{"id":294,"date":"2014-10-17T12:21:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T16:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/?p=294"},"modified":"2014-12-17T12:56:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T17:56:36","slug":"oil-spill-simulator-makes-a-splash-at-delaware-coast-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/oil-spill-simulator-makes-a-splash-at-delaware-coast-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil spill simulator makes a splash at Delaware Coast Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSCN2944.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-297 img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSCN2944-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"DSCN2944\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSCN2944-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSCN2944.jpeg 231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 38th annual University of Delaware &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.decoastday.org\/\">Coast Day<\/a>&#8221; was held on October 5, 2014 in Lewes, Delaware &#8211; the home of the UD marine school. \u00a0UD faculty shared their research, gave tours of their research vessels, and offered kids an opportunity to touch real sea creatures in the touch tanks. \u00a0Local chefs competed in seafood chowder and crab cake competitions, and the lucky guests served as judges! There were well over 5,000 people in attendance.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"img-responsive alignright wp-image-300 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSCN2928-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"DSCN2928\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSCN2928-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSCN2928.jpeg 308w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>UD CARTHE scientists &#8211; Bruce Lipphardt, Helga Huntley, and Denny Kirwin &#8211; were\u00a0on hand to share our research with the public. \u00a0The guests saw a SCOPE drifter, learned about global currents from a poster highlighting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/03\/29\/134923863\/moby-duck-when-28-800-bath-toys-are-lost-at-sea\">rubber ducky story<\/a>,and created oil spills in a computer simulator. \u00a0The computer simulated oil spills were created using real ocean model data. \u00a0The users were allowed to use mouse clicks to position an oil spill and then they watched as the currents and wind moved it throughout the Gulf of Mexico. \u00a0The feedback from this activity was so positive that CARTHE hopes to create a similar version of this that we can share at other public events as well as in the classrooms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSCN2927.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-299 img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSCN2927-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"DSCN2927\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSCN2927-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSCN2927.jpeg 308w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSCN29401.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-296 img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSCN29401-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"DSCN2940\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSCN29401-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSCN29401.jpeg 308w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The 38th annual University of Delaware &#8220;Coast Day&#8221; was held on October 5, 2014 in Lewes, Delaware &#8211; the home of the UD marine school. \u00a0UD faculty shared <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/oil-spill-simulator-makes-a-splash-at-delaware-coast-day\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[23,27,26,25,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}