BOY SCOUT OCEANOGRAPHY MERIT BADGE PROGRAM
May 17, 2008

Troop 990 (Springfield, VA)

Troop 504 (Virginia Beach, VA)

Troop 505 (Mechanicsville, VA)

Troop 258 (Colonial Beach, VA)

Participants representing Old Dominion University's Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography (CCPO)

and the Department of Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences:

Dr. Eileen Hofmann, Dr. John Klinck, Capt. Richard Cox,

Patrick Curry, Laura Gibson, and Julie Morgan

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On May 17, 2008, Dr. Hofmann gave an overview presentation to a conference room full of Scouts and Scout leaders at the NOAA Marine Operations Center Atlantic. The Scouts were completing the requirements necessary to obtain an Oceanography Merit Badge. For the second half of the program, the group went out on the R/V Fay Slover, Old Dominion University’s research vessel and the #1 Coast Guard-inspected vessel in Norfolk, to conduct sampling. Afterwards, some Scouts participated in dockside activities, to include using a Secchi disk and refractometer. This was the ninth such program held since its inception in 2004. Future programs are already scheduled through 2010, with a waiting list beyond 2011.

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