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03.03.2010
The Ocean Gazing podcast is one of COSEE NOW’s primary educational outreach tools. The aim is to provide scientists with a forum for telling their stories about ocean observing science and the broader impacts that science is having on people beyond academic institutions.
In each biweekly episode, Ocean Gazing integrates interviews, ambient sounds gathered in the field and the lab, music, audio recordings from listeners (from children to adults), and the unveiling of a mystery sound. The scientists have said they enjoy participating in the podcast as a mechanism for making their science accessible and promoting the work they do in an engaging and accurate manner. We have between 300 and 400 downloads for each episode, and we are actively promoting Ocean Gazing on Facebook. We've created CDs containing the first 26 episodes and high school curriculum companion pieces for a handful of the podcasts. These are being distributed to scientists and educators.
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03.03.2010
The Scientist Engagement Working Group (SEW-G) has had great success using Skype, a free tool used for conference calls. The Production Team now conducts all of its weekly meetings via Skype, a huge benefit to the conference call budget. The software, available at http://www.skype.com, is free to install and works with both Mac and PC users, as well as with various types of internet connections.
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03.03.2010
COSEE West conducted online workshops to disseminate ocean science content to larger audiences than could be reached using in-person activities. Teachers and educators not served by a COSEE Center could be reached through distance learning.
Three different online workshop models were created. A base model had online presentations by scientists, with scientists available to answer participants’ questions online. A professor model had scientists presenting ocean science content during an undergraduate course, followed by an online workshop in which undergraduates served as mentors for ocean science content (supervised by the professor and graduate students) and teacher leaders served as pedagogy mentors to educator participants. An undergraduate field research model built upon the professor model: scientists presented ocean science content to undergraduate students during a field research course, followed by an online workshop in which undergraduates conducted field research a nd exchanged findings online with participants. Participants also had an opportunity to observe field research being conducted.
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03.03.2010
COSEE West and other COSEE Centers have conducted a variety of education outreach activities, including one day professional development workshops with scientists and educators. Although the literature indicates limited benefits of one day professional development workshops for implementation of science content in the classroom, there are other benefits to these workshops.
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03.03.2010
Ocean observing systems (OOS) provide a wealth of real-time data that can be put to use in classrooms and informal learning centers. This presents an exciting opportunity to connect students and the public to real-world science. Additionally, when students analyze real-time data in structured learning environments, it can help them improve their inquiry skills while exposing them to relevant ocean science topics to increase their level of ocean knowledge. However, building tools to help students, teachers and the public access and understand real-time data effectively presents many logistical and design challenges.
To address these challenges, a collaborative group of scientists, classroom and informal educators, education researchers, and data translators have worked together to develop several novel approaches to bring real-time OOS data to classroom and public audiences. This team was brought together by the Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence Networked Ocean World (COSEE NOW), a virtual community of scientists and educators seeking to foster collaborations that will engage participants in the development of new products that promote the Ocean Literacy essential concepts.
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03.02.2010
COSEE Central Gulf of Mexico engages scientists in summer institutes in two ways: (1) During a week-long face-to-face experience and (2) During a three-week long on-line experience. In the face-to-face experience, scientists and teachers are teamed together to develop lessons/materials the teachers can take back to their classrooms. During the on-line experience the scientists prepare a presentation using a variety of interactive electronic formats and also engage with the teachers through a discussion board.
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03.02.2010
Partnerships between scientists and educators have been occurring as mechanisms for science education reform over the last two decades. The work they have done together includes: scientists providing science content as part of professional development for teachers and development of curriculum; and graduate students teaching lessons in K-12 classrooms. In most of these instances, the scientists provide their science expertise, which the educators use to ensure the scientific accuracy and credibility of their activities. For this project, informal science education institutions are explored as venues for scientists to communicate with the public and engage in a different model of partnership. In this instance, ocean scientists and educators develop new understanding and practice, as they co-teach a college course.
