Kermadec Trench: Like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle

A specimen photograph of Coryphaenoides yaquinae. If confirmed with more detailed study at Te Papa, this will be the first proven record in New Zealand waters. Photo credit: NIWA/University of Aberdeen.

Today saw retrieval of the two landers and fish trap from depths of 5000-5500m. This is still on the abyssal plain between the Kermadec Ridge and Kermadec Trench, but is starting to become a steeper slope as depths drop away towards the Trench. The hadal lander was the first aboard, and with it came video footage of a rough and rocky seafloor. Unfortunately the camera power failed after just two hours, and in that time very few fish were seen. The abyssal lander however, worked well and showed rattails, cusk eels, and large penaid shrimps-although none appeared abundant. The fish trap caught only a single fish, but there was no disappointment as it was another new record for the New Zealand region, believed to be Coryphaenoides yaquinae. There was also a good catch of amphipods.

The specimens of Coryphaenoides armatus from yesterday and Coryphaenoides yaquinae today are helping to piece together our understanding of the distribution of deep-sea fishes. Although C. armatus was known to occur, the specimens have confirmed it is relatively abundant in deep New Zealand areas (based on camera work). C. yaquinae is known from the North Pacific, (including the Japan and Mariana Trenches) and off Chile and Peru. But this is the first record in the Southwest Pacific, and proves a widespread Pacific rim distribution. For all of us onboard these are exciting results.

Preparing the Hadal Lander. Alan Jamieson (left) sets up the camera, while Niki Lacey (centre) and Heather Ritchie (right) (both PhD students at the University of Aberdeen) secure an amphipod trap to the leg of the lander. Photo credit: NIWA/University of Aberdeen.

Amphipods haven?t featured much in the reports to date. But we are now approaching depths where things get interesting. The main species we have seen so far is Eurythenes gryllus, a worldwide species, and the second largest only to the ?supergiant? Alicella. There was a good catch today, but we expect numbers to decrease as we go deeper onto the Trench. While in other trench systems Eurythenes is found as deep as 7000m, in the Kermadec Trench it hasn?t been found past 6000m, where we see other amphipod species dominate. We don?t know why, although one possibility being studied on this trip through genetic studies is the possibility that there is more than one species with different depth ranges, but they look the same-so-called ?cryptic? species.

This afternoon we deployed the gear at around 6000m, and if the weather holds we hope to go deeper still the following day ? into the Trench proper ? to improve our knowledge of how faunal communities change in the deep.

Previously in this series:

Kermadec Trench: Cook, Kermadec and Kaharoa
Previous research in the Kermadec Trench
Kermadec Trench: Scuttling your Assets
Kermadec Trench: Boring eels
Kermadec Trench: The Cosmopolitan Rattail
Kermadec Trench: The deep-water womble

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Fighting for quality careers advice in schools | FE Week

A damning Education Select Committee report on the quality of careers guidance at schools, prompted FE Week editor Nick Linford to issue a rallying call for colleges to up their game in promoting their FE offer. David Walrond, who addressed the committee, has responded, explaining why he thinks the emphasis should remain on improving the advice given out by schools.

An element of the cheerfully provocative is often refreshing and, like all caricatures, Nick Linford?s FE Week editor?s column had a grain of truth in it ? some colleges really are too prone to wishful thinking and even a little self-pity.

However, on the substantive points the piece gets it wrong.

First, it conflates ?offering impartial careers advice? (a duty) with ?promoting the competition? (an idiocy, clearly). They are two completely different things.

I do expect publicly-financed schools, charged with a public duty, to do the former. So does parliament. I suspect FE Week does, too.

I do agree schools would probably be very unlikely indeed to do the latter ? but then I don?t know anyone in their right mind who expects that of them.

The overwhelming evidence ? from AoC surveys and much other research that has emanated from, for example, Careers England, the recent Commons Select Committee and from colleges themselves ? is that huge numbers of learners in 11 to 18 schools are denied access to, and have very little understanding of, the full range of post-16 options on offer to them, and that very many 11 to 18 schools are instrumental in that.

The consequences are not just tough luck for a few whingeing colleges who simply need to roll with the punches, wise up and spend up on the marketing front.

The consequence is a situation that is completely unacceptable ? one that perpetuates major inequalities of opportunity, and damages both the well-being and life chances of those individuals who then make wrong choices.

If you find that approach sentimental, then focus instead on the damage to the economy ? potentially up to ?28bn worth of damage, as reported elsewhere in FE Week [as stated to MPs by Dr Deirdre Hughes, chair of the National Careers Council].

Many of the proposed ?new? alternative marketing tactics for colleges are remedial and compensatory.

They are already old, tired, and frankly a bit desperate.

Careers advice is a serious business, not a marketing wheeze?

Prospectuses and application forms just get binned. Local radio jingles cheerfully with the general merits of colleges.

Buses carry (almost routinely now) short marketing slogans and happy student faces. Radio and buses do not and cannot carry data on progression, work-placement and destinations, careers advice, course details.

Social media has some real potential for colleges including, of course, supporting teaching, training and learning (that stuff, it should be remembered, colleges do when they are not marketing, campaigning or wrestling with the latest funding cuts).

However, trying to interrupt student discussions on social media with serious careers guidance and work placement chat is viewed by most students as akin to your dad turning up at a party and saying ?it?s home time?.

Independent and impartial careers advice about what and where to study post-16 is an absolute entitlement. It is a serious business, not a marketing wheeze.

