http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/hurricane-florence-coming-scientists-are-scrambling-prepare
I like that the article tracks how Hurricane Florence will impact the research communities in North and South Carolina. Think schools like University of North Carolina, University of South Carolina, and Duke University. (It would be super cool if some of you ended up there in four years.)
This week, I want you to read one of the following sections in the article:
- What do whales do in a hurricane?
- Saving "precious samples"
- It just isn't worth it
- A surge of gauges
- Watching the storm in real time
You will write a scholarly paragraph about what you read. Remember that a descent paragraph should have at least five sentences, proper punctuation, correct spelling and grammar. I am not an English teacher, but I do know what a scientific paragraph should look like. In addition to posting a response, I would like you to comment on at least one of your peers. This is a public blog meaning anything that you post will be visible to the world, so put your best self out there. I am going to share this link with your parents so they can see your work.
I read the section, “What do whales do in a hurricane?” from the article. This section explained how some student’s water experiments would be ruined by the hurricane. It also said that the storm could provide some research opportunities. For example, it provides the opportunity to study what whales do during the hurricane. Some whales have already been tagged and their movements can be monitored via satelite. I think it’s really interesting that even though a lot of research will be lost there is a lot more that can come from this hurricane.
ReplyDeleteI think it would be interesting to see what the results from the expirement are.
DeleteI think the experiments outcomes will be interesting and help us find new information about the whales if the experiment does continue.
DeleteI believe that it will be interesting to see what the researches found when they collect their data but also, will they get good enough data and not lost data to show a definite answer of what whales actually do in a hurricane?
DeleteToday I read the section What Do Whales Do In A Hurricane? From the article “Hurricane Florence Is Coming. Scientists are Scrambling To prepare”. This particular part of the article talks about how hurricane Florence is affecting the students at Duke University Marine Lab because there in water experiments are likely to be destroyed or lost during the hurricane. Even though some of their experiments will be destroyed, there will be a research opportunity for the students because of the effect of the hurricane. The research they would be collecting is getting to see what whales will do during a hurricane. The way they are going to collect this information is by using deep diving whales that have already been tagged, the researchers will then watch the whales movements and patterns through a satellite. When I read this I was wondering what could this help the researchers understand about the whales? The answer to this is that it will help them see how the whales will respond to the huge amount of saltwater that is expected to come from the hurricane and then the effects of a lot of fresh water that will come from the rain. Overall, I thought this article was really interesting and shows us different effects hurricanes can have on the rest of the environment.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that scientists and others from the community are helping out.
DeleteI like your response. I also liked how you added questions to your response and that really helps me gain a deeper understanding on this topic by needing to find the answer for myself.
DeleteThis week I read an article about Hurricane Florence and I read a section in the article called 'Watching the Storm in Real Time'. The article stated that researchers looking to monitor the storm are using a web portal run by 'SECOORA' in Charleston, South Carolina. Frankie Schembrie also informs readers that the group is only one of the 11 ocean monitoring programs led by NOAA and that they are 'collecting and displaying as much Hurricane Florence information as it can'. According to the article there are live video feeds on seven beaches on the east coast. It also says that 'there are weather buoys reporting coastal wind speed, and a high-frequency radar network showing the real-time direction and speed of the hurricane'. Researchers say that they have severe worries about the safety of some of their monitoring tools. According to the article, 'The process to get federal funding to replace and repair damaged equipment it is often a lengthy one' and that they are 'still waiting on funds to replace some sensors that were lost last year during Hurricane Irma'.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how this information will help them, or what they will do with it.
DeleteAt the Duke University Marine lab in North Carolina researchers are pulling out some of the water vessels being used for studies before the hurricane hits. Despite having to stop research on some other topics, they have new research opportunities because of the hurricane. They want to study and see how whales behave during hurricanes. Sea-divers have previously tagged whales and will be monitoring what they do via satellites. Also, a microbiologist is planning to do a post hurricane study on how bacteria in the water inside North Carolina's barriers react to the increase of saltwater from the storm. Overall, hurricane Florence will help researchers understand how marine life react and are affected by hurricanes.
