Assistant Prof. Christine Cass takes her Oceanography 310 class out to learn how to use trawling and sediment sampling equipment. They also practice collecting and analyzing data.
HSU owns and operates a 90-foot research vessel, the R/V Coral Sea. This vessel has offshore cruising capability and is equipped with an A-frame, two winches suitable for trawling and standard hydrocasts, a knuckleboom crane, and scientific dry and wet labs. It is especially effective as an outdoor classroom for students. Personnel capacity on the R/V Coral Sea is 25 scientists (plus 5 crew members). The vessel has sleeping quarters with 12 bunks and a galley. The unobstructed view from the upper deck makes it an ideal platform for observing marine mammals and birds. Laboratories inside the vessel offer space for studying marine organisms and for collecting and analyzing scientific data.
In most core Oceanography classes, we go on at least one research cruise on the R/V Coral Sea. At sea, students learn to use trawls, plankton nets, box-corers, sediment grab samplers, CTD/Rosette samplers, side-scanning sonar, and other oceanographic sampling equipment. By the time they graduate, our students can expect to log around 100 hours at sea.
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