Category: Huh?

Duke Forward and Water – Presenting Ocean Mapping and Citizen Science

On the evening of September 29th, 2012 I was honored to stand on a stage with other Duke researchers to showcase new developments in the realm of “water” science to about 800 donors as Duke officially launched it’s new development campaign entitled Duke Forward. “Water” is a pretty broad topic, and it was great to…
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Science Online 2012 – Cachalot and Scientists with Stories

Are you interested in using the internet to communicate about your science, or science in general? If so, you should be thinking about getting involved with Science Online conference. While registration is closed now, there is an open wait list. This will be my first Science Online conference, but I’ve spoken with several people about…
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Digital Sea Monsters Project

For the past year or so we have been slowly redeveloping the content of our Marine Megafauna course for mobile devices. More and more, we see students using their phones and tablets to access information in and out of class, and my colleagues and I at DUML are working towards the creation of a application…
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Gentoos get ‘caught on the inside’

On our latest trip to the Western Antarctic Peninsula we spent a sunny morning watching a glacier calve icebergs repeatedly into Neko Harbour, on the shore of Andvord Bay. The video below shows one set of waves from a calving event that washed the shores and caught some gentoos ‘on the inside.’ Penguins are so funny…
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Duke Alumni Trip on this ship!

This is video of the Clelia II on her way back from the WAP. She was about 800 miles from Ushuaia. She took a large wave over bridge which blew in a window and doused some electronics. No major damage, but it slowed the ship down a bit. Two trips south between that one and…
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