We are thrilled to share that Ashley Cosme (TAS, 2018) has been selected as a 2026 Science Communication Fellow with Ocean Exploration Trust (OET) and will sail this summer aboard the E/V Nautilus as… [Read more]
We are thrilled to celebrate alum Sam Garson (TAS, 2024), a science and industrial technology teacher at Friday Harbor High School in Washington State, for being named a winner of the 2025 Harbor Freight Tools for… [Read more]
Tiffany Risch, who sailed aboard the NOAA Ship Delaware II in 2008, has been named a 2025 Rhode Island STEAM Educator Award recipient. The award recognizes one outstanding educator at the elementary (K–5), middle (6–8),… [Read more]
Christopher Monsour, who sailed around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands on the NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette in 2007, was just named 2026 Ohio Teacher of the Year! Currently a high school science teacher at Columbian High… [Read more]
Bhavna Rawal (TAS, ’12) is a Chemistry Instructor and professor at Lonestar Community College- CyFair in Houston, TX. She recently partnered with Dr. Kevin Arrigo from Stanford University on a Polar STEAM project titled Understanding the Massive… [Read more]
In 2022, Michael Gutiérrez sailed with the NOAA Teacher at Sea (TAS) program on a Pacific Hake survey on NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada off the Washington and Oregon coasts. As a 12th grade Environmental Science teacher… [Read more]
After having been accepted to sail in 2020 and delayed by the pandemic, Oktay Ince sailed with NOAA TAS in 2022 on a hydrographic survey of Lake Erie. Later that year, he was fortunate that… [Read more]
As we embark on our 35th year of Teacher at Sea, we are excited to announce a unique opportunity we seized to send a teacher to sea in January! TAS '25 Kiersten Newtoff, a biology… [Read more]
Dr. Ragupathy Kannan (TAS, 2019) received a 2024-2025 Fulbright Scholar award for his project, Citizen Science: Using e-Learning Platforms to Promote Biodiversity Awareness in Malaysia. This is his fourth Fulbright award! As a biology professor, his… [Read more]
It’s always wonderful to see TAS alumni continuing to engage with NOAA, even years after they sail. Recently, Mark Wolfgang (TAS, 2017) was a guest on the Planet NOAA Podcast. Mark teaches Biology and Zoology at Franklin… [Read more]
