For Scientists
Welcome to the area of the website dedicated to all of the Scientist-oriented information. Oceanographers, marine biologists and marine scientists in the Pacific Northwest share their research and knowledge and connect with one another.
COSEE-OLC and Washington Sea Grant invite faculty, staff, post-docs, and graduate students to participate in a FREE upcoming program on:
Addressing Broader Impact Requirements
for Research Proposals
(e.g. NSF criterion 2, Washington Sea Grant outreach plan, NOAA broader impacts).
To register please click here
Funding agencies have increased requirements for investigators to identify the broader impacts of their research. Learn from experts about approaches and techniques to improve your broader impact activities.
Evening Reception Families welcome!
Tues. January 5th, 6:30 - 9:00pm, Seattle Aquarium
Registration Required
- Keynote: Dr. Bruce Alberts, from UCSF, is a biochemist with a strong commitment to the improvement of science and mathematics education. He has recently served two terms as president of the National Academy of Sciences, and is the editor-in-chief of the journal Science.
Workshop Sessions and Outreach Fair
Wed. January 6th, UW South Campus Center
To view workshop session topics please click here
- Attend any or all of the 45-minute sessions,beginning at 9:30am.
- During lunch there will be an outreach fair featuring organizations interested in working with scientists on education and outreach activities.
- Refreshments and lunch will be provided. Registration Required for Lunch
WEDNESDAY SESSION SCHEDULE
9:30-10:15
-How citizen science can be used for scientific gain, and your education
and outreach requirements. (248)
-How to leverage yourself, your lab group, and your research into
existing outreach (348)
10:30-11:15
-Expert advice on how to communicate your science to lay audiences (248)
-Expert advice on how to communicate your science to the media (303)
-How to use what you and your lab group already do to satisfy broader
impact requirements (348)
11:30-12:15
-Expert advice on how to communicate your science to decision makers (248)
LUNCH
1:30-2:15
-Expert advice on how to communicate your science to the media (303)
-How citizen science can be used for scientific gain, and your education
and outreach requirements. (248)
-How to leverage yourself, your lab group, and your research into
existing outreach (348)
2:30-3:15
-Expert advice on how to communicate your science to lay audiences (248)
-Expert advice on how to communicate your science to K-12 audiences (348)
3:30-4:15
-How to use what you and your lab group already do to satisfy broader
impact requirements (348)
-Strategies for promoting diverse participation in the sciences (248)
Session Topics
- How to use what you and your lab group already do to satisfy broader impact requirements. Select scientists will be presented as ‘case studies’ to demonstrate how a lab group’s current activities can be better leveraged.
- How to leverage yourself, your lab group, and your research into existing outreach opportunities. Examples of how to share your research through existing programs such as COSEE-OLC events, Washington Sea Grant outreach and communications, Ocean Inquiry Project cruises, Pacific Science Center and Seattle Aquarium programs and events, and more.
- How citizen science can be used for scientific gain, and your education and outreach requirements. Existing citizen science programs will be featured as examples of how citizen involvement works, and to illustrate the type and quality of data currently being collected by citizen scientists.
- Strategies for promoting diverse participation in the sciences. An introduction to advising, mentoring, teaching and outreach strategies that have proven successful for promoting the involvement of historically underrepresented groups in sciences.
- Several sessions on expert advice on how to communicate your science to the media, decision makers, and K-12 and lay audiences (one session for each audience). Advice from experts including science writers, people who work with scientists to develop effective messages and sound bytes, formal and informal educators, education/outreach managers, etc.
Workshop speakers include:
- Dennis Hartman-UW Interim Dean College of the Environment
- Bob Nichols-Washington State Governors Office
- Tom Banse- KUOW
- Sandra Hines-UW News and Information
- Ross Anderson-Freelance Writer
- Liz Neely-COMPASS
- Eric Scigliano-Journalist and author
- David Gordon-WA Sea Grant communications
- Penny Dalton-Director WA Sea Grant
- Phil Bell-UW Science of Learning
- Rick Keil-UW School of Oceanography
- Kathy Sider-Seattle Aquarium
- Lauren Russell and Meena Selvakumar-Pacific Science Center
- Andy Shouse-UW Institute of Science and Mathematics Education
- UW Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science
- Jean Walat-Port Townsend Marine Science Center
- Amy Sprenger-Ocean Inquiry Project
- WSU Extension
*Please check back for updated information*
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MEET US! |
Colleen Kellogg
I am a graduate student in the UW School of Oceanography. My research focuses on the role marine microbes in the degradation of sinking and suspended particulate organic matter (i.e. sea snot...marine snow...detritus) in the Arctic Ocean.I am a: Scientist, Graduate Student
Location: Seattle
Christen Foehring is in the midst of summer camps! Check us out at http://islandwood.org
Summer Programs Coordinator - IslandWoodI am the summer programs coordinator at IslandWood, an environmental education school on Bainbridge Island. I also manage our school day programs and work as a mentor for EEC graduate students. I am passionate about outdoor education, marine conservation, and creating engaging experiences for learners of all ages in the marine environment.
