Teacher will aid ocean mapping
Published: Thu, Jul. 26, 2007 12:00AM
Modified Thu, Jul. 26, 2007 02:50AM
E-Mail
Print
tool name
closeDURHAM -- A Durham high school teacher will help map an area of the ocean floor as part of the United States' efforts to extend sovereignty over the seafloor, Durham Public Schools announced.
Sam Fuerst, who teams honors and ESL earth science at Northern High School, will leave Aug. 17 on the Coast Guard icebreaker Healy from Barrow, Alaska. The ship will travel to the Arctic Ocean within 700 miles of the North Pole.
Fuerst will be on board until Sept. 15 and will be in touch with his students through a daily online journal and Webcasts.
More B City & State
On his trip, he and other scientists will map an area of the floor that has never been mapped in detail. The map must meet requirements set by the United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty before the U.S. can claim sovereignty.
Get it all with convenient home delivery of The News & Observer.
The News & Observer is pleased to be able to offer its users the opportunity to make comments and hold conversations online. However, the interactive nature of the internet makes it impracticable for our staff to monitor each and every posting.
Since The News & Observer does not control user submitted statements, we cannot promise that readers will not occasionally find offensive or inaccurate comments posted on our website. In addition, we remind anyone interested in making an online comment that responsibility for statements posted lies with the person submitting the comment, not The News and Observer.
If you find a comment offensive, clicking on the exclamation icon will flag the comment for review by the administrators, we are counting on the good judgment of all our readers to help us.
