SPECIAL NOTE: MAYA IS ONE OF THE FEATURED SCIENTISTS IN THE NEW 3-D IMAX FILM “ALIENS OF THE DEEP.” FOR MORE INFORMATION:
http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/aliensofthedeep/
We were also joined by Dr. Jon Rice, who spent much of the summer of 2004 as Teacher-at-Sea aboard the “JOIDES Resolution” with Dr. Gerry Iturrino studying the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the North Pacific. Jon’s daily journal entries from the IODP Leg 301 Journal can be found at http://iodp.ldeo.columbia.edu/EDU/TAS/
CLICK HERE for the new story about this Workshop in The Journal-News, May 13, 2005
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050313/NEWS03/503130302/1017
Our planet is a highly dynamic place, with massive plates many miles thick sliding across its surface, colliding into each other, building mountain ranges and disappearing deep into the heat of the mantle below. Most dynamic and unseen, however, are the Mid-Ocean Ridges, where two-thirds of our planets surface is formed. Here the plates pull apart, stretching rock beyond its breaking point and pouring fresh hot lava out into the cold deep ocean water.
Earthquakes represent the dynamic nature of this environment. They are the manifestation of the movement of the plates and the formation of the ocean floor. They can tell you when and how magma is moving through the crust or erupting, about changes in the hydrothermal flow, and how the plates are breaking apart. Earthquakes are also a fundamental driving force of life on the seafloor, providing a route for nutrients and heat.
As part of the NSF-funded RIDGE 2000 program, ocean bottom seismometers have been deployed at a site called 9°N on the East Pacific Rise to monitoring seismicity over three years. Data from the first year of this and other experiments will be presented, along with a discussion of the possible linkages between the seismic data and other biological, geophysical and geochemical data being recorded at the site.
In the morning, Dr. Maya Tolstoy described her investigations into these and related problems during her more than two dozen shipboard voyages.
In the afternoon, Dr. Jon Rice shared some of his activities as Teacher-at-Sea during the first leg of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. Leg 301 of the IODP studied the Juan De Fuca Ridge off the Oregon Coast.
Introduction to this Workshop
Here is the introductory slide show presented by Dr. Passow.
Click on your preferred format: PowerPoint or pdf.
Classroom Resources
Dr. Tolstoy’s personal website: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~tolstoy/
Ridge 2000
http://ridge2000.bio.psu.edu/
LDEO Ocean Floor Databases
http://ocean-ridge.ldeo.columbia.edu/
Ridge Multibeam Synthesis Data Portal
http://www.marine-geo.org/rmbs/
CLICK HERE for the new story about this Workshop in The Journal-News, May 13, 2005
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050313/NEWS03/503130302/1017
RECENT VIDEO: “SEAFLOOR EARTHQUAKES: MAYA TOLSTOY AT TEDxCERN” (6/13/13)
Selected Resources about the Mid-Ocean Ridge System
Dr. Maya Tolstoy’s personal website http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~tolstoy/
Ridge 2000 http://ridge2000.bio.psu.edu/
LDEO Ocean Floor Databases
http://ocean-ridge.ldeo.columbia.edu/
Ridge Multibeam Synthesis Data Portal http://www.marine-geo.org/rmbs/
One of the best articles summarizing the history of discovery and what we know about the MOR is MacDonald and Fox: http://www.geol.ucsb.edu/faculty/macdonald/ScientificAmerican/sciam.html
“Our Dynamic Planet”
http://oceanography.geol.ucsb.edu/ODP_Advert/odp_onepage.htm
“Plate Tectonics”
http://www.platetectonics.com/book/index.asp
“Aliens of the Deep” home page
http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/aliensofthedeep/
“Women in Oceanography” http://www.womenoceanographers.org/
American Museum of Natural History Expeditions “Black Smokers”http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/expeditions/blacksmokers/black_smokers.html
Jon Rice’s IODP Leg 301 Journal
http://iodp.ldeo.columbia.edu/EDU/TAS/
IODP Education and Outreach
http://www.iodp.org/education_outreach/default.html
Multimedia
ALIENS OF THE DEEP A James Cameron Film”
“Lamont Scientist Meets Hollywood — Or Is It Vice Versa?” by Marc Farre
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/feature/2005/aliensOfTheDeep.html
“The Real Life Aquatic” by David Porrata”
http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/news/2005/story01-26-05b.html
CLICK HERE for the new story about this Workshop in The Journal-News, May 13, 2005
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Images from the Workshop: Earth2Class with Maya Tolstoy and Jon Rice
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Program Evaluation
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program in conjunction with our NSF Geoscience Education Grant.
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Dr. Pearl R. Solomon
Professor Emeritus, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, NY
Dr. James Ebert
Earth Sciences Department, SUNY College at Oneonta, Onenta, NY
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