Steven Frantz (TAS, 2012) was aboard NOAA ship Oregon II’s 300th fishery and living marine resource missions during a shark longline survey in July 2012. During this research mission, Mr. Frantz learned about a variety of sharks and one… [Read more]
Britta Culbertson (TAS, 2013) participated in the 2014 Hurricane Awareness Tour on May 21 in New Orleans, LA and on May 22 in Tallahassee, FL. During the tour, NOAA’s Hurricane Hunter aircraft, a Lockheed WP-3D Orion, traveled to several… [Read more]
Artist Sydney Inouye beautifully painted, “The One Who Got Away” for the science crew of NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette. Sydney is a 2014 graduate of Mid-Pacific Institute in Honolulu, HI and one of Suzanne Acord’s (TAS, 2014) former… [Read more]
Nearly 1,700 finalists from around the world competed at Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in May 2014 in Los Angeles, CA. Finalists qualify for Intel ISEF by participating in local, regional, state, or national fairs associated with Society… [Read more]
NOAA Corps Officers LT Madeleine Adler and LTJG Aaron Colohan visited Green Acres School in Rockville, MD on June 9, 2014. Fifth grade students in Elizabeth Bullock’s class constructed boats out of at least 50% recycled materials and raced… [Read more]
NOAA scientists from NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (NMFS PIFSC) visited Suzanne Acord’s (TAS, 2014) ninth grade students at Mid-Pacific Institute in Honolulu, HI on May 15, 2014. The Chief Scientist, Dr. Don Kobayashi,… [Read more]
Dr. John Carlson, NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center research fishery biologist, and his team traveled to Andros, Bahamas in March 2014 to locate, tag and track one of the most endangered marine fish, the smalltooth sawfish. Elizabeth Eubanks (TAS… [Read more]
Candice Autry (TAS 2006) taught her seventh and eighth grade students at the Sheridan School in Washington DC several global concepts this year such as: climate change, sea level rise, population density, plate tectonics, and food vs feed. On… [Read more]
Elizabeth Martz (TAS 2007) and Steven King (TAS 2010) volunteered at the NOAA booth on April 26 and 27, 2014 during the third USA Science and Engineering Festival. The festival was held at the Washington DC Convention Center and… [Read more]
Britta Culbertson (TAS 2013) was aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson during a Walleye Pollock survey in September 2013. Her high school level lesson plan “Fishing for Information” has students examine large NOAA fisheries datasets and develop research questions based… [Read more]
