COSEE Alaska: People, Oceans and Climate Change

在阿拉斯加建立卓越海洋科学教育中心（COSEE）提供了一个独特的机会，可以利用国际极地年对北极的关注、阿拉斯加目前正在进行的丰富的海洋和气候变化研究，以及阿拉斯加土著居民固有的丰富的当地和传统知识。正如设想的那样，COSEE阿拉斯加将是一个由基础设施、教育工具、文化背景和科学互动组成的凝聚力系统，用于促进海洋知识普及，并展示沿海气候变化影响与人类活动之间的联系。为了实现这一愿景，COSEE阿拉斯加将在阿拉斯加建立一个由科学家和教育工作者组成的网络，致力于开展以海洋和沿海生态系统以及经历海洋气候变化影响的社区为重点的活动，并与COSEE网络和全国分享结果。这些活动将实现五个目标：b[1]加强海洋科学家、教育工作者、学生和阿拉斯加及全国沿海社区之间的合作与互动，重点关注海洋气候变化；[2]提供工具和服务，帮助海洋科学家有效参与以海洋气候变化和海洋素养为重点的教育和宣传活动；[3]提高教师的能力，将海洋气候变化信息和“实地”知识纳入现有课程；[4]增加代表性不足和服务不足人口获得和参与海洋科学的机会；增加和扩大对阿拉斯加和全国受众，包括COSEE网络的海洋科学和海洋气候变化传统知识的交流。通过COSEE阿拉斯加，我们提供培训、教育机会、外联和科学工具，以整合阿拉斯加沿海人民和有关海洋气候变化的科学界的知识。COSEE不仅向公众提供气候变化如何影响美国北极的认识，而且还向沿海社区提供有关全球尝试研究和减轻变化影响的信息。通过与其他COSEE和COSEE网络（面向教育工作者的海洋气候变化门户网站）的伙伴关系、远程学习技术的使用以及针对阿拉斯加游客的非正式教育活动，COSEE阿拉斯加将扩大其影响，远远超出阿拉斯加人口。

Establishing a Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence (COSEE) in Alaska provides a unique opportunity to capitalize on the International Polar Year's spotlight on the Arctic, the wealth of ocean and climate change research currently underway in Alaska, as well as the richness of Alaska's local and traditional knowledge inherent in its indigenous populations. As envisioned, COSEE Alaska will be a cohesive system of infrastructure, educational tools, cultural context, and scientific interactions used to further an ocean literate populace as well as demonstrate the link between the impacts of coastal climate change and human activity. To achieve this vision, COSEE Alaska will create a network of scientists and educators in Alaska dedicated to developing activities that focus on ocean and coastal ecosystems and communities experiencing the impacts of ocean climate change and to sharing results with the COSEE network, and the nation. These activities will address a suite of five objectives: [1] Increase collaboration and interaction among ocean scientists, educators, students, and coastal communities in Alaska and the nation with an emphasis on ocean climate change; [2] Provide tools and services to help ocean scientists effectively participate in education and outreach with a focus on ocean climate change and ocean literacy; [3] Enhance teacher capabilities for incorporating ocean climate change information and "place-based" knowledge into existing curricula; [4] Increase access to and participation in ocean sciences by underrepresented and underserved populations; and [5] Increase and broaden communication about ocean science and traditional knowledge of ocean climate change to audiences in Alaska and the nation, including the COSEE network. Through COSEE Alaska, we provide the training, educational opportunities, outreach, and scientific tools to integrate knowledge from both the peoples of coastal Alaska and the scientific communities concerned with ocean climate change. COSEE not only provides to the public the awareness of how climate change is already impacting the U.S. arctic, but also provides back to coastal communities information on the global attempts to study and mitigate the impacts of change. Through its partnerships with other COSEEs and the COSEE Network, its ocean climate change web portal for educators, use of distance learning techniques, and informal education activities for Alaska tourists, COSEE Alaska will broaden its impact far beyond the Alaska population.