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| New on COSEE.net |
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| A new feature on COSEE.net (and all CMS-based Center sites) is the ability to post blogs, including additional multimedia and links. Center blogs are automatically posted to COSEE.net, and the most recent blog entries are featured on the COSEE.net homepage. This aggregation of blogs will give visitors to COSEE.net a snapshot of what is going on in the Network, and also serves to highlight the diversity of voices in the COSEE community. To learn more about the COSEE blogs, and using blogs in general, you are invited to join the ENTs-hosted webinar on September 16. (Details in the ENTs updates section below.) |
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COSEE and IOOS There are eleven Regional Ocean Observing Systems (OOS) around the country, and several COSEE Centers have formed successful collaborations with their Regional OOS. This month read about the variety of ways that West Coast COSEE Centers have found to interact with these partners. [more]
Community Meeting The COSEE Network is hosting a Community Meeting to Envision the Next Decade, November 3-4, 2010, Washington, DC. Visit online for the meeting announcement and application. |
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| Working Group Updates |
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Scientist Engagement Working Group The SEW-G is pleased to announce that the case study of Dr. Carrie Thomas (COSEE SouthEast, North Carolina State University) has been approved and can be viewed on COSEE.net. The production team is now working on the Case Study of Dr. Rick Keil (COSEE Ocean Learning Systems, University of Washington) and has an October visit scheduled with Dr. Adina Payton (COSEE California, University of California, Santa Barbara). Questions and comments about SEW-G and the case study project are welcome. Contact SEW-G Chair Jessie Kastler.
ENTS Sub-Group The Excellence in Networking Tools Sub-Group (ENTs) is developing Network-wide training webinars. The next webinar, focusing on blogs, will be held Thursday September 16. If you have interest in joining the webinar please contact one of the ENTs co-chairs (see below). The first ENTs-led webinar (demonstrating online presentation tools) is archived and available on the ENTs Online Tools Guidebook. The Network is encouraged to propose additional requests for training. Submissions for the Tools That Work collection are also welcome. For more information contact ENTs co-chairs Catherine Cramer and Carla Companion.
Web Working Group This month's meeting saw the debut of the Blog display on the home page of COSEE.net. Located below the feature rotator, the blog box will display nuggets from the three most recent blogs submitted by Center staff, with links to the full blogs appearing here. The WWG also ironed out how the resource module should work. For more information, contact Annette deCharon, WWG Chair. |
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| CCO Update |
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| The Central Coordinating Office (CCO) continues to make preparations for the upcoming Evaluators' Workshop and Best Practices Work Session. The Evaluators' Workshop will take place from September 21-23, and the Best Practices Work Session will be from September 23-25. At the end of September, the CCO will be present at the annual SACNAS conference in Anaheim, CA. For more information contact Romy Pizziconi. |
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| COSEE at Conferences |
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The COSEE Network will be well-represented at several upcoming conferences:
MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2010 (September 20 – 23, 2010, Seattle, WA) Many thanks to COSEE Ocean Learning Communities for their efforts in the development and support of the upcoming MTS/IEEE OCEANS conference and associated Teacher Professional Development Day being held on Saturday, September 18, 2010. The workshop is at capacity with a waiting list. Participating teachers will learn about various technologies used to monitor the ocean, including the use of ROVs through the MATE ROV program and sensor technologies and observatories through a sensor building workshop. In addition, participants will receive COSEE Network information.
SACNAS (Sept. 30 – Oct. 3, 2010, Anaheim, CA) In preparation for the upcoming SACNAS (Society for Advancing Hispanics/Chicanos and Native Americans in Science) Conference, we would like to prepare a hand-out describing opportunities for students that are available through the COSEE Network. In addition, COSEE is co-hosting a science session and a professional development session, and we will be occupying a booth on the exhibit floor with a prime location. The COSEE Network will have a strong presence at this conference; we would like to share as many COSEE opportunities as possible with these aspiring scientists and engineers. Please send along any internship, scholarship, or other student-related opportunities your COSEE might offer or is linked with to Liesl Hotaling by Friday, September 24, 2010.
