{"id":140,"date":"2011-01-06T15:13:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T19:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/?p=140"},"modified":"2011-01-06T15:26:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T19:26:41","slug":"student-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/2011\/01\/06\/student-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Questions from Nashville"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Dear Dr. King et al.<\/em><\/p>\n

I introduced you to my 5th grade science students by reading your first post and they had a lot of questions:<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanks for the posts from Nashville. \u00a0 I am sitting at Logan Airport waiting for my flight to Miami. \u00a0 Tonight I fly from \u00a0Miami to Santiago Chile. \u00a0 Tomorrow I will fly from Santiago to Punta Arenas Chile to meet the ship. \u00a0 If you click on the “Where is the Melville” tab your can zoom in on the dock where ship is being loaded. \u00a0 We won’t leave until next week because we have a lot of unpacking to do.<\/p>\n

1. How big is your cabin?<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>\"\"<\/a>The cabins are about 8×10 feet for two people. \u00a0 You can get full drawings on the ship from the Scripps web page<\/a> and I have posted a drawing of my cabin deck to the right. \u00a0Your class might have fun calculating the area and volumes of different spaces from the drawings.
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2. Is there exercise equipment?<\/em><\/p>\n

I will let you know in a few days.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

3. What types of bacteria and viruses are you studying in the ocean?<\/em><\/p>\n

Scientists at Bigelow have posted a good overview of the Great Southern Coccolithophore Belt<\/a>, consisting of billions of coccolithophores.<\/p>\n

4. How many people are on board? How many are scientists? Are there others who get seasick? <\/em><\/p>\n

We have 27 scientists and a crew of \u00a023. \u00a0 I expect many of the scientists will get seasick for at least a few days. \u00a0 I will send the you head count after we leave port (this is a really bad seasickness pun).<\/p>\n

5. What food do you have?<\/em><\/p>\n

I will write a full post on food in a few weeks. \u00a0Generally, the food is really good. \u00a0Bad food makes everyone grumpy!<\/p>\n

6. Are there female scientists on board?<\/em><\/p>\n

Absolutely! \u00a0 The gender balance in oceanography today is about 50\/50, and the scientists on oceanographic cruises reflect this balance. \u00a0 \u00a0But this was not always the case, women only started going to sea in large nubers in the 1960s. \u00a0 You may find the article, \u00a0OVERVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF WOMEN AT SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY<\/a> by <\/strong>Deborah Day interesting.<\/p>\n

That’s it for now. We start our unit on Water tomorrow (Wednesday Jan 5).<\/em><\/p>\n

Cheers, \u00a0\u00a0Becky<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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