What is Alvin?

Go here to explore Alvin:

• http://www.ocean.udel.edu/extreme2001/mission/alvin/index.html
• http://www.whoi.edu/marops/vehicles/alvin/index.html

What is Atlantis?

http://www.whoi.edu/marops/research_vessels/atlantis/index.html

Can you draw/make a scale model of Alvin?

What is a scale model? See the link below:

http://regentsprep.org/Regents/math/scale/Lscale.htm

How much space?

Use masking tape to delineate a six foot diameter sphere on the floor of the classroom---that's the space for three crew members to work for the six to ten hour dive.

What would you see?

Imagine that you are a scientist aboard Alvin. Describe what you see out of your porthole window as you travel 1.5 miles downward over the coarse of two hours. How does what you view change? Describe any organisms, landforms, creatures which you encounter.

 

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What is Extreme 2002 ?

See: http://www.ocean.udel.edu/extreme2002/

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Links for more information:

 

Midwater Animals

http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/midwater.html

 

Search---------- http://www.fishbase.org/search.cfm

 

The Bridge--Ocean Sciences

http://www.vims.edu/bridge

 

Jones and Bartlett Publishers

Invitation to Oceanography by Paul Pinet

http://www.jbpub.com/oceanlink2e

 

Smithsonian Institution's "Ocean Planet"

http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean_planet.html

 

Woods Hole and Oceanographic Institution

"Dive and Discover" Expeditions

http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu

 

U S Geological Society

This Dynamic Earth--Intro to Plate Tectonics

by W.J. Kious and Robert Tilling

http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html

 

Crustal Plate Info

Earthquake data: http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/

Volcano data: http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/

 

"Deep Sea Vents: Science at the Extreme"

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0010/feature6

 

Nova Online--"Into the Abyss"

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/abyss

 

Animated Gif of hydrothermal vent formation

 

U.S. Naval Historical Center

http://www.history.navy.mil/index.html

 

Web Quest One and Two

http://www.ocean.udel.edu/extreme2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Can't find any animals:

ventani.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Local Students Take Part in Deep-Sea Adventure

 

Eighth grade students at Nespelem School will take a voyage deep into the Pacific Ocean with scientists from the University of Delaware beginning Oct. 20 as part of Extreme 2002: Mission to the Abyss, a research expedition that will be broadcast internationally via the Internet.

A scientific team led by UD marine biologist Craig Cary will set sail aboard the 274-foot research vessel Atlantis from San Diego, California, for a 24-day mission to explore the ocean's depths. Once at the Pacific Ocean dive site, the scientists will climb aboard the submersible Alvin and plummet to one of the most demanding environments on Earth &emdash; super-hot hydrothermal vents over a mile deep on the ocean floor. Both the sub and the research vessel are owned by the U.S. Navy and operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Under Dr. Cary's direction, researchers will study the vents and the organisms that inhabit them, including the Pompeii worm, which is regarded as the Earth's most heat-tolerant animal, able to withstand temperatures up to 176° Fahrenheit.

About 40,000 students at 500 schools are participating in Extreme 2002. They represent nearly every U.S. state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, as well as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa. Students and the public can log on to the expedition Web site at www.ocean.udel.edu/extreme2002 and see the scientists' latest discoveries via video clips, photos, interviews, and journals that will be relayed daily back to shore. Students also will have an opportunity to interact electronically with members of the research team, and selected schools will participate in a live conference call with the scientists working live aboard the submersible Alvin on the seafloor.

Extreme 2002: Mission to the Abyss is sponsored by the University of Delaware Graduate College of Marine Studies with financial support from the National Science Foundation, NOAA Sea Grant, WHYY TV, and the MBNA Foundation.

Contacts:

Sheri Edwards

Nespelem School

Box 291 School Loop Road

Nespelem, WA 99155

509 634 4541 ext 18

sedwards@nsd.wednet.edu

 

Tracey Bryant

Director

Marine Public Education Office

Graduate College of Marine Studies

University of Delaware

(302) 831-8185 or tbryant@udel.edu