Great post today by Doug about the new SBP unit. Still early days with this thing and lots of hardware and more software wrinkles to iron out but shows great promise especially as it runs nicely along with the geoswath and side-scan....can we take any more simultaneous measurements here people!?!
http://www.oceanbytes.org/2011/04/01/sub-bottom-profiling-using-an-auv/Thursday, March 31, 2011
AUV configured with both sub-bottom profiler and swath bathymetry
YouTube - UTEC SubBottom Profiler on a Gavia AUV
Thanks to Doug White for coming out and shooting an interview about the new Gavia SBP module.
Monday, March 28, 2011
delbay_historical_data
A useful link from Phil M to a site with information about historical physical oceanographic deployment data collected inside and outside of DE Bay.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
BBC News - Spiders and crabs inspire robot locomotion
Reminds me of the robo lobster developed at northeastern.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12864658
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
BBC News - Checks after 87 WWII bombs washed up on Calshot beach
UXO on beaches in the UK.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-12870489
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
vSHIP - New ship simulator for the offshore industry
New product from Marine Simulation. We use their ROV sim in the VAST lab.
March 26, 2011 1:46 PM
by Marine Simulation LLC
vSHIP - New ship simulator for the offshore industry
Marine Simulation is pleased to announce the release of their latest product. vSHIP is specifically designed to train and prepare ship-board personnel for the ever growing roles and responsibilities they face in support of the offshore industry. Flexible scalability, unmatched visual realism, and compliance to a wide range of industry standard interfaces are all integral to the simulator's design.
Available as a desktop PC based simulator, vSHIP can interface with
marine electronics and navigation software via industry standard interfaces, as well as with other vSHIP and ROVsim Pro installations, providing a real world, coordinated operation simulation. Drawing on our experience in undersea simulation, vSHIP sets a new level of unmatched visual realism and advanced physics simulation. Potential training applications include: offshore mooring and support operations, coordinated bridge / ROV team operations, naval mine and ordnance sweeping and clearance, as well as complex mission rehearsal.
Marine Simulation LLC produces interactive, computer-based simulations of surface and sub-surface craft for marine professionals. Using state of the art technologies and over 2 decades of hands on industry experience, our simulations deliver a level of visual and functional realism never before possible. Our simulators are being used world wide and are currently in use in over 50 training facilities and schools in 18 countries.
Available as a desktop PC based simulator, vSHIP can interface with
marine electronics and navigation software via industry standard interfaces, as well as with other vSHIP and ROVsim Pro installations, providing a real world, coordinated operation simulation. Drawing on our experience in undersea simulation, vSHIP sets a new level of unmatched visual realism and advanced physics simulation. Potential training applications include: offshore mooring and support operations, coordinated bridge / ROV team operations, naval mine and ordnance sweeping and clearance, as well as complex mission rehearsal.Marine Simulation LLC produces interactive, computer-based simulations of surface and sub-surface craft for marine professionals. Using state of the art technologies and over 2 decades of hands on industry experience, our simulations deliver a level of visual and functional realism never before possible. Our simulators are being used world wide and are currently in use in over 50 training facilities and schools in 18 countries.
vSHIP simulator simulation ROVsim ROVsim Pro
Dr. Art Trembanis
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
302-831-2498
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Friday, March 25, 2011
Sub With Tank Treads Imagined for Ocean Floor Drives | Danger Room | Wired.com
http://m.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/03/sub-with-tank-treads-imagined-for-ocean-floor-drives/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Fish fan Jack Heathcote turns cellar into Britain's biggest home aquarium | Mail Online
Time for some home upgrades!
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Beauty Rocks: Wired Science Geology Photo Contest | Wired Science | Wired.com
Enter people!!!
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Seadiscovery.com - University of Michigan Orders Fourth Iver2 AUV
http://www.seadiscovery.com/mt/mtStories.aspx?ShowStrory=1044742096
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Robot Swarms Could Help Search for Life in Martian Caves | Wired Science | Wired.com
http://m.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/robots-search-martian-caves/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Pictured: One Sea Turtle’s Worth of Plastic | Wired Science | Wired.com
Yuck
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Monday, March 21, 2011
Zooniverse - About
We are partnering with zooniverse for the NEEMO project this year should be interesting to see a marine science application of citizen science.
