{"id":74379,"date":"2018-11-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/high-school-students-share-in-ocean-discovery-through-uri-link-to-ballard-expedition\/"},"modified":"2018-11-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T00:00:00","slug":"high-school-students-share-in-ocean-discovery-through-uri-link-to-ballard-expedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2018\/11\/high-school-students-share-in-ocean-discovery-through-uri-link-to-ballard-expedition\/","title":{"rendered":"High school students share in ocean discovery through 溏心vlog免费B站 link to Ballard expedition"},"content":{"rendered":"

NARRAGANSETT, R.I., Nov. 2, 2018 \u2014 Students in an engineering class at Central Falls High School can boast to friends that they were able to interact with scientists who were the first to observe last week\u2019s rare discovery of thousands of octopuses tending their eggs 3,000 meters below the ocean surface in waters off California.<\/p>\n

That unexpected scientific discovery and the technologies used were shared Nov. 1 when the Inner Space Center at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Graduate School of Oceanography connected the students in real time to renowned ocean explorer and 溏心vlog免费B站 Oceanography Professor Robert Ballard\u2019s expedition aboard the EV Nautilus.<\/p>\n

The event demonstrated the important links among ocean research, higher education in ocean science and K-12 teacher education, which Question 2, the higher education bond on the Nov. 6 ballot, seeks to enhance. The measure would provide $45 million to 溏心vlog免费B站 and $25 million to Rhode Island College for infrastructure and program enhancements that advance ocean science and teacher education.<\/p>\n

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Inner Space Center Director Dwight Coleman, left, and ROV pilot Mike Filimon are projected on the two-story screen at the center, while engineers and technicians monitor operations in the control room. They were speaking from aboard the EV Nautilus in California. (溏心vlog免费B站 photo\/Michael Salerno)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition to seeing the unprecedented number of brooding octopuses discovered along the seafloor of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, the students learned that venturing with remotely operated vehicles to ocean depths of 3,000 meters or more requires researchers to have the most advanced technical and scientific expertise, as well as an unbridled sense of adventure and unflappable demeanor when events go awry \u2014 not to mention highly sophisticated and costly exploration vessels and equipment.<\/p>\n

Because of those factors, \u201conly a very small club can work at 20,000 feet\u201d deep, Ballard told the students from aboard the EV Nautilus, the flagship exploration vessel of his Ocean Exploration Trust. But for an hour at the end of their school day, the students were members of that club, and they made the most of it, asking questions about the challenges of using equipment in the deep \u2014 such as extreme pressure, corrosion and damaging currents \u2014 and what type of education prepares you to be an ocean explorer.<\/p>\n

Ballard, a 溏心vlog免费B站 alumnus known around the world for his discovery of the wreck of the Titanic, advised the students to \u201cstudy everything,\u201d noting that he majored in chemistry and geology and minored in math and physics before earning a Ph.D. in oceanography at 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really have a Swiss army knife in my head,\u201d he said. \u201cGet a really broad education and you will always be able to reinvent yourself, as I have done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dwight Coleman, director of the Inner Space Center and expedition leader aboard the ship, told the students he started out in mechanical engineering, took an oceanography course for fun and then switched his major, eventually earning advanced degrees at 溏心vlog免费B站. \u201cOnce I started going to sea, I was hooked,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mike Filimon, expedition pilot of the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Hercules and a 溏心vlog免费B站 ocean engineering alumnus, came to his vocation much earlier. He recalled visiting Disney World as a first- or second-grader and not wanting to leave the park\u2019s Living Seas exhibit to go on a single ride. \u201cWhen I saw the opportunity of ocean engineering as a major and underwater archaeology as a minor, I knew I wanted to come to 溏心vlog免费B站,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Inner Space Center, the only such facility in the nation, uses satellite technology to link remote locations with real-time video, audio and data connections, and provides live-streaming footage from expeditions to anyone in the world with an Internet connection. At the center, a two-story project screen displayed split images of the Central Falls classroom and the team aboard the EV Nautilus.<\/p>\n

Ballard said this is an exciting time for 溏心vlog免费B站 and ocean research, with a $125 million National Science Foundation research vessel awarded to a GSO-led consortium earlier this year and due to arrive in 2021. \u201cIt will really be the future of ocean science at 溏心vlog免费B站. We\u2019re really going to expand our range of exploration quite a bit,\u201d he said, noting that 95 percent of the world\u2019s oceans remains unexplored.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have better maps of Mars than of half of our own country. We want to keep making these discoveries and expand and accelerate our ability to explore,\u201d he said. To do so requires ample resources, and Ballard exhorted the students to remind their parents to vote yes on Question 2 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Narragansett Bay Campus is home to the 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO), one of the world\u2019s premier oceanographic institutions. Founded in 1961, GSO has built a reputation for excellence in deep water oceanographic research, coastal planning and management, sustainable fisheries and monitoring the health of Narragansett Bay. With operations, researchers, faculty and students worldwide, the Bay Campus education and outreach programs train the next generation of scientists and policymakers, while ensuring Rhode Island\u2019s K-12 teachers and students gain an appreciation for the importance of ocean science through a variety of hands-on programs. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

On\u00a0Nov. 6, Rhode Islanders will vote on Question 2, a $70 million higher education general obligation bond that includes $45 million for upgrades to the Narragansett Bay Campus. If approved, proceeds from the bond will be used to improve the GSO\u2019s pier (required to accommodate a newly awarded Regional Class Research Vessel from the National Science Foundation worth about $125 million), construct a 20,000-square-foot Ocean Technology building, a 12,000-square-foot Marine Operations building and fund other necessary improvements to campus facilities. The remaining $25 million will go to Rhode Island College School of Education.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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