we’ll be back soon…
lots of stuff pending…2, potentially 3 different cruises this summer/fall, a talk at WHOI, and more blatherings from this postdoc.
F**k Yeah CORKs!
There's water at the bottom of the ocean
LIVE Deep sea exploration of hydrothermal vents in the western Pacific RIGHT NOW!
GUYS. this is what we can do now with technology. the MARUM’s ROV Quest is down on the bottom exploring the northeast Lau Basin’s vent fields. there’s a bunch of my colleagues narrating what you see on the live feed.
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well, shit.
cruise is cancelled. idiots blew their Z-drive. *eyeroll*
![thedailywhat:
RIP: Sally Ride, at 61: Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, has died after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 61.
In addition to flying for NASA — “All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary,” she once said – Ride was a physicist and a science writer.
After retiring from space, she founded Sally Ride Science, an organization created to inspire young people, especially girls, to stick with their interest in science, and pursue careers in science and engineering.
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So terribly sad. I wrote a report on her back in elementary school in the 80s. I think many female science-inclined students did. :(
You will be missed, Sally.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7mtpkgiHY1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
RIP: Sally Ride, at 61: Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, has died after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 61.
In addition to flying for NASA — “All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary,” she once said – Ride was a physicist and a science writer.
After retiring from space, she founded Sally Ride Science, an organization created to inspire young people, especially girls, to stick with their interest in science, and pursue careers in science and engineering.
So terribly sad. I wrote a report on her back in elementary school in the 80s. I think many female science-inclined students did. :(
You will be missed, Sally.
(Source: thedailywhat, via marielikestodraw)
Osmo coil cruise prep!
using the peristaltic pumps to fill our sampler coils (1000 feet of tubing on each) with acid to prep them for deployment. we’ll let them sit for a few days, then replace the acid with water before they’re put down on the seafloor, where they’ll collect fluid samples from inside the ocean crust continually for a year.
sure feels nice to be back in a chemistry lab after 6 years!
T minus 2 weeks (roughly) until the 2012 JdF research cruise!
Hey guys, so just a quick FYI that in about 2 weeks I’ll be headed back out to sea for the yearly research cruise to the Juan de Fuca ridge flank! We’ll be using the JASON remotely operated vehicle on the Thomas G. Thompson, which is UW’s ship, leaving from and returning to Seattle, WA. I started prepping yesterday…..pumping out some coils at the moment (more on WTF I’m talking about here later) and gathering all the supplies we’ll need for 2 weeks of SCIENCE at sea.
Be sure to follow this tumblr if you’re curious about the science I did for my PhD and what I’ve just started doing as part of my postdoctoral work at MBARI in CA (amazingly enough they ARE related!). Also cool photos of life at sea, our wild-ass geochemistry lab, purple coveralls, and lots of seafloor and ROV porn.
DSC_1173 by Ocean Leadership on Flickr.
Art projects from expedition 301 - styrofoam cups crushed and shrunk by the pressure when sent down to the deep-sea
This is easily my favorite way to spend free time at sea…making squish cups for myself and my friends. I shrunk a wig head once….that thing is creepy.
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Underwater volcano offered warnings ahead of eruption
Using robot submarines and underwater microphones, researchers can monitor sound waves and hydrothermal vents for volcanic activity.
This is kind of what I do….except we use CORKs to do it, and we usually detect seismicity well after it’s happened (because we only can download data once per year). We have one CORK (1026B) hooked up to NEPTUNE Canada’s cabled observatory, which does let us get our data in real time. When I woke up to news about Japan’s tsunami in 2011, I immediately logged onto the NEPTUNE site and was able to watch the tsunami wave transit over 1026B and perturb the seafloor and borehole pressures.
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Science out of context - BP’s demand for e-mail will erode the scientific deliberative process - The Boston Globe
Please read this…just because BP doesn’t like the outcome doesn’t mean they get to usurp intellectual property rights.
This kind of shit should NOT STAND….but I’m willing to bet this will be mostly ignored.
Science is primarily an investigation of our place of the Universe — the place that people occupy in a world which ranges from the tiniest subatomic particles to the furthest reaches of space and time. We do not exist in isolation, and science is a human cultural activity, not a purely dispassionate striving after truth, no matter how hard we might try. It is all about where we came from, and where we are going. And it is the most exciting story ever told.
(Source: brainpickings.org, via scinerds)
