[SEMCO] "Explore the Deep Ocean" Family Science Night at the Ocean Explorium, Thursday, Jan 16

[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 over the 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 tohttp://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 Brickley
Ocean Academy
Ocean Explorium
508-994-5400 x.23
207-951-6273 mobile
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