June 20, 2012

Thank you, USC Dornsife Scientific Diving crew!

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This morning, we published the last installment of this year's USC Dornsife Scientific Diving series of posts at the Expeditions blog.

They did a great job last year and even better this year. Let's hope they come back next year as well.

If you need a single URL for all of the posts so you can save it or share it with your friends, you can use this post, or the USC Dornsife tag.

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Over the course of the past couple of months, we have heard from the band of intrepid explorers - Jim Haw, David Ginsburg and a number of their students. We learned about Guam and Palau geography, history and politics, about local people, biodiversity, charismatic megafauna, and conservation issues. We learned about some nifty research methods, saw glimpses of cool equipment, and some great photos: both underwater and on the ground. And we learned a lot about the history and current state of knowledge of the physiology of diving. And on the last day they made an important discovery of a brittle star species, not found at Palau for 76 years, although this location is where the 'type specimen' was originally caught and described.

It was fascinating to me each time I received a new post from Jim Haw, and I hope it was fascinating for you, too. Thank you, guys!

Here are all the posts, listed in chronological order, so you can have them all in one place:

Catching Up with Scientific Diving at USC Dornsife: Surfgrass Monitoring at Catalina

Catching up with Scientific Diving at USC Dornsife: The Robot Submarine

Catching up with Scientific Diving at USC Dornsife: Diving into the Aquarium of the Pacific

USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: Moving Forward to Guam and Palau 2012

USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: Finding My Career Through This Course

USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: The Devaluation of Ecosystem Services

USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: Why USC Dornsife was the Right Decision For Me

USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: Why Experiential Learning is Vital to Academic Life

USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: My Walden South of Los Angeles

USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: Crown-of-Thorns Outbreaks and Anthropogenic Pollution