Following the Year of a Science Communication Fellow
Experience a full seafloor mapping expedition through short form social media videos!
What's it like to sail aboard E/V Nautilus?
What type of people are part of the crew?
What exactly is seafloor mapping?
2025 Science Communication Fellow Erin Winick Anthony takes you and your students along for the experience of sailing aboard a science expedition, from learning she was selected as a fellow, traveling across the largest ocean on Earth, to boarding the ship, to pulling into port in American Samoa at the expedition end.
Join Erin during expedition NA175, as E/V Nautilus explored the waters offshore Howland & Baker Islands. Located roughly midway between Hawaiʻi and New Zealand in the Central Pacific Ocean, the islands of Howland and Baker are some of the most isolated land masses on Earth. While there have been some scientific expeditions to this remote region, the vast majority of the 425,700 square kilometers of seafloor surrounding the islands remain unmapped, and represent one of the most poorly surveyed areas under US jurisdiction.
Using the videos in the classroom:
Compiled in a YouTube playlist to be easily projected in a classroom or swiped through on students' phones, this playlist brings students into an expedition in a content form they consume daily. Assigning scrolling the 24-video playlist as homework the day before a ship-to-shore live interaction with E/V Nautilus is a fantastic primer to get students ready to ask questions to the ship's explorers. The playlist culminates in one of the highlights of the expedition, a conversation with astronaut Zena Cardman aboard the International Space Station while the ship was at sea.
