5 . SEA Summer High School Programs 2022

Science at SEA

Science at SEA is a four-week program for rising high school juniors and seniors, as well as recent high school graduates, which focuses on the coastal and offshore marine environment around Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The program includes a shore component on the SEA campus in Woods Hole and a sea component aboard the Sailing School Vessel (SSV) Corwith Cramer.

July 21 — August 13       Expense: $4,000

SEA Quest

SEA Quest is a two-week program that welcomes high school students and recent graduates. Participants will gain hands-on experience conducting field research, sailing at all ship, and understanding of the complexities of creating and managing marine reserves. They return home with a broader sense of the ocean's importance to our planet and the need to preserve this precious resource for future generations. Life here is fast-paced. No prior sailing experience is necessary. Strong desire to learn is required!

July 11 — July 22             Expense: $3,200

SEA Cape

This three-week summer program at SEA offers current high school students the opportunity to study the marine environment from a variety of perspectives: scientific, historical, and literary. Participants live and study at our campus in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

June 27 — July 14            Expense: $3,800

SEA Expedition

This two-week summer program for high school students, including graduating seniors, is centered on learning by doing. SEA Expedition is a multidisciplinary experience that welcomes students to participate in every aspect of a challenging offshore sailing and oceanographic expedition, and occurs entirely aboard the SSV Corwith Cramer. Life at sea is fast-paced and tough.

July 5 — July 17               Expense: $3,500

6 . Discover the Benefits of Living Simply

Chinese New Year is right around the comer! This is the time of year when we "sweep away the dust". We give our homes a good thorough cleaning.    1    

Another great way to start fresh is to get rid of all the clutter (杂物). Over a year ago, I did just that.In preparation for a move, I got rid of over 60 percent of my furnishings. I found that caring for fewer things means more time to spend with friends and family.

    2    They're discovering the joy of spending their time and resources on the things that matter most. Here are some benefits of living simply.

More free time. The more things you own, the more time you'll spend cleaning and organizing them.    3    You'll be surprised at how much time you'll have to do what you actually want to do.

More money. As you stop buying things you don't need, your finances will improve. You can save the extra money and take a special trip or an interesting class instead. Learn to reward yourself with rich experiences, not things.

    4    Once you break the accumulation habit, your values shift. You come to realize that things don't bring lasting happiness. True joy comes from making memories with loved ones.

Living simply lowers your stress level, improves your health and allows you to focus on what's important.    5    Start living with less today, and discover the peace and happiness this lifestyle can bring.

8 . Assassin (暗杀者) bugs live up to their name. The insects expertly hunt and feed upon other small invertebrates (无脊椎动物), giving them a poisonous bite. Some species even hunt spiders and use a strange trick to gain the upper hand.

Using their antennae (触须), assassin bugs tap spiders, which appears to confuse them long enough to let the bugs make a poisonous strike, researchers reported on September 29. The findings provide insight into some of the complex hunting tactics that predators (捕食性动物) evolve when targeting dangerous prey (猎物) .

Assassin bugs spend their lives in a place most insects avoid: spider webs. The bugs silently creep along the spider’s silk, taking care to make their movements seem harmless before violently killing the web’s architect, seizing the spiders with their front legs and injecting them with poison.

While watching two species of assassin bugs hunt spiders, ecologists Anne Wignall and Fernando Soley took note of the bugs’ habit of lightly knocking their antennae on spiders once the bugs were within striking distance.

“It struck us early on that tapping prey was a really strange thing to do,” says Wignall. Spiders could easily defend themselves and kill the bugs. “Watching the bugs spend so much time and effort on avoiding detection, only to practically tap the spiders on the shoulder was absolutely fascinating.”

To figure out why the bugs tap, Wignall and Soley tested the behavior of 30 spiders in the laboratory. The researchers copied the bugs’ antennae tapping by gently brushing the spiders’ leg with a dog hair. After the tapping, the team measured the spiders’ responses to movements on the web, copying a struggling insect.

Tapped spiders were far less aggressive than those that weren’t tapped, fully ignoring the movements four times as often. Tapped spiders also attacked about 25 percent as often as their untapped counterparts.

Wignall thinks that the assassin bugs are reducing spiders’ aggression levels by imitating the types of physical touch that these typically solitary (独处的) spiders experience near fellow spiders. “Whenever they do come across another spider, it’s usually because it’s a close relative in the nest, or a potential mate. Both of which are situations in which aggression would not be a good idea,” she says.

Zoologist Ondřej Michálek, who was not involved with the study, says that the researchers have a “completely valid theory.” Many spiders avoid cannibalism (同类相食) by using special touch signals that could be copied by skilful predators, thus tricking the spiders, he says.