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Press Briefing and Student Tour:
On Monday 3/20 Joel Tutien (Superintendent of Parks, National Park Service, USVI) Zandy Hillis-Starr (Biological Resource Manager, National Park Service, St. Croix) and Tim Battista (Chief Scientist NOAA’s Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD) provided a mission briefing to students and local St. Croix, USVI radio, newspaper, and television media. The team conveyed the great excitement and anticipation for the opportunity to collect multibeam and imagery of seafloor habitats at water depths never characterized or observed within the Buck Island National Monument.
Seven high school and middle school students and teachers from St. Thomas, USVI attended the scientific briefing. The students were members of the Environmental Rangers club. The scientists onboard the ship gave a full demonstration of the mission objectives, ship multibeam capabilties and mutlibeam products, and the Remotely Operated Vehicle. The ROV operators from SeaVision Marine Services provided details of the ROV capabilities including the camera, video, and geopositioning. The students had many intriguing and insightful questions about the ROV operation and application.
Mathew Snyder explains the details of ROV operations.
St. Thomas students inspect the SeaEye Falcon ROV to be used in the coming days)
The science team will take advantage of another night in Frederiksted before they depart for Buck Island on Tuesday morning.