Collaborative Research: COSEE: Ocean Communities in Education And social Networks (COSEE-OCEAN)

马萨诸塞州大学、美国湖沼学和海洋学学会（ASLO）、纽约科学馆和波士顿公立学校提议建立一个主题COSEE中心，这将大大扩大COSEE网络的影响。COSEE-OCEAN将利用现有的社会和专业关系，通过在ASLO年度会议上为海洋科学家提供专业发展讲习班，并将他们与COSEE网络外联活动联系起来，使海洋科学家战略性地参与教育和外联活动。COSEE-OCEAN将有效利用这些现有网络，扩大和加强COSEE与主流STEM正规和非正规教育社区之间的创新，经验，教育产品，专业发展模式和最佳实践的双向交流。我们的愿景是，在五年内，所有海洋科学家都将了解并获得COSEE网络内的教育和外联机会; COSEE网络将能够与全国STEM项目交流知识和资源;非正式教育机构将提高其解决公众海洋素养问题的能力;并将广泛传播在多样化的非沿海城市学区实施高质量海洋课程的模式。我们的目标是：1）让更多的海洋科学家参与COSEE网络提供的高质量教育和外展机会，2）向大型城市学区的不同受众提供高质量的海洋科学教材，特别是在非沿海国家，3）通过非正式科学教育机构和个人的网络促进海洋素养。COSEE-OCEAN的知识优势是从战略上加强现有网络之间的互动，以便在更广泛的背景下催化利用COSEE资源，并从网络的产出中获得能力，COSEE-OCEAN的目标是接触所有海洋科学家，针对城市学区中代表性不足的少数民族学生，有效地吸引非沿海国家的学生，并在现有教育网络之间建立联系。这一提议的更广泛影响包括扩大COSEE网络，以包括现有的海洋科学家（ASLO），非正式教育工作者（ASTC，CAISE）和城市教育工作者（劳伦斯科学馆和波士顿公立学校），这将加强整个网络的能力，为K-12和公众提供高质量的海洋教育。通过使用远程学习和与非沿海国家的城市学区合作，我们将大大扩大COSEE的覆盖范围，包括没有机会直接体验海洋的多样化学生群体。此外，我们将与COSEE中国有效地联系，将COSEE的业务范围扩展到美国境外。

The University of Massachusetts, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), New York Hall of Science, and Boston Public Schools propose a thematic COSEE Center, that will greatly broaden the impacts of the COSEE Network. COSEE-OCEAN will use existing social and professional relationships to strategically engage ocean scientists in education and outreach activities by offering them professional development workshops at annual ASLO meetings and connecting them to COSEE Network outreach activities. COSEE-OCEAN will efficiently leverage these existing networks to expand and enhance a two-way exchange of innovation, experience, educational products, professional development models and best practices between COSEE and mainstream STEM formal and informal education communities. Our vision is that within five years, all ocean scientists will be aware of and have access to education and outreach opportunities within the COSEE Network; the COSEE Network will be able to exchange knowledge and resources with STEM programs nationwide; informal education institutions will have increased their capacity to address public ocean literacy; and a model for implementing a high quality ocean curriculum in diverse, non-coastal urban school districts will be widely disseminated. Our goals are:1)To engage more Ocean Scientists in high quality education and outreach opportunities provided by the COSEE Network, 2) To deliver high quality Ocean Science instructional materials to a diverse audience in large urban school districts, especially in non-coastal states, and 3) To promote Ocean Literacy through a network of Informal Science Education institutions and individuals. Intellectual merits of COSEE-OCEAN are to strategically strengthen the interactions between existing networks in order to catalytically utilize COSEE resources in a broader context and to gain capacity from the networks' output, COSEE-OCEAN aims to reach ALL ocean scientists, to target under-represented minority students in urban school districts, to effectively engage students in non-coastal states, and to form connections between existing educational networks. Broader impacts of this proposal include expanding the COSEE Network to include existing networks of ocean scientists (ASLO), informal educators (ASTC, CAISE), and urban educators (Lawrence Hall of Science and Boston Public Schools), which will strengthen the capacity of that overall network to deliver high quality ocean education to K-12 and public audiences. By using distance learning and working with urban school districts in non-coastal states, we will vastly broaden the reach of COSEE to include a diverse population of students who do not have opportunities to directly experience the ocean. In addition, we will link effectively with COSEE-China to extend the reach of COSEE beyond US borders.