Telepresence didn’t always go as planned, which was a lesson in itself. This part of the training cruise was an experiment in “telepresence,” engaging scientists and the public ashore to expand and enhance the size and abilities of the ship-board crew.
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Most of these issues were ironed out in a series of long, party-line video conferences in the months before the group assembled at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and in an intensive pre-cruise meeting in port before the ship sailed. Smith Professor of Biological Oceanography and former director of the Duke Marine Lab.Ī big part of the training was simply figuring out what the team needed to do on every dive to get such varied specimens and data, and negotiating who would be doing what at just about every moment for two weeks.
What they had in common was the potential to become leaders of deep sea exploration like Van Dover, who is now Duke’s Harvey W.
The “early career” crew of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty study a grab-bag of diverse subjects including rocks, microbes, corals, crabs, fish and bubbling seeps of methane gas that spontaneously emerge from the seafloor. This two-week NSF “training cruise” was unlike a typical Alvin cruise, in which one set of questions or one laboratory group dominates the mission’s objectives.
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