“Aunque vengo de una isla, Puerto Rico, nunca antes había estado en un barco”. El microbiólogo Marc Fontánez Ortiz explica cómo su camino hacia las ciencias oceánicas no fue tan directo o simple como muchos podrían suponer. Eche un vistazo a su “Historia de Ciencia”, en donde él describe las experiencias que lo trajeron hasta … Continued
Falkor’s journey from Nah Trang, Vietnam to the island of Guam was over nearly 1200 nautical miles of open ocean, of which the majority is uncharted – despite being in an area of strong scientific interest. Even with no scientists on board, Schmidt Ocean Institute’s Technicians always aim to run a suite of science sensors as … Continued
August 13, 2012—Last month, during routine functional performance testing of the mutibeam mapping echosounders on the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s flagship R/V Falkor, the team aboard—including researchers from the University of New Hampshire, Ifremer, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution—discovered the S.S. Terra Nova, a whaler, sealer and polar exploration ship that sunk off the southern coast … Continued
