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May 16, 2012
Rebreather Forum 3.0 begins Friday!
The Rubicon Team is packing for the Rebreather Forum 3.0 conference in Orlando this weekend. We will be helping out at the event and providing live tweets at the hashtag “#rf3” for those that can not make it to this exciting meeting. Was is Rebreather Forum? The Rebreather Forum 2.0 meeting took place in Redondo Beach, California, …
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April 05, 2012
Kernagis PhD defense
Dawn Kernagis defended her PhD work yesterday. Rubicon founding board member Gene Hobbs attended her presentation and provided a look inside the work through live coverage of the event on twitter. Below is an expanded version of the event filling in some details missed during the live event. The summary below is Hobbs’ notes from the …
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March 14, 2012
UHMS Annual Scientific Meeting abstracts due
Rubicon has submitted two abstracts to the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) Annual Scientific Meeting being held this June in Phoenix, Arizona. The first abstract discusses the results of the rebreather survey that was completed in February. The second abstract is a summary of risk analysis results for trimix dives calculated through commercially available decompression planning software. More …
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February 01, 2012
Surveys closed
Last night Rubicon shut down two web-based questionnaires. We would like to thank all the divers that participated in these surveys. With your support, we will be making a real impact on diving safety. The first survey concludes phase one of Project Pink Tank. Scuba certified breast cancer survivors were surveyed for information on their …
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January 16, 2012
Year in review and RRR Top Ten of 2011
The Rubicon Foundation saw many new changes and collaborations in 2011. The most noticeable of our changes is to the web site. On September 16th we launched our new site that included a major change to the look and feel. In updating the Rubicon Research Repository (RRR) software and site content management tools, we were …
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December 16, 2011
Rebreather owners needed
Today we launched a survey in collaboration with the Divers Alert Network, Duke Anesthesiology, and the Navy Experimental Diving Unit. Our aim is to evaluate use of existing carbon dioxide (CO2) canister tracking technology within the recreation and technical diving community. Please check out the project page for more details or follow the link below …
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November 25, 2011
Today Rubicon’s Facebook page received the 500th fan
The lucky 500th Facebook fan is none other than Cameron Martz. Cameron is a Certified Health and Fitness Instructor and author of Fitness for divers. Cameron also offers advice on diving fitness and is available at cameronmartz (at) divefitness dot com As the 500th fan, Cameron will be getting a Rubicon Research Repository hat. Long time …
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November 05, 2011
DEMA wrap-up and request
Rubicon board members Gene Hobbs and Richard Walker helped out in the Duke Dive Medicine (DDM) booth at the 2011 Diving Equipment & Marketing Association (DEMA) show in Orlando, Florida. The team joined DDM physician Jake Freiberger and Duke PhD candidate and Rubicon volunteer Dawn Kernagis. The team answered questions on diving medicine, fitness to dive, …
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October 07, 2011
Regular updates to the RRR
Over the next few days we will be continuing to roll out a new system for regular updates to the Rubicon Research Repository (RRR). The true launch of this system will begin tonight with the release of the DAN Recreational Diving Fatalities Workshop Proceedings (RRR ID: 9303). In the past, new items have been added to the RRR …
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September 30, 2011
Project Pink Tank Launched!
Today we are proud to announce that the Project Pink Tank questionnaire is live. The success of this project depends on the number of scuba diving breast cancer survivors we can get to fill out the survey. Please let your friends, family and dive buddies know about this valuable project looking into diver health. To …
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