Bay Area Maker Faire, about the innovative design of his company's Wave Glider robot boat, which converts the up-and-down motion of waves at the surface into energy for propulsion. More technical details are available on Liquid Robotics' site.
On November 17, Liquid Robotics launched four Wave Gliders from San Francisco, and are currently streaming data from several on-board instruments, at a resolution of one or two reports per minute, in near-real-time, via the Iridium satellite network. Those data are freely available here.
All four Wave Gliders are bound for Hawaii, where they will split into two pairs, one of which will head to Japan, and the other to Australia. IEEE Spectrum is reporting that Liquid Robotics "aims to break the Guinness world record for longest unmanned ocean voyage" with the trip, though I have not been able to confirm that Guinness actually has such a record currently established, nor what it may be. [Thanks, Glen!]
Lots of great google earth examples and demo file links here.
Thanks to Kurt for posting about this system. The list of datasets is impressive on a first glance there are lots of ones we can use in various projects though I didn't notice the WaveWatch III model which is quite handy for waves and winds for the kind of scour model set up we want to do for the Navy. Going to have to look through further for wave products. I saw coastal relief products in there.
Could be some handy sources of data for the nascent AUV mission web portal that we are working on.
Announcement of the 2012 GeoHab conference
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Interesting study on perceptions of robots for tasks.
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Dr. Art Trembanis
Associate Professor
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
http://cshel.geology.udel.edu
302-831-2498
"We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
-T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding
"Il faut aller voir" -JYC
Dr. Art Trembanis
Associate Professor
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
http://cshel.geology.udel.edu
302-831-2498
"We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
-T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding
"Il faut aller voir" -JYC
We've told you about Google Earth Portable before, a small server with pre-loaded Google Earth data on it that allows Google Earth access in remote areas.
While it's often used in disaster situations, it can also be used for conducting research in areas that are far from internet connectivity. A great example of that is a project that Google and NASA conducted at Kelly Lake in British Columbia.
Discovery Channel has a great video that features Googler Sean Maday (who has shown us some cool Google Earth Plug-in tools in the past). The video isn't embeddable, but you can watch it here on the Discovery Channel site.
