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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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September 26, 2011
RRR links updated
We have been receiving questions about papers that people are no longer able to access in the Rubicon Research Repository (RRR). In most cases, it appears that the links saved were directly to the papers within the database. Please visit the RRR and search for the document you need again. If you are more comfortable with …
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September 24, 2011
One week until Project Pink Tank
There is one week until the beginning of “Breast Cancer Awareness Month”. On October first, Rubicon will be launching the questionnaire for Project Pink Tank. Have you mentioned this to your dive club for the newsletter? Have you posted it on Facebook? Twitter? In your blog? The more diving breast cancer survivors that know about …
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September 16, 2011
New web site live!
If you are reading this post, you have found our new site! Many thanks to the team at Grassroutes Networking and Neu Concepts for their many hours and late nights designing, building, and updating our site. Feel like we had two sites? In effect, we did. The RRR functioned completely separate from the rest of our …
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September 15, 2011
R. W. “Billy Bob” Hamilton Jr, 1930-2011
It’s often said that people mellow with age. The exact opposite is true of R.W. “Billy Bob” Hamilton Jr. Billy Bob productively used every waking minute of every day. To us he was husband, father, grandfather, brother, brother-in-law, uncle, partner, mentor and friend. To some of you he was the person who encouraged you to …
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