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02.25.2013
Eighty six percent of global evaporation and seventy eight percent of global precipitation occur over the oceans. Sea surface salinity is a key variable in understanding how fresh water input and output affect ocean dynamics and provide a better understanding of ocean-atmosphere interactions linking the water cycle, ocean circulation and climate variability. The Aquarius instrument is measuring this much-needed variable.
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02.25.2013
COSEE NOW is dedicated to supporting ocean scientists in successfully communicating the broader impacts (BI) of their research. We have created a suite of new online resources for scientists, which compliments and enhances our existing social networking portal that brings together researchers and educators from the ocean science community.
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02.25.2013
The Education and Public Engagement Implementing Organization (EPE IO) for the National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) is developing tools for educators to bring real and near-real time data, images, and video of our oceans into both formal and informal learning environments.
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02.25.2013
The world we live in is increasingly characterized by data. In oceanography, the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) and other efforts are spurring advances in sensor technologies and cyberinfrastructure that are changing the way oceanographers conduct research and share their results with the world. As we look to train the next generation of scientists, it is imperative that students have the opportunity to develop the skills necessary to collect, analyze and understand data.
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02.23.2013
Science is a series of questions which can lead to discovery. And fascinating questions will never end as the world is constantly changing. This study evaluated the toxicity of sediment from a canal that runs through both urban and agricultural areas.
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02.22.2013
Rutgers University and Liberty Science Center partnered on the broader impacts of an NSF Antarctic Sciences Division funded mission. Ross Sea Connection, which ran from the summer of 2010 to May 2011, connected mission scientists with 25 middle- and high-school earth science teachers and students who were thousands of miles apart. The project’s evaluation was designed to determine the success in bringing together scientists and educators to improve science education.
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02.22.2013
From December 2010 through June 2011, Liberty Science Center offered a two-day ocean science program to 208 students and their teachers from 10 public high school in Newark, New Jersey. The program consisted of focused instruction and hands-on activities and labs related to the ocean's physical and chemical characteristics and how these affect biological systems.
This program included several data-oriented lessons developed under the Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence-Networked Ocean World (COSEE-NOW) and was intended to increase ocean literacy in students, enhance their ability to interpret and manipulate data, and raise awareness of how ocean scientists do their work.
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02.22.2013
To increase diversity in one influential science community, a consortium of public and private institutions created the Woods Hole Partnership Education Program, or PEP, in 2008. Aimed at college juniors and seniors with some course work in marine and/or environmental sciences, PEP is a four-week course and a six-to-eight-week individual research project under the guidance of a research mentor. Forty-seven students have participated to date. Investigators from the science institutions serve as course faculty and research mentors.
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02.22.2013
In collaboration with the Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence California (COSEE CA), scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Scripps) have worked with a group of three middle school science teachers to teach students how marine natural products research at Scripps connects and contributes to the clinical drug discovery process. The participating San Diego Unified School District 7th grade life science teachers routinely teach a unit on drug discovery to approximately 300 students each year, and enrich the instruction by providing students the opportunity to communicate face-to-face with marine scientists through an interactive videoconference.
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02.22.2013
The Controlled, Agile, and Novel Observing Network (CANON) team at MBARI is creating new ways to remotely assess biological ocean conditions and collect samples of microorganisms. This presentation covers the high level requirements, architecture, implementation overview and lessons learned in the CANON experiments.
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02.22.2013
A PowerPoint presentation by COSEE-TEK on Teacher Technology Experiences (TTEs), the goals of which are to improve educators’ technology content knowledge, heighten scientists’ awareness of the challenges of science education and outreach, and broaden the impacts of researchers' science and technology by web-based educational resources.
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02.22.2013
Fostering partnerships between scientists and pre-college classrooms is a win-win scenario for both sides! Developing experiences in authentic research not only impacts the teacher and her students, but also has the potential to change thinking in the community.
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02.22.2013
Maryland Sea Grant strives to provide students from underrepresented groups in marine science opportunities to participate in its NSF-supported Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program in estuarine science. While women dominate the applicant/accepted student pool, we are testing different strategies to increase the number of students from underrepresented groups in our program.
