Video about GMF's Science & Spanish Network's 2009 Gulf Guardian Award WATCH VIDEO ON YOUTUBE
Cold snap killing manatees in Florida
Student creates Dead Zone video
Anthony Reisinger, currently a PhD student at the
Harte Research Institute (HRI), created a video on the hypoxic zone in
the Gulf of Mexico,
"The Dead Zone," during an internship he did as a
scholar with the Environmental Visualization Laboratory. He earned a
national award for the short science film. Reisinger is a former
recipient of the Hollings Scholarship, a prestigious scholarship awarded
annually by NOAA to more than 100 students studying in NOAA-related
science fields. The scholarship provides hands-on training and
experience to encourage undergraduates to pursue study and research in
NOAA-related fields. WATCH VIDEO on NOAA website
Google dives under the sea for Google Ocean Article copyright 2009 BBC. All rights reserved.
Google has lifted the lid on its first major upgrade to its global mapping software, Google Earth. Google Ocean expands this map to include
large swathes of the ocean floor and abyssal plain.
Users can dive beneath a dynamic water surface to explore the 3D sea floor terrain. The map also includes 20 content layers, containing information from the
world's leading scientists, researchers, and ocean explorers.Al Gore was at the launch event in San Francisco which, Google hopes, will
take its mapping software a step closer to total coverage of the entire globe. In a statement, Mr Gore said that the update would make Google Earth a "magical
experience." "You can not only zoom into whatever part of our planet's surface you wish to examine in closer detail, you can now dive into the world's
ocean that covers almost three-quarters of the planet and discover new wonders that had not been accessible in previous versions." WATCH VIDEO on BBC website DOWNLOAD GOOGLE EARTH
Rivers to the Ocean Webcast
Live Dive 1 – Gulf of Mexico
Originally aired 5/03/2000 Off the Texas Coast- GMF Executive Director
Dr. Quenton Dokken hosts this underwater exploration of an
oil rig, using a mask that allows him to talk to viewers
while diving. Originally created as a live webcast that connected
Dokken and his team with school students in their classroom, Rivers to the Ocean
Webcast was sponsored by Texas Parks and Wildlife.
Time 4:10
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Fishermen spot killer whales in Gulf off Texas coast
PORT ARANSAS, Texas - Feb 2008 - Watch a video
of a pod of killer whales in the Gulf of Mexico posted on YouTube.com by a
fishing outfitter who shot the video during a fishing trip 80
nautical miles east of Port Aransas, Texas, by Capt. Scott
McCune owner of fishntexas.com.
Time 5:51
Source: Unknown Scientist explains how
dolphins blow rings
Humans blow smoke rings but dolphins have a much healthier
habit. This
video is of dolphins playing with rings which they have the
ability to make under water to play with. It isn't known how
they learn this, or if it's an inbred ability. As if by
magic
the dolphin does a quick flip of its head and a silver ring
appears in front of its pointed beak. The ring is a solid,
donut shaped bubble about two feet wide, yet it doesn't rise
to the surface of the water! It stands upright in the water
like a magic doorway to an unseen dimension. The dolphin then
pulls a small silver donut from the larger one. Looking at
the twisting ring for one last time a bite is taken from it,
causing the small ring to collapse into a thousands of tiny
bubbles which head upward towards the water's surface. After
a few moments the dolphin creates another ring to play with.
There also seems to be a separate mechanism
for producing small rings, which a dolphin can accomplish by
a quick flip of its head. An explanation of how dolphins make these
silver rings is that they are air-core vortex rings --
invisible, spinning vortices in the water are generated from
the tip of a dolphin's dorsal fin when it is moving rapidly
and turning. When dolphins break the line, the ends are drawn
together into a closed ring. The higher velocity fluid around
the core of the vortex is at a lower pressure than the fluid
circulating farther away. Air is injected into the rings via
bubbles released from the dolphin's blowhole. The energy of
the water vortex is enough to keep the bubbles from rising
for a reasonably few seconds of play time.
Time 1:05
