On Saturday, The One Hour at a Time, clean the rocks on Horton Street near Ocean Alliance. Thank you to all you came out to help this morning in the fog.
Here is a couple photos of the beautiful view from Ocean Alliance.
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Gloucester’s Ocean Alliance using the SnotBot
Reblogged from CBS news
Sorry about the commercials but this is so fascinating to watch, thank you Ocean Alliance
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Sun shining on Ocean Alliance
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Sunset from Ocean Alliance
As the Cape Ann Makers Market was winding down, the sun was setting. Great event and an amazing sunset.
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Sun setting at Ocean Alliance
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Corinthian George Town
Beautiful Yacht docked at Ocean Alliance. To find more information on this beauty please go to Vessel Finder or Corinthian Yacht.
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View at Ocean Alliance
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Deadline for the 2021 Bruce J Anderson Foundation funding opportunities
Don’t miss the Bruce J Anderson Foundation funding opportunity in the New Year! The foundation has helped many local organizations and initiatives annually. Good luck.
Bruce J Anderson Foundation 2020 grants were a who’s who of our community organizations and efforts in targeted areas of specialization: Arts (Cape Ann YMCA; Cape Ann Art Haven; GEF; Gloucester Stage Company); Environmental protection (Backyard Growers; Friends of Halibut State Park; Ocean Alliance); and Mental Health (Gloucester Writers Center; Pathways; Open Door). The family honors their brother and summer visits in Gloucester. The family foundation awarded grants to other communities and efforts, too.
Here’s the announcement from the TPI/Boston Foundation outreach for the Bruce J. Anderson Foundation:
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
We are pleased to announce the 2021 Request for Proposals for the Bruce J. Anderson Foundation, a supporting organization of the Boston Foundation. The Bruce J. Anderson Foundation has been making grants on Cape Ann and in the Nashoba Valley for over 30 years. Please review the guidelines carefully and note that the application deadline is Monday, February 15, 2021. Grant announcements will be made in mid-June.
Applications must be submitted online. Please find the application and a list of prior grants made from the Bruce J. Anderson Foundation here.
We hope you will consider taking advantage of this Bruce J. Anderson Foundation funding opportunity. Questions regarding program eligibility can be directed to the attention of Paola Villatoro at pvillatoro@tpi.org or 617-338-5898. The Philanthropic Initiative (TPI) | tpi.org
TPI merged with Boston Foundation in 2012
Heidi Dallin director youth acting
photo: on grounds at Ocean Alliance HQ, one repurposed shipping container now office/teaching module/lab – (and new on its exterior- Rocky Neck Art Colony Goetemann Artist Residency- Sophy Tuttle mural) Ocean Alliance received support from Bruce J Anderson in 2020
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Light Up the Night For Earth Day – A Facebook Live Event-Wednesday Evening
LuminArtz is partnering with Ocean Alliance to bring you “Light up the Night” – Part 4 on their Facebook Live Page, Wednesday night at 9:00 PM.
Here’s a sneak peak!
With social distancing, we are all feeling a bit scared and lost. Covid-19 is touching each one of us and the request to stay at home keeps getting extended. But that doesn’t mean we can’t come together!
LuminArtz is partnering with Communications, Ink and other local organizations to launch “Light Up the Night” — a project that will project messages of hope and inspiration. Every week they will project from an undisclosed location in Essex County and stream it live to their Facebook page.
Check out last Sunday evening’s installment of “Hope is a Thing with Feathers”, the work of JennyMae Kho at a Historic Beverly location. Amazing work!
Check their events page for the next date and time. Stay safe & stay home!
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BEAUTIFUL DRONE SHOTS OF OCEAN ALLIANCE’S NEW DOCKS!
Iain Ker forwarded these spectacular drone shots from the Ocean Alliance new dock installation.
Drone Photos by Iain Kerr using a DJI Mavic 2 Pro
Work on the docks has temporarily ceased due to the coronavirus situation however, although not quite finished, the docks are useable to a certain degree and are quite secure against bad weather.
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NEW DOCK INSTALLATION AT OCEAN ALLIANCE
One hundred and ninety-two feet of new dockage is being installed at Ocean Alliance’s headquarters at the old Paint Manufactory. Work began today and will continue through Friday. The E-shaped dock will be accessed via a new gangplank and until that is installed a temporary gangplank is going up.
