College of Charleston - Comet Yearbook (Charleston, SC)

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104 Dustan 1. Filming during the summer of ’82. 2, 3. Experimenting and filming in Belize, British Honduras in 1974. 4. Cousteau and Colin Molinier at the start of filming. Opposite page: 1. Cousteau taking snapshots at Christ- mas. 2. Cousteau departing the Calypso in 1974. 3. Exploring off Colombia.

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Dustan Sails : The Amazon On The Calypso | Dr. Phillip Dustan, Assistant Professor of | Biology, was the only American scientist | aboard the Calypso as it sailed up the Ama- | zon River last May. The Calypso (which is the research vessel | of the ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau) was conducting what was believed to be the | first large-scale survey of the Amazon’s pro- ductivity. The Amazon is the largest river in the world and runs through the heart of the world’s richest tropical rain forest. (continued to page 105) | | Dustan 103 ‘

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with Filming Cousteau Dustan measured the chloro- phyll levels, temperature, cur- rents and light levels; these tests were designed to help explain the ecological makeup of the river. Among the instru- ments he used was one that he and a colleague developed at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in California. The instrument is called a spectroradiometer, and it gives precise measurements of the light as it penetrates the water. This cruise was Dustan’s second aboard the Calypso; in 1974, he sailed to Belize and Jamaica when the Cous- teau crew was filming a pro- gram on coral reefs. The Ama- zon voyage was also filmed for television. His biological re- search has taken him to labs in New York, Jamaica, Israel, Florida, and California as well as the Smithsonian Insti- tuion’s Museum of Natural History in Washington. Dustan 105 asa ti i ean negates ene Se A I Oe