SEARCH SEQUESTERED CARBON AND THE CARBON CYCLE
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Research-Based Online Learning Event (ROLE) Model Webinar
Webinar Topic: Sequestered Carbon and the Carbon Cycle
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
PRESENTATIONS and Q&A
Larry Mayer
Larry Mayer
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Beth Campbell
Beth Campbell
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About these Webinars:
The ROLE Model webinars provide scientists with the opportunity to interact with educators and present their research in a non-traditional format - through multimedia concept maps created with the Concept Map Builder and presented through the Ocean Climate Interactive. [more]

About this Scientist:
Dr. Larry Mayer is a professor of biogeochemistry at the University of Maine where he has been teaching for over two decades. In his lab, he and his graduate students study how organisms and materials (studied chemically) interact in earth surface environments. They use concepts and tools of chemistry, geology and biology, giving special focus to comparison and coupling of oceanic to terrestrial processes. [more]

About this Educator:
Beth Campbell is a former high school science teacher and current graduate student in marine biology at the University of Maine. Her research pertains to the injury and regeneration of marine polychaetes. Beth was a Sponsored Educator at the 2008 National Marine Educators Association Conference, and she has participated in three COSEE-OS workshops. [more]
WEBINAR RECAP
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Scientist Larry Mayer talked about carbon - how it moves between air, sea and sediment in earth systems. The topic has important implications for climate change and he described carbon as a "genie in a bottle" that humans are now releasing. Larry explained where carbon exists, in what forms, and where it stays. His series of concept maps, explained current best estimates about "standing stock" of carbon in different locations and forms, and illustrated rates of transfer between, and the residence times in, each location.
VIEW CLIPS FROM SCIENTIST'S PRESENTATION
1 - Carbon in the Sediments   2 - How much carbon?
3 - Carbon Sequestration

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Educator and graduate student Beth Campbell attributed the value of concept mapping as a teaching and thinking tool to the way it requires one to exercise higher order thinking skills in order to conceptualize and explain relationships between ideas and processes. She discussed the benefits and challenges of teaching students to use concept maps. She also shared an example of a complex map she developed over several months to help her organize her current graduate research about injury and regeneration in marine polychaetes.
VIEW CLIPS FROM EDUCATOR'S PRESENTATION
1 - Tracking Student Progress   2 - Common Challenges
3 - Making Complex Maps

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DISTRIBUTION OF WEBINAR PARTICIPANTS
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Thirty six participants joined the webinar from fifteen different states. Of the 10 participants who filled out the post webinar survey, 80% said that the scientist presentation was "useful" or "very useful", and 80% said they felt more comfortable with the topic than they had before. 50% also said they now feel the topic is more relevant to their own work.

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