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The R/V Aquarius: built 1964, length: 64', beam: 16', height: 28', draft: 5'6
R/V Aquarius
Assembled gear to deploy oyster biological indicators. Cages will hold the oysters and will be suspended 0.5 meters above the bottom by the buoys and anchored by the bricks.
Cages for deploying oyster biological indicators
Illustration of a coastal toilet
Coastal toilet 1
Death Valley has quite a variety of topography and geologic formations.
Death Valley National Park
Illustration of a meteorological tower
Meteorological tower
Illustration of an Indonesian stilt house
Stilt house (Indonesia) 1
Illustration of an Indonesian stilt house
Stilt house (Indonesia) 2
The highly defensible treasury hall at Petra, Jordan was carved into the soft rock. The double line of notches to either side of the main building held ladders for the carvers, who started from top.
Treasury Hall at Petra, Jordan
These oyster biological indicators were collected after deployment in a tributary of Monie Bay. One set had a greenish tinge, while the other did not, even though both sets were deployed at the same site.
Collected oysters
Geologic formations within the crater of Haleakala are varied, and include various minerals including iron oxides.
Haleakala Crater
Oysters are placed in cages which are suspended by buoys and anchored with bricks.
Cages for oyster biological indicators
The oysters in this cage are being deployed as biological indicators of nitrogen source. They will be suspended 0.5 meters above the bottom by the white buoy.
Oyster biological indicators
Tide pools form in the lava rocks along portions of Maui's coast
Tide pools along the lava rocks of Maui's coast
Winds create sand patterns at Mesquite Flat Dunes. Death Valley National Park has quite a variety of topography and geologic formations.
Patterns in the sand
Rock outcropping at Shenandoah National Park
Rock outcropping
Have a Nice Bay - logo for the Maryland Coastal Bays Program
Have A Nice Bay!
Death Valley has quite a variety of topography and geologic formations.
Sunset at Mesquite Flats campground
Death Valley has quite a variety of topography and geologic formations.
Wind swept tree
Death Valley has quite a variety of topography and geologic formations.
Wind twisted tree on mountainside
Wrought iron balconies can regularly be found througout New Orleans and is part of the architechtural experience.
Iron balconies
Rocky outcropping overlook from Shenandoah National Park
Rocky Outcropping
Haleakala crater is composed of a variety of geological structures and geochemical compositions
Haleakala crater
Lafayette Cemetary, a famous above ground burial place in the Garden District of New Orleans.
Lafayette Cemetary, Garden District
Deploying oyster biological indicators of nitrogen source overboard in Monie Bay, National Estuarine Research Reserve System
Deploying oyster bioindicators
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