‘Video Chats’ Link Students, Public with UVI Professor on Ocean Expedition
St. Thomas high school students and members of the general public interested in deep-ocean geological research are invited to attend live Wednesday morning “video chats” with a UVI professor conducting ocean research in the Sea of Japan. The video conference sessions, which began on Sept. 30, will continue at 10 a.m. on subsequent Wednesday mornings through Oct. 28. The conferences are held in room T-101 of the Teacher Education Building on UVI’s St. Thomas campus. High school groups requiring transportation assistance will be accommodated.
Dr. Nasseer Idrisi, a research biological oceanographer and professor in UVI’s Marine and Environmental Science master’s degree program, is participating in an international research project that is studying an ocean plateau located about 900 miles east of Japan. Dr. Idrisi began a series of video chats with UVI students on Sept. 19. Future sessions are scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 10, and Sunday, Oct. 25. A photo from the initial chat is available on the HYPERLINK "http://uvitoday.blogspot.com/"UVI Today… photo blog.