Graduate Student Professional Development Workshop Workshop Theme: Preparing for Classroom Presentations

Held at the University of Maine in Orono Friday, January 20, 2012

In an effort to create partnerships between graduate students and teachers to bring more science into classrooms, COSEE-OS held a workshop for UMaine, School of Marine Sciences graduate students on January 20th. This goals of the workshop were to:

• Familiarize graduate students with useful inquiry-based labs to present in classrooms for illustrating ocean concepts, based upon the COSEE-OS publication Teaching Physical Concepts in Oceanography
• Help graduate students to develop concept maps based on their research to be used in classrooms
• Provide graduate students with information on how to present their research in ways that will both inform and inspire your students
• Gather information about graduate students to display on our website about their work and the science standards they may address in classrooms in order to facilitate graduate student-teacher partnerships

Workshop participants created concept maps based on their graduate research using the COSEE-OS Concept Map Builder and gained first-hand knowledge and advice from local Bangor Area High School earth and environmental sciences teacher, Ted Taylor during a Q&A session.

Click here to find out more about participating graduate students and how to invite a graduate student to visit your classroom!

Participating Graduate Students

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Beth Campbell
Degree Program: MS, Marine Biology
Thesis: The Effects of Injury and Nutrition on Sediment Disturbance by a Marine Polychaete, Clymenella torquata

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Nicholas Foukal
Degree Program: MS, Oceanography
Thesis: Satellite-Measured Phytoplankton Phenology in the California Current

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Michael Kersula
Degree Program: Dual MS, Marine Biology/Marine Policy
Thesis: Bio: Spiny Dogfish Trophic Dynamics; Policy: System and Species-Level Feedback for Fishermen Participating in Diverse Fisheries

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Erin Macro
Degree Program: MS, Marine Biology
Thesis: Molecular Markers of Roseovarius Oyster Disease

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Melissa May
Degree Program: PhD, Marine Biology
Thesis: Larval Physiology and Gene Expression of Blue Mussels

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Mark Neary
Degree Program: MS, Oceanography
Thesis: Slope Water Dynamics in the Gulf of Maine

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Felipe Paredes
Degree Program: PhD, Marine Biology
Thesis: Ecology of Marine Invasive Species in the Gulf of Maine

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Greg Sinnett
Degree Program: MS, Physical Oceanography
Thesis: Current and Transport in Casco Bay, Maine

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Jeffrey Vieser
Degree Program: Dual MS, Marine Biology/Marine Policy
Thesis: Social and Environmental Implications of Tidal Power in Cobscook Bay

Please contact Phoebe Jekielek for more information about this workshop or our Graduate Student Collaboration program.