http://www.zooniverse.org/about
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Scripps Institution of Oceanography Visualization Center
http://siovizcenter.ucsd.edu/library/objects/index.php?category=Scenes
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Fledermaus Used for Visualizing Japan Earthquake
http://ivs3d.com/news/scripps_fledermaus_japan_earthquake.php
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Citation map shows top science cities
http://www.i-programmer.info/news/81-web-general/2154-citation-map-shows-top-science-cities.html
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Robotic Design Studio | Home
http://cs.wellesley.edu/~rds/
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Saturday, March 19, 2011
In Japan, Many Undersea Cables Are DamagedGigaOM
http://gigaom.com/broadband/in-japan-many-under-sea-cables-are-damaged/
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Japan Reluctant To Disclose Drone Footage of Fukushima Plant
March 19, 2011 7:53 PM
by timothy
Japan Reluctant To Disclose Drone Footage of Fukushima Plant
garymortimer writes with word that "footage taken from an RQ-4 Global Hawk drone was passed on to the Japanese government with permission for public release from the US Air Force. US military sources said that the decision to release the footage — or not — was up to the Japanese government." The Japanese government, though, has thus far chosen not to release the high-resolution footage of the tsunami-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
government
Dr. Art Trembanis
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
302-831-2498
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Top 10: Rube Goldberg Machines
March 17, 2011 3:52 PM
by Sean Michael Ragan
Top 10: Rube Goldberg Machines
Ever known somebody who makes things more complicated than they have to be?
#10
#9
Ramen Cooking Rube Goldberg-like Video
#8
Easter Themed Rube Goldberg Machine
#7
Nearness, A Wireless Rube Goldberg Machine
#6
#5
Make Podcast: Rube Goldberg Contraption Machine Made Out Of Sticks And Stones
#4
#3
#2
Trumer Beer Rube Goldberg Machine
#1
Did I miss a good one? Let me know, below!
Science Toys and Games Video Making round up round ups rube goldberg
Dr. Art Trembanis
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
302-831-2498
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Where Have All the Robots Gone?
March 18, 2011 5:00 PM
by Gareth Branwyn
Where Have All the Robots Gone?
Right after the Japanese earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster, I began jokingly mentioning to friends: "At least Japan has lots of robots that can help." Then, as the days have worn on, and the tragedies mount, I started seeing comments on Facebook and blogs, asking: "Where are the robots!?"
Where are the robots? Japan is known for its cutting-edge robotics development and deployment — it's even known for its development of emergency robots. In all of the coverage, I haven't seen any discussion whatsoever about bringing in bots. After the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl accidents, Red Whittaker, of Carnegie Mellon, and later RedZone Robotics, developed robots specifically for nuclear emergency applications. If such robots exist (and can handle some of the tasks being currently undertaken by humans), then why are they needlessly cooking plant workers and JSDF (self-defense forces) if they don't need to be?
Discuss.
Robotics disaster
Dr. Art Trembanis
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
302-831-2498
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
USGS Professional Paper 1751: Systematic Mapping of Bedrock and Habitats along the Florida Reef Tract--Central Key Largo to Halfmoon Shoal
A valuable reference for our upcoming NEEMO project. I contacted the folks who wrote the report to ask for digital copies of the maps and was shocked to learn that they aren't available. Well at least not readily. There is some effort to try and reconstruct them from files left behind from the technical staff member who held the files. Came as quite a surprise to me that a federal agency would not have had these archived.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Japan Quake Epicenter Was in Unexpected Location | Wired Science | Wired.com
http://m.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/japan-earthquake-surpise/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
‘Professor Splash’ Sets World Record for Highest Shallow Dive | Playbook
This guy is nuts!
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Two Tropical Cyclone Names Retired from List of Atlantic Storms
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2011/20110316_hurricanenames.html
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
First state geology newsletter
http://www.dgs.udel.edu/sites/dgs.udel.edu/files/fsg/FSG_Winter_2011.pdf
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Gavia in CCOM test tank for acoustic calibration
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
UD research showcased on Capitol Hill : University of Delaware
http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2011/mar/ud-research-dc-031611.html
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Oceanography: Vol. 24, No. 1, Supplement
All about the E/V Nautilus with contributions from CSHEL included.
