Monday 7 September 2009

Day three at the British Science festival

Well, after a busy and successful weekend in beautiful downtown Guildford meeting the good visitors to the BSF, we have now moved lock, stock and two smoking barrels to the marquee in front of the Austin Pierce Building at the University of Surrey, also in Guildford.

SERPENT has welcomed 400 schoolchildren today who were all over the SERPENT simulator. They can't keep away and keep coming back for seconds! This event rocks! The opportunities for hands-on science are too good to miss, so if you're reading this make sure you come over to join in with the fun!

Cheers!

Rob

Thursday 3 September 2009

SERPENT will be at the British Science Festival in Guildford

5 - 10 September 2009 - SERPENT at the British Science festival

The SERPENT project will be exhibiting at the exciting British Science Festival in Guildford from Saturday 5 September. Organised by the British Science Association it's one of Europe's largest science festivals bringing you the latest in science, technology and engineering. The event runs from Saturday 5 - Thursday 10 September 2009 and will showcase more than 350 of the most exciting and innovative science in the UK, and SERPENT will be there for the whole week.

Where will we be?

At the weekend, we will be in Guildford town centre at the Trinity Centre. View location in Google maps. Click on the pointer to find out how to get there from your location (use your postcode).

From Monday 7 September, we will be in a marquee in front of the Austin Pearce Building (building 2 in this map),at the University of Surrey in Guildford. Information about visiting the University.

What will we be showing?

  • A Deep Sea Robot simulator where visitors can capture and collect specimens from the sea floor.

  • A Magic Globe displaying Oceanographic data in animated format.

  • Findings from our recent research into how deep sea creatures are contributing to removing CO2 from the atmosphere in the form of Carbon and depositing it into the seafloor.

  • An amazing picture mosaic of a Piglet Squid showing 1000 of the images gathered by the SERPENT project.

Programme of events

We look forward to seeing you!