SEARCH PHOTOGRAPHS
WORKSHOPS
 
Scientist-Educator Collaborative Workshop
Workshop Photographs
Held at the University of Connecticut Avery Point Campus, Groton, CT
Thursday, October 8, 2009 through Saturday, October 10, 2009
The Marine Sciences Building (right) on the University of Connecticut Avery Point campus
COSEE-OS Director Annette deCharon opens the workshop with an overview of goals and a summary of how the participants were selected
The Connecticut Sea Grant offices in the Marine Sciences Building
Given six starter concepts, scientists Dave Avery and Jim O'Donnell create a warm-up concept map before launching into designs of their own
Scientists Kari Heinonen and Penny Vlahos compare notes for construction of their warm-up concept map
 Avery Point Campus waterfront
COSEE-OS Facilitator Carla Companion takes the group on a tour of the Ocean-Climate Interactive website
Mike Whitney begins work on his paper copy of a concept map focused on the migration of river pollutants
Jim O'Donnell identifies key concepts for his map on how mathematical models are used to understand the movement of water in Long Island Sound
Jim O'Donnell presents his concept map to the other scientists and COSEE-OS staff
Penny Vlahos' concept map on Where Do POPs Come From and Where Do They Go in the Coastal Environment?
Dave Avery uses his concept map to describe how ecosystems are affected when marine grazers evolve resistance to toxins in prey
Kari Heinonen's concept map on What Leads to the Successful Establishment of Invasive Species and What Are the Impacts?
Jim O'Donnell and Dave Avery contemplate Kari's concept map
Mike Whitney describes his concept map on river pollution modeling to the group
Penny Vlahos works out the details on her concept map on POPs
Mike Whitney presents his concept map - transformed from paper to digital format using the Concept Map Builder - to educators on the second day of the workshop
The educator-scientist team composed of Jim O'Donnell, Mary Lou Smith, Linda Livolsi, and Valerie Cournoyer (clockwise, from left) meet to view Jim's map, decide on a new audience, and discuss how the map can be reconfigured for that audience
Jim O'Donnell's map, newly transformed by his team for a middle-high school audience
Dave Avery's team (James Backus, Kim Martino, and Kristen Andrews, clockwise from left) irons out a new plan for conceptualizing how ecosystems are affected by a grazer's evolving resistance to toxins
The consensus concept map developed by Dave Avery's team
Margaret Tower, Colin Lawson, and Bethann Balazsi (clockwise from left) work with Kari Heinonen to reconfigure Kari's map for a high school audience
The consensus concept map developed by Kari Heinonen's team (shown here in the Concept Map Builder
The consensus concept map developed by Penny Vlahos' team
Annette deCharon leads the group in a compentitve round of Jeopardy designed to instruct users on how to manipulate the Concept Map Builder
Seaward view from our conference room windows
Facilitator Carla Companion presents the COSEE-OS suite of web-based, ocean-climate multimedia
Valerie Cournoyer works with Jim O'Donnell to create a customized map that caters to her educational needs
Kim Martino, Kristin Andrews, Dave Avery, and James Backus try out the Concept Map Builder
The Vlahos team map in the Concept Map Builder
COSEE-OS software developer Sean Graham (standing) oversees the creation of personal profiles in the Concept Map Builder
Carrie Birdsong and Jim Backus learn how to attach assets - videos, images, news, and resources - to a concept map
[click photos to enlarge or watch our slideshow]