GLIN==> Lake Erie Exploration Workshop Teaches Educators about Great Lakes Science

Lake Erie Exploration Workshop Teaches Educators about Great Lakes Science

July 21, 2009

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

COLUMBUS, OH - This week, 18 educators from throughout the Great Lakes
region are traveling along the Lake Erie coast to conduct experiments,
interact with researchers, and create new ways to bring ocean science into
their classrooms as part of the COSEE Great Lakes Lake Erie Exploration
Workshop.

 

The workshop, a collaborative project between the Ohio, New York, and
Pennsylvania Sea Grant programs, began Saturday, July 18, at Tom Ridge
Environmental Center in Erie, PA, and will wrap up Friday, July 24, at Stone
Laboratory on Gibraltar Island in Put-in-Bay, OH. Along the way, the group
will make stops in at Presque Isle State Park, Painesville Township Park,
and Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve to learn about
environmental contaminants, coastal erosion, estuaries, and wetlands. Four
days at Stone Laboratory, Ohio State University's island campus on Lake
Erie, will give participants an in-depth look at current Great Lakes science
as they sample water quality, investigate a shipwreck, and study the Lake
Erie food web.

 

"This workshop immerses educators in science from sunup to sundown," says
Dr. Rosanne Fortner, Director of COSEE Great Lakes and Professor Emeritus at
Ohio State University. "They learn about the Lakes from the researchers who
are bringing the science to life, and in turn the scientists become aware of
the needs of learners at all levels. We're striving for science literacy,
and also for scientists' literacy!" 

 

A blog about their experiences will be updated throughout the week at
http://coseegreatlakes.net/weblog/. 

 

COSEE Great Lakes, supported by the National Science Foundation's Division
of Ocean Sciences and NOAA's National Sea Grant Program Office, works to
promote the development of effective partnerships between research
scientists and educators, disseminate Great Lakes/ocean science information,
and foster best practices for education about the ocean sciences as they
apply to the Great Lakes region. 

 

 

Contact:

 

Rosanne Fortner, Director, COSEE Great Lakes, fortner.2 at osu.edu

 

 

Stacy Brannan

Associate Editor

Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Laboratory

1314 Kinnear Road

Columbus, OH 43212

614.247.7109

brannan.16 at osu.edu

 

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