The Geotracerkitchen built a display for the Volvo Ocean Race Newport Stopover! More than 125,000 people visited the VOR Newport Stopover. Considering Newport is a town of only 24,000 full time residents it was a great event!

Alex Egan and Andrew Dubay put together a great display on the ocean carbon and oxygen cycle.  We measured oxygen in the water and CO2 in the air and in peoples’ breath.

Ed Baker describing how plants exhale oxygen and humans exhale carbon dioxide.

We illustrated the overturning circulation of the ocean using green fluorescent beads for flow visualization.

Ryan O’Shea shows students how water becomes dense and sinks near Antarctica to enter the deep ocean. The tank with green beads illustrates this circulation.

Andrew Dubay working on the Southern Ocean tank.