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TGIF: Vintage Cousteau

By Peter Etnoyer, on August 7th, 2009%

Did you know the Cousteau Society recently “Saved the Calypso?” The group is still active. This classic video clip features salps, Venus Girdle jellies, and more from “Nauru: The Island Planet (1992)”. I found it while “flying” over the Pacific in Google Ocean, and dig the . . . → Read More: TGIF: Vintage Cousteau

Pilot and Captain Your Own Ship

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

Clickable maps: Google vs Microsoft

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

New DSN Feature: Google Maps

By Dr. M, on March 16th, 2009%

[googlemap lat="36.820278951308744" lng="-121.99493408203125" width="500px" height="300px" zoom="9" type="G_SATELLITE_MAP"]Monterey Canyon, Invertebrate Cliff[/googlemap]
Another of the new features on this website will be Google Maps. For future posts with georeferencing we will now include a Google Map. To highlight this new feature, I have picked one of my study sites. Invertebrate Cliff is an off-axis canyon in . . . → Read More: New DSN Feature: Google Maps

Another Atlantis discovered on YouTube

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

Satellite tracked sea turtle swims in Google Ocean

By Peter Etnoyer, on February 7th, 2009%

Adelita the Loggerhead migration with Google Ocean from Wallace J. Nichols on Vimeo
Adelita was the first loggerhead turtle tracked from Baja California Sur by J Nichols and Seaturtle.org, and the first satellite tracked animal to swim across an entire ocean…a paradigm shifting event.
Now, Adelita’s the first turtle to swim through Google’s Ocean, quickly becoming one . . . → Read More: Satellite tracked sea turtle swims in Google Ocean

19th Century Voyage through Google Earth

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

Pimp your Google Ocean

By Peter Etnoyer, on February 5th, 2009%

Now that you’ve toyed with the new Ocean layer in Google Earth 5.0, and learned to dive below sea level, you’re asking yourself, … what’s next? Where can I go? What can I do? You’ve got the fever, and the only prescription is …. more cowbell !
- REPOST FROM OCTOBER 8, 2008

There’s been a lot . . . → Read More: Pimp your Google Ocean

Sightseeing Google Ocean

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

Broadcast media’s command performance

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