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 crazy soundtrack. . . . → Read More: TGIF: Vintage Cousteau
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By Peter Etnoyer, on  August 7th, 2009  Leave a comment  Pictures and Movies  Cousteau, Cousteau Society, Google Ocean, Jacques Cousteau By Dr. M, on June 2nd, 2009 Leave a comment Reviews, Vessels and Equipment Captain, Google, google earth, Google Inc., Google Ocean, helmsman, pilot, ship, simulation 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 . . . → Read More: Pilot and Captain Your Own Ship
By Peter Etnoyer, on March 27th, 2009 2 comments Education, Gadgets & Gear, Industry & Government BBC, digital map, Ethiopia, Google, google earth, Google Inc., Google Ocean, google vs microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft Corporation, NavTeq, video map 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 . . . → Read More: Clickable maps: Google vs Microsoft
By Dr. M, on March 16th, 2009 One comment Uncategorized bathymetry, Georeference, GIS, Google, Google Inc., Google Maps, Google Ocean, Monterey Canyon [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 the . . . → Read More: New DSN Feature: Google Maps
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 24th, 2009 One comment Organisms, Reviews, Scientist!, Social Sciences atlantis, google earth, Google Ocean, matt damon, yonaguni 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. . . . → Read More: Another Atlantis discovered on YouTube
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 7th, 2009 4 comments Pictures and Movies Google Ocean, loggerhead, migration, sea turtle 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, . . . → Read More: Satellite tracked sea turtle swims in Google Ocean
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 6th, 2009 Leave a comment Expeditions, Social Sciences Challenger Expedition, google earth, Google Ocean, hms challenger 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 . . . → Read More: 19th Century Voyage through Google Earth
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 5th, 2009 6 comments Expeditions, Giant Isopod alvin, GEBCO, google earth 5.0, Google Ocean, seafloor image, shipwreck 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 . . . → Read More: Pimp your Google Ocean
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 the judge! By Peter Etnoyer, on February 3rd, 2009 3 comments Education, Gadgets & Gear, Organisms bbc earth, Bob Ballard, Education, google earth, Google Ocean, National Geographic, planet earth, sylvia earle 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 . . . → Read More: Broadcast media’s command performance
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