http://tos.org/oceanography/issues/issue_archive/24_1-supp.html
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Round-up of all imagery and resources available for Japan
From Google Earth
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleEarthBlog/~3/5iho1sSMKuY/round-up_of_all_imagery_and_resourc.html
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleEarthBlog/~3/5iho1sSMKuY/round-up_of_all_imagery_and_resourc.html
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Lost city of Atlantis, swamped by tsunami, may be found - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_tsunami_atlantis;_ylt=A0wNdNhWv3tN6QwBk1ms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNuMmMxaGQ2BGFzc2V0A25tLzIwMTEwMzEyL3VzX3RzdW5hbWlfYXRsYW50aXMEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwM4BHBvcwM1BHB0A2hvbWVfY29rZQRzZWMDeW5faGVhZGxpbmVfbGlzdARzbGsDbG9zdGNpdHlvZ
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
BBC News - Ship container 'stepping stone' risk for alien invaders
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12718251
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Monday, March 14, 2011
Search for buried treasure with your very own OpenROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle)
March 14, 2011 8:00 PM
by Eri Gentry
Search for buried treasure with your very own OpenROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle)
Eric Stackpole is an adventurer. For Eric, exploring the inner depths of Hall City Cave was only the beginning of his latest exploration. He had one goal in mind: buried treasure.
Legend has it that, in the late 1800s, a few renegade Native Americans attacked a surprisingly well-to-do group of miners near Hayfork, CA. The attackers took about 100lbs of gold nuggets from the miners.
Since the Indians were on foot, and also carrying a very heavy load, it did not take long for the posse to catch up with them. In fact, as a last ditch effort to get away, the Indians stashed the gold somewhere so they could move faster. When the posse caught up with them, only the Indians knew where the gold was. The men in the posse told the Indians that they would not be hung for their crimes if they would tell where they hid the gold. The Indians told the posse that they had hidden the gold in Hall City Cave. Then they were promptly hung right on the spot.
As it turns out, Hall City Cave has a deep, submerged cavern at the back of the cave. The cavern is said to be bottomless, because no one apparently has ever been able to get to the bottom. And of course, not the posse, or anyone else, ever found the gold. Did the Indians hide the gold somewhere in the cave? Did they just dump it into the bottomless cavern to get rid of it? Did they have some secret hiding place in the cave, perhaps underwater? Or did they hide the gold somewhere else?
These are questions that can't be answered by humans alone. Something capable of underwater exploration and data collection was necessary. Enter: OpenROV.
OpenROV is a project started by Eric Stackpole and David Lang, with the mission of making underwater exploration available to the masses. The first design of OpenROV ("ROV1″) is a shoebox-sized Arduino-controlled submarine device, with an onboard HD webcam, designed to operate in an unexplored underwater cave. The plans for OpenROV are open source. In other words, OpenROV is hackable, and Eric and David hope customization and improvement of the designs are exactly what takes place. Their aim for OpenROV is the crowdsourcing of exploration–that, by opening up the plans for OpenROV, the possibility for discovery will be heightened. There exists a depth of knowledge to be learned about the deep. OpenROV may allow some of these secrets to finally be uncovered.
OpenROV was built at TechShop in Menlo Park, home to many a Maker in the Bay Area. Eric was careful to built in a garage-like setting, so OpenROV could be recreated by others, anywhere. However, he's made a few mods using equipment like TechShop's laser cutter that makes OpenROV a cut above "garage" quality.
The second design of OpenROV is in the testing phase. Once Eric can show that the prototype works, he will release plans on openrov.com. Certainly, he and David will be back to Hall City Cave to search for the stuff of legend.
Keep up with David and Eric's adventures on openrov.com and be sure to catch them at this years Maker Faire Bay Area! See photos of Hall City Cave exploration, or "Reconnaissance Expedition", here and here. Eric explored the cave with friends, Jeff Bernard (also shown in the photo above, and who initially introduced the story to Eric) and Bran Sorem (who took the photo and also help with development of the ROV).
To see some of Eric's DIY background, check out this video of the hybrid rocket motor he built using only parts from a local hardware store. In his words, "I love figuring out how to do high-tech things with low-tech/ consumer-off-the-shelf parts."
Arduino Makers
Dr. Art Trembanis
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
302-831-2498
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Honshu Earthquake travel time animation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XlWDM6t550&sns=em
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Saturday, March 12, 2011
March 11, 2011 Honshu tsunami propagation
Check out this video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBZGH3yieLc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Friday, March 11, 2011
680_20110311-TsunamiWaveHeight.jpg 1500×1000 pixels
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/images/high_resolution/680_20110311-TsunamiWaveHeight.jpg
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Thursday, March 10, 2011
YouTube - Motorola Shoot at Aquarius
This is a great video all about the point to point wireless network used to connect Aquarius to the shore.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
GM16 Geologic Map of the Fairmount and Rehoboth Beach Quadrangles, Delaware | The Delaware Geological Survey
A new DE coastal map!
