BOY SCOUT OCEANOGRAPHY MERIT BADGE PROGRAM
September 8, 2007

Troop 413 (Chesapeake, VA)

Troop 1115 (Springfield, 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, Capt. Richard Cox, Laura Gibson,

Patrick Curry, Curtis Barnes, Billy Giocondo, Olga Polyakov, and Julie Morgan

**CLICK HERE TO VIEW PHOTOS OF THE EVENT**

On September 8, 2007, 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 was split into two, with the first half going 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. The second half of the group participated in dockside activities, to include using a secchi disk and refractometer. Then the two groups switched to allow all Scouts to participate in both activities. This was the eighth such program held since its inception in 2004. Future programs are already scheduled through 2009, with a waiting list beyond 2010.

Home