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]
Beth Lancaster, a 2008 NOAA Teacher at Sea Alumna, attended the commissioning of a state-of-the-art coastal mapping vessel, NOAA Ship Ferdinand R. Hassler, during a special ceremony at NOAA’s Marine Operations Center-Atlantic in Norfolk, VA on June 8, 2012.… [Read more]
A group of New England NOAA Teacher at Sea Alumni had the opportunity to work with a NOAA Northeast Fisheries physical oceanographer, Jim Manning, on May 19, 2012 during a two-day professional development workshop. Alumni learned about shallow ocean… [Read more]
A NOAA Northeast Region Teacher at Sea Alumni Workshop was held on May 19-20, 2012, in Woods Hole, MA at NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center and Woods Hole Aquarium. Nine Teacher at Sea alumni from the northeast region attended… [Read more]