The Pacific Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence -COSEE Pacific

COSEE太平洋伙伴关系是西部海洋实验室协会、太平洋社区学院和非正式科学教育机构成员之间的区域合作。合作的主要目标是将海洋研究和教育结合起来，为传统上对海洋了解有限的受众提供教育。该项目将在海洋实验室建立五个伙伴关系（俄勒冈州大学海洋生物学研究所、俄勒冈州州立大学哈特菲尔德海洋科学中心、洪堡州立大学海洋实验室、加州、凯瓦洛海洋实验室、夏威夷大学和西华盛顿大学香农角海洋中心）。每个海洋实验室将与一个或多个社区学院和非正式科学教育机构合作，采取一系列行动，以促进海洋教育。COSEE伙伴关系将开发一些示范活动，增加社区学院教师的教育和专业发展机会，这反过来又将提高社区学院学生的海洋素养和职业潜力。这些活动包括教师在海洋实验室进行研究和推广的机会，旨在增加社区学院海洋素养机会的课程，以及社区学院学生的实习和职业信息。这些伙伴关系将扩大海洋实验室科学家在教育和宣传方面的作用，提供讲习班，向科学家展示如何有效地向普通受众传播他们的研究成果。COSEE太平洋伙伴关系将通过与海洋实验室科学家，海洋赠款人员和社区学院教师合作，为非正式科学教育专业人员和志愿者开发海洋扫盲方面的多层次教育和专业发展机会。这些机会将包括为非正式科学教育专业人员提供的正式证书课程，以及为非正式科学教育志愿者和工作人员提供的沿海自然主义硕士课程。

COSEE Pacific Partnerships is a regional collaboration among members of the Western Association of Marine Laboratories, Pacific community colleges, and informal science education institutions. The primary goal of the collaboration is to integrate marine research and education for audiences that traditionally have had limited access to an understanding of the ocean. The project will develop five partnerships based at marine labs (the University of Oregon's Institute of Marine Biology, Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center, Humboldt State University Marine Laboratory, California, the Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii and Western Washington University's Shannon Point Marine Center). Each marine lab will partner with one or more community colleges and informal science education institutions to undertake a series of actions to promote ocean education. The COSEE partnerships will develop a number of model activities that increase educational and professional development opportunities for community college faculty, which in turn will improve the ocean literacy and career potentials of community college students. These activities include opportunities for faculty to conduct research and outreach at marine labs, courses designed to increase opportunities for ocean literacy at community colleges, and internships and career information for community college students. The partnerships will expand the role of marine-lab scientists in education and outreach by providing workshops that show scientists how to communicate their research results to a general audience effectively. COSEE Pacific Partnerships will develop multilevel educational and professional development opportunities in ocean literacy for informal science education professionals and volunteers by working with marine lab scientists, Sea Grant personnel, and community college faculty. These opportunities will include formal certificate-based programs for informal science education professionals and a Master Coastal Naturalist program for informal science education volunteers and staff.