TEAL-SHIPS Trivia
Ship Life
Name the...
Tools and Instruments
Fun Critters
100

What station is the mooring at?

What is Station 3c?

100

What PPE must you don to go on deck with active winch lines?

What is a hard hat, life vest, and closed-toe shoes?

100

Names of everyone on your team.

What is...

100

What does a CTD measure?

What is conductivity, temperature, and pressure?

100

A third grader asks you what the coolest creature you've ever seen is and you want to tell them about something other than sharks. What do you say?

What is literally any sea creature/microbe other than a shark?

200

How many stations are on a TEAL-SHIPS cruise?

What is 16 stations?


200

What is the sailor lingo for the "front", "back", "left", and "right" sides of a ship?

What is "forward", "aft", "port" and "starboard"?

200

Names of everyone in the science party.

Who is: Mel (Dr. Cohn), Bradley (Dr. Tolar), Christian (Dr. Briseno-Avena), Winn (Dr. Johnson), Ata (Dr. Suanda), Rebecca (Dr. Asch), Jess, Matt, Jared, Umut, Devon, Ava, Parker, Rachel, Nathaniel, Moin

200

What does an ADCP (like the on the mooring) measure?

What is current speed and direction? (Acoustic doppler current profiler)

200

This organism is <200 um long, and forms a star or zig-zag shape by joining their foot poles to for colonies.

What is the asterionella diatom?

300

What is the url for the TEAL-SHIPS website?

300

What series of bells and horns indicates a fire?

What is a 10 second horn plus the general alarm?

300

Which net is "Baby net", "Mama net", and "Papa net" in the TEAL-SHIPS trawl song? 

What is: (play music)
Baby net = Dip net
Mama net = Bongo net
Papa net = Fish trawl nets

300

Who is Lizzy and what does she record? (This lab not allowed to answer)

What is the LISST, an in situ imaging device for zooplankton and large phytoplankton?

300

What bottom-dwelling anglerfish is recognizable by its severely flattened, circular, disk-like body, grows up to 4" in length, are predominantly mottled brown with lighter spots, and can "walk"?

What is the pancake batfish?

400

How long is the TEAL-SHIPS transect?

What is 140 nautical miles OR
160 miles OR
260 kilometers.

400

What is your life raft number and what should you do when you get there?

What is
(port-side cabin = port raft,
starboard cabins = starboard raft)
and see if all your cabin-mates are there.

400

Names of all the crew members

Who is: Captain Dodge, Morgan Hudgins, Terrell Scarboro, Ben Leland, Jackson Robinson, Sean O'Leary, and Joe Bartman?

400

When the CTD is in the water or the underway is on, phat parameters can you see in real-time?

What is temperature, salinity, fluorescence, oxygen, and turbidity?

400

What free-swimming sea snail is known as a "sea butterfly"?

What is the pteropod?

500

You want to plot your date from the cruise. What file and code has been made for you to use?

What is "TS#_All_Niskins_BGC.xlsx" and many "Plot...m" files under Phys Oce folder.

(500 pts for All_Niskins")

500

What's the alarm for "abandon ship"?

What is 6 short plus 1 long blasts, and the general alarm (AND captains orders)?

500

Nickname of each TEAL-SHIPS cruise to date.

What is:
1. The Shakedown
2. Double Trouble
3. 3rd Time's the Charm
4. 4 the Love of Water
5. Fin-tastic 5 (What the 5/ WTF)
6. 6 on Savannah

500

What is TFF? (This lab not allowed to answer)

What is tangential flow filtration, an ultra filtration method for concentrating viruses or dissolved organic matter.

500

What is an archaea?

What is single-celled, microscopic organisms that represent one of the three fundamental branches of life. They have an unique "S layer" in the cell wall and lacking a defined nucleus.

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