ReplyDeleteWhat are your thoughts on the subject?
DeleteI wonder what they plan to do with their studies once completed. Any ideas?
DeleteHurricanes cause secondary succession. Secondary succession is when natural causes try to re establish the ecosystem. Hurricane Florence is an example of this. The section "What do Whales do in a hurricane" in the article "Hurricane Florence is coming. Scientists are scrambling to prepare" Was really interesting to read. Although Hurricane Florence is going to be disastrous and affect everyone in the area, it is really interesting to see what species do during or before such an event takes place. The article describes how out of something like this, it is important to take advantage of an opportunity and gather research from it. Whales have been previously tagged and scientists will be able to track them via satellite. Certain species such as these whales in the area must be able to sense the weather before it happens so my next question is what will they do? Will they swim away? Will they prepare in some other way? Whatever they do and however they react, will teach us more about how ocean life can be majorly altered and affected by primary succession.
ReplyDeleteThese are some really good questions. Really get's me thinking on what they will do.
DeleteYour paragraph was really interesting to read! I also liked the questions you asked at the end, I was wondering some of those too!
DeleteThe section “What do whales do in a hurricane?” describes how scientists are tracking how whales are affected and the preparations that are needed for their data. The author talked about a student who is collecting data on large rays, small sharks, and the structure of seagrass ecosystems in her exclosures. Most of the student’s data will probably be lost at sea, because of the hurricane. Even though the data for this will be impacted negatively, Scientists are collecting data on how whales will react to the storm. A study of deep diving whales have been tagged and will be tracked by satellite. Scientist are also looking forward to studying how bacteria will respond to the huge differences in saltwater and freshwater rain. Overall the scientists and students at Duke University Marine Lab are securing their equipment and backing up their data in preparations for the storm and are ready to collect their data despite the risk of loosing the data for their experiments.
ReplyDeleteI like your structure of the article and that information you relayed to your audience.
DeleteThat's very interesting! Your summary really helped me to understand whats going on in the modern day world of science, and what process scientists might go through when collecting this sort if data.
DeleteYour summery is very insightful and creative good job!
DeleteThe section “It Just Isn’t Worth It” is about how equipment installed underwater in the places that Hurricane Florence is going to hit are being pulled up. Back during Hurricane Irma, the equipment was left underwater, causing scientists to lose many expensive sensors that were being used for important research. The scientists didn’t want to take this risk and make the same mistake again. So as a result, as many sensors as possible were removed from underwater before the hurricane hit. The scientists had a hard time deciding whether or not to pull up the equipment because it would mean they would lose a lot of data, but then after looking at the size of the hurricane decided that at the end of the day, it isn't worth it to leave the sensors in the path of the Hurricane Florence.
ReplyDeleteWhat's your opinion on this? Do you think they made the right decision?
DeleteI read the paragraph "What do Whales do in a Hurricane?" it describes what scientists are doing to prepare for the hurricane. A Ph.D. student is performing a experiment on how Large rays and small sharks affect a sea grass ecosystem. For this experiment she used enclosures which will all most likely be destroyed by the hurricane wrecking her data. Scientists are removing all small research vessels from the ocean and either securing or removing all on land equipment. Even with all these negatives coming from this hurricane there is still some positive. Scientists have tagged a group of deep diving whales and will be tracking them during the hurricane to see how they will react. Overall scientists are becoming prepared for the hurricane and all the data and destruction it will bring.
ReplyDeleteWhat is your opinion on what they whales do, where do you think they will go?
DeleteThis is really interesting! It will be interesting to see the reaction of aquatic species to the hurricane even though it is sad that so much equipment will be destroyed.
DeleteWhat would you do if you were the students and biologists doing these studies?
