ED31A:
Novel and Creative Outreach Methods and Models I
Session ID#: 11347
Session Description:
Recent findings in marine research, advances in marine technology and marine conservation efforts are hot topics to enhance ocean literacy. Manifold outreach activities link such topics with life-long learning concepts; as much as 90 percent of learning takes place outside the classroom. Using innovative science communication techniques and tools, ocean scientists and educators reach out to a wide public to raise awareness and knowledge of ocean topics.
This session seeks to include cutting-edge and creative STEM programming in- and outside the classroom. We invite presentations highlighting interactive educational experiences and outcomes in visual arts, literary and performing arts, with new streams (e.g. serious/educational games), and with innovative techniques that connect and engage the public on highly relevant ocean topics. The session welcomes experiences at the interface of science and arts, exciting uses and potential of new technology and social media, examples of successful programs based on an interaction between formal and informal educators/approaches, partnerships between scientists and marine science communicators as well as training for marine informal science educators. Presentations may also include strategies that reach large numbers of people, techniques for reaching traditionally underserved audiences, challenges and impacts of particular programs, new resources and upcoming opportunities.
Primary Chair: Carolyn Scheurle, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Chairs: Sharon K Cooper, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Leslie Peart, Texas State Aquarium, Education and Conservation, Corpus Christi, TX, United States, Hayley Schiebel, University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, MA, United States, Jack Payette, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, United States and Sarah Rosengard, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Moderators: Hayley Schiebel, University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, MA, United States and Sarah Rosengard, University of British Columbia, Geography, and Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Student Paper Review Liaison: Jack Payette, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Utag for iTAG: Putting the “U and me” in the Integrated Tracking of Aquatic Animals in the Gulf of Mexico (88781)
Chris Simoniello1, Robert Dudley Currier2, Barbara A Kirkpatrick3 and Shinichi Kobara2, (1)Texas A&M University, Oceanography, SAINT PETERSBURG, FL, United States, (2)Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (3)Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System, Sarasota, FL, United States
Connecting Oceanography and Music (90044)
Jennifer L Beauregard, Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA, United States
Massive Open Online Grants (MOOG's): Connecting hundreds of thousands with ocean science by allowing the public to vote on research grants (92878)
Ben McNeil, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Soundscape studies in Montreal's Biodome: using enclosed ecosystems to explain biodiversity to the public (93654)
Karen E Fisher Favret, Spatial Temporal Earth, Montreal, QC, Canada
The Ocean 180 Video Challenge: An Innovative Outreach Strategy for Connecting Scientists to Classrooms (93814)
Richard A Tankersley1, John G Windsor1 and Karina V Briceno2, (1)Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, United States, (2)Florida Institute of Technology
“Plastic Pollution: Myths, Facts, and How You Can Help”: Presenting a popular but poorly understood topic to broad and diverse audiences (88310)
Jennifer Anne Brandon, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States
Improving together: collaborative learning in science communication, ClimateSnack case study (88399)
Céline Heuzé, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden and Mathew Alexander Reeve, Uni Research, Bergen, Norway
ON THE OCEAN, COMMUNICATING SCIENCE THROUGH RADIO BROADCASTS (90048)
McKensie Daugherty1 and Lisa Campbell1,2, (1)Texas A & M University, Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Texas A&M University, Biology, College Station, TX, United States
