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"Saranac Lake, Morning," Homer Dodge Martin, 1857

Coordinating and Catalyzing the Education Dialog. Kathleen Weathers Jude Apple Sue Ebanks Scott Ishman Michael Lemke Sarah Oktay Larry Weider. "Saranac Lake, Morning," Homer Dodge Martin, 1857. BIG PICTURE. Education is central to most FSML missions K-grey

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"Saranac Lake, Morning," Homer Dodge Martin, 1857

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  1. Coordinating and Catalyzing the Education Dialog Kathleen Weathers Jude Apple Sue Ebanks Scott Ishman Michael Lemke Sarah Oktay Larry Weider "Saranac Lake, Morning," Homer Dodge Martin, 1857

  2. BIG PICTURE • Education is central to most FSML missions • K-grey • There is great diversity in Education among FSMLs • We are in an era of profound change • Spatial temporal environmental systems • Technology • Global… everything • Connection to environmental systems • Role of science in life • What are the unique opportunities for FSMLs?

  3. OPPORTUNITIES • Workshop scientific foci • Change • Power of place-and inquiry-based • Network of FSMLs • Increasing need for collaboration • Transdisciplinary • ecology/biology/environmental science and rest of sciences • Arts and humanities • Education, research and resource management • Nature deficit disorder

  4. global local “The spatial and temporal complexity of ecological phenomena rewards a collaborative research approach” (Browne et al. 2011, BioScience) regional

  5. CHARGE:Education as a Cross-Cutting Theme • Explicit inclusion as part of workshop discussions • What is • What can be • Examples • How to get there

  6. Education: Cross Cutting Themes • What unique education opportunities? • Solving complex environmental problems • Learning how to collaborate • Advancing quantitative or environmental literacy • What programmatic/infrastructure most crucial to enhancing • What audiences most important? • How/whether extend local to global? • Role of natural history as an underpinning to science and education? • “Oh wow” stories/examples?

  7. DELIVERABLES • Report • Synthesis (this workshop) • And… Unsubmissive Plant 1961 Remedios Varo

  8. “But here’s the thing. The reason science really matters • runs deeper still. Science is a way of life. Science is a • perspective. Science is the process that takes us from • confusion to understanding in a manner that’s precise, • predictive and reliable—a transformation, for those • lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and • emotional. “ • Put a little science in your lifeBrian Greene, New York Times, 1 June 2008

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