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Education

Education. Schoolyard COSEE/SINERR Undergraduate Graduate Courses Taxonomic database. Schoolyard. 2000-2008: >50 teachers, 113 teacher slots, impact on 11,278 students Continued participation Collaboration with UGA Marine Extension Service Leveraged funding . Schoolyard.

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Education

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  1. Education Schoolyard COSEE/SINERR Undergraduate Graduate Courses Taxonomic database

  2. Schoolyard 2000-2008: >50 teachers, 113 teacher slots, impact on 11,278 students Continued participation Collaboration with UGA Marine Extension Service Leveraged funding

  3. Schoolyard Time divided between research and application GCE PIs and students as mentors in field Paradigm shift: how science is done Presentations at national meetings Ken Leach, Halley Page and Patricia Hembree national awards

  4. Schoolyard Student wiki

  5. COSEE Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence National program for educators (NSF funded) Focused on ocean science Exploring partnerships for 2010 http://www.cosee.net/about/aboutcenters/coseese/

  6. SINERR 70,000 visits/y (residents, guests of residents, UGAMI, GCE, hunters, tour groups, etc.) Brochures at Visitor’s Center Daniel has given ~20 talks (45 min) to tour groups in last 2 y SINERR teacher training workshops often visit the marsh with GCE researchers Opportunity to do more by giving a script to the tour guides, more interpretive signs, etc. Schoolyard could help develop materials

  7. Undergraduate ~10 undergrads/year 7 US and 2 foreign institutions Several coauthors

  8. Graduate 22 students from 4 institutions 7 PhD and 3 MS finished in past 3 years

  9. Coursework Marine Biology (Moran and Alber, undergraduate)

  10. Fouling Community Study

  11. Coursework Biological Oceanography (Burd, undergraduate) uses GCE data Quantitative Methods (Burd, graduate) analyzes GCE data UGA Seminar (Meile, graduate), 5 GCE PI and 5 GCE graduate student talks, discussed LTER synthesis papers Functional Ecology (Pennings/NCEAS, 7-institution graduate), writing paper on GCE data

  12. Taxonomic database

  13. ~2,500 visitors to species pages in 2008~ 25,000 visitors since 2002Used by researchers, educators, general public

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