COSEE Centers For Ocean Sciences & Excellence In Education

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Save the Date! Let’s Celebrate!

For Marine Program Staff and Volunteers, Ocean Scientists (We are sorry we will not be able to accommodate extra guests/family members at this event)

Date: August 4th, 2009

Time: 6:30 -  9:30 pm

Location: Seattle Aquarium Great Hall and

Life on the Edge exhibit

Program:

• View current Ocean Science Research and Learning Science posters and talk to the scientists
• Mingle with other Marine Program Volunteers and Staff, Ocean Scientists and Educators
  
• Dinner will be served
  
• Scientist Speaker – TBA on ocean/marine related topic
  
• Complete a brief evaluation of the evening
  
• The infamous COSEE-OLC Raffle!

Stay tuned for information on how to reserve a space for the 4th!

Hosted by: COSEE-Ocean Learning Communities and

the Seattle Aquarium Beach Naturalist Program

We Hope You Can Join Us!
 

News from COSEE National:

TWO MINUTES OF COOL SCIENCE

Got two minutes? Click anything below and be prepared to be wowed.

Robot sub aims for deepest ocean A robotic submarine is undergoing final preparations to dive to the deepest-known part of the oceans. If successful, Nereus will be the first autonomous vehicle to visit the 11,000m (36,089ft) Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean. wow me!

Volunteer Fish Counters in Puget Sound "As the nation prepares for the 2010 Census, there's another inventory going on right now in Western Washington. The only difference is this census is taking place underwater. Recreational divers have volunteered as fish counters to help survey the fish populations in Puget Sound" wow me!

Endangered blue whales resurfacing in Alaska "Blue whales are returning to Alaska and could be re-establishing an old migration route several decades after they were nearly wiped out by commercial whalers, scientists say." wow me!