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9-9-03
Tasha
Mr. Praytor’s AP Bio
Maysville, Oklahoma
Question 1:
Have you found anything particularly interesting
that you didn’t know before, or had never seen?
Answer:
I’m not sure where to even start on this; there have been
so many things I had never even imagined. Talking to one of the scientists,
Mark from Wood’s Hole, I heard lots of stories about expeditions
to the Antarctic Sea, and how different things are when the water is
very cold. One of the most interesting things to me is learning about
how the scientists actually go about their job. There is no book to look
in, there is no teacher to ask; you have to come up with the answers
yourself, and sometimes you even have to come up with the technology
needed to even start to answer the question. It has also been fun learning
a little about the physical aspects of how a ship works. Practically
everything is different, and it’s all interesting.
Sean
Mr. Praytor’s Physical Science
Maysville, Oklahoma
Have you found any undiscovered organisms?
Question 2:
What kind of interesting technologies have you
gotten to use in your studies?
Answer:
We have three main tools to sample the ocean, the MOCNESS, the
VPR, and the CTD. All three gather information, some in the form of video
and measurements of water characteristics, some taking actual samples
of the ocean at
specific depths. We also use a one meter net that is pulled through
the water at shallow depths to filter the water and see what is there.
Inside
the labs, we use various machines to analyze the material we have gathered.
Sometimes we carefully filter and then check for levels of chlorophyll,
sometimes we scan for florescence (light given off), and sometimes,
with the larger plankton especially, we use a binocular microscope to
view
the material.
Question 3:
What kind of food do you eat?
Answer:
We have two cooks, Paul and Tyson, Paul being the senior cook.
We eat great! We haven’t had a meal yet that wasn’t excellent.
There is always a variety to choose from, and the cooks usually have
a vegetarian alternative. Sunday night is always something special, one
time we had prime rib and king crab, another time we had huge steaks.
Lunch is usually less of a big deal, with soup and sandwiches, but even
the sandwiches are great; Reubens, BLT’s, that sort of thing. Breakfast,
if you get up that early, is always great; eggs fixed several different
ways, sausage, bacon, fresh fruit, hot cereal, cold cereal, you name
it, it’s probably there.
Kyle
Mr. Praytor’s Physical Science
Maysville, Oklahoma
Question 4:
Have you found any undiscovered organisms?
Answer:
We have found things that we could not identify, but it’s
very unlikely that they are unknown. Mostly we have been concentrating
on organisms that are identified, but poorly understood. We are trying
to find out how they survive in this kind of environment.
Haley
Mr. Praytor’s AP Bio
Maysville, Oklahoma
Question 5:
Are you ready to come home yet?
Answer:
This isn’t a yes or no kind of question. There are some
things that I am looking forward to back at home….. my own bed,
for example. It will be nice to see friends and family again. But truth
to tell, I’m still having too much fun to want to leave yet.
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