Alicia Pensarosa, Ocean Alliance’s assistant director writes, “The new docks will be available for transient/seasonal rentals with the goal of getting more commercial, research, schooner, and educational vessels coming to Gloucester.” The new docks look beautiful and it’s a hopeful sign for Gloucester to see work continue during these unprecedented times of hardship.
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Open House this Saturday
Visit the Paint Factory site this Saturday for Ocean Alliance’s Open House! We are celebrating World Oceans Day by demonstrating some of our drones for whale research program. Stop in to learn about our Robotics Club and kids under 16 will get a free glider plane!
June 8, 2019
12pm-3pm
Ocean Alliance
32 Horton Street, Gloucester MA
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World Oceans Day – Saturday, June 8th
https://www.facebook.com/events/407231313338793/
Ocean Alliance will be holding an open house next Saturday to celebrate World Oceans Day. Stop by to learn more about our whale conservation programs, watch SnotBot in action, and sign up for our Robotics Club. We’ll be giving away free glider plane kits and even testing out our new Epilog laser cutter!
If you haven’t been to the Paint Factory in awhile come check out the new restoration work that has been done.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Alicia
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CBS News from Gloucester
Here’s the full segment form CBS News that aired on Monday featuring Ocean Alliance and our whale research work out of Gloucester.
To learn more about SnotBot visit https://whale.org/snotbot/
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Watch Ocean Alliance on CBS News…
The last few weeks have been pretty exciting at Ocean Alliance hosting a number of television crews.
Two Saturday’s ago, Ocean Alliance had a CBS News shoot for a national news feature on SnotBot®. Host Tom Hanson interviewed Iain Kerr for the segment and filmed SnotBot® in action on Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. We had really great weather and experienced a feeding frenzy of seabirds, dolphins, finback and humpback whales. Ocean Alliance collected great behavioral footage along with a robust snot sample from a Finback whale that will be analyzed for hormones, DNA, and microbiomes. The news story is planned to air on CBS News affiliated stations today, reaching a minimum of 5 million viewers!
Fin whale lunge feeding on Stellwagen Bank
This past weekend actor/comedian Sir Billy Connolly spent three hours at the Paint Factory with Ocean Alliance filming a segment for Billy Connolly’s Great American Trail television show. The show will be broadcast on ITV in September 2019 and then worldwide. The production team was interested in filming in Gloucester because of the whaling history, wildlife, and Ocean Alliance’s new developments in whale research. Billy was able to test out our thermal imaging drone FLIRBot, and even fly a drone himself! It was a lot of fun hosting Billy and the production team at our Paint Factory headquarters. We’ll keep you updated on when the show will air.
Last September, while on a Parley SnotBot expedition in Gabon, Africa the Ocean Alliance team filmed an episode of BBC’s Equator from the Air. For our UK friends the first episode will air on Sunday 26th May, on BBC Two at 20:00/8pm BST. The series will air at the same time each week for an additional three weeks. Look for it on BBC streaming in the near future.
To learn more about Ocean Alliance’s work and what is going on at the Paint Factory visit https://whale.org or follow us on social media.
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“Prevailing Wind & Whales” special MIT concert Saturday is all Gloucester Ocean Alliance, Parley, MIT Wind Ensemble 20th Anniversary & Humpback Whales
Parley X MIT: Prevailing Wind and Whales Saturday April 27, 2019
Reserve tickets here
From the press release:
7:00pm Parley SnotBot, EarBot & Drones for Whale Research
Parley Pre-Concert Talk Featuring Drs. Iain Kerr & Roger Payne, Ocean Alliance
Cyrill Gutsch, Founder, Parley for the Oceans
Join Dr. Roger Payne, Dr. Iain Kerr, and Parley founder Cyrill Gutsch as we dive into the world of whales and the new technologies that are changing the way that we study them.
8:00pm MIT Wind Ensemble 20th Anniversary Concert
Dr. Frederick Harris, Jr., Music Director
Kenneth Amis, Assistant Conductor
Stephen C. Massey, Guest Conductor
MITWE Alumni
Kathryn Salfelder and Michael Weinstein, Guest Composers
Drs. Roger Payne and Iain Keer, Guest Speakers, Ocean Alliance
Cyrill Gutsch, Guest Speaker, Parley for the Oceans
To celebrate its 20th anniversary, MITWE brings together traditional and new music, works commissioned by the ensemble, special guests, and alumni. In tribute to its recent tour to the Dominican Republic and collaboration with Parley for the Oceans, the concert features “In Praise Of The Humpback,” prefaced by remarks by legendary biologist-environmentalist and whale song expert, Dr. Roger Payne.
