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Lewis Hahn
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Primary: Student Argonaut
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Resilient Planet
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Mission 1: Invaders , Mission 5: The Rescue
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3/10/2008
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From: Resilient Planet Mission 1: Invaders , Mission 5: The Rescue |
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Lewis Hahn Read more about Lewis Hahn, a Student Argonaut from Operation: Resilient Planet. |
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Lewis Hahn
Student Argonaut,
Sicily, Italy (DoDEA)
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Lewis attended middle school at the Department of Defense Schools in Sicily, and is currently a Freshman with DoDS at Camp Zama, Japan. His teacher in Sicily was a former Teacher Argonaut for Operation: Monster Storms who encouraged Lewis to become a Student Argo. Lewis is an Eagle Scout and also holds his Open Dive Water Certification. Ever since he was a child he has always been interested in science, especially marine science. As he grew older, his interest narrowed to wanting to learn more about biology and the life sciences. In regards to his love of diving, he learned to SCUBA dive when he was 10 years old in Guam, and has made over 150 dives in exotic locations, such as the Great Barrier Reef, Palau, Yap, and the Red Sea. He has also traveled to other locations as well such as Kenya and Northern Tanzania where he found another love, the study of birds. While on a two week safari, he was able to identify 187 species of African birds. At this time, he wants to pursue a career in either science or computer technology.
Lewis feels his greatest life challenge has been achieving the rank of Eagle Scout, which he obtained on December 8, 2006, at the age of 14. In addition to doing his service project of creating a learning garden for the Sigonella Elementary School, he had to earn a minimum of 21 merit badges. He exceeded this requirement by earning 24, including the Environmental and Science merit badges.
In his own words
At Stellwagen, our research with Leila Hatch was definitely going to be the best day of the week, because that was the day we got do whale research! I was so excited I could barely get any sleep. We went out on a new Research Vessel (R/V), the Auk, to deploy the Autonomous Recording Unit or the “pop-up,” which is a giant yellow sphere used to record underwater sounds. We also used laser range finding binoculars to record whale sightings by latitude and longitude.
Our first task was to take the range, bearing, and time of the whale sightings, and input them into the ESRI ARC map, which would calculate the Auk’s latitude and longitude and plot the whale sightings on a satellite map. This process was surprisingly simple. After we finished our mapping, we looked at some right whale and fin whale calls, which were extremely fascinating. Even though it wasn’t data we personally collected, we were able to listen to what whales really sound like and to observe what most people never get to experience.
What JASON means to me
Overall, my JASON experiences were more than I ever could have imagined in my wildest dreams. My overall favorite part was going out on the boat to conduct research on whales, but I also enjoyed the fun times we had off-camera. I loved to visit the Cape Cod landscape, and see all of the different organisms that don’t live in Sicily. I will treasure my experiences for the rest of my life. This whole event was worth the effort it took to be accepted tenfold.
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