October 24

Listen to the Call from the Deep!

(1) CONNECTICUT
Fitch Senior High School, Groton, Connecticut
Teacher: Stephanie Mickle

For Atlantis:
1. What things on the ship make it feel like home (foods, spare-time
activities, etc.)?

For Alvin:
2. What body characteristics do the creatures have that let them live
under the extreme pressure of the deep sea? What would happen if they
tried to live in shallower water?

(2) GEORGIA
Sumter County Comprehensive High School, Americus, Georgia
Teacher: Vickie Peace

For Atlantis:
1. Can you keep the deep-sea organisms alive on the Atlantis after you
collect them, and if so, how?

For Alvin:
2. What is the most interesting thing that you have seen while in Alvin?

(3) LOUISIANA
Glen Oaks High School, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Teacher: Sharon Faulk

For Atlantis:
1. Do you ever bring students out to the dive site?

For Alvin:
2. Have you discovered any medicines from your studies? How has this
research benefited mankind?

(4) NEVADA
Our Lady of the Snows School
Teacher: Teresa Kennedy

For Atlantis:
1. If you were doing the same exploration mission on the moon of Europa,
how do you imagine that your experiments and sampling would be different?

For Alvin:
2. At these depths, do you observe living creatures at places not on the
hydrothermal vents?

(5) NEW HAMPSHIRE
Middle School at Parkside, Manchester, New Hampshire
Teacher: Kim Saltmarsh

For Atlantis:
1. What do you do to help the Alvin if something malfunctions when it is
on the bottom of the ocean?

For Alvin:
2. Have any of you ever gotten claustrophobia? If yes, what do you do to
get over it?

(6) NORTH CAROLINA
Hickory High School, Hickory, North Carolina
Teacher: Gena Barnhardt

For Atlantis:
1. What physical preparation and educational background is required to
work on the research vessel, and how are scientists selected for the dive?

For Alvin:
2. What new discoveries have you made during your expedition and how
would you like to expand your research due to these discoveries?

(7) OHIO
Springfield South High School, Springfield, Ohio
Teacher: Pamela Clark

For Atlantis:
1. What, if any, are the effects of pollutants on life in the deep sea?

For Alvin
2. How were the three persons selected to be in the Alvin? Is there a
special training (i.e., like the astronauts go through) to be aboard? Do
you conduct practice dry-runs?

(8) RHODE ISLAND
Wickford Middle School, North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Teacher: Nancy LaPosta-Frazier

For Atlantis:
1. What is going through your mind when you are getting ready to launch Alvin?

For Alvin:
2. What must you accomplish in order to call this a successful mission?

(9) WASHINGTON STATE
West Valley Middle School, Yakima, Washington
Teacher: Midge Yergen

For Atlantis:
We are going to be learning about the tube worms and palm worms found in
the Endeavor Segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. How do they compare to
the tube worms and pompeii worms found at your site?

For ALVIN:
What would you have to do if the robotic arm you use to pick up
equipment and samples got stuck between the rocks?