David Amidon (TAS, 2017) and his students from Lafayette, NY connected with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Corps Officer, Lieutenant Cherisa Friedlander and Sabrina Shemet, all the way on the South Pole, during a videoconference on September 19, 2018.… [Read more]
Sue Cullumber (TAS, 2013), recently attended the marine science conference, MarCuba 10th Congress of Marine Sciences, in Havana, Cuba. The conference was held at the convention center during the week of October 15, 2018 and was represented by 18 different… [Read more]
NOAA’s Southeast Region Teacher at Sea Alumni (SE TASA) Workshop was held on May 18-20, 2018 in Charleston, South Carolina. Fourteen Teacher at Sea Alumni (TASA) from the region (KY, FL, GA, NC, and SC) attended this two-and-a-half-day professional development… [Read more]
To commemorate 50 years of service by NOAA ships Fairweather and Rainier, NOAA hosted a ceremony and public ship tours at the Marine Operations Center – Pacific (MOC-P) in Newport, Oregon on March 22, 2018. Rainier and Fairweather are… [Read more]
NOAA’s Pacific Southwest Region Teacher at Sea Alumni (PSWTASA) Workshop was held on November 17- 19, 2017 in La Jolla, CA at NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC). Thirty-two Teacher at Sea Alumni (TASA) from… [Read more]
To commemorate the 50 years of service of NOAA Ship Oregon II, NOAA Fisheries Mississippi Laboratories, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, hosted an open house on October 5, 2017, followed by a dockside celebration where NOAA Ship Oregon II was… [Read more]
Karen Grady (TAS 2017) and Kristin Hannan, a Fishery Biologist from NOAA’s Southeast Fisheries Science Center shared shark jaws, vertebrae, and other specimens with an excited crowd at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History "Expert is In" event… [Read more]
The annual National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) National Conference: Sun, Surf, and Science was held in Los Angeles, California from March 30, 2017 – April 2, 2017. Teacher at Sea Alumni (TASA) came together to support NOAA’s Office of… [Read more]
NOAA’s Pacific Northwest Region Teacher at Sea Alumni (PNW TASA) Workshop was held on November 4-6, 2016, in Seattle, WA at NOAA’s Western Regional Center Sand Point Facility. Eighteen Teacher at Sea Alumni (TASA) from the region (WA, OR,… [Read more]
NOAA’s Teacher at Sea Program alumna, Cristina Veresan (TAS 2015), and NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) Research Fisheries Biologist, Denise McKelvey, helped celebrate World Ocean Day on June 4, 2016 at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s… [Read more]