# Presentation: 214461

## Rosanne W. Fortner, Director 
[Ohio Sea Grant Education]
Rochelle Sturtevant, Science Liaison [GLERL]

- Limno-Linking Researchers, Educators, and the Public for Ocean Science Education

- Rosanne W. Fortner, Director
- [Ohio Sea Grant Education]
- Rochelle Sturtevant, Science Liaison [GLERL]

## National COSEE Network

- 	The National COSEE Network comprises 10 centers that act locally, regionally and nationally.

## National COSEE goals

- Promote the development of **effective partnerships** between research scientists and educators;
- Disseminate effective **ocean** **science education programs and best practices** that build on existing resources;
- Promote a vision of ocean education as a charismatic, interdisciplinary **vehicle for fostering scientific literacy**

## COSEE Great Lakes Goals

- Inspire scientific literacy and environmental responsibility
- Link regional education and research communities
- Add freshwater component to the National COSEE Network
- Improve Great Lakes/ocean sciences education
- Involve regional Tribes in enhanced Great Lakes/ocean sciences learning

- Stewardship

- Tribes

- Education

- Linkages

- Freshwater

## Scope

- Largest COSEE nationally
- Five Great Lakes, 8 states
- More than 30 collaborators, including 5 other COSEEs
- NSF/NOAA support for 2006-2010

## COSEE Great Lakes Partners

- Michigan Sea Grant
- Illinois-Indiana SG
- Minnesota SG
- New York SG
- Ohio SG
- Pennsylvania SG
- Wisconsin SG

- Cooperative Institute for Limnological and Ecosystem Research [CILER]
- Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory [GLERL]

## COSEE Great Lakes Collaborators

- Bathysphere Underwater Bio Lab
- Bay Mills Community College
- Buffalo Museum of Science
- COSEEs California, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Northeast, West
- Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Duluth & Monroe Public Schools
- College of Exploration
- Duluth Schools Indian Ed Program
- USEPA-GLNPO
- GLERL
- Grand Valley State University
- Great Lakes Commission
- Great Lakes Science Center
- IAGLR

- Inland Seas Education Association
- Learn the Seas – America
- MAEOE
- Michigan Technological University
- MI United Conservation Clubs
- NSF Biocomplexity Project
- PA Regional Science Consortium
- Peggy Notebaert Museum
- Shedd Aquarium
- Thunder Bay NMS
- USDI Fish & Wildlife Service
- USDI National Park Service
- USGS Great Lakes Science Center

## Where do you fit?

- Without scientists, science education can’t...
- Without educators, science literacy won’t...

- BROADER IMPACT

## LIMNO-links

- Scientists engaged with
- Educators
- Students
- Public

- Scientists alert to
- Opportunities
- Culture of education
- How people learn
- Standards for science

## COSEE Great Lakes Objectives

- Facilitate collaboration between scientists and educators:
-  enhance teacher capabilities in science
-  assist scientists in education and public outreach

## COSEE Activities

- Educator House-Calls [1 day at Science Institutions]
- R/V *Lake Guardian *[1 wk]
- Lake Explorations [1 wk]
- Teachable Moments [1/2 -1 day programs]
- School for Scientists [half-day at IAGLR]
- Marine Immersion [partner programs]
- Curriculum Enhancement
- Limno-Links Education Conferences
- COSEE Summit 2010