Let me turn this around and give you a sense of where we are.
We're starting off the semester online and so I thought it might be a good idea to try to connect the students with
some things they might normally see, so I'm starting the class here at the Coastal Explorer in Georgetown. The Coastal Explorer is a
fantastic vessel. It's a 54-foot aluminum catamaran design that was designed from the,
from the, from scratch, in terms of what our needs and functionalities are. This class is Marine Science 112.
It's called the Origin and Evolution of the Marine Environment. It's really sort of a historical geology class. By and large,
it's one of the, you know,
the first two courses that Marine Science majors typically take. The theme today is looking at this on a global scale. Today's discussion
is really looking at
geophysics
and the character and nature of the earth itself. We do a lot of geophysical research with different instrumentation from the vessel.
So we have some very specialized rigging on the boat itself that can support many of the instrumentation packages that we have.
We're building towards long-term careers and professions for many of these students.
We're hoping to make it interesting for them and have them all primed up for when we return back to our normal program.
We want to see the resources that we have
have, have them keep thinking about the capacities that are here and
thinking about what they'll do when they get the opportunity to go out and utilize them.
