Our Ocean World and Outer Space are connected
What do research in the ocean and research in outer space have in common? Quite a lot, actually. From challenging remote conditions, to marine life responses to celestial events, exploring our ocean world in the broader context of our solar system is fascinating.
“Space is for everybody”
Christa McAuliffe, Challenger Astronaut
“The return of the Sun after a total eclipse…Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.”
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Check out my paper on Ocean Energy for Ocean Worlds written with colleagues from National Labs and government exploring the role for marine energy in space.
Impacts of celestial events on marine life is an area of my current research, get in touch if interested. (What kinds of celestial events? Solar eclipse, lunar eclipse, lunar cycle, etc.)
And here is a photo of me from when Ocean Memory Art Project was at the Inner Space Center, during a deep sea remote mission, exploring themes of delay in communications, intense pressure, and non-human sensory systems. And of course having a nice snack…
“As man continues to break away from his Earth, as interplanetary travel becomes a reality and we earthlings are able to view our planet from the vast reaches of space, we will realize just how much of the earth is in fact covered with the waters of the global sea.”
– H.B. Stewart, Deep Challenge
“I staggered back a few steps, like a drunken man—or like the Medes and Lydians, who stopped fighting and made peace when a solar eclipse interrupted their battle in 585 B.C.”
– Timothy Ferris, Seeing in the Dark: How Amateur Astronomers Are Discovering the Wonders of the Universe