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What is Earthwatch?

What is Earthwatch?. Earthwatch Institute offers teachers the experience to participate in field research projects Anyone can participate but there are stipends offered to teachers and educators. What is an Earthwatch Expedition?.

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What is Earthwatch?

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  1. What is Earthwatch? • Earthwatch Institute offers teachers the experience to participate in field research projects • Anyone can participate but there are stipends offered to teachers and educators

  2. What is an Earthwatch Expedition? • Teachers/Volunteers experience working with “Principal Investigators” or “PI’s” and a team of volunteers collecting primary source data • Earthwatch sends more than 600 teams of volunteers out into the field with more than 130 PI’s around the world to collect data during a two week period

  3. What is an Education Award? • The awards are based on a very competitive application process • Teachers/Volunteers are assigned to projects according to their skills, personal interests, and project needs

  4. Benefits and Outcomes • Professional Development • Research Skills • Scientific Knowledge • Curriculum Development • Resources/Materials • Network Opportunities

  5. Who can participate in Earthwatch? • K-12 Educators • Administrators • Public and private schools

  6. What you can do! • Complete an Earthwatch application • Send a 2-3 paragraph recommendation from a peer or supervisor • $20 application fee

  7. What are Earthwatch Fellows Responsibilities? • Complete a final report (4-6 pages) • Include 6-20 digital photographs • Include any press that you might have received with your report

  8. Why the Pantanal? • One of the largest wetlands in the world • One of the greatest concentrations of tropical wildlife • This includes:Hyacinth macaws Neotropical/Giant otters Toco Toucans Jabiru storks Rheas

  9. Hyacinth Macaw

  10. Neotropical Otter

  11. Giant Otter

  12. Toco Toucan

  13. Jabiru Storks

  14. Rheas

  15. …continued • The Pantanal is considered the “kidneys of the landscape” • Includes 4 major South American ecosystems: savannahs forests lakes rivers

  16. View from Above the Pantanal

  17. Preserving a way of life… • Earthwatch PI’s are trying to find a way that inhabitants and their culture don’t make too much of an impact on the flora and fauna within the Pantanal region • Teachers/Volunteers are needed to collect data so that policies for sustainable management and conservation of the Pantanal are developed and implemented

  18. Oecomys

  19. …continued • With only 300,000 people living in the region the impact still threatens conservation of the region • For example: burning/deforestation poaching chemical pollutants road construction damming the river systems

  20. Data Collection involves the following: • Trapping peccaries • Observing giant otters • “Focalizing” trees for birds and fruits

  21. Tools used in Data Collection • Digital photograph • Video • GPS units • Field notebooks • Measuring tape

  22. Looking for Otters

  23. What then? • Data is then downloaded into a Geographic Information System (GIS) such as Arcview and then displayed on a layout for review and interpretation

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