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This Teamwork Aboard on Ocean Research Vessel video was taken during the Farasan Islands Expedition to the Red Sea. About Teamwork As you’ll have noted from the 4th May Science Diary, there are a variety of people working together to …
Focus for today: Survey of coral at depth; distribution of coral species and growth forms with depth. Target key stage: Key Stage 4 – National Science Curriculum, Dual Award, Sc2, 5a: the distribution and relative abundance of organisms in habitats …
Living underwater and working submerged poses unique engineering challenges, similar to visiting outer space. Indeed, there is enough similarity between missions to the International Space Station and living in an underwater habitat, that NASA astronauts train at Aquarius. This module …
Recorded ‘as live’ a film with Drs. Hagan and Patterson, Capt. Renaud and award-winning filmmaker and cameraman D.J. Roller will venture outside Aquarius after the sun sets to see how the reef changes at night. Mr. Roller will have a …
Sponge Chambers Video of an experimental chamber used by a team of Aquarius aquanauts led by Dr. Patterson that investigated the bioenergetics of a sponge common at Conch Reef, Callyspongia vaginalis. This species is interesting as it has several characters …
