. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. projects, especially ocean exploration. How else, he asks rhetorically, can the public begin to understand a realm of life that they cannot see? Earlier in the mission, NASA media specialists facilitated a live webcast. Leslie Sautter, director of NOAA's Project Oceanica at the College of Charleston, hosted three, one- hour segments. Each ended in a question and answer session, with mission team members answering electronic queries from students on the mainland. Dewey Golub, Oceanica's educator-writer and
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. projects, especially ocean exploration. How else, he asks rhetorically, can the public begin to understand a realm of life that they cannot see? Earlier in the mission, NASA media specialists facilitated a live webcast. Leslie Sautter, director of NOAA's Project Oceanica at the College of Charleston, hosted three, one- hour segments. Each ended in a question and answer session, with mission team members answering electronic queries from students on the mainland. Dewey Golub, Oceanica's educator-writer and Web specialist, posts daily logs and images from the mission on a dedicated Web site, The Oculina Banks research demonstrates that marine science is a very integrated discipline, Sautter says. Sautter, a geologist and educator, is directing the collection of sediment samples. An apparatus is lowered from the ship to scoop up sediment from various sites. She will analyze the samples with Cathy Scanlon, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in search of tiny shelled zooplankton called forams. "We will be looking for a genus that dominates each environment. We expect that they will be very different from site to site," she says. A map plotting the results will become part of the baseline data on Oculina Banks. Shifts in predominant genera could be environmental indicators, she says. Jumping hurdles Even the best-planned mission can present unexpected hurdles. The ship develops problems, and the entire cohort transfers to M/V Freedom Star, a NASA sister ship maintained by United Space Alliance. The ROV floods two additional times. But, frantic repair work keeps the dive schedule on target, ensuring enough time to test the PAMS technology. For that, the ship steams out of reserve to an area near Sebastian Inlet at more shallow ocean depths. Without a hitch, NASA divers position three PAMS units on the bottom, about 100 feet apart. Gilmore, now part of
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