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This Earth Day, National Geographic teamed up with NASA and Catlin Seaview Survey to bring you a Google+ Hangout that explores the land, sea, and sky.
Along with explorers from both NASA and National Geographic, they are with Cailtin Seaview Survey cinematographer and shark researcher Richard Fitzpatrick who joined them from Australia’s Great Barrier Reef… while underwater.
Through the use of an underwater tablet, they explored the Great Barrier Reef through the eyes of the Catlin Seaview Survey expedition. Using specially designed technology, the team has been recording and revealing the world’s oceans and reefs like never before, in high-resolution, 360 degree panoramic vision. This kind of game-changing documentation has allowed the world to see real-time changes in coral reefs to start planning for the future.
This year National Geographic celebrates its 125th anniversary and a long legacy of exploration, conservation, and research. Every hour of every day, National Geographic explorers take to land, sea, and sky (each frontier represented by a colored band on National Geographic’s historic flag) trying to uncover, understand, or help care for the world around us.
Since their very earliest expeditions, new technological developments have assisted them to go places and make discoveries not possible before, and to share them with the rest of the world in new and exciting ways. Now, this Earth Day, National Geographic is teaming up with NASA andCatlin Seaview Survey to bring you to the watery depths of the Great Barrier Reef, the soaring heights above the polar ice caps, and the vast red-soil plains of Oklahoma’s lightning zone.
You’ll get an insider’s view into cutting-edge technology from a specialized fleet of detection aircraft to high-tech storm tracking equipment to deep-water robots–innovations that allow us not only to explore the Earth, but also to change it for the better. This sounds exciting isn’t it?
The Google Earth mapping of the Great Barrier Reef is amazing no doubt and this special event planned to celebrate Earth Day is like an icing on the cake. National Geographic’ special “Hangout” on Google+ also included one participant that will be joining the Hangout underwater live from the GBR. It is yet to discover who the lucky fellow was who got the chance.
NatGeo has brought together a great cast that includes explorers from both NASA and National Geographic and Cailtin Seaview Survey cinematographer and shark researcher Richard Fitzpatrick who will be using an underwater tablet to join the chat.
If you have any questions you’d like to see if they can ask, you can post your posting a question on NatGeo’s Google+ or Twitter pages with the hashtag “#OurEarth” or by commenting on its blog post. If you just want to follow the hangout, follow National Geographic on Google+ or watch the Google+ Hangout. Or just keep checking back here and we’ll keep you updated about the special hangout.
