National Marine Sanctuaries

ElementsData and Products – examples: Sanctuary Monitoring, Integrated Network (SIMON)

Sanctuary Sounds (acoustic)

Long-term Monitoring Program and Experiential Training for Students (aka LIMPETS)

SPLASH (humpback whale data)

Satellite tagging of megafauna

Telepresence (real time, remotely controlled underwater cameras and data in sanctuaries) Ocean GIS data

EDGES (Exploring data using GIS to experience sanctuaries)

System-wide Integrated Monitoring (SWIM) – 24 IOOS buoys in sanctuaries

National Marine Sanctuaries

AssetsSystem of 13 MPAs

Use sanctuaries as hubs for ocean observing systems

Access to scientists (nationwide)

Access to national network of formal/informal educators

Models of packaging data in a user-friendly way

Existing variety of lesson plans, curricula and activities

Partnerships

MBARI

Can produce (or lead production of) data streams

Access to lots of data and scientists and technologists

Well connected (P.I.) to Marine Metadata Project

ORION Cyber-infrastructure Committee Member

Interested in all aspects of education and human interface issues

The Globe Program – www.globe.gov

• promote and support student research • international (107 countries)• global environmental issues local focus• 13 million students collected data on Globe web site• students/scientists/teachers work together

Sandra Henderson

CeCOOS

• Central + Northern California Ocean Observing System

• Partnerships

• Lots of data from Partners

• Enthusiastic End User Committee that is willing to take a leadership role

CICORE (Dale Robinson)

• Datasets from 10 CSU Campuses (FromHumbolt Bay to San Diego)

• Water quality time series• Hyperspectral imagery • Acoustic Bathymetry• CSU System Wide project• Subject matter experts• Teacher training workshops• Strong links to SF Bay NERR and CeCOOS (Central, N.

CA, RA)• Focus on NERR shore region (transition from water to

land)

Consortium for Oceanographic Research & Education

• 84 members – broad connections/potentail resource

• DC “smarts”• Focus on collective efforts that benefit all • Experience in national coordination

Sue Cook

CIRES – Univ. of Colorado, Boulder

• Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

• Location, Location, Location – Bring the ocean to the land lubbers. Relationships b/w ocean & inland processes.

• Scientific Connections- CIRES, NOAA, NCAR, UCAR, USGS

• Global data and global perspective(geophysical, climatic, paleoclimate, marine meteorological, atmospheric, etc.

• Outreach experience & K-12 Connections- CIRES outreach

VIMS/VSGMAP (VIMS)/Bridge (Susanna Musick)

• Strengths in developing OOS K12 product?• VSGMAP *VA SeaGrant + Marine Advisory Program) track record of developing ed.

Resources for classroom teachers based on current ocean sci. research• Strong connections w/state, regional, and national network of educators through

relationships w/VA teaching community, VA Dept. of Ed, MAMEA, NH. Sea Grant Ed. Network and NMEA.

• Since 1998, we’ve been working to improve teachers connections to web resources through the BRIDGE website. BRIDGE is well-known + widely used, among the national ocean science community, making us well placed to introduce new OOS resources to a wide + established audience of educators.

• We have working relationships with OOS scientists

What elementss of your OOS program will contribute…?• VIMS is part of the Chesapeake Bay Obs. System, that is part of the Mid Atlantic

Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (MACOORA). We’ve already initiated discussions w/technicians @ VIMS re: collaborative develop. Of ed. resources for our region. We can align these efforts w/national prod.

• VIMS educators are part of the COSEE Central Coordinating Office. We can facilitate communications w/the COSEE Network + help publisize COSEE related OOS products through the COSEE website.

Great Lakes Observing System (Steve Stewart)

• Education and outreach are major components of GLOS Business Plan (& we seek to work with other RAs)

• The proposed Great Lakes COSEE will explicitly partner with 2 other COSEE’s and has interest in additional inter-regional collaborations

• Our greatest regional assets are our lakes (20% of the world’s surface fresh water) and our “Midwest” (really “north coast”) population base

• We have significant experience using Coastwatch in education and outreach

• The Great Lakes region offers a diversity of potential formal and informal education networks that are lakes-ocean focused

Oregon Sea Grant – NANOOS (Jon Luke)

• Assets• Capacity to test materials in flexible classroom settings at the Hatfield

Marine Science Center – access to 12,000+ students

• Access to Sea Grant education and network

• Access to a network of K-12 teachers• Capacity to hold teacher workshops• OE Alliance of Aquariums• w/ NANOOS and COAS scientists

• Elements

•Internet Map Server : Oregon Coastal Marine Viewer

•Science Math Investigative Learning Experiences (SMILES)

• Involvement in NANOOS at ground level education plan – integrated shoreline and estuary data

•Coast Net/River Net model

•Adult Education Instructors Institute

COSEE-FL & -SE, EDL and Pier Aquarium (Barbara, Elizabeth, Pauline, Howard)

• Organizational Assets– SEACOOS (Southeast Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing System

– COMPS (Coastal Ocean Monitoring Program)

– PORTS (Physical Oceanographic Real Time System)

– EDL (Environmental Distance Learning)

– COSEE (SE and FL GOM)

– Informal education partners

– Network of human resources

– Colleges and universities

– Research laboratories

– FACE (Florida Association of Computer Educators)

– School districts

– Government agencies

COSEE-FL & -SE, EDL and Pier Aquarium (Barbara, Elizabeth, Pauline, Howard)

