Transfer of Scientist-Education Collaborative Workshop to COSEE-Pacific Partnerships - 06.03.2010

COSEE-OS recently took advantage of an opportunity to transfer its Scientist-Education Collaborative (SEC) workshop model elsewhere in the network through a collaboration with COSEE-Pacific Partnerships (PP). PI Shawn Rowe and Program Coordinator Coral Gehrke contacted COSEE-OS to help them to run their SEC workshop with a cadre of informal educators. COSEE-OS also worked closely with Heidi Schmoock who will teach Communicating Ocean Sciences to Informal Audiences at California Polytechnic State University (CalPoly) at San Luis Obispo this winter.

The workshop was held at CalPoly from May 24th to 26th and included a group of 5 CalPoly scientists (Nikki Adams, Paul Choboter, Mark Moline, Lisa Needles, and Lars Tomanek) and 15 informal educators from the region, some representing marine sanctuaries. About half of the participating educators were docents, including those from an institution that has a memorandum of understanding with CalPoly with the goal of infusing more ocean / marine research into its programs. COSEE-OS staff members Carla Companion and Medea Steinman traveled to California to co-facilitate the event.

As a result of this successful workshop at CalPoly, COSEE-PP is planning to use the SEC model in at least one of their summer 2010 workshops. To facilitate other COSEE Centers that may be interested in running the SEC model, COSEE-OS has been systematically documenting the process of working with partners to plan and execute the SEC model.

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