AGU Fall Meeting 2010 (December 13 – 17, 2010, San Francisco, CA) If you are attending the AGU Fall Meeting, please consider attending the COSEE themed sessions.
ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting (February 13 – 18, 2011, San Juan, Puerto Rico) Please consider submitting an abstract and/or encouraging your students to submit an abstract to the ASLO meeting. And remember, you are allowed to submit a second abstract if it is an education abstract. Abstracts are due October 11, 2010. Click here for sessions. |
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| Ocean Hall Update |
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| Smithsonian/COSEE Lecture Series For the second installment of the Smithsonian/COSEE ocean science lecture series, Changing Tides, Dr. Isaac Ginis, professor of Oceanography at University of Rhode Island, will discuss how we observe, model and forecast hurricanes around the world in Eye on the Storm: Predicting a Hurricane's Path of Destruction (Thursday, October 7, 6:00 PM). Free and open to the public. Changing Tides is an ongoing series of public talks by top ocean scientists about current research and how it is helping to change the tide in ocean science and conservation. The series is co-sponsored by COSEE. |
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| Announcements |
Scientists Find Changes to Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone NOAA-supported scientists have found this year's Gulf of Mexico dead zone to be the fifth largest on record at 7,722 square miles, an area the size of New Jersey and near the upper limit of their projections. However, tropical storm activity in the Gulf of Mexico caused the zone to be a patchwork rather than a continuous band. This year's dead zone is nearly double that of 2009, which was smaller than average. A series of storms and high wind and wave conditions in the shallower waters to the west of the Atchafalaya River delta mixed oxygen into the traditional dead zone area before last year's survey cruise. Last year's dead zone measured approximately 3,000 square miles. For more information see the NOAA News Release.
Oil Spill Plume Detected Scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) detected a plume of hydrocarbons at least 22 miles long and more than 3,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, a residue of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. [more]. |
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| Center News |
COSEE Alaska New calendar items, news items, and featured resources have been posted to the SEANET site.
COSEE NOW New on the COSEE NOW website: Oil Spill resources. This series of informational Power Point presentations (available for download so that they can be adapted) and hands-on lessons focuses on eight main topics: Oil in our lives, Drilling in the ocean, Help from ROVs, Trouble in the Gulf, Following the oil with OOS, Scientific research, Environmental clean-up, and Oil in History. In addition, Antarctica melting: A story in 4 acts is a four-part audio slideshow series (with an accompanying lesson plan) on the role that global climate change has had in transforming the Antarctic ecosystem, as seen through the eyes of three scientists.
COSEE Coastal Trends Check out the Scientist-Educator Partnership Team blog.
COSEE Central Gulf of Mexico Information on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is now available on the CGOM website. In addition, a team from COSEE CGOM is working quickly with Mississippi Public Broadcasting to produce three hour-long broadcasts and a website in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The first broadcast was Tuesday, August 31; it featured four Mississippi scientists discussing issues related to dispersants and fisheries species health. The next broadcast, scheduled for September 30, 2010, will feature Louisiana scientists and their views on the recovery of impacted habitats. Extended versions of the interviews produced for the broadcast are available on the website, along with specific questions asked by users with responses, a blog, and an annotated list of particularly useful websites. Questions may also be submitted on the website. If you know of a scientist studying the oil spill who has a message to share, contact Jessie Kastler.
COSEE Great Lakes Check out blogs from the Lake Ontario Exploration Workshop and Tropical Marine Ecology.
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COSEE Ocean Systems Our popular supplement to Oceanography magazine - Teaching Physical Concepts in Oceanography: An Inquiry Based Approach, written by UMaine faculty with funding from COSEE Ocean Systems - has now been translated into Spanish, French, and Catalan. In addition, videos showing how to run 15 of the lab exercises associated with this booklet are now available on our website.
Ocean Systems has been using the newly-launched COSEE blog on their site to follow up with recent webinars featuring research scientists. After scientists present in a webinar, the blog is used for scientists to answer additional questions, for educators to give feedback, and as a forum for posting resources and sharing additional information on the topics discussed. The next several webinars are currently being scheduled through November and will be open to a national audience of educators.
