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]
On May 10, 2016, NOAA Teacher at Sea Program Support Specialist and Fisheries Biologist, Emily Susko, visited James Monroe Elementary School in Everett, Washington, to speak to Barney Peterson’s (TAS 2006 and 2016) fourth-grade students. Ms. Peterson sailed on… [Read more]
Since her first research cruise with NOAA Teacher at Sea, Debra Brice (TAS 2003) continues to seek opportunities to experience science. She feels that her students need to have an appreciation for the value of science in their lives.… [Read more]
Dieuwertje (DJ) Kast (TAS, 2015) was selected for the 2016 Forbes “30 under 30” in science annual list for her Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) work with 3000 low income and minority students in the Los Angeles, California… [Read more]
A steady stream of awards and accomplishments continue to mount for Teacher at Sea alumna Laura Guertin (TAS 2014). She was one of 100 women selected to receive the National STEM Award. INSIGHT Into Diversity 2015 Inspiring Women in… [Read more]
Elizabeth Martz (TAS, 2007), Candice Autry (TAS, 2006) and June Teisan (TAS, 2015), were among 100 speakers at the 4th USA Science and Engineering Festival held at the Washington, D.C. Walter E. Washington Convention Center on April 16 and… [Read more]