<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">"Explore the Deep Ocean" Family Science Night</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thu, Jan 16, 5:30-7:30 </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Ocean Explorium, 174 Union St., New Bedford</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Come to the Ocean Explorium in New Bedford for the first of two complimentary Family Science Nights. We'll have hands-on activities, special Science on a SphereŽ presentations, and you can meet some underwater explorers first-hand. Among our explorers, we'll have Ocean Engineer, Dr. James Kinsey, from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Dr. Kinsey is an engineer who specializes in underwater navigation and surveying the deep sea with robotic vehicles. The Ocean Explorium's own Explorer in Residence, Rhonda Moniz, will also be on hand. Rhonda is founder and director of operations for Benthic Exploration, a company that specializes in marine technology including ROV, AUV, side scan, and sub-bottom profiling technology. AND we'll have a</span><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> live phone call</i><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> to the research vessel </span><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Atlantis</i><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> which will be on site over</span><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size:13px"><big><small><small> the East Pacific Rise, part of the mid-ocean ridge about 600 miles south of Manzanillo, Mexico. We'll link up</small></small></big></font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> with scientists and engineers who are using the remotely-operated vehicle, </span><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Jason II</i><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">, to explore and study deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Dr. Stefan Sievert, Chief Scientist on the expedition, will answer your questions about life in the dark of the deep sea.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">For more information about Dr. Sievert's research expedition, go to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<a href="http://divediscover.whoi.edu/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://divediscover.whoi.edu/</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">For more information about the project that is making this event possible, go to</span><a href="http://divediscover.whoi.edu/sos" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://divediscover.whoi.edu/sos</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">And for more information about the Ocean Explorium, go to </span><a href="http://www.oceanexplorium.org/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">www.oceanexplorium.org</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">This event is made possible by funding from the National Science Foundation.</span><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br clear="all">
</font><div><div dir="ltr">Annette Brickley<div>Ocean Academy</div><div>Ocean Explorium</div><div>508-994-5400 x.23</div><div>207-951-6273 mobile</div></div></div>
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