Ben Dromey @ben ?

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  • Ben Dromey wrote a new blog post: Haukki sample 1   10 months, 1 week ago · View

  • Ben Dromey wrote a new blog post: Fish Data House   10 months, 1 week ago · View

    DIY tool for measuring and communicating radiation in fish. I had been thinking very hard about the scientific process of collecting samples for radiation measuring. I broke down the areas concerned and tried to figure out the relationships between them – the science – the samples – the public. Who are these elements I wondered, [...]

  • Ben Dromey wrote a new blog post: Fish Samples   11 months, 1 week ago · View

    ThumbnailExpedition 1:    6.6.11     13:00 Depart Hogsara harbour and travel south around the island. Crew: Tapio Makela, Tuomo Tammenpaa, Ben Dromey Conditions: Sunny, medium-strong easterly wind Intention was to catch pike, for food as well as data sample. Stopped in several spots around the coast but without much success. At 16:00 in the space of two minutes we [...]

  • Ben Dromey wrote a new blog post: My POA   11 months, 1 week ago · View

    Initial Plan I would like to explore a few things while Im here. I am interested in exploring and identifying the nature of the relationship people have with data. I mean those who collect data and those who experience it, who are these people and how does their relationship to the data or the topic in question [...]

  • Ben Dromey and AvatarTapio Mäkelä are now friends   11 months, 2 weeks ago · View

  • Ben Dromey posted a new activity comment:   11 months, 2 weeks ago · View

    Military dolphins were also used in the Baltic to detect WW2 mines, at least according to this article from 1998.
    http://www.eurocbc.org/page850.html

    In reply to - Tuomo Tammenpaa posted an update in the group June Residency : Dolphins Soldiers ”Just days after the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the Navy sent some real marine mammals into action off the Pacific. Four bottle-nosed dolphins trained to find underwater mines demonstrated their abilities during Operation Trident Fury, a joint U.S.-Canadian military exercise held [...] · View