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Creep into the DEEPEND Summer Camps 2017

2017: Creep into the DEEPEND Summer Camps are back!  This summer, Creep into the DEEPEND Summer Camps for k-8th grade are offered at museums and science centers throughout the country. To register or find out more, check out the list below and contact the museum or science center near you.

Catawba Science Center - Hickory, North Carolina

Liberty Science Center - Jersey City,  New Jersey

Maine Discovery Museum - Bangor, Maine

Museum of Discovery and Science - Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Oregon Coast Aquarium's Oceanscape Network - Newport Oregon

Pacific Science Center - Seattle Washington

St. Louis Science Center - St. Louis Missouri

Tallahassee Museum - Tallahassee Florida

Univ of Michigan Museum of Natural History - Ann Arbor Michigan

(Organizations are incorporating and sharing DEEPEND Research within their summer camp program. Summer camp program, topics, title, and registration policies vary depending on the museum, science center, or aquarium. First come first served.)

Visit WhaleTimes for more information on future Creep into the DEEPEND Programs.

 

 

GOM Exploration Teacher Workshop 2017

We had a great turn out of 23 teachers at TAMU Galveston for the third Gulf of Mexico Exploration teacher workshop! Teachers learned about DEEPEND science and brought lesson plans and other resources back to their schools to share with colleagues and their students.

Thank you, Texas for a great event!

Marine Navigation Lesson Plan

We are pleased to present you with the fourth in a series of teaching and learning modules developed by the DEEPEND (Deep-Pelagic Nekton Dynamics) Consortium and their consultants. Whenever possible, the lessons will focus specifically on events of the Gulf of Mexico or work from the DEEPEND scientists.

All modules in this series aim to engage students in grades 6 through 12 in STEM disciplines, while promoting student learning of the marine environment. We hope these lessons enable teachers to address student misconceptions and apprehensions regarding the unique organisms and properties of marine ecosystems. We intend for these modules to be a guide for teaching. Teachers are welcome to use the lessons in any order, use just portions of lessons, and may modify the lessons as they wish. Furthermore, educators may share these lessons with other school districts and teachers; however, please do not receive monetary gain for lessons in any of the modules.

Download the module here...

Fort Lauderdale Boat Show a Success

Thanks to all who stopped by the DEEPEND booth at the Fort Lauderdale Boat show.  The show was a success despite a very rainy day on Saturday!  Many thanks to all of the volunteers who helped out in the booth:

Rich Jones
Joe Lopez
Alex Marks
Rosanna Milligan
Mike Novotny
Nina Pruzinsky
Guillaume Rieucau
Sam Shore
Laura Timm
Sebastian Velez
Megan Weber
Blake Wilkins

Meet the Tiny Bacteria That Give Anglerfishes Their Spooky Glow

 

A close up profile of an adult anglerfish female from the Linophryne family collected in the northern region of the Gulf of Mexico. © 2016 DEEPEND/ Dante Fenolio

 

Descend two hundred meters (about 656 feet) below the surface and the ocean is reduced to total darkness. Creatures that live beyond the Twilight Zone spend their lives almost entirely in a near-limitless black expanse, save for a group of luminous fishes, invertebrates and bacteria that have evolved a special adaptation: bioluminescence.

Bioluminescence is the predominant source of light in the largest fraction of the habitable volume of the earth—the deep ocean. It’s thought that 90 percent of open ocean organisms produce light of some kind, and that this ability that has evolved many times. It serves a few predictable purposes, like possibly signaling to members of the same species or illuminating prey, along with some capricious ones like the ability to eject luminescent body parts in order to distract a predator.

Read the entire article here

 

DEEPEND at the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show Nov. 4-6th

DEEPEND scientists will share information at the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show about deep-sea organisms that live in the Gulf of Mexico and will have games to play and prizes to give out! All K-12 teachers should stop by our booth for a token of our appreciation.

Location: Coral Reef Pavillion, Bahia Mar

Dates: Friday, Nov 4-Sun, Nov 6, 2016

Times: 10am-5pm

DEEPEND presentations: 11am and 3pm each day

 

Life and Death in the Deep Ocean: Professor Tracey Sutton (GHOC, NOVA SE U)

The club is honored to have Professor Tracey Sutton speak about his research. He is the director and lead principal investigator of the "Deep Pelagic Nekton Dynamics Consortium (DEEPEND)",  Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center, Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography, Nova Southeastern University.  "Life and Death in the Deep Ocean" will detail what happens in the "dark" ocean that we never visit, and why it is so important.  This will be a fascinating talk that U will not want to miss. Plus great food and drinks at Shenanigans East Side Pub at a very reasonable price, awesome company, and free door prizes.  cheers, arthur

Learn more about the event

 

Follow DEEPEND's Trickle of Tweets

Follow DEEPEND on twitter with the hashtags #scaryfish and #DEEPEND from now until Halloween!

Talk about awesome Halloween Costumes. Humans have got NOTHING on these wonders of the deep. That’s right, every day creatures like this are doing what they do – swimming around in the deepest parts of our oceans. The diversity of these deep sea animals is something truly remarkable – how they’ve adapted to their surroundings and the status of their marine environments are things we’re studying at DEEPEND. So when you go to your Halloween party, see if anyone is dressed like a Dragonfish or a Fangtooth – now that would be really cool!

 

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  • DEEPEND scientist to give NOAA webinar: The open ocean Gulf of Mexico: what have we learned about this remarkable pelagic ecosystem?
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This research was made possible by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative

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