I am a: Scientist, Educator, Interested Citizen, A leader or representative of a non-profit
Location: Seattle
Rachel Benbrook is working on building a network of volunteer sea kayakers and involving them in citizen science in Puget Sound.
Sea Kayaking BiologistI am a 10 year resident of Puget Sound, currently living on Guemes Island. I coordinate the Spartina Survey Program for People For Puget Sound. We recruit and train volunteer sea kayakers to survey the shorelines of Puget Sound for invasive Spartina grass. I am looking for ways to build a network of citizen science volunteer kayakers and connect them with researchers that are doing good work for the Sound.
I am a: Scientist, Educator, Interested Citizen, Marine Volunteer, A leader or representative of a non-profit
Location: North Sound
Jenny McColloch
Education Director, Salish Sea ExpeditionsI am a: Scientist, Educator, A leader or representative of a non-profit
Jacquelyn Neibauer
Research ScientistI am the lab manager and a research scientist in Richard Keil's lab at the University of Washington. Along with carrying out our lab's "typical" marine organic geochemistry research, I have an active role in our SoundCitizen non-profit organization.
I am a: Scientist, A leader or representative of a non-profit
Location: Seattle
Brittany Kimball
Lab Technician/Program CoordinatorI graduated from the University of Washington in 2008 with two degrees from Oceanography and Earth and Space Sciences. I am currently working in a chemical oceanography lab at the UW coordinating our non-profit organization called SoundCitizen.
I am a: Scientist, A leader or representative of a non-profit
Location: Seattle
Giovanna Scalone
I am a graduate student in the learning sciences at the College of Education at the UW, and I am a member of the COSEE-OLC team. My research interests are in documenting the teaching and learning of environmental science education and the multimodal environment in informal and formal science contexts.I am a: Educator, Graduate Student, Interested Citizen
Location: Seattle
Véronique Robigou
My professional path for the past 20 years at the University of Washington included research in marine geology, and education in ocean sciences. Along my research path, mid-ocean ridges exploration and seafloor mapping projects exemplified the power of risk-taking collaborations between scientists, technologists and marine environment professionals to advance scientific discovery. Similarly, the design and direction of original ocean sciences education projects involved collaborations among international government agencies, institution leaders, scientists, science educators, education researchers and students that impacted all contributing cultures (REVEL project, Marine Exchange Language Program, COSEE-Ocean Learning Communities). My multicultural education, scientific background, interest for Earth's processes and for people's capacity to learn continue to drive my curiosity for people's perception of the ocean and the relationship they develop with the marine environment. I am currently investigating ideas of projects that blend arts, sciences, and kinetics to support audiences learn more about the ocean and discover the role that it plays in one's life.I am a: Scientist, Educator, Interested Citizen
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Deborah Purce is working on adding shoreline public access information to the Washington Coastal Atlas!
NOAA Coastal Management FellowI have a B.A. in biology and received my masters degree from Western Washington University where I studied ecophysiology of scallops in Baja, Mexico. I am interested in transboundary marine science and management and currently work for the WA Dept. of Ecology on shoreline public access issues.
I am a: Scientist, Educator, Interested Citizen, Marine Volunteer
Location: Olympia
Deirdre Lockwood
Graduate student in oceanographyI'm a graduate student at the University of Washington interested in the ocean's role in mediating climate change. My research focuses on how phytoplankton contribute to the ocean's uptake of carbon dioxide. This year I've been spending a lot of time at sea, going on bimonthly cruises from Hong Kong to Long Beach, California on a container ship to study carbon dioxide drawdown in the North Pacific. When I'm home, I love hiking and swimming around the Puget Sound, and I'm looking forward to getting more involved in marine science activities through COSEE.
I am a: Graduate Student
Location: Seattle
