[SEMCO] Explore the Deep Ocean- Family Science Night at the Ocean Explorium

[Annette Brickley]

"Explore the Deep Ocean" Family Science Night
Thu, Jan 16, 5:30-7:30
Ocean Explorium, 174 Union St., New Bedford

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 Sphere® 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/live phone call/ to 
the research vessel /Atlantis/ which will be on site overthe East 
Pacific Rise, part of the mid-ocean ridge about 600 miles south of 
Manzanillo, Mexico.  We'll link up with scientists and engineers who are 
using the remotely-operated vehicle, /Jason II/, 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.

For more information about Dr. Sievert's research expedition, go to
http://divediscover.whoi.edu/
For more information about the project that is making this event 
possible, go to http://divediscover.whoi.edu/sos
And for more information about the Ocean Explorium, go to 
www.oceanexplorium.org

This event is made possible by funding from the National Science Foundation.

-- 
Annette L. Brickley
Ocean Explorium

508-994-5400 x.23
207-951-6273 cell
www.oceanexplorium.org

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