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SCUBAnauts Operation Deep Climb – Day 12

What an exciting dive! The students made several interesting observations. First, it was very dark by the time the submersibles made it to the sea floor, at about 400 meters. Life that depends on photosynthesis cannot exist below about 200 … Continue reading

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Surface Temperature Field Campaign – Day 15

11 December 2007 Today I am in San Francisco, California at the Annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference. I heard today that there are over 15,000 scientists here. I bet you did not know that scientists are always learning. As … Continue reading

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Surface Temperature Field Campaign – Day 10

6 December 2007 So far there have been 291 observations recorded from 27 schools in the surface temperature field campaign. I have had undergraduate students participating, but we haven’t entered our observations yet. So, there will be at least one … Continue reading

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SCUBAnauts Operation Deep Climb – Day 8

The students went to 100 feet on the dive — that’s about 30 meters. From my introduction to the Day 5 blog, 10 meters of water weighs about the same as the entire atmosphere. Thus at 30 meters below the … Continue reading

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SCUBAnauts Operation Deep Climb – Day 7

The KOK is the ship. Its full name is the KA`IMIKAI-O-KANALOA. Just a note that Scubanauts is misspelled on the cake. Day 7 – 17 October 2007 Anna – 16 Operation: Deep Climb participant Today Sergeant Gregory, Captain Rob, the … Continue reading

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