National Geographic Magazine @ Nationalgeographic.com On the deck of the thompson waits an impressive suite of oceanographic In More to Explore the National Geographic Magazine team shares some of their http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0010/feature5/
Extractions: The Thompson, a 274-foot (85-meter) research vessel owned by the United States Navy and operated by the University of Washington School of Oceanography, is headed south to trace the 24th parallel between North America and Hawaii. Its goal: to examine changes in the ocean since a research vessel last tracked this route 15 years earlier.
NOAA Ocean Explorer: History: Timeline 18681869 - Wyville Thomson dredges from the HMS Lightning and Porcupine and Hundreds of new species are discovered and underwater mountain chains http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/history/timeline/timeline.html
Extractions: The Age of Electronics (1923-1945) The Early Years (1807-1865) - The United States Coast Survey is founded following President Thomas Jefferson's authorization of a survey of the coast. - January 3, 1843, Sir James Clark Ross takes the first modern sounding in the deep sea at Latitude 27 S Longitude 17 W. - Darwin publishes The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, in which he suggests that coral atolls are the final stage in the subsidence and erosion of volcanic islands. - Edward Forbes declares that life cannot exist below 300 fathoms in the deep sea, thus starting a 20-year debate on the presence of the lifeless (azoic) zone. - Alexander Dallas Bache, second superintendent of the Survey of the Coast, issues instructions for systematic surveys of the Gulf Stream. - Coast Survey soundings in support of Gulf Stream investigations result in the discovery of the continental shelf break and the continental slope. Portrait of Alexander Dallas Bache, second superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey. (NOAA Photo Library). Click image for larger view.
Extractions: Digital Cinema Summit The third annual NAB Digital Cinema Summit produced in partnership with the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at USC will feature two days of cutting-edge sessions on technology and production. The NAB2004 Digital Cinema Summit addresses the transition from film to digital media-the creation and enhancement of works using digital media technologies, the distribution of these works via digital technologies, and the display of the works using digital display technologies. Register today DIGITAL CINEMA Room: S219 The Saturday program, produced in partnership with SMPTE, will cover the science, engineering, testing, standards, economic, regulatory and political issues surrounding the implementation of Digital Cinema. The Saturday D Cinema Session is hosted by Edward Hobson, National TeleConsultants and SMPTE Editorial Vice President; Peter Symes, Grass Valley/Thomson and SMPTE Engineering Vice President; and Tom Scott, EDNET and SMPTE Director of Engineering, Motion Pictures.