Dr. Art Trembanis
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
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Endeavor's New Look
My very first research cruise in the mid nineties was aboard the white hulled Endeavor. February off Georges Bank and I was in the top bunk in the anti-gravity room...learned a lot and loved every minute of it. "Always carry a pocket full of cotter pins!"
March 2, 2011 2:44 PM
by James Miller
Endeavor's New Look
From Dean Farmer:
Weather permitting, R/V Endeavor will return to the GSO pier next Tuesday after an extensive shipyard repair period at SENESCO Marine in Quonset. She was in drydock for over 2 months and still has some alongside work to be done prior to her sailing on her first cruise of the year on March 22. One of the most obvious changes you will recognize is her freeboard hull color is now BLUE. After close to 35 years at sea, with the same aging equipment on the upper decks, maintenance of a white hull was becoming impractical. So at the recommendation of marine coating experts we changed her hull to a darker color to enhance the longevity of her service life. I am confident you will agree she now "cuts a fine figure" with her new paint scheme.
Dr. Art Trembanis
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
302-831-2498
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Second Blog (Week of March 7)
The first week of my involvement in the NEEMO Aquarius project was dominated by hands on interpretation of SonarWiz data. However, as time progressed my participation in the project leaned more towards a research method. Attempting to find scholarly articles focusing on the Conch Reef was at first relatively an easy task due to the direction I was instructed to go about by Art. I began to research using the University of Delaware's online databases (such as Web of Science, GeoRef, etc.), searching for main topics involving "conch reef", "key largo", "Leichter" and "Stokes". This method helped a great deal with journals about the changes that have occurred involved the physical aspects of the coral reef. I found it a bit more difficult to find resources regarding the geological features of the area.
Currently I have uploaded twenty references to the CSHEL RefWorks under the 'Aquarius' file. I will continue to search for more references in order to gain a better understanding of the entire area.
--
Lyle de la Rosa
Coastal and Marine Geosciences
College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Club Water Polo Secretary
(215)873-9014
Currently I have uploaded twenty references to the CSHEL RefWorks under the 'Aquarius' file. I will continue to search for more references in order to gain a better understanding of the entire area.
--
Lyle de la Rosa
Coastal and Marine Geosciences
College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Club Water Polo Secretary
(215)873-9014
First Blog (Week of Feb. 28)
Before I started doing physical research and data analysis for the Aquarius project in Key Largo, I attended a video conference meeting in order to catch up on all the specs of the procedures and goals for the project.
The first week of my participation in the NEEMO project mainly involved the interpretation and classification of side scan sonar on the program SonarWiz. I personally reviewed all of the bathymetry data that was collected by our University of Delaware's Tow-fish. Specifically, I looked for images or differences that seemed to stick out among the "normal" sea floor. My results lead to the discovery of many coral formations, spur and groove patterns, ripples, sand waves, large fish groups, valleys/ridges, what looked like a sunken ship mast, many cages, an old railway car, among some other minor discoveries.
When I came across an image I thought was of significance I labeled it as a target and continued through the rest of the SonarWiz data. At first I had some difficulties being able to recognize what I was looking at, but with the help of Art, Hilary and Nicole I became better at understanding the software and describing the imagery.
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Lyle de la Rosa
Coastal and Marine Geosciences
College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Club Water Polo Secretary
(215)873-9014
The first week of my participation in the NEEMO project mainly involved the interpretation and classification of side scan sonar on the program SonarWiz. I personally reviewed all of the bathymetry data that was collected by our University of Delaware's Tow-fish. Specifically, I looked for images or differences that seemed to stick out among the "normal" sea floor. My results lead to the discovery of many coral formations, spur and groove patterns, ripples, sand waves, large fish groups, valleys/ridges, what looked like a sunken ship mast, many cages, an old railway car, among some other minor discoveries.
When I came across an image I thought was of significance I labeled it as a target and continued through the rest of the SonarWiz data. At first I had some difficulties being able to recognize what I was looking at, but with the help of Art, Hilary and Nicole I became better at understanding the software and describing the imagery.
--
Lyle de la Rosa
Coastal and Marine Geosciences
College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Club Water Polo Secretary
(215)873-9014
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