Pilot and Captain Your Own Ship
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By , on June 2nd, 2009 Leave a comment   Reviews, Vessels and Equipment   , , , , , , , ,  

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

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Things You Get To Do When You Are A Marine Biologist?
Things You Get To Do When You Are A Marine Biologist? avatar

By , on April 15th, 2009 10 comments   Education, Scientist!   , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  

I regularly check out the Google search phrases and terms for how people arrived at DSN. A few days ago I saw that someone asked the question in the above post. Obviously, I was intrigued by the question. I think it reminded me that I am privileged to do this. Although I speak of the . . . → Read More: Things You Get To Do When You Are A Marine Biologist?

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Clickable maps: Google vs Microsoft
Clickable maps: Google vs Microsoft avatar

By , on March 27th, 2009 2 comments   Education, Gadgets & Gear, Industry & Government   , , , , , , , , , , ,  

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

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New DSN Feature: Google Maps
New DSN Feature: Google Maps avatar

By , on March 16th, 2009 One comment   Uncategorized   , , , , , , ,  

[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

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