Hello and welcome to my first post as a Talking Science contributor! I’m excited to join this roster of fine bloggers. To help introduce myself, I would like to share my experience as a volunteer scientist on a research cruise with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This is to be the first of a multiple-post series about NOAA’s survey cruises, and the research that these surveys support. I’ve also included a few photos from the trip to help tell my story – enjoy!
Until April 2009, most of my …

I’m writing this entry from 6800 feet below ground. I am wearing a baby blue jumpsuit, safety glasses, steel toed boots, a hair net and a hard hat. At some point, my mom commented that hearing about working in the mine might be more interesting than posts on physics, and so I am going to give the human interest piece a try.

I have been working up in Sudbury, Ontario for the past two and a half weeks at the underground lab I mentioned in the overview posts (linked from the right …

The continent of Africa is known for its diversity of animal species, many of which are only found in Africa. These are the photos taken by one of our staff members who has traveled to Africa. Many of the animals pictured here are endangered, such as the lion, the elephant, the mountain gorilla, the cheetah, and the rhinoceros. We think that learning more about these amazing animals will help everyone to appreciate their conservation.

White Tailed Deer
White Tailed Deer are herbivores. Their stomachs only allow them to …