Blog
8 May
Monday morning and I’m back in the office once again, getting re-settled. Now is the time to capture the highlights of the meetings that occurred over the past two weeks while they are still fresh.
The meetings began at Rutgers University in New Jersey where we met with Scott Glenn and his team who have won the contract to develop the education and outreach tools that will be...
30 Apr
The second leg of the ONCCEE EPE team’s East Coast tour took us to the USA capitol, Washington DC. Walking about the city, we encountered magnificent white-marble monuments, historic figures and countless museums at almost every turn. The city is also home to a very special event – The USA Science and Engineering Festival. By coincidence, the EPE team just happened to stumble upon...
26 Apr
Author: Ellyn Davidson, Post-Secondary Education Developer
This third week of April, the Ocean Networks Canada Education team has spent time visiting with our counterparts within the Ocean Observing Initiative (OOI) based at Rutgers University in New Jersey. We were invited down to learn about their marine research programs, to see their labs, get a first hand look at their incredible...
18 Apr
Author: Ellyn Davidson, Post-Secondary Education Developer
One of the best workshops that I attended during the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Utah this past February was one that introduced an extremely useful online tool: CONCEPT MAPPING. I had heard educators and presenters rave about concept maps during the conference and thought “finally, by attending this workshop I will get a chance...
30 Mar
Author: Ellyn Davidson, Post-Secondary Education Developer
Have you ever wondered about those diamond patterns that the sunlight makes in a swimming pool? Or how deep a turtle dares to dive for food? Or what makes up the critical habitat of a Right Whale?
All of these fascinating questions and more were explored by students during the annual Conference of Dalhousie Oceanography Graduate...
5 Mar
Over the past few days, my team and I have been attending the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. About 4,000 people are here representing pretty much every discipline in this field. Sessions span physical oceanography to outreach and education. As might be expected, there are also many organizations present. One of which is the Ocean Observatory Initiative sponsored by the US...
2 Mar
6:30am – Wake up
7:00am – Eat a hardy breakfast
8:00am – 10:00am – Session 1
10:00am -10:30am – Break…OR…a short, but intensive meeting with other conference participants!
10:30am -12:30pm – Session 2
12:30pm – 2:30pm – Workshop…OR…a well deserved lunch and meeting
2:30pm -4:00pm – Session 3
4:00pm-6:00pm...
21 Feb
Authors: the ONCCEE Education and Outreach team: Rick, Natasha, Ellyn & Virginia
They came by the thousands, in all sorts of sizes, shapes and nationalities. Most were under three feet tall. They crowded around a table, clutching crayons in their tiny hands, applying reds, greens, purples, yellows, browns, blues, greys, oranges to drawings of rattail fish, sea stars, jellyfish, sea pigs,...
14 Feb
Author: Jeannette Bedard, ocean scientist
“Knowledge of the undersea topography lagged considerably behind our acquaintance with the landscape of the near side of the moon”
From The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson, in 1951
Putting an eyeball to a telescope's lens reveals intricate features of the lunar landscape facing us even though the moon orbits 400,000 km away (the...
30 Jan
Do you remember Grade 4? Do you remember absorbing amazing amounts of fun facts and retelling them to anyone who would listen?
Mid November I gave a presentation to forty-two Grade Four students about the marine habitats that VENUS and NEPTUNE Canada explore—from the extremely hot waters of deep-sea hydrothermal vents, to shallower coastal waters.
Interacting with young students was...
