Category Archives: FLEXE

Climate-Change Misconceptions

Posted on 09/16/2008 by peggy

As noted in previous blogs, many of us don’t understand the terms people use in describing climate change; nor do we always understand how ideas related to global climate change relate to everyday life. So I decided it would be … Continue reading →

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SCUBAnauts Operation Deep Climb – Postscript

Posted on 12/12/2007 by peggy

As you saw in the last blog, two of the SCUBAnauts — Collin and Anna — descended in submersibles to about 400 m beneath the ocean surface to explore the seas of Hawaii. What kind of environment did they likely … Continue reading →

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SCUBAnauts Operation Deep Climb – Day 12

Posted on 12/12/2007 by peggy

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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SCUBAnauts Operation Deep Climb – Day 8

Posted on 12/10/2007 by peggy

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 International (SNI) – Day 7

Posted on 12/07/2007 by peggy

The blog below is about underwater archaeology. Making discoveries is fun, but mapping is an important part of all science. GLOBE has GPS and Site Characterization Protocols to characterize the location and environment of measurements. In the atmosphere, this is … Continue reading →

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