SEA Faculty in PRINT

Diverse Voices from our Maritime Past
By Richard King, SEA Visiting Associate Professor, Maritime History and Literature

and David Anderson, University of Louisville
Oceanus
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Aug. 19, 2021

This summer’s first two-week session of the SEA Quest high school online program focused on coral reefs and climate change.

SEA in the NEWS
UChicago students flex science muscles at Marine Biological Laboratory
By Emily Greenhalgh
UChicago News

“In early spring, 12 students from the University of Chicago packed their bags and headed to Woods Hole for an immersive scientific experience at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL).

UPDATE on Mini Boat Recovery
N.L. town of 30 people rescues tiny boat built by 4th graders from Boston
The Canadian Press, July 23, 2021

SEA in the NEWS
Sampling by Snorkeling: Sampling Mangroves and Coral Reefs in the Florida Keys
ECO Magazine
(Special issue in partnership with NOAA and The Ocean Foundation)
pp. 51-53

This article chronicles how SEA Semester students, under the direction of Assistant Professor of Oceanography Dr. Heather Page, used a new, lightweight CTD to research coral reefs and mangroves along the Florida Keys last year.

Sea Education Association alumni, faculty, and crew are the co-authors of a new research paper, Pelagic Sargassum morphotypes support different rafting motile epifauna communities, published June 29th in Marine Biology, that sheds new light on Sargassum ecology.

SEA in the NEWS
Could plastic-eating microbes take a bite out of the recycling problem?
By Warren Cornwall
Science Magazine

“Muhammad Reza Cordova is searching for treasure amid the water bottles, plastic bags, and plastic foam cups that choke the beaches, reefs, and mangrove forests around Jakarta, Indonesia. In the microbe-rich slime coating some of that trash, he hopes to find organisms to help solve the vexing problem of what to do with the plastic flooding the planet.”

SEA Overseer Capt. William “Bill” Pinkney will be inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island on Oct. 16, 2021.

Woods Hole, MA - The college students listed below recently arrived aboard the tall ship SSV Robert C. Seamans for an interdisciplinary scientific research voyage to study the rich and varied ecosystems off the coast of California.

SEA Semester in the NEWS
“Sampling by Snorkelling: Using the RBRconcerto C.T.D.ODO.Tu to sample mangroves and coral reefs in the Florida Keys”
RBR Ltd.

The following article appeared on the website of RBR Ltd, a company in Ottawa, Canada, that designs and manufactures oceanographic instruments that track water parameters such as temperature, depth, salinity, dissolved gases, and pH.