Education - underseaROV

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Student ROV events

There are more and more STEM programs emerging, focusing on underwater robotics challenges for students. Here is a quick list:

2020 Sea Perch Competition (Yrs 6 to 12, May 30-31 – College Park, MD, USA)
National Underwater Robotics Challenge (Yrs 8 to adult, June 5-7 – Mesa, AZ, USA)
2020 MATE ROV Competition (Yrs 5 to 12, June 25-27 – Villanova, PA, USA)
Robosub (Yrs 8 to university, August 3-9 – San Diego, CA, USA)
Subs In Schools (Yrs 5 to 12, various events from Sep to Dec – Australia)

Good luck!

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Piglet Squid

Life is so AMAZING and scientists are still discovering such unusual creatures underwater:

Helicocranchia sp. spotted at ~1500m near Palmyra Atoll in the Pacific Remote Islands Monument

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Citizen Science Projects

It is very exciting to see more Citizen Science projects happening around Australia and globally. Here are just a few:

21-27 Oct 2019: Birdlife Australia’s AussieBackyard Bird Count (this week)
08-17 Nov 2019: the Australian Museum’s FrogID Week
Ongoing: Support Our Sharks’ SharkBase

You can also check out the Australian Citizen Science Association for other projects near you.

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Dinner at >3000m

So great to hear such excitement in the voices of the NOAA researchers!

https://www.facebook.com/nautiluslive/videos/1179781555543028/

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Natural underwater slinky

We don’t use the phrase “Just when I thought I had seen it all” because stories like this one are being shared around the globe:

Divers just found a giant natural slinky on the Great Barrier Reef

This tube-like structure measures over 2.4 metres (8 feet) in length was identified byJames Cook University’s Dr Blake Spady as the egg tube of the Diamondback Squid. The squid, which itself is around 2 metres in length, can lay over 40,000 eggs in one ‘slinky’. Sadly, she dies afterwards.