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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Rob Dunbar. Timecode In: 00:43:28. Timecode out: 00:47:43. Notes: El Nino and corals. Subject 2: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Sea cave ambi. Timecode In: 01:09:40. Timecode out: 01:13:43. Subject 3: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Rain. Timecode In: 01:16:14. Timecode out: 01:20:00. Subject 4: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Boat horn. Timecode In: 01:26:28. Timecode out: 01:26:35. Subject 5: (Interview). Subtitle: Rob Dunbar. Timecode In: 01:28:30. Timecode out: 01:53:11. Notes: Climate and coral. Habitat: Marine Shoreline, Island. Equipment Notes: Stereo=2: 1=L, 2=R; Decoded MS stereo; Sennheiser MKH40 Cardioid Mid Mic and MKH30 Bidirectional Side Mic into Sony TCD10; Sennheiser MKH40 Cardioid Mid Mic and MKH30 Bidirectional Side Mic through Sonosax Preamp into Sony TCD7. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS - GALAPAGOS LOGS NPR/NGS - RE - Galapagos DAT #3 page 1 In the boat going to dive site 01:00 - 05:00 Ambi in small boat - puttering along, cliffs on right, Dolphins beside boat. 07:00 - 08:30 Ambi with motor off - Birds and sea [NVG] 10:00 - 14:10 Ambi - [motor on] Waves + peeps of dolphins at 12:00 @12:40 Mics seem lower off bow to catch ambi of waves, some birds 13:36 - FX - Dolphin? 14:36 - 17:00 Ambi of boat slow down and circling other boats where scientists are swimming and talking in the water 17:00 - FX - engine off **18:00 - 18:30 AX: JW: We¿re anchoring here at about 50 feet of water, and we¿re situated over a coral where we think we can get a pretty good core, so right now we¿re setting the anchors at a three point mooring, hopefully we¿ll get something.¿ [+ more chatter re. site by grads and Rob and Jerry] 22:30 - 32;30 - Hydrophones [NG] Ambi of undersea drilling [not great because signal is in and out, but we will work with it] 33:13 - 37:29 Ambi Drilling above water [PICK just one minute to load] 37:30 - 43:20 - Ambi with hydrophones - with/without drill - [Note: drop outs again [NG] **43:45 - 47:23 AX AC: What did you get out of that? RD: This is our first try at drilling corals here at Wenman, so working out some of the kinks in the program, so we drilled two short cores out of a colony of pavona [sp]. That particular coral full of little borings from clams that actually dig into the colony. If enough of those little holes, looks like Swiss cheeze it makes it very hard to drill, so we drilled in about 40-50 centimenters, and the pieces of core came out in little chunks. So we have about 8 pieces¿Moved over to another colony - drilling down there now ** AC: Can you see effects of El Nino? RD: If you look down from the surface here, and we¿re 50 feet off the bottom, see this mixture of brown and white circles on this black bottom, and those circles are all corals, and normally they¿re all brown and would hardly know there were corals there, would blend in, but this particular site has responded to phenomenon known as coral bleaching, where coral has lost some of pigmented algae, and the tissues remain intact, but the tissues are crystal clear, can see right through them to the white skeleton of the coral. Doesn¿t happen very often and if that condition is maintained very long, then the corals will perish. Jerry was estimating that at this site the bleachings had perhaps been underway for two or three months and it would seem that if it lasted much longer, would die. So this is certainly a very visible sign of climactic phenomenon. AC: If look up here - on cliffs - vegetation, very green. Seen this before? RD: No, this is an exceptionally green year, and one of the interesting features of this phenomenon is that here in the Galapagos, when the ocean gets warm, creatures in the ocean die, but that same warm water causes tremendous rainfall. Been raining here 3-5 times as much as normal¿.cliffs covered with vegetation. AC: Bird life -... (Notes truncated)
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- SONY TCD-D10 PRO II
- Microphone
- Sennheiser MKH 30; Sennheiser MKH 40
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- Cataloged
- 6 Jul 2005 - Ben Brotman
- Digitized
- 6 Jul 2005 - Ben Brotman
- Edited
- 6 Jul 2005 - Ben Brotman