Soaring High to Research the "Rainforests of the Atlantic Coast"

Monday, July 21, 2008 - 08:35 in Physics & Chemistry

Dalhousie PhD student Jeff Barrell and Professor Jon Grant outfitted a blimp-shaped helium balloon with expensive photography equipment and sent it soaring a few hundred metres in the air to acquire much-needed aerial photography of eelgrass meadows in Atlantic coastal areas.

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