SEA-IT-LIVE

Have you ever wanted to study the ocean? To go to sea and try to learn some of the ocean’s secrets? Today you have a chance to do just that! (Well, virtually at least) SEA-IT-LIVE makes the open ocean, the planet’s largest natural laboratory, accessible and brings the thrill of shipboard oceanographic research to a land-based audience to teach contemporary topics including carbon cycling, climate change, and ecosystem health. SEA-IT-LIVE takes viewers on research expeditions of the NSF-funded Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE) and the Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) programs. Viewers can go on “virtual field trips” by means of near real-time video broadcasts from sea capitalizing on advancing media technology, or check out some of the previous cruises.

SEA-IT-LIVE cruises:

18 November – 14 December 2010 ● Chile to Rapa Nui

 19 – 26 June 2010 ● Hawaii to Hawaii