DeleteIn the section “What do whales do in a hurricane?” the text states that Duke University Marine Lab in North Carolina, researchers are helping students collect as much data from the student’s ocean experiments as possible before Hurricane Florence comes and destroys it. Staff from Duke are also helping researchers move or secure their projects in the Duke Woods near the school. While the hurricane is destroying some of the students studies, it is also creating new research opportunities for them. For example, the hurricane is providing the university a chance to understand how whales behave in the middle of a hurricane by monitoring their movement via satellite. They school is also examining how bacteria living in waters inside North Carolina respond to the expected massive influx of saltwater that the storm provides, mixed with fresh water from the rain.
ReplyDeleteI love your paragraph! I really liked your excellent use of word choice, it made the paragraph sound much more professional. :)
DeleteIn the article “Hurricane Florence is coming. Scientists are scrambling to prepare” written by Frankie Schembri,they explain how Hurricanes Florence, which now just made landfall, has scientist running around and "scrambling” trying to save their equipment all the while trying to gain new research from the storm.
ReplyDeleteIn the section title “What do whales do in a hurricane?” it is told how researchers form Duke University Marine Lab are “pulling small research vessels out of the water” as well as collecting as much data as possible before the storm most likely destroys them.It is also said how on student at Duke University who uses special enclosures to study the effects of large rays and small sharks on the structure of seagrass ecosystems will most likely be lost in the hurricane. However the storm does provide research opportunities to understand what whales do in a hurricane. They do this by monitoring their tagged whales, and tracking their movements. Whales aren't the only creature being monitored. Bacteria is also under examination by researchers. This section explained a little bit about what might be learned from sea life and microorganisms as well as what researchers and students at Duke University are doing in order to preserve their work and research. What ever the effect of the hurricane might be, it opens up new doors for some and closes other doors for other people.And we will just have to live with that and learn for future storms based on what we have learned from the ones in the past.
This is a very well worded summary of the text! I really liked how you took direct quotes from the text and applied them to your paragraph.
DeleteJust days before a giant hurricane like Florence makes landfall, people scramble to get away from the coast. But the big question is, what do big ocean mammals like whales do to get away from or protect themselves from a storm like this? We aren’t that sure as of right now, but studies are being made at colleges like Duke to see what they do. Duke has tagged some deep-diving whales to see what they do, and via satellite they are tracked based on their movements.
ReplyDeleteIt will be cool to see what happens to the whales during the hurricane
DeleteI chose to read the section called "What Do Whales do in a Hurricane?" because I am very intrigued with how animals deal with hurricanes; they can't just move inland like humans. The section was about how people are using this opportunity to track the whales by tagging them and analyzing them by satellite. They aren't only studying the whales though, they also will be studying bacteria afterwards. The section also talks about how many scientists have to move or secure their equipment. I want to know more about how them moving their equipment will affect their studies and if they leave them and secure them, how will the hurricane affect their studies or jobs. I am also faced with an ethic dilemma on how to help other animals in the hurricane that can't deal with it. As we talked about in biology, hurricanes can cause secondary succession. Succession is a natural thing that happens, should humans find a way to stop that from happening in order to protect animals?
ReplyDeleteI think that humans should just leave nature alone. We are already doing enough bad things to our environment and earth. We don't need to mess with processes that naturally happen.
DeleteI read the section called, "What Do Whales Do In a Hurricane" because I was interested in what these whales actually do. Unfortunately it does not explain what they do, but there is still hope. Scientist put a tracker on a group of deep diving whales to monitor where they go and the interactions between their surroundings. While this storm is bad it is giving us new information and new study opportunities, don't get me wrong this is still very bad, many homes, buildings, enclosures, and study's will be destroyed but new study's are arising. For example the deep diving whale tracker, or another study Dana Hunt is preforming is seeing how bacteria reacts to the excessive amount of salt. So if your like me and interested in these whale behaviors during massive storms just wait a little longer and the answers will be flooding in.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it's cool that the storm can give us information, but it's also sad knowing the destruction it will cause.
DeleteI also am interested to see what the result of the whale tracking is.