In its absence, only those from families with existing social and cultural capital get to make the right choices.

The foolishness and injustice of this are now compounded by the new set of government post-16 performance tables, supposedly provided for young people to assist them in their choices, but which in reality ignore or devalue vocational qualifications, incentivise the delivery of the narrowest curriculum, and mask the underperformance of many school sixth forms.

We certainly have a post-16 market with much competition and more choice.

Colleges will be more than at home in this environment, providing that market is a genuinely open one, properly regulated, and informed by reliable information and performance data about all the different providers.

We simply do not have those things. The FE sector needs to fight for them. So does FE Week.

David Walrond, principal at?Truro and Penwith College, Cornwall

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Gears + chocolate = I want some!

It’s almost the weekend folks. For me that means I can eat junk. Yay! I have this thing where I don’t eat sweets during the week, but starting Friday night, all bets are off. That’s why these edible gadget gears are calling my name right now. They are hand crafted chocolate candies made by Andie’s [...]

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Britain to Argentina: No Falklands talks without locals

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain told Argentina on Friday it was unwilling to discuss the disputed status of the Falkland Islands unless talks included the local pro-British authorities there too, deepening a diplomatic spat over the South Atlantic archipelago.

Britain set out its position after visiting Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman rejected a London meeting with his British counterpart William Hague on Thursday because he objected to the presence of Falkland islanders.

"We're disappointed by the decision," a spokeswoman for British Prime Minister David Cameron said, referring to Timerman's refusal to meet Hague and the Falklanders.

"The position is that we're not prepared to talk over the heads of the Falkland islanders about matters that directly affect their status as a British overseas territory or indeed their economy or any other issues."

The two countries fought a 10-week war in 1982 over the Falklands, which are part of Britain's self-governing overseas territories, but which Argentina calls Las Malvinas and claims as its own. Britain won, but Argentina began to press its claim again last year after oil exploration began in local waters.

Referring to the Falklanders as "settlers", Timerman said only a bilateral meeting between Argentina and Britain would be acceptable and invited Hague to Buenos Aires to discuss the Falklands face-to-face.

But Cameron's spokeswoman said that Britain's position over the Falklands and over any talks relating to it was based on the principle that the Falklanders should be involved. She said Hague's offer of talks still stood if Timerman changed his mind.

"It's up to the Falklands and the Falkland islanders how they want to run themselves. They choose to be British and it's their right to self-determination and that's enshrined in a U.N. charter," she said.

Separately, a statement from the British Foreign Office said the government remained "concerned about the Argentine government's behaviour" towards the islanders.

President Cristina Fernandez last year marked the 30th anniversary of the Falklands war with a diplomatic campaign to assert her country's sovereignty claim.

In 1982 Argentine forces seized the Falklands, but a naval task force and ground troops dispatched by then prime minister Margaret Thatcher recaptured the islands.

London has refused to start talks on sovereignty with Buenos Aires unless the roughly 3,000 islanders, known as "Kelpers", want them. The islanders show no signs of wanting to break with Britain and are expected to affirm as much in a referendum due to be held in March.

The dispute has not deterred British energy companies from exploring on the islands, which are expected to start producing their first oil in 2017.

(Reporting By Andrew Osborn; Editing by Stephen Powell)

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CrowdSearching ? Use social media to help find lost items

You’ve heard of crowd funding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo which feature products looking for funding. Now there is a site called CrowdSearching.com, which uses the power of Facebook and Twitter to help lost and found items find their way back home to their owners. Whether you?ve lost an item or found someone else?s, simply [...]

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Macworld|iWorld 2013: Quick tour

If you couldn't make it to Macworld|iWorld 2013, we want to take you in and show you around the place. This is the main show floor at Moscone West. Make sure you're wearing your running shoes, because we're going fast.

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Vacancy: English Language ..., Jubail, Saudi Arabia ... - TEFL.com

	?Posted: Fri 1st Feb 2013 14:26 GMT ? Add to My Jobs' Folder English Language Educational Technology Specialist Booz Allen Hamilton Location Jubail, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia Deadline -- Experience 3 years Details Key Role: Provide English Language Training (ELT) classroom instruction to military personnel on naval bases in Saudi Arabia. Apply conventional teaching techniques and computer-based instructional materials to enhance classroom training, with the American Language Course of the Defense Language Institute as the core curriculum. Participate in the development of computer-based supplementary materials, as needed. Provide management or administrative backup for the ELT team leader. Qualifications Basic Qualifications: -3+ years of experience as an ELT instructor -Experience with developing student communicative skills -Ability to provide creative classroom delivery in a well-managed classroom -Ability to obtain a security clearance -BA or BS degree Additional Qualifications: -Experience with teaching in the Middle East region -Experience with instructing students in military programs -Experience in academic administrative roles -Experience with maintaining and troubleshooting computer operating systems and applications -Experience with Learning Management System (LMS) deployment and administrative in local server environments and across the Internet -Ability to speak a second language, including Arabic -Ability to apply educational technology, instructional techniques and enhancements in the classroom -Ability to create Flash and Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) objects based on the American Language Course objectives -Possession of excellent oral and written communication skills -BA or BS degree in ESL, EFL, Languages, Educational Technology, or a related field of study preferred; MA or MS degree a plus -TESOL Certification from a resident program, including CELTA, Trinity TESOL, or DELTA Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. 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