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Yahoo
20-07-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo helps advance marine research
Dauphin Island, Ala. (WKRG) — Anglers hitting the water for the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo aren't just fishing for a big catch, they're actually helping perform a scientific study. University of South Alabama professor Dr. Sean Powers has been judging the rodeo for 20 years, and he says there's a reason this specific event is so crucial to sea life studies here in South Alabama. 'Scientists aren't good fishermen,' Dr. Powers said. 'Just because we study it doesn't mean we're good fishermen. But these are the best fishermen.' While Dr. Powers weighs the fish he sees, he's also taking some notes. 'The science footprint is just as big as the tournament,' he said. 'So, we have 100 young scientists out here that we're training and collecting data that's very, very useful for fisheries, management, and also training.' With the help of University of South Alabama students, scientists are able to track all sorts of sea life patterns. 'We can also take that ear bone and run chemical analysis on it and see where that fish came from,' Dr. Powers explained. 'Did that fish come from Louisiana? That fish come from Florida, and all those things we can do because these fishermen are letting us sample their fish.' It's a partnership Dr. Powers said he is extremely grateful for. 'It just the opportunity we wouldn't get normally without spending a tremendous amount of money,' he said. 'So we call this 'Fishmas' because all of them are bringing us presents every day.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Solve the daily Crossword
Boston Globe
14-05-2025
- Business
- Boston Globe
Lockheed Martin to lay off 64 workers at Andover clean energy facility, citing ‘program changes'
'As part of an annual business review and after careful consideration, Lockheed Martin has made the difficult decision to adjust the workforce at the Andover, Mass., facility,' Sherlock said in a statement Wednesday. 'We remain committed to delivering critical defense capabilities while also driving innovation, efficiency and affordability for all of our customers.' Advertisement The Andover facility was the 'single site' for the development, testing, and production of Webpages and other material related to GridStar Flow had largely been scrubbed from Lockheed Martin's website as of Wednesday. The company directed questions on the future of the program to the US Army and the Romanian Ministry of Energy, which both partnered with Lockheed Martin on the program. The defense giant opened its Andover lab in 2020, according to a Advertisement 'It's kind of this representation of how far we've come from our days of benchtop experiments to delivering these repeatable results on large scale flow battery systems,' Sean Powers, a manufacturing engineer, said at the time. 'We used to have small, handheld batteries that couldn't deliver much storage, but now we're working with these larger systems, and the new facility represents that transformation.' Lockheed Martin announced in 2022 that a new GridStar Flow battery installed at the military base in Fort Carson, Colo. would be 'the first megawatt-scale, long-duration energy storage system' for the Department of Defense. The battery was installed in December, with a pilot program scheduled to run for 18 months, US Army officials The pilot program has since been discontinued, a Fort Carson official confirmed Wednesday. Also last year, Lockheed Martin The US Department of Defense did not immediately return a request for comment on Wednesday, nor did the Romanian Ministry of Energy. Lockheed Martin also operates a missile development facility in Chelmsford that employs 350 workers, according to its Camilo Fonseca can be reached at