DeleteI read the section "It just isn't worth it," and it explained how scientists get the data that they need. They truck through the harsh storms and end up losing equipment because of the storms. They tried with Hurricane Irma last year, and lost tone of equipment. With Hurricane Florence, they didn't want to risk losing expensive equipment so they pulled things like hydrophones out of the water to they wont get ruined. While the scientists will have a blow with the loss of their data, the risk is higher to get all of their stuff destroyed with the strength of Florence.
ReplyDeleteI read the section called "It just isn't worth it" because it really caught my attention. They talked about how they lost a bunch of expensive sensors and cameras due to hurricane Irma and they didn't want to take any chances with this hurricane. In my eyes, I think they should just take what's important and evacuate because human lives are more important.
ReplyDeleteI Read the section "Saving Precious Samples." This section is all about a research team at North Carolina State University preparing for the hurricane, but this isn't your average preparation. This research team isn't trying to save there furniture or cloths, they're trying to save important samples and equipment. In order to save these things, the team had to research what was the most important samples to save in the case that everything couldn't be saved. Once they figured out the most important they were moved to freezers with backup power sources. In addition, the professor bought bags of dry ice to keep things frozen for as long as possible, and they moved technology and expensive equipment off the ground and away from windows. What's even crazier is her lab works with the police in forensics, so she has to keep up security on her lab if the power goes out. Overall, This one lab shows just how much preparation goes into getting ready for hurricanes, and I think it'd be extremely stressful for anyone to prepare knowing what's about to hit them.
ReplyDeleteIt does seem really stressful and scary to prepare for something that extreme. Especially when you live in Crystal Lake and only get thunderstorms and rarely tornado's. I wonder what the samples are? They seem pretty important since they put them as their top priority.
DeleteI read the section "What do Whales do in a Hurricane?" Since Hurricane Florence was approaching, Researchers knew that their handy equipment would be destroyed from the Hurricane if they had left it in its original place. So they had come up with a plan. If they could make a few small changes to the special technology for instance, secure the bolts on some underwater vessels, and upgrade other equipment, then they could use the Hurricane for some research. Duke Researchers previously tagged deep-diving whales so they could monitor what whales would exactly be doing during a hurricane via satellite. Also, they were going to see how bacteria along the North Carolina shores would react to an unexpected salt water storm, plus a bunch of fresh water from the huge measures of rain.
ReplyDeleteI read the section called "What Do Whales Do In a Hurricane", because after reading the title it made me curious to something I never even thought of. I learned researchers are going to be tagging these whales via-satellite. In addition, they will be doing a post-hurricane experiment studying the way the bacteria reacts to the hurricane. North Carolina staff is helping to secure or remove Duke's equipment, in order to keep current and future experiments going. I wonder how they do this with the hurricane going on, or if they have to do it before hand.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the section entitled "What Do Whales Do In A Hurricane?" from the article "Hurricane Florence Is Coming," I was able to piece together some interesting information about how Duke University will not only be studying the whales, but how a hurricane affects bacteria. This is so critical to our ecosystem, since bacteria are the last step in our food chain as decomposers, and if hurricanes affect them negatively or severely, what repercussions will we have? I'm a bit disappointed by the fact that this section of the article failed to go more in depth with the actual research of the whales and how they will be gathering that research. Although, the article did say how they'll be wondering the affects of bacteria that live in waters, since there's an expected massive influx of salt water from the storm surge, and then a huge wave of freshwater from the rain. Hopefully, scientists will be able to form more information about this topic, and if secondary succession is caused, what will the recovery be from this hurricane, and how will it impact not only whales, but the ecosystem as a whole?
ReplyDeleteyes I was disappointed too that the article did not fully and thoroughly explain the methods they are using. Interesting response :):)
DeleteI love how the main topic was about whales but it became so much deeper with the bacteria and the whole food chain for that ecosystem. Great summary!!
DeleteAt the Duke University Marine Lab researchers and students are quickly pulling out research boats and taking last minute samples. Given that much of the research there could be destroyed with the storm. Others are actually exploring the research that could come with it. Tagging deep diving whales and tracking them with satellites to watch their movements before, during, and after the storm. Also some scientists are studying the effects on bacteria with an influx of a lot of salty water from the surge followed by an increase in fresh water from the heavy rain.
