Hey Jeff, can we reverse engineer the path and locations followed by these evidences by using the age and species of these organisms and then show a probability distribution of where the plane might have crashed in case we cannot rely so much on the inmarsat data. This could as well change everything..
Hey Dhruv, This was definitely an idea that scientists have had, there have been a number of papers exploring this very idea. The problem is that the barnacles that the French have let scientists study are too young, only a month or two old. They say that there are bigger, and hence presumably, older Lepas specimens that are 3.6 cm long but they haven't let anyone see them yet, and no one knows how old they should be -- that's why I want to collect barnacles from Global Drifter buoys, so we can get a better sense of the correlation between size and age.
*Reverse drift modeling
Hey Jeff, can we reverse engineer the path and locations followed by these evidences by using the age and species of these organisms and then show a probability distribution of where the plane might have crashed in case we cannot rely so much on the inmarsat data. This could as well change everything..
Hey Dhruv, This was definitely an idea that scientists have had, there have been a number of papers exploring this very idea. The problem is that the barnacles that the French have let scientists study are too young, only a month or two old. They say that there are bigger, and hence presumably, older Lepas specimens that are 3.6 cm long but they haven't let anyone see them yet, and no one knows how old they should be -- that's why I want to collect barnacles from Global Drifter buoys, so we can get a better sense of the correlation between size and age.