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The best promotion for the Teacher at Sea program comes from the teachers themselves.  Please look here to read some of the fantastic things they have had to say about it.

 

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NOAA Teacher at Sea Alumni

Letter from the TAS Program Manager
Subscribing to the TASA Listserv
Resources

NOAA Teacher at Sea Alumnae, Chuck Latto and JoAnne Kronberg are pictured here with Vice Admiral Lautenbacher
NOAA Teacher at Sea Alumni, Chuck Latto (left) and JoAnne Kronberg (right) are pictured here with Vice Admiral Lautenbacher, Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and
NOAA Administrator.

To Our Alumni

On behalf of NOAA's Teacher at Sea program (TAS), I would like to welcome you to the NOAA Teacher at Sea Alumni Association (TASA).  Because you participated in our program, you are automatically eligible for membership, and in the next few paragraphs, I will explain what this means for you and the program.

With its inception in 1990, NOAA's Teacher at Sea Program held the promise of offering educators around the country the opportunity to see NOAA's exciting scientific research first hand.  It began to fulfill this promise by having one teacher participate in 1990 and two teachers in 1991.  After passing the pilot phase of the program, NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) management expanded the program to more teachers and greater education opportunities.

TASA will provide you the opportunity to communicate with your peers and share resources.  It will also be a vehicle for identifying unique opportunities for you and your students to collaborate with NOAA and our exciting research projects.  As a member of TASA you will receive:

  • E-mail messages about exciting opportunities to participate in NOAA research.
  • Information about grant opportunities and partnership opportunities.
  • Invitations to participate in exclusive NOAA education events.
  • Classroom materials.
  • Invitations to attend and speak at regional workshops and conferences.
  • The possibility of participating in another cruise as a mentor to a new NOAA Teacher at Sea.
  • The possibility of becoming a NOAA Teacher in the Air (to participate in a flight on one of NOAA's planes).

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The NOAA Teacher at Sea Association is your association and is only in the beginning phases of development; we hope that you are interested in playing a key role in its establishment and success.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Sincerely,
Jennifer

Jennifer Hammond
NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations
NOAA's Teacher at Sea Program Manager
8403 Colesville Road, Suite 500
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Email: jennifer.hammond@noaa.gov
Phone: 301-713-7610
Fax: 301-713-1541

 

The Teacher at Sea Alumni Listserv

We encourage all of our alumni to subscribe to the Teacher at Sea Alumni Listerv so that you may receive information regarding the items mentioned in the letter above from the TAS Program Manager.

To subcribe to the listserv, please follow the directions in this PDF document: TASA Listserv Instructions (pdf, 20Kb)

 

Resources

If you are searching for educational materials and resources please view these pages:

NOAA Education: NOAA's many educational activities are distributed across the agency. This site has been designed to help students, teachers, librarians and the general public access the many educational activities, publications, and booklets that have been produced.

NOAA's Ocean Service Education: You will find various curricula, lesson plans, and activities at this site. The National Ocean Service (NOS) education resources engage formal and informal education audiences to build environmental literacy through products and programs that incorporate the applied science of NOS.

Ocean Careers: If you would like to teach your students about the variety of ocean careers availbale, please visit this Web site.

Teacher at Sea PowerPoint Template: This PowerPoint template may be downloaded by Teacher at Sea alumni who would like to use it to give presentations about their Teacher at Sea experience.

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