ReplyDeleteI chose to read the section “What Do Whales Do In a Hurricane” because I was interested to be opened to the idea of what a whale would do in this situation. Although what the whale does is not mentioned the study of the whales movements are included. The scientists doing these studies tagged a whale and will be monitoring it during the hurricane using satellite technology. Although there are many negatives to this storm it is giving scientists chances to study things like the bacteria reactions from large amounts of saltwater to heavy amounts of freshwater. Many exclosures will be destroyed along with research, new studies and research will take its place. It will be cool to see what the result of this research is.
ReplyDeleteI read "What do whales do during the storm?" The section didn't really have anything about the whales, but I thought the method they were using was interesting. The tags can track good, but what if they come off? Also,there is the chance that the whales might not do anything interesting. One more thing is that there might be something else they do besides just moving. I think with just a tracker, we might be missing out.
ReplyDeleteWhenever a whale does anything is good data, because it helps show us what they do, even if it may be rather boring.
DeleteI agree with the idea that maybe whales don't do anything special when a hurricane comes. If you think about it, whales and other animals live in the ocean their whole lives, so wouldn't you think that as part of their "lifestyle" they get used to/know what to do when a hurricane comes?
DeleteReading the section "It just isn't worth it" made me think about a number of things beyond just Hurricane Florence. The section talked about a research team's decision to refrain from using equipment during the storm in fear of it being lost. The power of the storm is certainly more than enough to justify this course of action, but it does make me think about what exactly was lost in this situation. Will this lower the amount of data available to study the hurricane and its patterns, its relation to other global events, or its affect on the ecosystem? Another interesting thing this section made me think about was its application in other scenarios. The thought of money stopping scientific research, as simple as it seems, had never occurred to me. After hearing about the choice made by this research team, I wondered how this would apply to other dangerous events. If money can stop research, when will we hit a point where the financial risk of an experiment will be too great and trump our curiosity? Will that ever happen? I don't have any answers right now, but it goes to show how one event can guide interesting thoughts about other ones, past and future.
ReplyDeleteThis article is about the Eastern monarch butterfly and how the species are becoming extinct due to climate change and the lack of milkweed. According to the Center for Biological Diversity, the North American monarch population has dropped more than 80 percent in the last two decades and, scientists believe the population needs to reach at least 225 million to avoid extinction. The Field Museum in Chicago aims to help by planting milkweed in urban areas along one of the monarch’s major migration corridors. By doing this they hope that the milkweed will attract the butterflies and help them produce more and more. We can try saving the butterflies by getting more people to grow milkweed. I think this is a great way to start out to help this species to grow more.
ReplyDeleteInteresting how almost everyone read this section. I wonder what pulled everyone towards it?
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the section “What do Whales do in a Hurricane?” I can conclude that the landfall of Hurricane Florence will not only have a huge impact on the coastal communities in its path, but can also be damaging to students doing research at the universities nearby. Being located near the coast, many students rely on the ocean for research and collecting data for projects, because of the hurricane, much will be unfortunately lost. Despite what data they no longer have, there is much to be gained from this event. New experiments such as tagging whales to see how they behave in the hurricane to how marine bacteria will react to large amounts of salt and freshwater in North Carolina’s Barrier Islands, can provide researchers with much needed information on these studies. To make certain that not all is lost, other organizations in the area are stepping in to help protect the university’s expensive research equipment to preserve it for after the destruction is over.
ReplyDeleteIn the section, "What Do Whales Do In A Hurricane" the author describes the opportunities that the storm Florence has provided. At Duke university, researchers put tracking devices on whales to study what they do during a hurricane. The students also examined how bacteria reacted to the massive surge of water. However, the storm isn't all good luck. Their research students will lose most of their enclosures. Along with equipment that isn't secured well enough to the ground or buildings. In the end, there are some great research opportunities to Florence, but there is also the risk of damage.
