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04.27.2010 - Join the COSEE Alaska Regional Resource Directory
COSEE Alaska is creating a directory to link scientists seeking outreach and education opportunities with the educators and science outreach and media specialists who are their potential partners. The resource directory will be developed as an online, searchable database (with member access to protect the privacy of email addresses) and published as a hard-copy once a year for distribution at the Alaska Marine Science Symposium. MORE >> |
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04.22.2010 - The COSEE Manual for Science Camps, Fairs, and Projects provides “how to” informationfor organizing fairs and camps and hundreds of science fair project ideas focused on the challenge of dealing with accelerating change as the effects of a warming climate ripple through Alaska’s ocean ecosystems, watersheds, and communities.
Ocean science fairs are designed for the unique situation of Alaska's rural areas, where everyday life requires pragmatic scientific, and often traditional cultural knowledge, to survive and thrive. Ocean science fairs require that students not only engage in scientific inquiry but also in meaningful interactions with their culture or their community or both. MORE >> |
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11.23.2009 - COSEE Alaska will sponsor a workshop on Monday, January 18, on Communicating Ocean Science (8am - noon) and co-sponsors a workshop on Ocean Acidification (9am - noon). An organizational meeting of the SEANET group follows from noon - 1 pm. COSEE-sponsored symposium luncheon programs feature the National Ocean Sciences Bowl on Tuesday, January 19, and a presentation on Google Earth (Ocean) on Thursday, January 21. COSEE will sponsor a final workshop on Friday, January 22 (8 - 10:30am), a hands-on session placing content on Google Earth (Ocean) with Charlotte Vick, Google Earth content manager. More information has been posted to the calendar on http://oceanseanet.ning.com and on the symposium website http://www.alaskamarinescience.org. MORE >> |
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10.12.2009 - Join a network of ocean scientists, educators, and communicators involved in communicating about research in Alaska's seas! The goal of the group is to promote ocean and climate change literacy, sharing best practices, and integrating ocean science and local and traditional knowledge. Anyone can become a member by subscribing to the SEANET listserve or joining the SEANET group on the interactive Ocean SEANET networking site http://oceanseanet.ning.com. MORE >> |
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09.18.2009 - UBC marine mammal researcher Andrew Trites partnered with Tonia Kushin and her class of 4th and 5th grade teacher in St. Paul to involve them in his project studying the effects of nutrition on growth rates of fur seal pups. In May, the students visited the pups at the Vancouver Aquarium and had the science field trip of a lifetime. MORE >> |
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09.18.2009 - The winners of the first COSEE “ocean science fair” awards at the 2009 statewide science and engineering fair were high schoolers Taylor Everett and Grant Magdanz of Kotzebue for their project on sheefish feeding habits; middle schooler Kenesia Price from Unalaska for a project on water filtration and Hannah Joe from Mountain Village for a project on DNA of local berries; and elementary school student Sebastion Szweda-Mittlestadt of Girdwood for his project on the rates and effects of tides and the potential for tidal power. The awards came after the projects were judged on both their scientific content and their community and cultural relevance. The presence of these and 16 other ocean science projects at the statewide competition was the result of the efforts of the Alaska COSEE program. COSEE Alaska will provide planning assistance, support, and awards during the 2009/2010 school year. MORE >> |
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09.18.2009 - How do you predict weather, wind, and waves in one of the most complex marine environments in Alaska? Scientists from several universities, including the University of Alaska Fairbanks, NOAA, and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory will put their models to the test July 19 - August 3, 2009 in Prince William Sound. Mountainous surroundings, notoriously stormy seas, and a complex system of freshwater flows from the land interacting with flows between the Sound and the Gulf of Alaska through a narrow entrance have made modeling the Sound an enormous challenge. COSEE Alaska and COSEE-NOW assisted with outreach and education about this exciting scientific project. For preliminary results, see http://doc.aoos.org/newsletters/09.09_newsletter_web.pdf. MORE >> |
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08.21.2009 - The same things that make Alaska’s marine waters among the most productive in the world may also make them the most vulnerable to ocean acidification. According to new findings by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist, Alaska’s oceans are becoming increasingly acidic, which could damage Alaska’s king crab and salmon fisheries. MORE >> |
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02.27.2009 - Marilyn Sigman, a respected marine science educator from Homer, has been named marine education specialist for COSEE Alaskla, and the Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program. MORE >> |
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01.15.2009 - Alaska is the bellweather, the canary in the mine MORE >> |
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