Environment
USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: Moving Forward to Guam and Palau 2012
by David Ginsburg and Jim Haw With this post we launch coverage of the USC Dornsife Environmental Studies 2012 Guam and Palau expedition.
Stories by Jim Haw
Environment
Catching up with Scientific Diving at USC Dornsife: What is Scientific Diving?
By Gerry Smith. Diving is an inherently risky activity when compared to taking notes in a classroom. First and foremost is that it happens by definition in a locale that doesn’t support human life any better than the surface of the moon...
Environment
Catching up with Scientific Diving at USC Dornsife: The Robot Submarine
Note: Before we join the new group of students training for the 2012 Micronesia Expedition we will catch up with several of the USC scientific divers and see what they have been working on over the past year...
Environment
Catching Up with Scientific Diving at USC Dornsife: Surfgrass Monitoring at Catalina
By Christine Sur and Laura Wang Note: Before we join the new group of students training for the 2012 Micronesia Expedition we will catch up with several of the USC scientific divers and see what they have been working on over the past year...
Environment
Problems Without Passports: Scientific Research Diving at USC Dornsife--Experiential Learning and Communicating
Once, while lecturing 150 freshmen about the value of the natural world in which we live I paused and asked, "How many of you can tell me the current phase of the moon?” None could...
Environment
Problems Without Passports: Scientific Research Diving at USC Dornsife--Peleliu: 67 Years after the Battle--a New and Different Conflict
The tiny island of Peleliu (5 square miles) is the second most southerly state of Palau — we reached it in 50 minutes on a very fast boat from the capital of Koror.
Biology
Problems Without Passports: Scientific Research Diving at USC Dornsife--The Endangered Endemics and the Aggressive Invader
Guam is 17 hours ahead of Los Angeles, and even our USC students were up early (or at least on time) for our first morning in Micronesia. After a generous and very international buffet breakfast in the Hilton we walked out into intermittent squalls and boarded our charter bus to the Guam Department of Agriculture...
Environment
Problems Without Passports: Scientific Research Diving at USC Dornsife--Why Guam?
On Saturday morning we fly to Guam, an island about one fifth the size of Rhode Island. Guam is part of the United States, although as a territory it lacks voting representation in Congress or a say in presidential elections...
Environment
Problems Without Passports: Scientific Research Diving at USC. Dornsife--Getting Ready for Guam and Palau
On Saturday, the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Science at the University of Southern California will send nearly 30 researchers on an expedition to Guam and Palau...
