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The initial description of our website and features which relate to the public use of the site for distance education is located at http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/distanced/distance.htm
This file highlights some of the recent and ongoing developments and changes to the website which are intended to provide more of the educational resources of the marine reserve to the public by way of the internet.
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.We have recently started to build a set of pages which contain the translations of our racerocks.com website sitemaps. These are portrayed by flag icons at the base of the home page http://www.racerocks.com. The pages were done by the students of our racerock.com activity. |
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In February, 2004 we had a note from CECIERJ requesting permission to use our video of the purple sea urchin in media being prepared for their undergrad distance learning courses. By offering these courses, the consortium CEDERJ contributes to bringing high quality free education to the inner cities of the Rio de Janeiro State. As well as permitting such use of our resources, we have added for them, an introduction by one of our Brazilian students, Rita who helped us make this video in Portuguese about the Sea Urchins and Echinoderms.. |
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We have been contacted by Dr. Gitai Yahel who is doing a Post Doctorate at the University of Victoria. He has worked with us in doing in situ research on the Trophic Dynamics of the Invertebrate Community at Race Rocks. This video and a link to an explanation of his work is a useful example of the type of non-consumptive research that can be done in an underwater marine reserve.
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Composting for Conservation: In 2003 we have had new Composting Toilets installed in our residences at Race Rocks. This video has turned out to be an excellent educational resource. Our own local municipality is considering lobbying government in order to get regulations changed to make it legal for citizens to install these as a water saving measure. |
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We have just installed a new robotic camera that gives a full 340 degrees view of the land and surrounding waters of Great Race Rocks. This state of the art robotic camera provides a panoramic view with much improved zoom capabilities that can be controlled by the viewer. It can be seen from the video5 link |
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The effect of human disturbance in sensitive ecological areas is a topic that people need to have examples made very clear. We have included several archived videos on our website illustrating the problems we can cause. This recent example of a helicopter landing provides graphic evidence of the problem. |
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"If you look into a tidepool and comprehend what you see, you are observing the universe" --So starts the Tidepool File, an area of the website we are continually developing to highlight how this mini-ecosystem can for very useful for teaching many ecological principles. |
