(August) Join us as our team of underwater archaeologists from across the country dive at four sites that we first visited in 2009, offshore of the modern Gulf Coast of Florida. http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/11newworld/welcome.html http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/include/images/ocean_explorer_podcast_100.jpg http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/11newworld/welcome.html ___________________________________________________________________________ NOAA Teacher at Sea participant Stevan Allen describes his background and his expectations for the Submerged New World 2011 expedition. http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/11newworld/background/teacheratsea/teacheratsea.html ____________________________________________________________________________ Ocean Explorer Expedition Education Modules (EEM) are designed to reach out in new ways to teachers, students, and the general public, and share the excitement of daily at-sea discoveries and the science behind NOAA’s major ocean exploration initiatives with the people around the world. http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/11newworld/background/edu/edu.html ____________________________________________________________________________ We will use a wide range of excavation tools and diving equipment in our efforts to explore for the evidence of this Pleistocene landscape, and the people who once lived upon it. We hope to find artifacts and food remains of people living in the Americas that are both older than anything we have found elsewhere and based on a way of life related to living close to coastlines. http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/11newworld/background/plan/plan.html