Ocean in Google Earth

Elephant Seals on NBC Nightly with Brian Williams

Posted February 6th, 2009 by NicoleMarieTeutschel

Elephant seals are on primetime television! This week NBC nightly news covered a piece on the new oceans feature in the latest edition of Google Earth. With Ocean in Google Earth you can explore the oceans and learn about all sorts of organisms in it, such as elephant seals!

Penelope Returns!

Posted February 6th, 2009 by NicoleMarieTeutschel

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Nicole Teutschel at UC Santa Cruz Long Marine Lab, CA--Penelope has once again graced Año Nuevo State Reserve with her presence! After another long foraging trip at sea, Penelope has returned to give birth to her 7th pup. Last winter Penelope was returning to shore wearing satellite, time depth recorder, and vhf tags. Penelope's tags were recovered shortly after she had her pup.

Google (Ocean) E Seals

Posted February 3rd, 2009 by NicoleMarieTeutschel

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Nicole Teutschel at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, CA-- Elephant seals have made a big splash in the Ocean, in Google Earth. Today Google launched an Ocean platform in Google Earth!

TOPP has contributed stories, figures, and satellite data to Ocean. This partnership is geared towards enabling everyone to be able to better visualize tracking data, and of course... explore the Oceans right from their computer!