{"id":1096,"date":"2018-05-14T17:07:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T21:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2018-07-02T09:31:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T13:31:36","slug":"winners-of-the-2018-ocean-180-video-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/winners-of-the-2018-ocean-180-video-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of the 2018 Ocean 180 Video Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

CARTHE + Waterlust video awarded top prize in the 2018 Ocean 180 Video Challenge!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

For several years, CARTHE scientists, based at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science<\/a>\u00a0(UM), worked to develop a new, biodegradable, low cost, easy to assemble, surface drifter that would move with ocean currents and accurately report its position during CARTHE experiments.\u00a0 We want to know how water moves in the ocean and how it transports pollutants.<\/p>\n

Our friends at Waterlust<\/a> (run by UM alumni, Patrick and Fiona Rynne) helped us share the story of invention, perseverance, and success in a short video called “Drifting into the Gulf.”\u00a0 The video helps to bring people into the lab and the field with our scientists, and clearly communicates our research to students, so we submitted it along with the associated publication (Novelli et al 2017) to COSEE Florida, the organizers of the Ocean 180 Video Challenge<\/a>. And we waited as the judges reviewed the submissions…<\/p>\n

The judges for the 2018 Ocean 180 Challenge were\u00a021,000<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 middle school students<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0in over 900 classrooms around the world! After watching all of the finalists and scoring each one on a specialized rubric, the winners were announced. Drifting into the Gulf won 1st Place (Professional category).\u00a0 For young students to understand and enjoy our work is so rewarding!<\/p>\n