| Journey
of coral discovery!
Come along on a 1,000-mile
adventure as researchers explore the depths of the Bering
Sea and North Pacific Ocean along Alaska's Aleutian Island
chain. Their quest: to record images of never-before seen
deep-sea corals and create a comprehensive map of coral life
along the ocean floor.
This site was created as
a record of that summer expedition.
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What's
a research cruise like?
From
July 24 to August 8, 2004, NOAA coral researchers invited Alaska Science
Outreach reporter Sonya Senkowsky to join them on the R/V Roger Revelle,
where she spent two weeks following the science team's progress.
| Where
were we?
See notes on our location,
weather conditions and sights as we moved through the Aleutian
Chain, land of fog, albatrosses -- and volcanos. When there
wasn't time for a full journal entry, Where Are We
Now is the place we put ourselves on the map and
jotted a few notes to let people at home know what was going
on:
Where Are We Now:
Diving in Amchitka Pass
Diving in Amchitka Pass
Posted 08.02.04 at 8:38 pm
Location: Amchitka Pass
Shortly after dinner, Jason II dove into glassy seas; we are
still surrounded by fog. The TV monitors show an even eerier
landscape more than a mile below, where it looks as if someone
stuck hundreds of oversized pencils, point down, into the
mud.
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Cruise Journal
What did researchers do and why were
they doing it? Read the journal entries to follow the events, lessons
and discoveries of the cruise from the perspective of the cruise
reporter and scientists who contributed guest entries. Start with
the sample entry below or go to the journal archive:
Journal
entry: Jason hits a snag
Posted
08.09.04 at 1:26 am -- A derelict fishing line cuts short
a Jason dive, but biologists find a bounty of specimens in the
rope.
Read it now
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Site Tour
Guide
You may enjoy wandering
through this site — or, for a more directed tour, use the
Exploring
Aleutian Corals Tour Guide, available from the resources
page.
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