Renowned music educator Stephen C. Massey leads Persichetti Symphony no. 6, and legendary wind ensemble conductor-historian Frank L. Battisti will be honored by performances of three works composed for his 85th birthday in 2016, by Kenneth Amis, Kathryn Salfelder, and Michael Weinstein. MITWE’s percussion ensemble performs a new work in honor of MITWE’s 20th anniversary and “Course Sax” performs Piazzolla’s famed “Cafe, 1930” from Histoire du Tango. MITWE alumni join current MITWE members to close out the program with Gustav Holst’s amiable Second Suite in F.
MIT Wind Ensemble
https://mta.mit.edu/music/performance/mit-wind-ensemble
Parley For The Oceans
https://www.parley.tv/#fortheoceans
Ocean Alliance
https://whale.org/
Center for Coastal Studies (informational materials available at the concert)
http://coastalstudies.org/
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RESULTS Week 4 INVENTORS | #greatteacher Mr. Goulart’s local history hunt #GloucesterMA #TBT
Gloucester, Mass. Great teacher at Gloucester High School, Shaun Goulart, creates a local history scavenger hunt trivia game for his 9th grade students that takes place weekly for 6 weeks. We’re taking the challenge paced one week after the students.
ANSWERS TO SHAUN GOULART’S LOCAL HISTORY TRIVIA WEEK FOUR
How did you do? Week two delved into Gloucester’s famous inventors. Stop here if you prefer to go back to see Week 4 questions only
Mr. Goulart’s Local History Trivia Scavenger Hunt Week 4 Inventors
1.John Hays Hammond Jr. “Jack”
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Go to the location of his home and take a picture with a member in it.
- What did he invent?
Answer: “Over the course of his professional career, he was awarded over 800 foreign and domestic patents resulting from over 400 of his inventions. Many of these began in radio control before extending to electronics, naval weapons, national defense, as well as various consumer products.” – Hammond Castle
“In connection with his radio researches Jack obtained most important patents for receiving and broadcasting and these he sold to RCA…” John Hays Hammond, Sr
Hammond Castle – I hope that one day the Trustees and Historic New England add this as a shared property among their preservation jewels, along with the Natalie Hammond property and much of the parents’ estate, Lookout Hill, with some portion of admission for the City. At one point Hammond Castle was one of the top attractions in Massachusetts.
2.Clarence Birdseye
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Go to the location where his company was and take a picture with a member in it.
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What did he invent?
Answer: flash freezing
3.Augustus H. Wonson
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Go to the location of his grave and take a picture with a member in it.
Answer: Mt. Pleasant cemetery
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What did he invent?
Answer: Augustus S Wonson invented antifouling copper paint to protect boats. Tarr & Wonson’s was established in 1863. The former factory and harbor icon is now Ocean Alliance.
Paint Factory Past/Present
Paint Factory Ocean Alliance_2018 09 28_ Goetemann artist Deborah Redwood public art – whale’s tail in process_Gloucester, MA © catherine ryan
4.William Nelson Le Page
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Go to the location where his company was after it moved from Rockport and take a picture with a member in it.
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What did he invent?
Answer: Le Page’s glue from fish waste (established 1876)
- Go to the location of Le Page’s company co-founder Ruben Brooks’ manor and take a picture with a member in it.
Answer: Castle Manor Inn
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From Iain Kerr
Dear Friends,
What an adventure the Blue Plant Live shoot has been – it’s been an absolutely amazing experience for the SnotBot team and it’s Snot over yet (😉)! EarBot is live this Sunday (show #4) at 20:00 GMT on BBC 1 BBC Blue Planet Live. If you missed the SnotBot show (# 2) I will let you know how and when you can see a non-live version, it is coming to BBC America and other media outlets.
BBC did have some transmission issues during our live shoot, but I take my hat off to the whole team. I have been told that this was the biggest live production that the BBC have ever done. To give you an on location perspective of this undertaking, there are 33 people in the BBC Baja team, 3 people in the helicopter team, 3 local small boats and drivers and of course the 3 person SnotBot team (missing Miller). Grand total 42 people!!! Clearly shooting a live show is far more complicated than a regular documentary. I think that the BBC “The Equator from the Air” (still to be released) production team who joined us in Gabon West Africa had a total of 6 people.
