Our scientists are back on shore and busy unpacking the ship. They’ve been so busy that we’ve decided to give them the week off for interviews and blogs! If there’s another ship-board career you’d like to learn about, let us know! We’ll do our best to track them down and interview them. Until then, we [Read the Rest...]

Greetings, Classroom Connectors!  Today’s interview is with James Pelowski, the Data Processor that sails with the ROV Jason team on their expeditions.  He is responsible for making sure all of the computers are working, that data is being collected from the specialized equipment on the ROV, and for ensuring that all of the data and [Read the Rest...]

Greetings, Classroom Connectors!  Today’s interview is with Michael Brown, a cinematographer sailing with us on this expedition to shoot footage for a documentary he is working on about exploring for life at the bottom of the ocean. This is the second cruise I’ve sailed on with Mike – or ‘Awesome Awesome’ as we like to [Read the Rest...]

Greetings, Classroom Connectors!  Today’s interview is with Tito Collasius, the expedition leader for the ROV Jason team on our cruise.  In addition to being the person in charge of the ROV, Tito is the chief pilot of the robotic underwater vehicle that we are using to explore the bottom of the ocean. Tito knows a [Read the Rest...]

Greetings, Classroom Connectors!  Today’s interview is with my good friend Dr. Peter Girguis from Harvard University.  Pete is super interested in understanding the effects of pressure on how the weirdo deep subsurface microbes make a living.  If you have any questions you would like to ask Pete about studying the life and times of tiny [Read the Rest...]