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Imaging and Investigating the Effects of Crude Oil Seepage on Marine Flora and Fauna In Europe and The CaribbeanMajor Goal and Short Description:
To enthuse students to investigate research and document the effects of petroleum hydrocarbon effluents on the marine and terrestrial environment, using computer based technology. The project will sensitize students to the ecological consequences of oil spills.In France, students will investigate the monitoring of the seas and coasts of countries by satellite, and from that monitoring determine how it can be protected (prevention or rapid response whenever a spill occurs). To allow students to glean relevant material the on the topic, provide a bibliography of the material obtained, come up with activities that they themselves can carry out to verify or to make sense of their research, with the project coordinators and resource personnel as facilitators.
The geographical features of our coastline's topography and morphology will be researched and documented. The prevailing weather and climatic conditions, with special emphasis on major wind intensity and direction, as well as the incidence of strong tidal currents will form integral components of our project. In France, students will look for coastal European images that can be compared with Trinidad's coast and make comparative studies.
Using suitable applications, students will simulate spill and seepage flows and effects while manipulating identified variables. The human interest aspect of our project will involve students in researching the lives of fishermen, trawler operators, cruise ships, hoteliers, and other persons directly affected by seepage and spills and whose livelihoods are threatened.
Students will be actively involved in every aspect of the project's development. Access to up to date statistical, graphics, spreadsheet, database, word processing and simulation application software would be made available to students as they employ these programs to conduct analyses, document, store, display and otherwise manipulate the findings of their research.
Students will make optimum usage of the features of the Internet. Electronic mail, newsgroups and IRC will be utilized to facilitate communication with each other, affording the ultimate production of a truly international perspective to their project.
Tranquillity Government Secondary School (Trinidad & Tobago)
Gerard PhillipLyce Roosevelt Secondary School (Reims, France)
Ms. Nicole Herman