SEACOOS
South East Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing System, uses platforms, buoys, satellites and High Frequency Radar to gather information that provides better models of currents, winds, waves and temperature.

Educational lessons and posters can help teachers gets students involved with real time information. Check out the Community and Classroom website.

Ocean Literacy
Explore the national efforts to raise Ocean Literacy in the U.S. Join the charge

2008 Professional Development Opportunities

June 22-28, 2008 Ocean Sciences Education Leadership Institute,
Wilmington, NC
Undersea Research and Technology: Revealing the Deep
News Release (Word)
Application Form (Word)
Institute Agenda (Word)
General Information (Word)

2008 Coastal Legacy: Downhill Connections,
Charleston, SC
Focus on water quality, coastal development and healthy ecosystems
Coastal Legacy Flyer (PDF)
Coastal Legacy Flyer (PPT)
Application Packet (Word)

2008 Taking the Pulse of our Coastal Ocean,
Jacksonville, FL
2008 TPOCO Information (Word)
2008 TPOCO Application (Word)
2008 TPOCO Agenda (Word)

Exploring Plate Tectonics
Activities Outline (PDF file with links to lessons)

Highlights on Teachers

• Kathy Bosiak from NC participated in the 2006 Coastal Legacy workshop. This experience led to Kathy being the COSEE SE Ambassador to COSEE Great Lakes. She participated in Lake Huron workshop summer 200 at the Maritime Heritage Center of the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Alpena, MI
  
  Check out the news article and the COSEE Great Lakes workshop Blog. Steve Stewart, Michigan Sea Grant and a PI for COSEE Great Lakes, Kathy was indeed at the Lake Huron Workshop, was a great addition to the group. See our workshop blog for proof of participation.
  
  
• Dan Jax from Columbus, OH attended the COSEE SE Institute at Savannah where he built his own ROV, the MIT Sea Perch

• Karen Moyd and Jeff Graham join the "Bottoms Up" Research Cruise with Dr. William Savidge, SkIO. (Word doc.)
  Read the Greenville News article: 'Moyd's ocean adventures open eyes to research"
  View the PowerPoint (26MB), HTML version; Word document.
  
• Venetia Butler and Kelly Sears join the MARGINS research cruise to New Zealand with Dr. Clark Alexander, SkIO
  • View the PowerPoint as a resource for student activity
  • Source to Sink: MARGINS: Lesson Plan Based on the Research and using the power point presentation
  • Simulated Coring: Student Activity Guide based on Source to Sink
    
    
• Annie Baldwin was chosen from national applicants to accompany scientists from the The Skidaway Institute of Oceanography aboard a research vessel to explore iron's influence on phytoplankton growth at various depths.
  • Read this article from The Sun News, 'Carolina Forest science teacher takes to sea' (pdf)

2007 Professional Development Opportunities

2006 Professional Development Opportunities

2006 SEPORT

Student Opportunities

  Student Involvement with Action Projects
    • Marine Science Camp
    • Marine Clean-ups in North Carolina & South Carolina
    • Southeast Phytoplankton Monitoring Network
    • Ocean Science Careers

Teaching Resources
    • Teacher Resources
    • Lessons
        • Using Sound in Marine Research (Word doc.)
    • Marine Debris Education Power Point Presentation

The Maury Project

• The Maury Project Home Page  (http://www.ametsoc.org/amsedu/maury/)
• COSEE SE-Maury Project Extensions using coastal ocean observing information from SEACOOS
  • Ocean Tides Extension (Word doc.)
  • Wind Driven Circulation Extension (Word doc.)
• The Maury Project-COSEE SE-SEACOOS Development Workshop Report (Word doc.)

Educators at Sea (blog)

Kelly Sears, 2006 Ocean Sciences Education Leadership Institute participant, was the Teacher Aboard Dr. Clark Alexander from SkIO research cruise to New Zealand. Kelly just found out that her school was awared the Lowe's Toolbox for Education grant for $5000. She and her students are all very excited! They won't receive the package until mid June and will start working on the project in the fall. This is an off shoot of the New Zealand project in which the students helped write a grant to control erosion from a hill to a stream on our school property.

Kelly Sears, science teacher at Smith Middle School, Chapel Hill, NC, joined Dr. Clark Alexander from Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, November 2006 on a research cruise investigating continental margins off New Zealand. The research mission, the technology, and Kelly's experiences are revealed on her blogpage.

What’s value of Kelly Sears’s experience?  See how her ocean based experience transfer to an inland classroom:  UNIT PLAN. (Word)  

As Dr. Clark Alexander states, "There is no way we are going to get kids excited about the things we do as scientists unless someone can take it back to them while making the results meaningful and personal. That is the power of involving committed, in-service teachers on cruises and what Ms. Sears has done exceedingly well in her newly developed unit on erosion and deposition".

In order to learn more about the New Zealand research objectives, visit the following websites:

2005 cruise: http://coastal.geology.ecu.edu/nz/

MARGINS background information for the Waipaoa system: http://baby.indstate.edu/gomez/margins.html

And the background on which the research was planned for Waipaoa in 2003:  http://www.vims.edu/margins/finalreport.html

Connections
Would you like to learn more about professional organizations in your area and the national level that support the teaching and learning of coastal and ocean science? Check out "Connections" for more information.