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R/V Falkor-Inspired Lesson Plans With help from the wonderful educators that have joined us on R/V Falkor, we have created a number of lesson plans that can help your students connect with the cutting-edge oceanographic research that we are doing at sea. Contours Lesson Plan The sea floor is covered with interesting geologic features from trenches to … Continued
Plankton comes from the greek word planktos, meaning wanderer. It does not define a specific organism, but rather a specific life style. Plankton consist of all organisms dispersed in water that are passively driven by water currents or are subject to passive sinking process. Some of those organisms have an ability to produce oxygen and sugars … Continued
“All of these different people with different perspectives, but everybody is interested in the same question. And when you have people thinking about the same question, but in different ways and with different educational backgrounds, then you’re going to have a much better chance of actually answering it.” As the Sea to Space cruise wraps, … Continued
The sediment traps and the Wirewalker were recovered after three days of collecting data with a big surprise. Some parts were bent, and three out of the four collecting cylinders of the sediment traps were missing. The remaining trap was broken and unusable. One battery pack was lost, another damaged and the bungee had snapped. “What if we are not prepared … Continued
Earth’s ocean is vast and deep, and we still need to study many things about it. To investigate and quantify biological and chemical processes, for instance, we need to determine the concentration and size of particles (living and non-living organisms) floating in the water, dissolved materials, and the diversity of organisms such as the microscopic … Continued
I always knew that one day I wanted to study the ocean, even though I grew up just north of Pittsburgh and had never seen the ocean. After graduating high school, I attended the College of Charleston in South Carolina where my plan from the start was to major in Marine Biology. I began my … Continued
Melissa Omand, interdisciplinary physical oceanographer from the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography, was confronted with a conflict: it was time for an upgrade to her phone, but creating more technological trash did not feel right. Plus, the camera on her older phone was fantastic. Together with her first graduate student Noah Walcutt, she worked on … Continued
Trying to sleep on a trampoline while somebody is jumping on it – this is how it feels during many nights at sea as the ship zig-zags in an imaginary box around our drifting instruments in the North Pacific during winter. This is when biological activity is lowest, but clearly there is no absence of physical … Continued
See up close how the results of sampling from the Sea to Space expedition by researchers aboard FALKOR will work with readings from satellites to increase our understanding of fundamental processes important to life on Earth as we know it.
