Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence – SouthEast
North Carolina Marine Laboratories
South Carolina Marine Laboratories
Georgia Marine Laboratories
Beaufort
Laboratory
National Marine Fisheries Service
Pivers Island
Beaufort, NC 28516
www.shrimp.bea.nmfs.gov
- On Aug. 5, 2004, this laboratory hosted the Coral Reef Ed-ventures program which began five years ago as collaboration between Smith College of Massachusetts and Hol Chan Marine Reserve (HCMR) of San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, Belize, CA. Education and outreach is the main focus of the program as it is tailored to increase the children of San Pedro’s awareness in marine ecology, conservation, and preservation.
Department
of Marine, Earth & Atmospheric Science
North Carolina State University
P.O. Box 8208
Raleigh, NC 27695
CMAST
www.meas.ncsu.edu
Office Phone: (919) 515-3711
For more information on undergraduate programs contact:
Dr. Donna L. Wolcott
dqolcott@ncsu.edu
- CMAST offers a program with Carteret Community College
(CCC) for pre-university students to become involved in CMAST research
programs as part of their classes.
- CCC and NC State University were awarded two National
Science Foundation grants to encourage more community college students
to continue their education at a four-year institution.
- High school science teachers and honor students participate in the education cruises required in N.C. State University’s marine science curriculum for undergraduate and graduate students.
Institute
of Marine Sciences University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
3431 Arendell Street
Morehead City, NC 28557
www.marine.unc.edu/IMS.html
Phone: (252) 726-6841
Director: Rick Luettich
- For the past 4 years the institute has been collaborating
as part of a pan-university minority outreach program. This program
is entitled, "The Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate
Program (AGEP)" and it is presently funded out of NSF's Directorate
for Education and Human Resources in the Division of Human Resource
Development. The project is aimed at further increasing the number of
underrepresented minority students in 10 Ph.D. programs at UNC-CH. The
UNC Principle Investigator is Henry Frierson and the program is described
here. The 10 participating programs, of which Marine Sciences is one,
are listed at www.ibiblio.org/res/natural.php.
- During the past 4 years the Institute of Marine Sciences has hosted roughly 10 minority undergraduates for summer internships. The program has also helped support a current Native American Marine Sciences graduate student, as has the graduate school through the UNC system wide Native American Incentive Fellowship Program.
Duke
University Marine Laboratory
Duke University
135 Duke Marine Lab Road
Beaufort, NC 28516-9721, USA
www.nicholas.duke.edu/marinelab/
Phone: 252-504-7503
Unidentified as of 11/17/04
UNCW
Center for Marine Science
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Phone: 910-962-2301
www.uncwil.edu/cmsr/
Contact: Nancy Stevens
Email: stevensn@uncw.edu
Unidentified as of 11/17/04
Grice
Marine Laboratory
College of Charleston
205 Fort Johnson
Charleston, SC 29412
www.cofc.edu/~grice/
Phone: (843) 953-9200
- Grice Marine Lab offers a summer undergraduate research
programthat specifically targets minority students through the College
of Charleston (CofC) South Carolina Alliance for Minority Participation
program.
- Grice has also funded mentor research conducted
by three – five minority students this summer (2004) through SC
Department of Natural Resources, Medical University of SC, and the College
of Charleston.
- Additionally, this laboratory encourages minority
participation in their graduate and undergraduate programs at the Grice
Marine Lab and at Fort Johnson by sponsoring College of Charleston minority
research students as participants in the South Carolina DNR Undergraduate
Minority Program.
- Seminars are offered by Grice faculty on topics
such as "Surviving Graduate School" and "How to Choose
a Graduate School" are offered for a variety of audiences which
include underserved and underrepresented populations. The Graduate Program
in Marine Biology hosts visiting groups and gives talks about graduate
school at other institutions. Savannah State University, Armstrong Atlantic
State University, South Carolina State University and Coastal Carolina
University, all institutions with significant minority undergraduate
enrollments which are our primary targets in this effort.
- For three years, the Grice Marine Lab has hosted the undergraduate marine courses taught in the South Carolina State University NOAA funded summer minority science program. The Director of this program is Dr. Ambrose Anoruo. All or part of three courses were taught at the Grice Marine Laboratory and supported by the administration during Summer 2004.
Marine
Resources Division
Marine Research Institute
217 Ft. Johnson Road
Charleston, SC 29412-2559
Contact: Donnia Richardson
PO Box 12559
Charleston, SC 29422-2559
Phone: (843) 953-9151
- Minorities in Marine and Environmental Science Program provides research experiences for undergraduate minority students through its summer internship program. Students have the opportunity to conduct high quality research with dedicated scientists and learn new and exciting information about marine sciences. They also develop skills in scientific literature review, project development, data processing and analysis, report writing and oral presentation.
