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EARTH AND MARS

DISAPPEARING
WETLANDS

RAINFORESTS AT
THE CROSSROADS

JASON Project's Approach

JASON's year-long curriculum comes to life during its annual expedition! Each year, Dr. Ballard leads a team of scientists, students and teachers on a two-week journey to explore and study in research locations featured in the curriculum. Satellite and Internet technologies bring students in classrooms around the world into direct, real-time contact with scientists and researchers as the expedition is happening.

JASON expeditions have ventured to the Mediterranean Sea, the Great Lakes, the Galapagos Islands, the Sea of Cortez, Belize, Hawai'i, the coral reefs of Florida's Keys, Yellowstone National Park, Iceland, Bermuda, Monterey Bay, the Peruvian rainforest, and NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

Students and their teachers have participated with research scientists in deep sea archaeology; probed the changing conditions of unique ecosystems; compared shallow and deep ocean habitats; pondered the mysteries of chemosynthetic life forms; studied bio-diversity, plate tectonics and volcanoes, geo-thermal hot spots, glaciology, human and animal migration; and compared conditions experienced in space and under the oceans.