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03.01.2010
Near-real time and archived images and data are available from the coastal ice observatories operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institutes in the villages of Barrow and Wales, Alaska.
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03.01.2010
Edited by Igor Krupnik et. al.
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03.01.2010
Hajo Eicken, Rolf Gradinger, Maya Salganek, Kunio Shirasawa, Don Perovich, and Matti Leppäranta, editors.
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03.01.2010
Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University.
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03.01.2010
America’s oceans are in crisis and the stakes could not be higher. More than half the U.S. population lives in coastal counties. The resident population in this area is expected to increase by 25 million people by 2015. More than 180 million people visit the shore for recreation every year.
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03.01.2010
David and Doug Barber. A product of the IPY Circumpolar Flaw Lead Study onboard the icebreaker Amundsen which studied the leads in Arctic sea ice.
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03.01.2010
Children’s books.
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03.01.2010
Libby Hatton. 2008. Children’s book about Alaska current systems.
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02.26.2010
The Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence – SouthEast (COSEE SouthEast) develops strategies for engaging scientists and educators for increased ocean literacy. COSEE SouthEast employs innovative methods at the pivotal junction of science and education to: 1) extend scientific research to the public, 2) teach educators about the nature of science, and 3) connect informal science education (ISE) facilities with research and formal education communities.
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02.04.2010
We have all experienced this before: Someone emails or asks you about a piece of paper, such as an application for a workshop, that they had given you weeks ago, and suddenly your mind goes blank. Did I really get that paper? What did I do with it? I’m pretty sure that I put it in its appropriate file, but what if I didn’t? This is when I start to panic, until I can get to my desk and flip through my files. I always find whatever I am looking for, but I could do without the panic attack. The logical solution? Put these forms online, which is what COSEE West did this year with our applications for our summer workshops.
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01.20.2010
An ever growing number of scientists recognize the need to increase awareness about ocean science research, especially in regard to policy initiatives on climate change. Howerver, scientists may find it difficult to reach an audience outside of their community. At the same time, educators are searching for accurate and engaging science education resources to inspire students to become interested in scientific discovery.
Collaborations between scientist and educators can meet both of these needs and provide unlimited access for students to learn about science. If increased access to scientific knowledge requires research, focused objectives and a transfer of knowledge between scientists and educators, then scientist-educator fellowship teams are a way to bring the appropriate people together around a specific project that can help bring scientific knowledge to a broader audience.
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01.08.2010
How do you communicate among hundreds of ocean scientists and educators spread across the largest, but most-wired, state in the country? How do you add in the many scientists who do their research in Alaska’s seas but have home institutions in many other states? COSEE Alaska identified the development and support of SeaNET, the Network of Scientists and Educators in Alaska, as one the highest priorities of their project.
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01.07.2010
One of the many opportunities COSEE West offers our educators is online workshops, where people from all over the world can interact with each other, as well as with our scientist speakers. It is also a great way for a scientist to broaden their outreach without ever having to leave their city.
Over the years, some of our online workshop participants have been asking for live chat capability. It’s one thing to post questions and read answers, but there is still nothing like a real-time, face-to-face interaction. During our Spring 2009 online workshop on the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), we tried out a live chat via Adobe Connect. Adobe Connect is quite versatile in that it allows participants to share their desktop (one at a time), edit documents in real-time and see each other via webcams. It allowed our speaker to identify misunderstandings and address them right away, without having to wait for a question and then write something back.
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01.07.2010
COSEE-OS regularly runs workshops pairing educators and scientists, teaching them how to use concept mapping to communicate complex ideas in science to their audiences. As part of this process, the scientists and educators are matched into teams based on their understanding of several content areas. The matching process has developed over time to become a quantitative and repeatable process that has been responsible for the creation of successful scientist/educator teams.
Though most of that process is not usually shared with workshop participants, the COSEE team thought it might be information that could be shared with the teachers. To give them a better idea as to our rationale and invite them to better get to know our process, we thought of ways to convey that information in a new way. Instead of writing many emails or posting static content to our webpage, we looked to a blog as a potential tool for giving our workshop a voice.
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11.12.2009
Demographic changes and the emergence of a more global society have challenged the field of environmental education (EE) to be more inclusive and to offer programming that is relevant to culturally diverse groups. But what do we mean by diversity, and where is the EE field going with it? “Still Developing the Toolbox: Making EE Relevant for Culturally Diverse Groups” by Joanne M. Lozar Glenn addresses this question and profiles five organizations working to connect their programming to the communities they serve.
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09.30.2009
This list was developed as a resource for the COSEE Best Practices Professional Development Work Session, held in September 2009.
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09.01.2009
Tested in University of Maine semester courses and summer workshops, this supplement to Oceanography magazine focuses on educational approaches to help engage students in learning and offers a collection of hands-on/minds-on activities for teaching physical concepts that are fundamental in oceanography.
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06.12.2009
A case study describing how Bryan Field, a veteran teacher of 12 years and science faculty member at Conant High School in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, uses the COSEE-OS multimedia tools to help his students organize information and see the bigger story.
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06.01.2009
A two-minute overview of the National Science Foundation.
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04.13.2009
COSEE New England leverages New England’s extraordinary assets to engage the public in understanding the vital connections between people and the ocean. We represent a collaboration among more than 30 institutions across the region, including museums and aquaria, universities, and research institutions.
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04.08.2009
EOL gives scientists and citizens alike access to a dynamic, up-to-date synthesis of what is known about the diversity of life on our planet. On the EOL portal site, 80,000 individual species pages geared to the general public serve as entry points to more specialized in-depth resources for scientists, natural resource managers, and conservationists.
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01.27.2009
The COSEE collections encompass the COSEE Resource Collection and the COSEE News Collection. COSEE collections provide access to on-line resources for ocean science education excellence, including collaborations between education and research communities, professional development opportunities for teachers, informational materials useful in educational settings, marine career information, announcements and more.
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01.22.2009
Earth Album is a simple Flickr mash-up that allows you to explore some of the most stunning photos in the world, courtesy of Google maps and Flickr.
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01.21.2009
The COSEE-OS Concept Map Builder is a web-based tool that allows users to create customized concept maps linked to videos, images, news, and resources. The resulting maps can be exported as XML data or stored in our database for reuse or sharing with colleagues, students, and peers.
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01.21.2009
This flash-based application allows users to explore concepts and their relationships through a variety of assets - videos, images, news articles, and teaching resources - within a profile that gives breadth and depth to the learning experience. The Ocean Climate Interactive, when used in conjuction with our Concept Map Builder, constitutes part of the COSEE-OS suite of ocean-climate multimedia known as the Concept Linked Integrated Media Builder.
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