Virtual Stowaway on an Oceanographic Cruise

伍兹霍尔海洋研究所(WHOI)将创建一个名为“虚拟偷渡者”的网站，该网站是世界卫生组织网络系列“潜水和发现”的一部分。基于美国国家科学基金会OCE-0002540，一个调查两种脆弱的胶状浮游动物(SALP)的研究项目，该网站将通过允许所有年龄段的学习者成为研究船上的偷渡者，研究这些生活在海洋上层的滤食性食草动物的生物学，向公众传达这项研究。该网站将使用具有热链接的科考船实验室和潜水器的创新虚拟现实全景(VR)作为门户，以分层学习海洋探索、科考船上的科学工作、盐分等动物在海洋中扮演的角色，以及成功适应海洋生活的水母动物的多样性。

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will create "Virtual Stowaway," a website designed to be a segment of the WHOI web series "Dive and Discover." Based upon NSF OCE-0002540, a research project investigating two species of fragile gelatinous zooplankton (salps), the web site will communicate this research to public audiences by allowing learners of all ages to become stowaways on a research vessel studying the biology of these filter-feeding herbivores living in the upper layers of the ocean. The site will use innovative virtual reality panoramas (VR) of research vessel labs and submersibles with hot links as portals to layered levels of learning about ocean exploration, scientific work on a research vessel, the role that animals like salps play in the ocean and the diversity of jelly animals as successful adaptations to ocean life.