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MIT and Hawaii Sea Grant Bring Underwater Robots to Classrooms
Hawai'i
teachers are using "Sea Perch," an underwater remote-controlled
vehicle made of PVC pipes and hardware store materials
to help students probe underwater environments and learn
engineering skills. As a result of this Sea Grant training
workshop, community college students will introduce Sea
Perch to high school students this summer. Full Story |
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Pacific: Tsunami Warning Signs Go Global
Tsunami warning signs, developed by Oregon State University Sea Grant Extension as part of the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program have been adopted throughout Oregon and in Washington, California, Alaska and Hawaii, and are making big waves in Thailand. In Thailand, emergency services officials have adopted this simple, effective design as a way to warn residents when the high water is headed their way.
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Great Lakes: Sounds & Bubbles Deter Asian Carp
Sea Grant researchers are preventing Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes with tiny bubbles and chirping noises.
This underwater acoustic barrier is effective in deterring these invasive species, proving 95 percent effective in causing bighead and silver carp to turn around.
"The acoustic barrier works with the use of sound projectors and an air line that generates bubbles," said researcher, Mark Pegg. Typically, sound is muffled underwater, but bubbles provide a way to amplify the repellant sound and direct it to a specific area. And, the effervescence is an additional disturbance to the fish.
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Northeast: Remote Sensing Used for Evaluating Oyster Reefs
Eastern oyster populations have been declining in many areas for years, and there is no means to effectively and economically obtain information on oyster distribution and abundance. New Hampshire researchers are assessing the effectiveness of newly developed acoustic and other technologies for characterizing oyster reef habitat and developing a noninvasive protocol for habitat evaluation.
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Mid-Atlantic: Water Quality Important to Boaters on Bay
Boaters see the importance of water quality in the Chesapeake Bay and are willing to pay an estimated $7.3 million a year for water quality improvements, a new study finds.
The study, published in Marine Resource Economics, is believed to be the first of its kind nationwide to estimate the importance of water quality to boaters. "Boaters, across the board, no matter what their concerns were about water quality, wanted to see improvements in water quality," says Doug Lipton, coordinator of the Maryland Sea Grant Extension Program at the University of Maryland, who conducted the research.
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Southeast: Specialist Addresses Coastal Ports Issues
Prior
to Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana ranked first in the nation
in total shipping tonnage, handling more than 450 million
tons of cargo per year through its eight deep-draft ports.
To address growing ports-related issues, Louisiana Sea
Grant and NOAA's Coastal Services Center partnered to
hire a coastal ports specialist who will focus on critical
environmental issues affecting the state's costal ports,
including water and air quality. Specialist Justin Farrell
began late last summer.
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