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02.22.2013
Professional learning communities (PLCs) are one model for helping improve collaboration between scientists, educators and public audiences and hold inherent value for engaging scientists in educational and outreach programming. This session discusses evaluation findings from three different education and outreach programs in California and Oregon.
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02.22.2013
The COSEE network is driven by its goals of developing effective broader impacts of ocean science and integrating cutting-edge ocean research into educational programs and activities. This workshop was a first step at sharing best practices between two significant countries in a field (science education) that has not traditionally shared all its learning through peer-reviewed literature.
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02.22.2013
Ocean Inquiry Project (OIP) — a strategic partner of COSEE-Ocean Learning Communities (COSEE-OLC) — connects ocean scientists and members of the public in deep and meaningful learning experiences, while doing rigorous, scientific data collection. In 2011 OIP sought to understand the impact of these experiences on the participating scientists.
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02.22.2013
Despite legislative initiatives to bolster Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education, U.S. students, particularly those from the Gulf Coast, and their Mexican counterparts, continue to perform poorly on international assessments. To address the need for enhanced STEM education, the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System Regional Association (GCOOS-RA) is working with its data partners to develop the skills needed to understand and appreciate the science and technology required to manage the living resources of the Gulf of Mexico, make informed voting decisions, power the future work force, and compete in a global economy.
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02.22.2013
A focus of COSEE Florida is establishing opportunities for ocean scientists and preservice science middle grade teachers (interns) to work together on ocean science research projects. The Research Experience for Preservice Teachers (REPT) Program was launched in 2011 as a summer research experience for six preservice teachers and scientist mentor teams. Evaluation of the REPT cohort experiences examine the extent to which (1) preservice teachers increased their understanding of the nature of science, science research, and the scientific enterprise, and (2) members of the ocean scientist mentor teams sharpened their mentoring and research team management skills.
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02.22.2013
UCLA’s Marine Biology Quarter (MBQ) is an intensive, hands-on, immersion field research experience abroad for undergraduates. During the 2010 MBQ in Moorea, French Polynesia, undergraduates developed broad skills in marine ecology research, including exploring ecosystems, designing projects, scouting locations, performing fieldwork, and analyzing and interpreting data.
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02.22.2013
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, site of the Gulf of Maine and the World Ocean REU, provides undergraduates the opportunity to develop skills conducting independent scientific research in lower trophic level oceanography using state of the art methods and research technologies. Our goal is to increase the number of underrepresented minority students pursuing graduate degrees in ocean science, with an emphasis on engaging Native Americans.
In August 2011, an external evaluator was hired to assess our first three years as an REU site; here we present an overview of our program and those evaluation results, focusing on the short and long-term impacts of the program on minority participants and their post-program academic and career paths.
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02.22.2013
The North Atlantic Bloom (NAB) webinar series features the research of scientists from the 2008 NAB Experiment and focuses on key concepts in ocean science. The NAB scientists partnered with COSEE-Ocean Systems to produce the series, which includes multiple interactive concept maps, an integrated set of activities based on actual cruise data, and comprehensive presentations that upon one another for a final, cohesive program.
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02.22.2013
Student Enabled Network of Sensors for the Environment using Innovative Technology (SENSE IT) integrates STEM skills into a robust interdisciplinary curricula and teacher professional development effort by teaching high school students to construct, deploy and interpret data from their own environmental sensors. The project fosters STEM career awareness among students, teachers, guidance counselors, administrators and parents. SENSE IT provides students with a real-world application and an opportunity to see their STEM skills used in a compelling and engaging project.
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02.22.2013
The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) will reshape the way ocean science is conducted. Recent advances in the delivery of web-based education, and use of visualization technology and data visualization tools in educational contexts, have led to the development of on-line platforms for instruction that engages students in active scientific inquiry by collecting and analyzing data of real world phenomena.
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02.22.2013
This poster describes the ORE Program, a pilot project to improve technology and engineering literacy in 6-12th grades using REMUS and an underwater docking station.
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02.22.2013
Underrepresented minority (URM) students were applying to the MATE internship program in lower numbers than their non-URM counterparts. In 2009- 2010, MATE conducted a national study to examine the barriers to participation in marine technical internships aboard research vessels. 136 college students from six different college technical programs participated in focus groups and surveys in an effort to understand why some students were more likely to participate than others.
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