How will kids use the Whyville hydrothermal vent site?
The vision for the project is to get kids to go to the WhOI area of Whyville and enter into the Deep Sea laboratory. They will gather background information about hydrothermal vent systems and can then go out to sea on a virtual oceanographic cruise, to explore and examine hydrothermal vent systems and to document and monitor the biological and chemical aspects of these systems. We will start by putting up 20 percent of the sites and add new ones each month. We will incorporate educational games and activities, such as maintaining vent biological habitats, and actual video footage from real vent sites.