ReplyDeleteI read the article “What do Whales do in a Hurricane.” As I was reading this many questions popped in my head: how do they cope in such intense weather patterns? Will they pull through? These questions are right now being being answered by researchers from the Duke University Marine Lab. They have successfully tagged multiple deep diving whales to track their unique behavior during the duration of Hurricane Florence. A high tech satellite will be monitoring their movements and reactions throughout the storm. I will be very excited to know what these mysterious animals do and how they cope through these intense storms.
ReplyDeleteI chose to read the paragraph “What do whales do in a hurricane?” because whales are one of my favorite animals and I was wondering what they would do during a storm like Florence. In the paragraph, it states that many water experiments are going to be destroyed. Luckily, many staff at the university by Durham, North Carolina have been helping move equipment out of the storm’s path. But while many experiments may be lost, Florence opens up the door to numerous other experiments. One of these is seeing what whales do during a hurricane such as Florence. Not only that, but Dana Hunt, a Duke microbiologist is planning experiments for after the hurricane with an experiment seeing how bacteria respond to all of the saltwater from the storm surge, followed by a lot of freshwater from the following rain. I think that Hurricane Florence brings a silver lining when it comes to research because it will destroy a lot of experiments, but in doing so create opportunity for new ones, which I think just shows how science can never be stopped, and that there’s always an opportunity to learn more.
ReplyDeleteI read the section, "it just isn't worth it." In this section they talked about the decision that researchers had to make during hurricane Florence. Last years big storm, hurricane Irma, had swept away a few of their most expensive sensors. After this occurrence they had decided to not take a chance at losing that kind of technology again after seeing the size and strength of it.
ReplyDeleteI read the section “It just isn’t worth it”. This section is about taking the chance. The researchers at these North and south Carolina university and Duke could either try collecting data throughout the storm but lose 2 weeks of data collection and could ruin 1,000s of dollars worth of equipment like during hurricane Irma Last year or Gather all devices and store away because it's just not worth it. In this scenario they decided it wasn't worth the risk with hurricane Florence's size and strength.These researcher college students record anything from the motion of fish by the clicks to their soundscapes of marine ecosystems. I thought it was every intersecting their process of taking the chance or not.
ReplyDeleteI chose to read the section "Watching the storm, In real time" because I love watching storms happen and I wanted to know it's possible for me to be at home watching a hurricane live. The section said they had many ways of tracking the store live and video cameras around the area of the storm, that only makes me question, how are these cameras and equipment so durable? It fascinating that we have technology these days that can withstand a huge hurricane. It's also crazy how a little "glider" can collect so much data during a storm. It's so interesting that something other than a human can collect more data. I can't imagine how technology will evolve in the upcoming years, giving us the ability to go in depth with the hurricane while not evening being there.
ReplyDeleteDuke University students are collecting data for their experiments before the hurricane comes in and destroys everything they have set up. Even though they won't be able to collect the date they want to, they might get to collect different data like how whales behave during a hurricane and other bacteria. Before they see this new data about whales, the students must preserve the data that is most valuable for their projects. Even though these student want precise data, they have to remove their very expensive equipment from the water so nothing is lost. They say that it’s just not worth it to lose all that equipment. Five different universities now have installed gauges to get a good sense of the storm passing through. Goal for all these gauges is to help make an early alert system to help police know when to close roads for flood water. Even though hurricane will cause a lot of disaster, researchers are still going to be live watching it and tracking its speed and velocity. They feel that if they at least anything about what's going on, then they can help everyone.
