Hello Raquel here! We are now about half way to our destination of Honolulu, Hawaii! Already in the first half of the trip we have accomplished so much. We have taken two cores from two different sites and have been filtering seawater continuously for plankton and microplastics. Although we haven’t seen microplastics in our samples, […]
Day 5 at sea
Hello! My name is Alondra Infante, I am 20 years old and from Brownsville, TX. Currently I am attending the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, but Fall of 2016 I will begin at the University of Texas at San Antonio majoring in Environmental Science! Today was our 5th day on this amazing journey and […]
What controls deep ocean circulation?
Today the students are learning about the motion of the deep ocean and thermohaline circulation! We conducted an experiment to investigate how density changes with temperature and salinity.
Coring Day 2
Day 4 at sea
Hello from the MIDDLE of the Pacific! My name is Jessica Jean McPeak. I am a 20 year old junior undergraduate studying Visual Studio Arts at University of California San Diego. I have been acting videographer and photographer for documentation of our transit from my place of residence San Diego, CA to Honolulu, HI. As […]
Day 3 at sea
My name is Matthew Mullens, I am an Industrial Engineering major currently at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, NC. Today on May 12, 2016 the STEMSEAS crew learned about the different sediment types (Calcareous, Siliceous, Terrigenous, Glaciogenic, and deep-sea clay sediment) on the ocean floor and where they could typically be found. It was […]
Styrofoam cups!
Do you know what happens when styrofoam cups travel to sea floor?
Happy Birthday Oscar!
Day 2 at sea
My name is Anaiya Reliford, a rising junior chemical engineering major, computer science minor at Howard University, originally from San Leandro, California (near Oakland, CA). I am interested in failure analysis and sustainability. Without a set career path, I was very blessed to be one of the trailblazers for this STEMSEAS program. As a primary […]
May 10 – setting sail from San Diego
Time of departure: 9:15 a.m. There was plenty of anxious chatter rounding about the ship in its departure. Matthew shared his knowledge on dolphins, telling us that they have names for one another. Mark taught us that a nautical mile (a knot) equals 1.15 statute miles, and that a degree of latitude is 60 […]
