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On Monday, February 6, 2017, around 1:30 a.m. CST, a sonic boom shook residents of the Midwest as a bright green fireball streaked through the night sky. The sound was that of a meteor, nearly the size of a minivan, entering our atmosphere. After its fall to Earth, radar spotted the end of its journey over Lake Michigan, approximately 10 miles off the coast of Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Teen explorers from Chicago, led by scientists from the Adler Planetarium's Far Horizons program, The Shedd Aquarium, and The Field Museum, team up to take on this Underwater ROV Meteorite Hunt. Interested explorers wanted!
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Hawksbill sea turtles are particularly threatened in the Eastern Pacific ocean, with only 500 nesting females left in the whole region. We have discovered that a small population of juvenile hawksbill sea turtles uses the rocky reefs around the waters of Costa Rica to feed and grow.
Join me as I explore the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, studying these animals, following their movements, and working with the local communities to ensure the survival of this species.
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The Strategic Mobilization of Autonomous Research Technologies for Bay Assessment, Restoration, and Conservation. This pilot project will address the need for a program that combines technologies with persistent outreach and education, focusing on citizen scientists and students, engendering community involvement and activity. This approach supports a road-map towards a Chesapeake bay holistic 4D assessment such that restoration and conservation can better support the ecology and economy of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. This program is designed such that it fulfills this need and lays a foundation for continual outreach and community engagement by bringing together technology subject matter experts from public and private sectors as educators and infuse development and deployment skills needed to continue restoring the Chesapeake Bay to a vibrant and strong economically sound biologically diverse ecosystem.
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We will identify coral stocks that are more resilient to thermal stress, grow them in in situ nurseries, & propagate them for restoration. We will be scouting sites & monitoring corals using SCUBA, OpenROV & drone technology.
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A summer course at Coconut Island in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, will capture corals and coral reefs in three dimensions. Students will use photogrammetry, laser scanners, 3D printers and robots to explore the reef.
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An all-women team of scientists overwinters in Antarctica to investigate how diet affects the health and survival of a critical species, Antarctic krill.
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Marine Conservation Philippines, Siit Arboretum, Zamboanguita, Negros Oriental 6218, Philippines, Mar 1 2015 to Jan 26 2019
Marine Conservation in the Philippines
Using science to understand how local and global pressures affect marine ecosystems, we empower, engage, and build local and national capacity to reduce and adapt to pressures, aiming for a sustainable future for the Philippine people
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Bria Spalding & Stephanie Saunders: We are super excited to be heading to San Salvador in about a month! To prepare for the trip, we have been purchasing and gathering our gear. We want to minimize the amount of glitches in our gear, so we have been trying them out in the pool. We have been trying to use one of the campus pools at least once a week. So far, everything has been working out and we are excited to spend the most amount of time possible in the ocean!
Between 15 and 20 March I have been in Mexico City attending to the National Geographic Explorers Festival. During these days, me and other 25 NatGeo Explorers from Latin America, had a strong training on Sciencetelling, with classes and assignments on leadership, storytelling, photography and videography. At the end of the event, during the Explorer Spotlight, we presented a little of our projects to an excited audience.
I am very proud of our Latin American Explorers and so happy to have had such opportunity. The training certainly will help me to think better the kind of visual material I should acquire during my Open Explorer Expedition and to construct beautiful stories about the science I am doing. Thanks NatGeo, NatGeo Partners and all the Explorers for such great days!
Now, the preparation for the fieldwork restarts! In April we are heading to Amapá State, the North bank of the Amazon river, to figure out "what is there, beyond The Big River". Let's Go Further!!
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We've just submitted our application to the Science Exploration Education (S.E.E.) Initiative. Hopefully this will mean we are able to secure a Trident OpenROV to support our expedition. We'll keep you posted, fingers crossed...
