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By Dr. M, on June 2nd, 2009%
Through the nifty little Google Earth plugin you can now be the helmsman of your ships. This ship simulation program is a trip and I expect to be wasting hours of my precious time in the near future. I love firing off the ship’s horn. Maybe this is the way that all the unemployed captains and . . . → Read More: Pilot and Captain Your Own Ship
By Peter Etnoyer, on March 27th, 2009%
A sense of place. It’s essential to deep-sea exploration. We’re far from land, on a flat horizon, hovering over echosounder output from the seafloor below. We watch a map drawn line by line by line. It takes hours for small features, days for large ones. In time, different things are revealed to different people. Geological history . . . → Read More: Clickable maps: Google vs Microsoft
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 24th, 2009%
Having ignored the myriad blog postings about people using Google Earth’s new ocean layer to discover Atlantis, and tracking about 20 different ridiculous stories, I finally had to ask, “What is it with these people?” Don’t they know Atlantis is in the Bahamas? Even Matt Damon knows that.
As IF there’s only one Atlantis. Is, like, . . . → Read More: Another Atlantis discovered on YouTube
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 6th, 2009%
We’ve seen over the last week that the new ocean layer in Google Earth 5.0 is a useful tool for visualization and presentation. DSN readers have commented that GE could also be useful for research, if one were to geo-reference scientific literature, for example. This updated REPOST from July 2008 gives an example of one small . . . → Read More: 19th Century Voyage through Google Earth
By Kevin Zelnio, on February 5th, 2009%
Google Sightseeing is reporting on some strange phenomena people are seeing in Google Ocean’s database. Check it out. Trawl scars? Lost city of Atlantis? Low resolution bathymetry? You be . . . → Read More: Sightseeing Google Ocean
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 3rd, 2009%
BBC Planet Earth placard from the new Ocean layer in Google Earth 5.0
Ever since yesterday’s release of Google Earth 5.0, I have been trying to convince myself that playing with the new Ocean layer is part of my job. It seems to be working. I’m a graduate student who occasionally gives talks to high schools . . . → Read More: Broadcast media’s command performance
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 2nd, 2009%
The download of Google Earth 5.0 to Mac OS X is painless, as expected. Ocean lovers will be delighted with the improved seafloor topography. It’s something DSN has been anticipating for a long time now. Last year I ran this story describing the need for the new ocean layer and some of the science behind it. . . . → Read More: How much better is Google Earth’s new seafloor
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 2nd, 2009%
Deep Sea News “field correspondent” and good friend Wallace J Nichols is posting links to the first real evidence of Google Earth enhancements. Click here to read today’s blog post about the new contribution from Seaturtle.org. Links at the bottom take you to videos that play through the migration track of J’s first tagged turtle, Adelita, . . . → Read More: Google’s Ocean is trickling in
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 2nd, 2009%
Today is the day of a long awaited event in San Francisco, with repercussions for Google Earth users around the globe. How do I know? My professors are not in their office. They’re off hobnobbing in California. Marine scientists are gathering at California Academy of Sciences for the launch of what folks are calling “Google Ocean”. . . . → Read More: Something big is happening
By Peter Etnoyer, on January 23rd, 2009%
Something fishy is going on at Google. CNET has the drop once again, putting names like Dr. Sylvia Earle and Former Vice-President Al Gore together in the same story with Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, against a backdrop of the new aquarium at California Academy of Science on February 2nd.
They’re teasing us, clearly… could it be . . . → Read More: Anticipation…
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