While aboard NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter in June 2013, Sue Cullumber (TAS 2013) launched a Global Drifter Buoy (GDB) off the coast of New Jersey. That buoy has now traveled 528 nautical miles. You can track all the drifters… [Read more]
After returning from her Teacher at Sea (TAS) cruise in 2012, Kathleen DeLussey, wasted no time sharing her experience with her third-grade students. In September 2012, Ms. DeLussey created a project, “Teacher at Sea—Third Graders Learning and Loving Oceans”,… [Read more]
Amanda Peretich (TAS 2012) was one of twenty teachers selected as a participant in the 2013 Siemens Science Teachers as Researchers (STARs) Program at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL) in July. After two weeks of research immersion at… [Read more]
Susie Hill (2007), Nauticus Education Specialist and NOAA Teacher at Sea '07, and her "Explore the Bay” Summer Campers had the field trip of a lifetime at the NOAA Headquarters in Norfolk, VA on August 6, 2013. The six… [Read more]
Jennifer Goldner, a fifth-grade math teacher at Jay Public Upper Elementary School in Jay, OK, was aboard the NOAA ship Oregon II in August 2011 Scientists conducted a shark longline survey in the Southern Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf… [Read more]
The House Ocean Caucus invited NOAA Teacher at Sea alumni Michele Brustolon (TAS 2010) and Allan Phipps (TAS 2012) to the United States Capitol Building in Washington D.C. on July 11, 2013, to speak at a briefing titled “NOAA… [Read more]
Staci DeSchryver (TAS 2011), an earth science teacher at Cherokee Trail High School in Aurora, CO was aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson while scientists conducted Fisheries research off the coast of Alaska. Below Basic: Ocean Acidification and Its… [Read more]
NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center’s (AFSC) Science and Research Director, Dr. Douglas DeMaster, recently expressed his support for the NOAA Teacher at Sea (TAS) Program. In his letter, he explains that over the last 21 years, NOAA science benefits… [Read more]
NOAA Teacher at Sea alumna, Elizabeth Bullock’s (TAS 2011) fifth grade students at Green Acres School in Rockville, MD had a special visit from NOAA Corps Officer, LT Wendy Lewis on Tuesday, June 4. Ms. Bullock’s students constructed boats… [Read more]
Andrea Schmuttermair (TAS 2012) was aboard NOAA Ship Oregon II during a SEAMAP Summer Ground Fish Survey. While on her research cruise, Ms. Schmuttermair learned about NOAA Careers during an interview with one of the junior NOAA Corps officers.… [Read more]