• Tangible Stuff– Websites and portals (live classroom communication capacity, DVD for

instruction)– Lesson plans– User interface design and development poster series (waves, hurricanes, etc.)– Professional development (trainers, modelers)– Access to classroom teachers– Templates for distance learning– Connections to government officials– Connections to diverse populations (teachers, students, scientists, general

public)– Professional organization affiliation (workshops, presentations, papers)

COSEE-FL & -SE, EDL and Pier Aquarium (Barbara, Elizabeth, Pauline, Howard)

• Services– Curriculum writers– Access to pre- and in-service teachers– Thorough understanding of the standards movement– Marine Science community building courses and expertise– Location, location, location– Change agent/Education reform

• Knowledge of education system (K - grad school)

COSEE-MA (Eric Simms, Mike Newman)

• Partners in NY, NJ, DE, MD and VA

• Access to Observing System Data– NY/NJ Harbor Observing System– NJ Shelf Observing System (NJSOS), LEO-15– Chesapeake Bay Observing System (CBOS)– MACOORA (Mid-Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association)– NERRS (System-wide Monitoring Program – SWMP)

• Formal/Informal Education Programs– Student and public programs– K-12 professional development– Curriculum development– Grad and undergrad students

COSEE-MA (Eric Simms, Mike Newman)

• Education Products– Cool Classroom, COOLroom– CIESE/Stevens web-based lessons (Gulf Stream Voyage)– “Taking the Pulse of Our Ocean Planet” – curriculum and training– COSEE-MA web site– Striper Tracker web site

• Scientists Engagers Workgroup– Collaborative effort with COSEE-CA and COSEE-NE

• Resources– Established relationships with observatory scientists– Extensive program evaluation

Center for Environmental Visualization – U of WA (Mark Stoermer)

• User interface design and development– Web services – Data management– Graphic arts– Graphic programming– Scientific visualization– Collaboration and networking

• Education related to NEPTUNE and visualization of NE Pacific

• Integration of observations and simulations

• Prototyping marine exploration games

• 3-D presentation software

E.A.R.T.H. Educators: What can earth do for you?(Jen Magnuson)

• We are your link to education reality; we are primary consumers

• We develop curriculum (if we don’t like it, we won’t use it)

• We reach a wider audience

• We are your source of feedback– Beta testers– Pilot group

• We are a very diverse group with respect to geography, age-level, background – represent K-12+

• We bring resources home to our regions/districts

• We are an influential resource

• We are in tune with our students’ interests & abilities

Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Sharon Franks, Cheryl Peach)

• Links to a large and diverse segment of the scientific and technical community (SCCOOS = 11 institutions)

• Affiliation with COSEE-CA (incl. CA Sea Grant)– Links to stakeholders in scientific community

• EarthGuide – a facility for creating web-based, interactive educational products

• SIO Visualization Center

• ISE partners– Birch Aquarium @ Scripps– Ocean Institute, Dana Point

• SCCOOS product in development:– “Water and Weather”, web-based resources, curriculum, and science kits for 5 th

grade

NOAA (Carrie McDougal)

• Data – streaming and archived

• Data products (not just raw data, but value-added)– More integration– More user friendly

• Models

• Data visualization tools

• Funding for IOOS and IOOS-Edu

• National Promotion and Dissemination of Efforts

• Connection to national and international efforts

• Ability to make or leverage large-scale national partnerships

• Improved access to data and products

• Increased density of observation platforms

Northeast Regional Association (Amy Cline, Annette de Cheron)

• Regional Assets

– Numerous and diverse organizations tied to ocean research (Bigelow, COOA-UNH, GoMOOS, WHOI, NMFS, UMAINE, GMRI,…)

– Long history of direct dependence on ocean resources

– Geographic significance (GoM partners collaborate and have for decades – Canada, NB, NS, ME, MA, NH, VT)

– Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System(GoMOOS)• Est. 2001 – pre-operational since 2001

• 10 buoys around GoM

• Accessed via web site

• User driven

• Non-profit model – Board of Directors

• Test bed for data accessible pilot projects

Northeast Regional Association (Amy Cline, Annette de Cheron)

• Educational Assets

– Many “educ/outreach(ers)” working on ocean science in the region

– Rural nature has fostered working “cyber”-relationships and delivery of digital educational products (i.e., Maine laptop program)

– Experienced ocean education resource developers who work directly with ocean scientists

– Educational ocean-based products (filed tested via workshops, personal connections with local/regional educators, etc.)

• CDs

• Lesson plans-EET

• Teacher trainings

• Web tools

• Data access

National Estuarine Research Reserve Association (Tom Gaskill, Atziri Ibanez, Kenton Parker, Sarah Davies, Eric Simms)

• 26 reserves in the national system

• System-Wide Monitoring Program– Measures long-term change and short-term variability of estuarine ecosystems –

existed for 10 years– Parameters collected – water quality every 15 minutes (pH, salinity, temp, DO,

turbidity, water level, Chl A), nutrients, weather– Provides concepts and stories

• Human Capital– Program players: scientists, educators, land stewards, managers– Program types: Coastal Training Program, education field and classroom

programs, K-12 materials/curricula, K-12 professional development

• NERRS sites as place-based learning opportunities– Provide direct and field-based learning experiences for audiences– Estuaries as the land-sea connection

Alaska Sea Life Center/AOOS

• Alaska is small, so we can find the right people

• Ocean Observing System– Prince William Sound– Arctic Ocean– Bering Sea

• ASLC– Biological data on endangered species, including tracking