Description:
This is the final of three programs featuring VISIONS ’05 expedition participants who gathered in the research vessel Thomas G. Thompson’s main lab to explain their role in Juan de Fuca Ridge Endeavour Segment ocean research.
REVEL (Research and Education: Volcanoes, Exploration and Life) teachers discuss the unique opportunity to work side by side with pioneering oceanographers - a collaboration that has increased the teachers’ understanding of scientific discovery and the skills needed to teach science.
REVEL teachers, marine biologists, genome scientists and engineers discuss their research projects, including mapping of the seafloor and the macrofauna, such as spider crab and tubeworms found around the sulfide vents; studies of the microfaunal bacteria and archea, which live in and on the vent systems as well as in symbiosis with other organisms; chemical processes at various ocean depths, from the venting of deep sea gasses to flow cytometry sampling near the ocean surface.
Speaker(s):
John Delaney, School of Oceanography, NEPTUNE program director, Jerome M. Paros Endowed Chair for Sensor Networks, University of Washington
Deborah Kelley, professor, School of Oceanography, University of Washington
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