COSEE New England The New England Ocean Science Education Collaborative (NEOSEC) announces its bi-annual Ocean Literacy Summit, which will take place November 11-13 at the University of New Hampshire. Details and registration available here. In addition, check out the NEwswave blog, updated daily with information about ocean science education in New England.
COSEE Ocean Learning Communities On August 10 COSEE OLC and the Seattle Aquarium’s Beach Naturalist Program co-hosted Celebrating Summer and Ocean Science II in the aquarium’s Puget Sound Great Hall. Over 150 leaders and volunteers of marine-based organizations, ocean/marine scientists, learning scientists and their families participated.
The evening program included presentations from three scientists on the topics of: Won't you be my neighbor? A friendly guide to marine population connectivity; Caring identities as agents of change: Lessons from the Seattle Aquarium Beach Naturalist program; and Oceanic variations in Puget Sound: El Niño, ocean acidification and more. The presentations were followed by an opportunity for participants to network with each other and to engage with the scientists about their research via an informal question and answer period. A concurrent children’s program was provided by Seattle Aquarium education staff. [Photo: Jonathan Kellogg, UW School of Oceanography graduate student, presenting on oceanic variations in Puget Sound] |
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| Publications |
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Census of Marine Life Census of Marine Life scientists released an inventory of species distribution and diversity in key global ocean areas, published in August 2010. Scientists combined information collected over centuries with data obtained during the decade-long Census to create a roll call of species in 25 biologically representative regions, from the Antarctic through temperate and tropical seas to the Arctic. Their papers help set a baseline for measuring changes that humanity and nature will cause.
The recent Census papers were published as a collection entitled Marine Biodiversity and Biogeography — Regional Comparisons of Global Issues in the Public Library of Science. The PLoS collection includes Overview of Marine Biodiversity in United States Waters by Daphne Fautin et al. In addition, global biodiversity maps and links to more Census research that appeared in Nature (July 28, 2010) can be found in the Wired Science article Warming of Oceans Will Reduce and Rearrange Marine Life.
Draft Report on Attaining Operational Marine Biodiversity Observations Network Available for Review and Comment The Biodiversity Ad Hoc Group of the Interagency Working Group on Ocean Partnerships (IWG-OP) hosted a workshop on Attaining Operational Marine Biodiversity Observations in May 2010 in Washington, DC. The workshop was held at the Consortium for Ocean Leadership and was attended by more than 35 experts in the marine science field. The goal of the workshop was to determine the status of current marine biodiversity observational capabilities and to scope future solutions to operationally monitor the status and trends of biodiversity.
The steering committee has completed the draft report from the workshop, which includes seven recommendations and case studies for implementing a national marine Biodiversity Observing Network (BON). The report is available for review and comment through November 19, 2010. The steering committee encourages input from the scientific and policy community on the draft report. A final report is expected in January 2011. For further information on the workshop or report, contact hgoodwin@oceanleadership.org.
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Contribute to CNN! Send news and announcements of interest to the COSEE Network community to the editor, Catherine Cramer.
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| COSEE Centers and Council Representatives |
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| COSEE-Alaska (Nora Deans, North Pacific Research Board) |
| COSEE-California (Craig Strang, UC Berkeley) |
| COSEE-Central Gulf of Mexico (Sharon Walker, Institute for Marine Mammal Studies) |
| COSEE-Coastal Trends (Laura Murray, U of Maryland Center for Environmental Science) |
| COSEE-Great Lakes (Rosanne Fortner, Ohio State University) |
| COSEE-Networked Ocean World World (Janice McDonnell, Rutgers University) |
| COSEE-New England (Billy Spitzer, New England Aquarium) |
| COSEE-Ocean Learning Communities (Phil Bell, University of Washington) |
| COSEE-Ocean Systems (Annette deCharon, Darling Marine Center, University of Maine) |
| COSEE-Pacific Partnerships (Jan Hodder, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology) |
| COSEE-SouthEast (Lundie Spence, South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium) |
| COSEE-West (Linda Duguay, University of Southern California) |
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