CANNON LAB EXHIBIT - SHallow Waters
Estuaries such as Delaware Bay support shipping, commerce, and tourism. Wetlands provide wildlife habitat, reduce water pollution, and protect us from coastal storms. Learn more about our work in and around the Delaware Bay with this video and preview the exhibit's educational panels. Then dive deeper with additional content below!
Uploaded by Lisa Tossey on 2015-05-13.
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Ride along with CEOE students as they take an educational cruise on the R/V Hugh R Sharp!
A group of undergraduate and graduate students experienced a day of hands-on-learning on the Delaware Bay aboard the R/V Hugh R Sharp. To learn more about our state-of-the-art research vessel, visit: http://www.ceoe.udel.edu/schools-departments/school-of-marine-science-and-policy/marine-operations/r-v-hugh-r-sharp
What is it like to research critters who live at the bottom of the Delaware Bay? Find out how scientists use the R/V Sharp as a floating base to study scallops:
University of Delaware's research vessel, the Hugh R. Sharp, is one of the most advanced research ships in the United States. The ship is outfitted with a full range of oceanographic equipment and instrumentation, including fiber optic wire. Researchers are using that wire with an underwater video system to help NOAA survey scallop populations along the mid-Atlantic coast.
Jonathan Cohen, a marine science and policy professor at the University of Delaware's College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment is using a waterproof optical scanner to identify and characterize the zooplankton species present in the Delaware Bay.