August 1998
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In August 1998, Jeremy Bates (Anthropology '99) and Aaron Weast (ME '99) along with SCREEM Lab co-director Jeff Ota led an Arctic Expedition to find the shipwreck site of the 1871 New Bedford Whaling Fleet. The mission also tested NASA's Mars Pathfinder 3D image processing software for use in marine research.
Follow the progress of the project team during the expedition in the Arctic aboard the US Coast Guard ship Polar Star at our live project web page, courtesy of the NASA Ames Learning Technologies Project at: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/arctic/ Schedule: August 23-29, 1998: Search for the New Bedford whaling fleet. |
Latest Updates
- The Jeremy Project and Discovery Expedition on the Discovery Channel!
Australia/New Zealand "NASA Explores Under the Ice" debut on Saturday, 6 August 2000
United States debut (re-edited documentary) "NASA Explores the Ice" at 9pm on Monday, 7 August 2000
Also shown as a feature on United 777 domestic and international flights - 7/21/2000: Added Discovery Channel Australia/New Zealand Release!
- Discovery Channel Austrlia/New Zealand Press Release, "Nasa Explores Under The Ice" [MS Word Format]
- 6/11/2000: Changed format of webpage.
Participants
Jeremy Bates '99 (jbatesi@yahoo.com), Anthropology, Student Principal Investigator
Aaron Weast '99 (aweast@scudc.scu.edu), Mechanical Engineering, ROV Manager, Pilot
Jeff Ota (jota@scudc.scu.edu), SCREEM Co-Director
Pictures
- Mission Photos
- August 26th
- August 24th
- August 21st
- August 19th - from Pt. Barrow Alaska
- August 14th - First pictures from the Arctic
- Personal Photos
Media Coverage
- July 23, 1998, NASA National Press Release: "NASA TO USE MARS PATHFINDER TECHNOLOGY TO SEARCH FOR SUNKEN WHALING FLEET IN ARCTIC OCEAN"
- July 24, 1998 SF Chronicle story on the Jeremy project (Adobe PDF high res, or low res)
- August 27, 1998, KTUU-2 Anchorage (NBC, story went national)
- Quicktime [240x160 10MB] [160x120 6.6MB]
- August 28, 1998, KRON-4 San Francisco (NBC, used parts of KTUU story)
- Quicktime [240x160 10MB] [160x120] (Coming Soon!)
- August 28, 1998, ABCNews.com Science Story, "Searching for Icy Shipwrecks"
- August 29, 1998, KTVA-11 Anchorage (CBS)
- Quicktime [240x160 15MB] [160x120 9.6MB]
- September 12-14, 1998, CNN/CNN Headline News/CNN International (Video requires Real Player, 28k, 56k)
- September 12, 1998 KTVU-2 Oakland (Fox, "Segment Two" feature)
- Quicktime [240x160 11MB] [160x120 10MB]
- November 1, 1998 Telemundo-48 (Spanish News Channel)
- Quicktime [240x160 10MB] [160x120] (Coming Soon!)
- November 1998, Engineering Alumni Newsletter, "Sunken Treasure"
- November 25, 1998, Environmental News Network, "Polar Star Hunts for Sunken Whalers"
- November 28, 1998, Santa Clara Magazine, "Seahunt"
- July 18, 2000 Discovery Channel Austrlia/New Zealand Press Release, "Nasa Explores Under The Ice" [MS Word Format]
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