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Public invited to speak live with Roane State educators living underwater

Posted at 10:44 pm November 28, 2014
By Roane State Community College Leave a Comment

Aquanaut Chat

Roane State professor Bruce Cantrell, right, interviews astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Mike Gernhardt during a live episode of Classroom Under the Sea. Cantrell and Roane State adjunct professor Jessica Fain, who are living underwater for 73 days, will be available to speak live with community members on Tuesday, Dec. 2, at the college’s Oak Ridge campus. (Photo courtesy RSCC)

 

Two Roane State Community College educators living underwater for 73 days will share their experiences and answer questions during a live video chat session on Tuesday, December 2, at the college’s Oak Ridge campus.

The session will begin at 1:30 p.m. in Room 107 in the Goff Health Sciences and Technology Building at 701 Briarcliff Avenue.

The public is invited to talk with biology professor Bruce Cantrell and adjunct professor Jessica Fain, who will be chatting from the underwater habitat where they have lived since October 3.

Cantrell and Fain are staying in Jules’ Undersea Lodge on Key Largo in the Florida Keys. They have faced the psychological challenge of living 25 feet underwater in a space that’s 300 square feet and the physical challenge of living without sunlight. They will resurface December 15. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, Top Stories Tagged With: Bruce Cantrell, Buzz Aldrin, Classroom Under the Sea, Diane Ward, Florida Keys, Jessica Fain, Jules' Undersea Lodge, Key Largo, living underwater, marine archaeology, Marine Resources Development Foundation, Mike Gernhardt, Oak Ridge, ocean exploration, online lecture, Roane State, Roane State Community College, RSCC, underwater habitat, underwater training, video chat

‘Classroom Under the Sea’ today to feature astronauts Aldrin, Gernhardt

Posted at 1:00 am October 16, 2014
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NEEMO Project Underwater

The October 16 episode of “Classroom Under the Sea” will address how underwater training helps prepare astronauts for space exploration through programs such as the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) project. In the underwater image, an engineering crew diver simulates anchoring to an asteroid surface. (Photos courtesy of NASA)

 

Artist Concept

The artist’s concept image shows how an astronaut might use a similar process to anchor to an asteroid.

How do astronauts learn how to land on an asteroid? They practice under the sea.

Astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Mike Gernhardt will discuss how the undersea environment has helped astronauts train for missions beyond the atmosphere during the next episode of “Classroom Under the Sea,” an online lecture series hosted by two educators living underwater for 73 days. The live program starts at 1 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, October 16. Viewers can watch at roanestate.edu/classroomunderthesea and on youtube.com/classroomunderthesea.

Biology professor Bruce Cantrell and adjunct professor Jessica Fain from Roane State Community College in East Tennessee are living and working in an underwater habitat—Jules’ Undersea Lodge on Key Largo in the Florida Keys—for 73 days. While in the habitat, Fain and Cantrell are hosting “Classroom Under the Sea,” presented by Roane State and the Marine Resources Development Foundation on Key Largo.

During the October 16 episode, Aldrin and Gernhardt will highlight how undersea simulations help astronauts prepare for journeys to asteroids and to Mars. Aldrin, the second person to walk on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, pioneered underwater training techniques. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, Top Stories Tagged With: asteroid, astronauts, Bruce Cantrell, Buzz Aldrin, Classroom Under the Sea, Diversity in Aquatics, educators, episodes, Florida Keys, Jessica Fain, Johnson Space Center, Jules' Undersea Lodge, Key Largo, laboratory lessons, lecture series, Marine Resources Development Foundation, Mike Gernhardt, NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, NEEMO, Roane State Community College, underwater, underwater habitat, underwater training, world record

Buzz Aldrin will be among guests on ‘Classroom Under the Sea’

Posted at 12:39 pm October 2, 2014
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Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin

HARRIMAN—Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second person to walk on the moon, will be among the guests appearing this fall on “Classroom Under the Sea,” an online show hosted by two educators living underwater for 73 days.

Roane State Community College biology professor Bruce Cantrell and adjunct professor Jessica Fain will live and work in an underwater habitat from October 3-December 15. The habitat, Jules’ Undersea Lodge, is located 25 feet down in the lagoon at the Marine Resources Development Foundation on Key Largo in the Florida Keys.

While in the habitat, where living space is the size of a dorm room, Fain and Cantrell will host weekly live episodes of “Classroom Under the Sea.” Aldrin will appear in the October 16 episode.

Roane State and the Marine Resources Development Foundation are partnering to present “Classroom Under the Sea” broadcasts. The first episode, titled “History of Man in the Sea,” will be Thursday, October 9 at 1 p.m. Eastern. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, Top Stories Tagged With: astronaut, Bruce Cantrell, Buzz Aldrin, Classroom Under the Sea, Diversity in Aquatics, Florida Keys, History of Man in the Sea, Jessica Fain, Jules' Undersea Lodge, Key Largo, Marine Resources Development Foundation, online show, Roane State, Roane State Community College, underwater habitat

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