Topic Lecture: Ocean Exploration

Georgetown Debate Seminar 2014Maggie Berthiaume

What do you think of when you think of “ocean”?

“Ocean Wallpapers,” http://w8themes.com/ocean-wallpapers/

“Hurricane Earl,” www.nws.noaa.gov

“Aircraft Carrier,” http://www.topvehiclephoto.com/aircraft-carrier-wallpaper-desktop/

What are we doing here?

“These Shoes Just Did It,” http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/oceanography_currents_2.html

The Social Construction of the Ocean, Philip E. Steinberg

Questions About the Ocean

What is an ocean?

What is the historical role of the Earth’s oceans?

What is the current role of the Earth’s oceans?

Who owns the oceans?

(What does it mean to own an ocean, anyway?)

What are current global laws and regulations about the

oceans?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_the_Law_of_the_Sea#mediaviewer/File:Zonmar-en.svg

Trivia #1: What country has the largest EEZ?

We’re #1! USA!

Trivia #2: What country has the SECOND largest

EEZ?

Wait, what?

FRANCE??

What are current US policies about the oceans?

What does “exploration” mean?

“Space the Final Frontier,” http://www.photoboats.com/Aircraft/Space/triple_terrest_space_the_final_frontier_post_em_if_you_1280x1024_wallpaper_73991/download_1920x1440

Just how deep is the ocean, anyway?

http://drodriguez8.tripod.com/webclass/WG/wg2-1.htm

What’s down there?

How do we explore the ocean now?

Federal Oceanographic Fleet Status Report

“Orion,” http://www.upinthesky.nl/2014/06/mh370-grote-stap-naar-fase-2/

“CURV III,” http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23862359/

“Snorkeler discovers rare fish,” http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/16/snorkeler-discoversraregiantfishoffcaliforniacoast.html

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution HabCam, http://habcam.whoi.edu/gallery_view.pl

Josh London (NOAA), Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries Service

http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/BUOY/

What are the US’s current research & exploration

priorities?

Why does the US or the Federal Government have

to explore it?

What parts of the USFG do ocean exploration? Who are

their partners?

What is the Federal Oceanographic Fleet?

What exploration does it do?