The 42 people were broken down into 7 different crews;
- The shore crew who managed the satellite uplink (we could not get more than twenty kilometers from this location, which turned out to be a limiting factor).
- The uplink crew on the boat, responsible for transmitting the live signal to the shore crew.
- The film and sound crew on the boat.
- The SnotBot team – who knows what they do?
- The helicopter crew.
- The ShotOver boat crew (I talked about the amazing ShotOver camera in an earlier blog) – they took shots of us on the boat from the water & amazing wildlife shots.
- Supporting panga’s run by local fishermen who ran people out to the bigger boat, tracked whales etc.
Typically I lead with expedition logistics, so it is hard for me to express how much of a pleasure it was to watch others doing this job and doing it so well. However you cut it, managing 42 people in the field is a logistical nightmare and the fact that they kept pulling off the impossible was amazing.
My wife can tell you I am not a morning person, well I guess my future is not in live TV. For two days in a row we had to be at breakfast at 5:00 am and on the live day 4:30 am. We did get to see some more spectacular sunrises at sea though and the shore scenery was always spectacular.
There was rehearsal day before the live segment, not just for our location but for all of the different connections between the two other live teams and the studio in London. I take my hat off to Chris Packham, his ability to remember boat loads of facts and then eloquently reiterate them on demand-live was quite phenomenal. For those of you who missed the live SnotBot show, the satellite uplinks were not kind to me. Chris Packham introduced me as one of his favorite scientist’s and then we lost the uplink. Andy had a great segment on the science and data later in the show so we are all good. If you get a chance please watch the show, in the meantime, (spoiler alert) we did find a couple of blue whales on the live day but they were out of the satellite uplink range so no Snot collection live, but they ended the show with a cut to a Snot collection we made during the live rehearsal. I like to think that we did collect blue whale Snot live but it was only watched by the producers in London & the Baja team. In one of those bizarre situations it turns out that the sample we collected during the live rehearsal is the most productive blue whale snot sample we have collected to date. Andy said that the liquid was so gummy that he had a hard time sucking it up with the micro pipette. I have attached the actual snot collection video short that appeared during the show to this e mail.
The Sea of Cortez is one of my favorite places to work, every day on the water held new and different wildlife encounters. Chris Packham quoted Jacques Cousteau who called the Sea of Cortez “The Aquarium of the Pacific.” I have run sperm, humpback, blue and grey whale expeditions here. When you are out on the water there is always enormous biodiversity, from concentrated bait balls of fish that attracts all sorts of wildlife including diving birds, to Mantas, turtles, dolphins, whales and whale sharks and so on.
I have attached a few photos of the team working and some amazing Sea of Cortez wildlife, apologies that I don’t have the capacity at this time to label them all. Of course we missed our good friend Christian Miller, but Andy and the rest of the team stepped up to the plate with the attached photos. I have included a couple of lunch break photos that I thought were fun.
I am still staggering a bit from a lack of sleep so I hope that you will bear with my usual erroneous writing and grammar. We have just flown south to our next location and we will be out on the water tomorrow and Sunday following and listening to Humpback whales and flying EarBot (LIVE).
I want to end by applauding the BBC Blue Planet Live team again, what an incredible effort. At dinner one night the director said that the goal of this show was to be ambitious and push boundaries, they did than and the some!
The Ocean Alliance Drones for Whale Research Program continues….. One more show to go but well done team Blue Planet live!!
Best Fishes
Iain
Iain Kerr
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A message from our friend Iain Kerr from Ocean Alliance
Dear Friends,
Chris, Andy and I have just arrived in Loreto. As advised previously we are pretty damn excited to be taking part in the BBC Blue Planet Live Series. You can find more information on the show here: BBC Blue Planet Live. As I understand it the first show went live today, with Chris Packham and the crew in San Ignacio Lagoon. I have it on good faith that Chris was downwind of a grey whale and he got Snotted!
I made a mistake in my last e mail, I thought that there were three shows but it turns out there are four.
I am also excited but terrified to report that they have asked me to take part in the 4th live show on Sunday. So you can catch us on live TV on Wednesday the 27th (SnotBot with blue whales….🤞🤞) and Sunday 31st of March, EarBot and Humpback whales (🤞🤞). Right now my biggest concern is finding whales and good weather, preferably both at the same time, then of course not making a fool of myself on live TV.
For those of you not in England, there is a way to watch the show live on your computer, Chris says you have to get a VPN, which before last week I had never heard of. In short if the BBC website thinks that your computer is in England it will let you watch the show.
