Alumni Magazine - Spring 2008 - (Page 22) increasingly obvious that the Earth system is finite, and we are pushing its limits. I believe that if people have expanding opportunities to learn, and growing incentives to understand our planet, they will demand more of their elected officials to preserve that crucial life-support system.” He predicts that 20 years from now, there may be 15 more countries that have a system similar to the Regional Cabled Observatory, and that 30 years 22 lehigh alumni bulletin from now, there may be 50 countries that have one of these systems off their coastlines. All will be linkable to a next-generation Internet so that there will be sophisticated distribution systems constantly providing information on the “health” of the ocean. “At that point, we will probably have globally distributed sets of sensors with tens of thousands of instruments and observing capabilities, all of which will be hardwired to a then-Internet and available to anyone who wants to evaluate what’s happening,” he says. A F OUNDATION B UILT AT L EHIGH Before Delaney ventured to the ocean’s floor, he journeyed to the mountain—South Mountain, to be precise. Delaney came to Lehigh University from Charlotte, N.C., to play basketball, and he majored in geology, a focus that laid the foundation for the rest of his career. After graduating from Lehigh, he earned his master’s degree in geology from the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. in geology from the University of Arizona. “But the whole basis of my career as a geologist was fixed at Lehigh,” he says. “I learned the basic geology—mineralogy, the origin of volcanic rocks, thermodynamics—all of those basic
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