NOS
Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research
219 Fort Johnson Road
Charleston, SC 29412-9110
www.chbr.noaa.gov/
Phone: (843) 762-8500
- Scientists participate in many of the diversity programs offered at other institutions and agencies such as SC Department of Natural Resources, Medical University of SC, and the College of Charleston.
The
Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences
University of South Carolina
PO Box 1630
Georgetown, SC 29442
www.cas.sc.edu/baruch/
Phone: (843) 546-3623
- In past years, The Baruch Institute for Marine and
Coastal Sciences had grants from private foundations to support summer
undergraduate research assistantships for minority students.
- The institute has participated in coordinated efforts
by the Southern Association of Marine Laboratories to attract minority
students to marine science, and, over the years, we have had many African
American students working with researchers at the Baruch Marine Field
Laboratory (BMFL). One faculty member who is presently running an active
research program at the BMFL, Dr. Renae Brodie, has been especially
successful in bringing minority students to the Lab for summer research
experiences.
- The Baruch Institute and the North Inlet—Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve program which is housed at BMFL in Georgetown offer a variety of educational activities that provide information about coastal ecology and issues to audiences that traditionally are not exposed to this aspect of their communities and environment.
Coastal
Services Center
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
2234 Hobson Ave
Charleston, SC 79405
www.csc.noaa.gov/
Phone: (843) 740-1200
Unidentified as of 11/17/04
Medical
University of South Carolina
Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Sciences Center
221 Ft Johnson Rd., Charleston, SC 29412
www.musc.edu/mbes/home.htm
Unidentified as of 11/17/04
Marine
Extension Service, School of Marine Programs
University of Georgia
220 Marine Sciences Building
Athens, GA 30602
www.marsci.uga.edu/EXT/MAREX.htm
- As part of the summer camps offered with the School
of Marine Programs, there exists a program that uses funds generated
from local businesses and funding agencies to bring kids from the inner
city to attend several of the week long camps. For more information
contact Ms. Anne Lindsay Frick at lindsaya@uga.edu.
or 912-598-2355. It is currently in its 12th year lasting from Monday
to Friday, during June and July. Three sessions of camps bring 8 kids
(age 8-12, 13- 15) for a total of 24 students from the downtown Savannah
housing authorities. Students are actively engaged in collecting data,
trawling, and many other events.
- Another program is offered by the School of Marine
Program; it is an enrichment program brings 40 kids from seven different
housing authorities for one day in the field. It provides transportation
and lunch for the students as they study salt marsh environments.
- The School of Marine Studies has worked with the National Sea Grant Program to write a grant with faculty from Savannah State University for three years to fund a program which required teaching an Aquaculture Course to undergraduates and Graduate students at SSU. Interns were placed in Aquaculture facilities for summer internships. Five students were hired over the three year period which ended in 2003.
The
University of Georgia Marine Institute
Sapelo Island, GA 31327
www.uga.edu/ugami/
Phone: (912) 485-2221
Contact: Jon Garbisch
Educational Program Specialist
sapelo@uga.edu
Unidentified as of 11/17/04
Marine
Sciences Program, Savannah State University
P.O. Box 20467
Savannah, GA 31404
- Savannah State University’s “Collaboration
to Integrate Research and Education in Marine Sciences” is funded
by the National Science Foundation and it is designed around a vision
to establish a well-coordinated, long-term collaborative program integrating
research and education in marine and environmental science and biotechnology
at SSU and SkIO. It encourages African American participation in marine
science by providing an undergraduate curricular option in marine science,
environmental science, and biotechnology.
- Living Marine Resource Collaborative Science Center
(NOAA/UMD-EasternShore)
The LMRCSC website is: http://www.umes.edu/osp/marine/.
Skidaway Institute Of Oceanography
10 Ocean Science Circle
Savannah, GA 31411
www.skio.peachnet.edu/
Phone: (912) 598-2400
Contact: Vicki Patrick
Email: info@skio.peachnet.edu
Skidaway offers two programs that work to provide bridges and opportunities for minority populations and works in conjunction with Savannah State University:
- “Collaboration to Integrate Research and Education
in Marine Sciences” program is described above as it is collaboration
with Savannah State University. For more information, visit http://www.skio.peachnet.edu/research/veritylab/cire.php
- BI-OMP program provides opportunities for underserved and underrepresented students to research the dynamics involved with bacteria’s utilization of NO3 in the oceans. For more information, visit http://www.skio.peachnet.edu/education/ssubiomp.php
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