This year, the Marine Mammal Protection Act is marking its 40th anniversary. Under the act, NOAA is responsible for responding to stranded and distressed marine mammals, including gray whales. Check out this video featuring Rebecca Kimport (TAS 2008) and… [Read more]
Caroline Singler (TAS 2010) received a local Massachusetts Foundation for Educators at Lincoln Sudbury (FELS) grant to travel with a colleague to Hawaii for two weeks this summer in order to study geological features of the Big Island. Caroline… [Read more]
Kevin Sullivan (TAS 2011) was awarded a Fulbright Classroom Teacher Exchange Program grant to the United Kingdom. He is currently in Glasgow, Scotland to participate in the one-year teaching exchange program. Kevin will be teaching biology at the Williamwood… [Read more]
John Taylor-Lehman (TAS 2011) Spends Time in Trinidad Studying Leatherback Turtles During the spring of 2012, representatives from the Earthwatch Institute, contacted John Taylor-Lehman (TAS 2011) and offered him the opportunity to be a facilitator for a student program… [Read more]
NOAA Teacher at Sea Alumni, Jennifer Goldner (TAS 2011) and Kaci Heins (TAS 2011), were two of fifteen teachers worldwide who were selected to attend Honeywell Educators Advanced Space Academy this summer in Huntsville, Alabama. They both had previously… [Read more]
Tiffany Risch (TAS 2008) from Rhode Island and Jillian Worssam (TAS 2008) from Arizona were selected to participate in the Maury Project from July 9 – July 20, 2012 at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. This… [Read more]
Rita Larson (TAS 2009) is a fifth-grade teacher at King Elementary School in Woodbridge, VA. She was aboard NOAA Ship Rainier for 18 days in August while scientists conducted hydrographic surveys to map the seafloor and coastline in Alaskan… [Read more]
Rita Larson (TAS 2009) is a fifth-grade teacher at King Elementary School in Woodbridge, VA. She was aboard NOAA Ship Rainier for 18 days in August while scientists conducted hydrographic surveys to map the seafloor and coastline in Alaskan… [Read more]
A group of sixth and seventh grade students at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington D.C. got a special visit from NOAA marine mammal biologist Dave Withrow on February 22, 2012. Rebecca Kimport (TAS 2010) welcomed Mr. Withrow… [Read more]
Dr. William B. Driggers and Kristin Hannan, research fisheries biologists with NOAA, visited NOAA Teacher at Sea Alumna, Jennifer Goldner and 150 fifth grade students at Jay Upper Elementary School in Jay, OK on May 9, 2012. Jennifer Goldner… [Read more]
