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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2015 Cheer from 1B “You get one shot to be at your best. No do-overs. It’s both exciting and nerve-wrack- ing.” Performances are scored on jumps, standing, tumbling, building technique for things such a pyramids, as well as the execution for those stunts — which includes form as well as safety. Glider from 1B animals using their unique acoustical signatures. Diving seabirds, for exam- ple, leave a trail of bubbles through the water like the con- trail left by a jet. Zooplankton show up as a diffuse cloud. Schooling fish create a glow- ing, amoeba-shaped image. “We’ve done this kind of work from ships, but you’re more or less anchored in one spot, which is limiting,” Benoit-Bird said. “By putting sensors on gliders, we hope to follow fish, or circle around a plankton bloom, or see how seabirds dive. We want to learn more about what is going on out there.” View from 1B go for around $25,000, and the cheapest seat in the house may go for $5,000 (but probably a lot higher). In that regard, this fight will be the highest grossing fight of all-time, and Mayweather will set the record for being the highest-paid athlete who ever lived. But both records will Fishing from 1B for the various warm water “There’s a lot more going on than most people realize,” Conlee says. “It’s similar to gymnastic scoring in that everything counts for some- thing from the moment you step onto the floor until the final formation.” Because seven out of nine members of this year’s team were freshman, Conlee choreo- graphed the routine herself so that the team could focus all its attention on perfecting it. “It’s the largest group of freshman I’ve ever had on one team,” says Conlee. “So instead of adding the pressure of coming up with a routine on their own, it seemed better to take that pressure off of them. “You perfect one stunt and there’s always another one to learn. I spent hours coming up with the routine and the girls worked extremely hard to per- fect it.” That hard worked paid off, with Siuslaw being named the eighth best team in a division that has more than 40 schools with cheerleading teams — only 13 of which reached state this year. Leading Siuslaw this season was lone senior and two-year veteran Kennedy Roylance, along with junior Amilia Perez. Freshman included Tallyn Bello, Emilee Christiansen, Emma Collins, Siarrah Rain, Victoria Rojas, Ariel Rosinbaum and Andrea Sanchez. What was the key to such a young group achieving a state placement in its first year? “They are a dedicated group that formed a special bond, especially on the bus during road trips,” says Conlee, who then added with a laugh. “They’re also all morning peo- ple, which definitely helped.” Programming a glider to spend weeks out in the ocean and then “think” when it encounters certain cues, is a challenge that falls upon the third member of the research team, Geoff Hollinger, from OSU’s robotics program in the College of Engineering. Undersea gliders operated by Oregon State already can be programmed to patrol offshore for weeks at a time, following a transect, moving up and down in the water column, and even rising to the surface to beam data back to onshore labs via satellite. But the instruments aboard the gliders that measure tem- perature, salinity and dissolved oxygen are comparatively sim- ple and require limited power. Using sophisticated bioa- coustics sensors that record huge amounts of data, and then programming the gliders to respond to environmental cues, is a significant technological advance. “All of the technology is there,” Hollinger said, “but combining it into a package to perform on a glider is a huge robotics and systems engineer- ing challenge. You need lots of computing power, longer bat- tery life, and advanced control algorithms.” Making a glider “think,” or respond to environmental cues, is all about predictive algo- rithms, he said. “It is a little like looking at economic indicators in the stock market,” Hollinger point- ed out. “Just one indicator is unlikely to tell you how a stock will perform. We need to devel- op an algorithm that essentially turns the glider into an autonomous vehicle that can run on autopilot.” The three-year research proj- ect should benefit fisheries management, protection of endangered species, analyzing the impacts of new ocean uses such as wave energy, and docu- menting impacts of climate change, the researchers say. Oregon State has become a national leader in the use of undersea gliders in research to study the coastal ocean and now owns and operates more than 20 of the instruments through three separate research initiatives. Barth said the vision is to establish a center for underwa- ter vehicles and acoustics research — which would be a key component of its recently announced Marine Studies Initiative. The university also has a growing program in robotics, of which Hollinger is a key fac- ulty member. This collabora- tive project funded by Keck exemplifies the collaborative nature of research at Oregon State, the researchers say, where ecologists, oceanogra- phers and roboticists work together. “This project and the inno- vative technology could revo- lutionize how marine scientists study the world’s oceans,” Barth said. most assuredly be broken in this century, and nobody will be surprised to learn one day that Mayweather lost it all. Greatest fighter of all-time pound-for-pound? Mayweather? Sugar Ray Robinson is laughing somewhere. What Mayweather is, is a supremely gifted defensive boxer. I attribute that to his excessive vanity. That’s not to say he’s not a hitter, however. He’ll hit anyone ... you, me, the women he had children with. It doesn’t make him great. Not by a long shot. In fact, Pacquiao’s incredible humility and Mayweather’s lack of it make this one of the easiest “good guy versus bad guy” fights since Popeye squared off against Bluto. “Fight of the Century?” Fine, we can say that it is the fight of this century up to now, but it is nowhere even close to being one of the best fights of the modern era, at least in terms of pre-fight gravitas. Ali-Foreman’s “Rumble in the Jungle,” Joe Louis-Max Schmelling, Leonard-Hearns, Hagler-Hearns, Leonard- Duran, Holyfield-Tyson ... and the greatest series of all, Ali- Frazier, trip willingly off the tongue whenever the matter is discussed. The greatest fight of all- time? Don’t be such a sucker. With the exception of those two minutes in Kentucky earlier in the day, the Mayweather- Pacquiao fight simply will be the best show on Earth on May 2, 2015, And that will have to do. fish species can still be pro- ductive during the winter months but anglers may need to target different areas of a lake (typically deeper) versus when fishing in the spring or summer. ALSEA RIVER: Steelhead The winter steelhead fishery has produced fair to good results recently. This week should be pro- ductive in the mid to lower reaches of the river while flows are low and river tem- peratures are warming. SALMON RIVER: Steelhead Winter steelhead fishing is starting to pick up in many coastal basins. The Salmon River is now open to harvest of wild winter steelhead through March 31. Anglers are advised to read the new regu- lations as there are harvest restrictions and new deadlines in effect. SILETZ RIVER: Steelhead Steelhead fishing is slow to fair but should start to pick up in the coming weeks. 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