Lakes of NY: 21st Century Water Technologies Exhibit at 2015 Great NY State Fair

by Submitted article | August 24, 2015 4:31 pm

SYRACUSE, NY – New York Sea Grant, the Great New York State Fair, and Great Lakes Research Consortium are partnering to bring the new Lakes of NY: Over, Under, Around and Through, 21st Century Technologies Exhibit to the 2015 Great New York State Fair August 27 through September 7.

Great Lakes Research Consortium Director Dr. Gregory L. Boyer, right, and SUNY ESF graduate student Frances Knickmeyer prepare to launch a demonstration of a remotely operated vehicle in the State Fair Park pool at the 2014 Great New York State Fair. The demos are being offered again at the 2015 Fair as part of the new Lakes of NY Over, Under, Around and Through: 21st Century Technologies Exhibit. Photo: New York Sea Grant
Great Lakes Research Consortium Director Dr. Gregory L. Boyer, right, and SUNY ESF graduate student Frances Knickmeyer prepare to launch a demonstration of a remotely operated vehicle in the State Fair Park pool at the 2014 Great New York State Fair. The demos are being offered again at the 2015 Fair as part of the new Lakes of NY Over, Under, Around and Through: 21st Century Technologies Exhibit. Photo: New York Sea Grant

‘We were pleased to share the exciting Great Shipwrecks exhibit in 2014, so much so that we invited New York Sea Grant to bring a new New York waters exhibit to the 2015 Fair,’ said Great New York State Fair Acting Director Troy Waffner.

The exhibit features high tech components on land and in the reflecting pool at the Mini NY State Park at the Fair:

New York Sea Grant 2015 Discover Clean and Safe Boating educational vessel equipped with a propane engine; presented in partnership with US Coast Guard Auxiliary and US Power Squadron.

Sea Perch ROVs used for science, technology, engineering and mathematics education

Great Lakes Research Consortium and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry with daily, in-water demonstrations of ROVs, remotely operated vehicles, transmitting to datascreen in exhibit tent

Sensing buoy in State Fair pool transmitting to website managed by Great Lakes Research Consortium and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry at www.esf.edu/shipwreck with data also seen on 36-inch monitor in exhibit tent

information on the scientific aquatic research drone being utilized by Buffalo State University for Great Lakes region research

national Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers Clean, Drain, Dry program in exhibit tent

picture yourself as an Historic Underwater Diver photo cutout from H. Lee White Maritime Museum, Oswego, and

Visit the Lakes of NY exhibit at the 2015 Great NY State Fair to picture yourself as an historic diver in this photo cutout from the H. Lee White Maritime Museum. Photo: New York Sea Grant.
Visit the Lakes of NY exhibit at the 2015 Great NY State Fair to picture yourself as an historic diver in this photo cutout from the H. Lee White Maritime Museum. Photo: New York Sea Grant.

Coastie, the US Coast Guard Auxiliary talking tugboat mascot in the daily Great NY State Fair parade and at selected times at the Lakes of NY exhibit.

The Lakes of NY: 21st Century Technologies Exhibit is located opposite the Horticulture Building at the end of the reflecting pool in the Mini NYS State Park at the NYS Fairgrounds, Syracuse.

The Great Shipwrecks of NY: Great Lakes Signature Exhibit from the 2014 Great NY State Fair is now traveling to venues across New York State and in the Northeast.

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