Clearly if you can’t watch the show live I am sure BBC will put it up on their website so I will send that information out next week.
So here we go – Get a VPN
- Download NordVPN 7 day free trial (https://free.nordvpn.com/trial/)
- Make sure to remember to cancel before the 7th day to avoid being charged $100+ for the 3 year subscription
- Alternatively, you can buy one month for $11.99
- After you’ve signed up for the trial, download and install the VPN app on your computer https://ucp.nordvpn.com/downloads
- Open the VPN app, log into your account
- Search for “United Kingdom” server in the country list
- Once connected to a server, now the internet thinks you are in the UK
Create BBC account
- Go to BBC iPlayer (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer)
- Register for an account (https://account.bbc.com/signin)
- Choose United Kingdom as your country, and put in a UK postal code, this one should work: SW191AA
- Verify your email address with the email sent to you after registering
Watch BBC ONE
- Log back into BBC iPlayer and search for Blue Planet Live if it already aired, or if you’re trying to watch live go to channels and click on BBC ONE, then click “watch live”
- When asked if you have a TV License, click YES
- Press play
- If you get a message that says “This content doesn’t seem to be working” – go back to your VPN app and click United Kingdom again, it will give you a new server number, refresh BBC iPlayer and try again. You might need to try a few different UK servers before you get one that works.
I will try to send out a few blogs from our time here, until then….
Best Fishes from Loreto.
Iain
Iain Kerr
Cell: 978 760 1784
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OCEAN ALLIANCE’S IAIN KERR TO APPEAR ON BBC BLUE PLANET LIVE!
Amy Kerr writes the following:
Below is a message from Iain, who is in the Sea of Cortez preparing for the BBC’s “Blue Planet Live” for this Wednesday and Sunday. He said he’d never do a live show with whales again, but here we are! The following are his instructions on how to watch outside of the UK (4:00 EST?), and if you can figure them out and DO you are a good good friend. At the very least, send him your positive whale-y, snotty thoughts!
Dear Friends,
Chris, Andy and I have just arrived in Loreto. We are pretty damn excited to be taking part in the BBC Blue Planet Live Series. You can find more information on the show here: BBC Blue Planet Live. As I understand it the first show went live today, with Chris Packham and the crew in San Ignacio Lagoon. I have it on good faith that Chris was downwind of a grey whale and he got Snotted!
I am also excited but terrified to report that they have asked me to take part in the additional 4th live show on Sunday. So you can catch us on live TV on Wednesday the 27th (SnotBot with blue whales….🤞🤞) and Sunday 31st of March, EarBot and Humpback whales (🤞🤞). Right now my biggest concern is finding whales and good weather, preferably both at the same time, then of course not making a fool of myself on live TV.
For those of you not in England, there is a way to watch the show live on your computer, Chris says you have to get a VPN, which before last week I had never heard of. In short if the BBC website thinks that your computer is in England it will let you watch the show.
Clearly if you can’t watch the show live I am sure BBC will put it up on their website so I will send that information out next week.
So here we go – Get a VPN
- Download NordVPN 7 day free trial (https://free.nordvpn.com/trial/)
- Make sure to remember to cancel before the 7th day to avoid being charged $100+ for the 3 year subscription
- Alternatively, you can buy one month for $11.99
- After you’ve signed up for the trial, download and install the VPN app on your computer https://ucp.nordvpn.com/downloads
- Open the VPN app, log into your account
- Search for “United Kingdom” server in the country list
-
- Once connected to a server, now the internet thinks you are in the UK
Create BBC account
- Go to BBC iPlayer (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer)
- Register for an account (https://account.bbc.com/signin)
- Choose United Kingdom as your country, and put in a UK postal code, this one should work: SW191AA
- Verify your email address with the email sent to you after registering
Watch BBC ONE
- Log back into BBC iPlayer and search for Blue Planet Live if it already aired, or if you’re trying to watch live go to channels and click on BBC ONE, then click “watch live”
- When asked if you have a TV License, click YES
- Press play
- If you get a message that says “This content doesn’t seem to be working” – go back to your VPN app and click United Kingdom again, it will give you a new server number, refresh BBC iPlayer and try again. You might need to try a few different UK servers before you get one that works.
I will try to send out a few blogs from our time here, until then….
Best Fishes from Loreto.
Iain
Good Morning Gloucester 