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03.02.2010
The CIRES Education and Outreach Program offers a suite of programs aligned with the Essential Principals of Ocean Sciences (EPOS) and the Essential Principles of Climate Sciences (EPCS). One such program, the COSEE West – Colorado Collaborative, provides a means by which scientists can participate in ocean and climate sciences education outreach through a teacher professional development program. The purpose of the program is to bring the global oceans to inland audiences.
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03.02.2010
COSEE Ocean Learning Communities has developed a learning community of marine volunteer organizations, resource managers, University and State agency scientists and formal educators who through organized events/workshops have worked to increase ocean literacy and stewardship of the marine environment through public engagement. This learning community offers ocean/marine scientists opportunities to improve their outreach skills, spread the word about their research, and get help with research efforts.
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03.02.2010
COSEE Ocean Learning Communities experiments with strategies to catalyze and support a community of ocean scientists, learning science researchers, educators, and citizens interested in the marine environment. COSEE Ocean Learning Communities has experimented with adapting the poster session of scientific conferences as a tool for connecting ocean scientists and learning science researchers and their research with the public.
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03.02.2010
Concept maps are a useful educational tool to examine the costs and benefits of injury and regeneration, particularly linking the impacts from individuals and ecosystems. Such maps effectively show these linkages and encourage exploration of the processes that control and connect the immediate effects of injury on individual infauna with larger scale habitat and ecosystem changes. Our goal is to expand on the resources that are currently available to middle, high school, and post secondary educators using the COSEE-OS Concept Linked Integrated Media Builder (CLIMB) to create an interactive concept map of how injury affects marine benthic invertebrates, communities, and ecosystems.
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03.02.2010
To communicate science effectively there are challenges scientsts should consider when trying to craft audience-appropriate messages. The use of concept maps, people as facilitators, and effective teaching strategies can help scientists communicate effectively.
This study looks at challenges which can occur during message packaging and understanding. Specifically it focuses on the use of concept maps as an effective tool for creating audience appropriate packages. Concept mapping allows both specialists and learners to see connections among related concepts. It shows the big picture, while also allowing one to focus in on details. When a learner makes connections between concepts, her/his understanding of the material deepens.
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03.01.2010
Designed as a portal to climate change information and information on regional climate change.
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03.01.2010
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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03.01.2010
The Marine Advisory Program of Alaska Sea Grant provides this source of information on what climate change means to Alaskans and planning for adaptation to predicted changes.
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03.01.2010
NOAA/UAF. The mission of ACCAP is to assess the socio-economic and biophysical impacts of climate variability in Alaska, make this information available to local and regional decision-makers and improve the ability of Alaskans to adapt to a changing climate.
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03.01.2010
Order or download reports:
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03.01.2010
PowerPoint presentations made November, 2009, to UAF Alaska Marine Advisory and Cooperative Extension agents by Alaskan scientists.
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03.01.2010
Allison, et. al. The University of New South Wales Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC), Sydney, Australia.
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03.01.2010
Dorothée Herr and Grantly R. Galland, IUCN Global Marine Programme.
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03.01.2010
National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education. The challenges presented by the complex environmental challenges we are facing at a global scale, a call for action, and priorities and recommendations for research, environmental literacy, and engagement of "citizen scientists" in environmental research.
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03.01.2010
Bettina Kaiser, Editor. Ice is featured as one of six polar themes. The book provides an excellent summary of current sea ice research and understandings and includes teacher-tested hands-on science activities.
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03.01.2010
United Nations Environmental Programme. The book covers all parts of the cryosphere: snow, land ice, sea ice, river and lake ice, and frozen ground.
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03.01.2010
The SEARCH Sea Ice Outlook is an international effort to provide a community-wide summary of the expected September arctic sea ice minimum.
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03.01.2010
SIWO is a resource for Alaska Native subsistence hunters, coastal communities, and others interested in sea ice and walrus.
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