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Marine Science Institute’s Virtual Voyage

February 21, 2007 | |

MSI leopard sharkA new Virtual Voyage enables students to participate in MSI’s San Francisco Bay marine science education programs online without leaving the classroom.

MSI’s Discovery Voyage program features a four-hour San Francisco Bay exploration aboard the Robert G. Brownlee, custom 90-foot research vessel. The Discovery Voyage blends educational instruction with hands-on student activities.

The Virtual Voyage is an interactive, 45-minute webcast that is streamed live using a wireless broadband connection. MSI instructors on the ship provide entertaining and educational insight to remote viewers. Program stations include fish and invertebrate education and identification; a session that examines the role of salinity and other sea water properties; and a plankton lab exercise that provides a microscopic view of ocean activity. Using fish keys that teachers download from the MSI website, students identify fish during the Virtual Voyage, as well ask and answer questions with the MSI staff.

View the Virtual Voyage.


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