Dr. Laura Guertin (TAS 2014) put a creative spin on charting the sea floor on June 17, 2015 during the Expert is In presentation at the Smithsonian National Institution of Natural History’s Q?rius Education Center. She introduced the concept… [Read more]
Megan O’Leary (TAS 2007) and Stacey Klimkosky (TAS 2009) from Truro Central School in Truro, Massachusetts, volunteered on June 7 and 8, 2015 at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s World Oceans Day Celebration. World Oceans Day is… [Read more]
TAS Alumni Explore Our World of Water at the National Marine Educators Association Conference Jackie Hams, (TAS, 2011) and Angela Greene, (TAS, 2014) volunteered at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) booth during the National Marine Educators Association (NMEA)… [Read more]
Barney Peterson (TAS 2006) and Her Students Raise and Release Thousands of Coho Salmon Barney Peterson and her fourth-grade students at Monroe Elementary School in Everett, WA, have been raising and releasing Coho Salmon fry for the last 14… [Read more]
A trip aboard NOAA Ship Pisces to study Deep-Water Coral opened a whole new world for Sue Zupko (TAS 2011 and 2014). She shared this “deep-sea world” with her students and their interest led to a Seven Seas Celebration… [Read more]
Angela Greene (TAS 2013) and her middle school students at Tecumseh Middle School in New Carlisle, OH, collect data in a pond ecosystem to determine the overall health of the pond through a series of water quality tests and… [Read more]
NOAA Teacher at Sea Stacey Klimkosky and scientist Grace Simpkins, a Match Made at Sea! Stacey Klimkosky (TAS 2009) and Grace Simpkins, project manager for the NOAA Outreach and Education on Protected Species NOEPS program, developed by NOAA’s Northeast… [Read more]
10 NOAA Teacher at Sea Alumni (TASA) volunteered March 12 – March 14, 2015 at the NOAA booth during the National Science Teachers Association Conference in Chicago. TASA distributed NOAA education materials and demonstrated hands-on ocean activities. They informed… [Read more]
Dr. Trey Driggers and Ms. Kristin Hannan, two NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Mississippi Labs Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) research fisheries biologists, visited Silver Spring, Maryland on February 6 and 7 to share their vast shark research… [Read more]
NOAA Teacher at Sea Alumni John Sammons (TAS 2005), Jill Stephens (TAS 2009), Dana Clark (TAS 2014), and Jennifer Fry (TAS 2009 and 2012) volunteered at regional science conferences in order to share their experiences at sea, inform the… [Read more]
