The broader impacts of this project address three main
categories of NSF’s Merit Review Broader Impacts Criterion:
1) “Advance discovery
and understanding while promoting teaching, training and learning”,
2) “Enhance
infrastructure for research and education”, and
3) “Broad dissemination to enhance scientific and
technological understanding”.
In order to promote teaching and training, the approaches
and results from these studies will be incorporated into a graduate course in
physical/biological interactions co-taught by Dennis McGillicuddy (WHOI) in the
MIT/WHOI Joint Program. Eileen Hofmann (ODU) will incorporate results into
courses she teaches at ODU on ecosystem modeling and ecosystem analysis. This
collaborative effort will also provide new opportunities to the graduate and
undergraduate students participating in the research, with direct support for
Ph.D. students in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, VIMS, and ODU.
As part of the outreach program our cruise (PRISM-RS) will
officially host a blog (http://www.steminaction.org/blog/) for anyone to follow during and possibly after the
duration of the cruise (Dec 24, 2011 – February 07, 2012). The blog is prepared
and maintained by Stephanie Hathcock (email: stephanie.hathcock.guest@nbp.usap.gov - only during the length of the cruise). If you have any
questions or would like to read more about a particular aspect of the cruise,
please direct your questions to Stephanie.
On the science front, after a day of hiatus we continued
with our slightly queasy PRISM seminars. Today’s seminar featured Dennis
McGillicuddy (WHOI) who gave some preliminary results from the VPR (video
Plankton Recorder) which his team deployed on January 1st. The
second part of the talk featured Joshua Eaton (WHOI) who talked about the
engineering aspect of VPR.
Dennis McGillicuddy (WHOI) presenting some preliminary results
from the VPR (Video Plankton Recorder). Photo by Marco Pedulli
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