COSEE: Education Aquanauts Educator Enhancement Collaboration

海洋科学教育卓越中心(COSEE)致力于促进研究科学家和教育工作者之间的伙伴关系，传播海洋科学教育的最佳做法，促进海洋教育成为一种富有魅力的跨学科工具，以培养一支更具科学素养的劳动力和公民队伍。提高公众对海洋及其在经济和环境考量中的重要性的认识的一种方式是通过加强教育工作者和以科学研究为基础的公众宣传活动。COSEE五大湖位于独特的位置，可以利用全球对淡水资源日益增长的关注。五大湖可能会对全球气候变化表现出更快的反应时间，下游湖泊较长的无冰期已经证明了这一点。五大湖也容易受到入侵物种表象的冲击，主要是通过圣劳伦斯海峡的航道。威斯康星州五大湖水产技术和环境研究(水)研究所的私人投资机构对密歇根湖生态系统动态的研究活动可以为支持COSEE，特别是COSEE五大湖的使命的研究教育合作提供一个理想的机会。在过去的十年里，超过六种动物物种入侵了五大湖上游，其中一些物种给大型湖泊生态系统造成了明确的、甚至是灾难性的变化。尤其是密歇根湖，为采样和了解入侵物种生态提供了容易获得的机会。这些问题在海洋环境中也很普遍，比较学习可能是令人兴奋的。COSEE五大湖为开发和传播令人兴奋的动手、互动的水生科学体验学习机会提供了完美的场所。该计划旨在为初中生教师和非正式的科学教育工作者提供令人兴奋的、沉浸式的科学学习和资源暴露。具体目标是：(1)提高教育工作者对外来物种在当地水域发生和活动的认识，以此作为介绍水生生态系统过程这一较大专题的手段；(2)利用研究船上的现代工具和实验室工作台上的分析仪器，让教育工作者参加为期一周的强化动手讲习班，以检验具体的、易于处理的假说；(3)协助东南欧和东南欧五大湖为教育工作者提供资源，使其能够获得本区域和国家当前的环境研究活动和成果。参与的科学教师主要服务于初中和高中观众，非正式的科学教育者将通过与COSEE五大湖的合作招聘，部分利用我们自己在Jason和其他外展项目中现有的坚实参与者基础。

The Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence (COSEE) seek to promote partnerships between research scientists and educators, disseminate best practices in ocean sciences education, and promote ocean education as a charismatic, interdisciplinary vehicle for creating a more scientifically literate workforce and citizenry. One way to increase public awareness of the oceans and their importance in economic and environmental considerations is through educator enhancement and public outreach activities based on scientific inquiry. COSEE Great Lakes is uniquely situated to take advantage of mounting global concern over freshwater resources. The Great Lakes may demonstrate faster response times to global climate change, as already evidenced by a longer ice-free season on the lower lakes. The Great Lakes have also been susceptible to an onslaught of invasive species appearances, predominantly through the shipping lanes of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Research activities on Lake Michigan ecosystem dynamics by the PIs at the Great Lakes Wisconsin Aquatic Technology and Environmental Research (WATER) Institute can provide an ideal opportunity for research education collaboration supporting the mission of COSEE, especially COSEE Great Lakes. During the last decade, more than half a dozen animal species have invaded the upper Great Lakes, some of them causing unequivocal and perhaps cataclysmic alterations in large lake ecosystems. Lake Michigan in particular provides readily accessible opportunities for sampling and understanding of invasive species ecology. These issues are widespread in marine environments as well, and comparative learning can be stimulating. COSEE Great Lakes provides the perfect venue for development and dissemination of exciting hands-on, interactive aquatic science experiential learning opportunities. This program seeks to provide exciting, immersion science learning and resource exposure for teachers of middle and high school students and informal science educators. Specific objectives are: (1) expand educator awareness of exotic species occurrence and activities in local waters as a means for introducing larger topics of aquatic ecosystem processes; (2) engage educators in 1-week, intense hands-on workshops using modern-day tools both onboard a research vessel and analytical instrumentation at the laboratory bench to test specific, tractable hypotheses; and (3) assist the COSEE Great Lakes in providing educators with resources to access current environmental research activities and results in their own region and nationally. Participating science teachers serving primarily middle and high school audiences, and informal science educators will be recruited through collaboration with COSEE Great Lakes, drawing in part upon our own substantial existing base of participants in JASON and other outreach programs.