Ocean and coastal conservation is required to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. The role of youth, youth organizations, teachers, and educational institutions are major resources for marine conservation at local, regional, and global scales.
Most marine scientists, grant-making agencies, environmental science organizations, and ocean research foundations incorporate education and outreach as a formal component of their work. There seems to be no shortage of stand-alone video content, student competitions, teacher experiential activities, live-link opportunities between students and scientists, and available curricula.
This session invites researchers, marine science education and outreach professionals, teachers, and young professionals to share innovative ideas and technologies used to engage students worldwide and to create inspiring professional development opportunities for teachers. Enlightening stories on challenges and failed efforts are equally important as we look to building lasting educational programming around cutting-edge marine science and ocean conservation.
Primary Chair: Analisa Duran, Florida International University, Center for Coastal Oceans Research, Miami, FL, United States
Co-chairs: Thomas Potts, Florida International University, Aquarius Reef Base, Miami, FL, United States, Paruthummootil Jacob Philip, Institute For Sustainable Development and Research,ISDR,India, Kurukshetra, India and Somita Chaudhari, Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, University of Mumbai, India, Mumbai, India
Primary Liaison: Analisa Duran, Florida International University, Center for Coastal Oceans Research, Miami, FL, United States
Moderators: Analisa Duran, Florida International University, Center for Coastal Oceans Research, Miami, FL, United States and Thomas Potts, Florida International University, Aquarius Reef Base, Miami, FL, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison: Paruthummootil Jacob Philip, Institute For Sustainable Development and Research,ISDR,India, Kurukshetra, India
Model education-research partnership program encourages students to bridge gaps among ocean science, policy, and conservation for remote ocean regions (653182)
Kerry Whittaker, Sea Education Association, Oceanography, Woods Hole, United States, Porter Hoagland, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Annette Govindarajan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, United States, Kristina Gjerde, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Cambridge, United States, Harriet Harden-Davies, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, Amy NS Siuda, Eckerd College, Marine Science, St. Petersburg, United States and Paul Joyce, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Integrating local knowledge into an at-sea undergraduate research experience to survey seabirds and marine mammals in the changing Arctic (656067)
Kevin Montenegro1, Triston Millstone2, Mia Otokiak3, Gibson Kelly Porter3, Holly Morin4, Rick Ludkin5, Brice Loose6, Amy Denton7 and Kevin M Boswell8, (1)Florida International University, Biological Sciences, Miami, United States, (2)California State University Channel Islands, CA, United States, (3)Ikaarvik, NU, Canada, (4)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, (5)Environment Canada, ON, Canada, (6)University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States, (7)California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA, United States, (8)Florida International University, Biological Sciences, North Miami, FL, United States
