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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

Thursday episode of ‘Classroom Under Sea’ to address exploration, climate change

Posted at 7:35 pm November 12, 2014
By Roane State Community College Leave a Comment

Underwater Exploration

Remotely Operated Vehicles, or ROVS, are one of the tools used by ocean explorers. In this 2005 image, the (ROV) Hercules searches for deep sea fauna. (Photograph courtesy National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Department of Commerce)

 

Ocean exploration and climate change will be the topics of 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, November 13. 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.

Guests visiting the habitat for the November 13 episode are best-selling author Richard Hyman and filmmaker Andy Pruna Sr. Hyman’s book “Frogmen” describes his journeys with Jacques Cousteau and the crew of the Calypso, a minesweeper that Cousteau converted into a research vessel. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education Tagged With: Andy Pruna Sr., Bruce Cantrell, Classroom Under the Sea, climate change, Florida Keys, Jessica Fain, Jules' Undersea Lodge, Key Largo, lecture series, living underwater, Marine Resources Development Foundation, ocean exploration, Richard Hyman, Roane State, Roane State Community College, underwater habitat, world record

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