ReplyDeleteI read the section “It just isn't worth it” and this section mostly talked about how they(students, teachers, or whomever is collecting the data) removed their equipment from the ocean and gave examples as to why they did this. Right off the bat it was very interesting to me that sometimes they did not remove their equipment from the water when there were hurricanes. If you think about it, a hurricane usually destructs a lot of homes and different buildings, so why would it not destruct some equipment that could be right in its path. On the other hand, I understand why sometimes they did not remove their equipment from the water. The data that they collect using the equipment is a treasure and if they were in the middle of collecting some, why interfere with it. As well, let's say the hurricane did not destroy the equipment, then you have all that data. In the end there is a risk either way: keep your equipment(take it out of the water), but loose some valuable data or keep your equipment in the water and continue to gather data, but risking losing the expensive equipment.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the section “It just isn't’ worth it” I learned that researchers and students don't believe that it is a good idea to try and record data from water based instruments. In this section, David Eggleston the director of NC State’s Center for Marine Sciences and Technology says, “It’s always a trade-off between collecting data during the storm and losing equipment.” From this sentence we can tell that previous storms and possibly even lower level hurricanes can damage or misplace equipment which ends up causing loss of vital marine information. After Eggleston says this, he goes on to say “The team “rolled the dice with Hurricane Irma” last year and ended up losing a number of expensive sensors.” From this sentence, we can further prove the importance, of how important it is to keep the instruments safe so that A) Information is not lost and B)Money is spent wisely and is not literally washed away in a storm. Overall, from this segment of text, we can conclude that the students/researches are making a smart decision to try and avoid the expensive instruments from being damaged in a possible strong and dangerous storm.
ReplyDeleteI read the paragraph about the whales and how some of the students at Duke University might lose their exclosures during the storm. The students at the marine lab at Duke university describe that the exclosures where they look at the effects of large rays and small sharks on the structure of seagrass ecosystems will be lost during the hurricane.The text generalizes how this could actually be a research opportunity for scientists, they say that they can study the behavior of whales during a hurricane. Also, Dana Hunt who is a microbiologist at Duke University is planning to study on the response from the bacteria during the storm surge. Many researchers are bracing the hurricane by securing and removing their equipment at different universities. Therefore, the paragraph explains what will happen with the marine life during Hurricane Florence and how researchers are preparing for Hurricane Florence.
ReplyDeleteI read the article "What do Whales do in a Hurricane?". This article told of how scientists might go about collecting data on the actions of whales during the upcoming hurricane. They use methods like tagging whales, and using satellites to track their movement.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the section, "It just isn't worth it" it focuses on how scientist are no longer going to take the risk of loosing expensive equipment during storms. This makes me wonder how this will affect data collections and what scientist will do now that they cant use certain equipment. In the text it says how many sensors were lost during Hurricane Irma. It is good that scientists are saving money by not taking chances but this might affect the future in storms to come.
ReplyDeleteI read the section about What whales do in the hurricane. It was talking about how the hurricane can provide a way for scientists to study how whales react to the hurricanes. it also said that some of the lab stuff will be destroyed. The paragraph was a little unorganized.
ReplyDeleteI read the section about what do whales do during a hurricane. The section really didn't focus on the whales, the author mostly talked about how students and scientists are going to be losing a lot of their research. And also how some of their in water experiments will be ruined too. But, what they did say about whales was that they were going to track them and see what they do during a hurricane. The author also mentioned that a scientist was going to run an experiment about bacteria living in waters inside North Carolina react to the big amount of saltwater coming in.
ReplyDelete(From the section, “It just isn’t worth it). When collecting data, every researcher needs accurate equipment for reliable results. That’s what makes these tools so valuable. Different teams of technicians and marine researchers have been recording data with certain pieces of equipment that, if caught in the middle of a severe storm or hurricane, can be destroyed with the data along with it. They had “rolled the dice” when attempting to use them to study fish’s behavior during Hurricane Irma, which resulted in a majority of crucial equipment being lost or destroyed.. With the approaching Hurricane Florence, the team of researchers has decided to collect their tools before the weather strikes, claiming that, “It just isn’t worth it.”
ReplyDeleteWhile watching the video about the Great Barrier Reef I learned about how it's dying. Biodiversity is all the species living in an ecosystem. The Great Barrier Reefs biodiversity is being threatened because with all the bleaching and global warming, the reefs and the animals are dying. The can’t tolerate all the changes and won’t make it. We are making it worse with all of our greenhouse gas emissions. The reefs can come back but that would take decades and we’ll probably stop the recovery because of global warming. I love the ocean and think it’s worth fighting for but it seems like most people are just giving up.
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