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Educators Learn About NOAA at Bay Watershed Education and Training Conference During July 14-16, 2009, more than 130 Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) program grantees from around the country gathered at NOAA in Silver Spring, Md., for the inaugural B-WET National Conference. [more] |
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Perseverance Pays Off: NOAA Concept for Flood Plain Model To Hit Market Thanks to the determination of a National Weather Service hydrologist and a Michigan high school science teacher, Earth science students around the country will soon have access to a simple, portable and educational flood plain model. [more] |
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Students Trade Lazy Days of Summer for NOAA Science Camp With partners Washington Sea Grant and the University of Washington’s Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, NOAA held its seventh annual NOAA Science Camp at the agency’s Sand Point campus in Seattle, Wash., for two weeks this July. This year’s camp hosted a total of 80 campers. [more] |
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FOCUS Bridges Art and the Environment Hundreds of children from the Washington, D.C., area descended on the National Mall on June 11 to learn about the importance of our nation’s watersheds through the power of art. It was the inaugural event for FOCUS (Forests, Ocean, Climate and Us) — a nationwide environmental art and educational campaign sponsored by NOAA and others. [more] |
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Students Adopt NOAA Buoys for World Oceans Day Third graders from Thunderbolt Elementary Marine Science Academy in Thunderbolt, Ga., “adopted” two NOAA drifter buoys as part of NOAA's educational Adopt a Drifter Program. The buoys measure sea surface temperature for about 400 days and may travel thousands of miles. [more] |
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Scholars Learn All There Is to ‘NOAA’ More than 150 graduate and undergraduate students from 21 states attended NOAA’s Office of Education-sponsored Student Scholarship Orientation Training Program in Silver Spring, Md., at the end of May. [more] |
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New NOAA Children’s Book Highlights Teacher’s Adventure on the High Seas "Let’s go fishing" are words teacher Jacob Tanenbaum loves to hear. He discovered, however, that an ocean-bound expedition on one of NOAA’s newest and most technically advanced research vessels, was different from any previous fishing trip he’d taken. [more] |
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ESRL Puts World of Weather in Scouts’ Hands Nearly 200 Boy Scouts visited the El Paso County Fairgrounds in Calhan, Colo., one weekend in late April, as part of NOAA’s educational outreach effort at the scouts’ annual spring "camporee." This year’s theme: science and technology. [more] |
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NOAA Brings “World” of Discovery to National Science Teachers Association Conference Nearly 60 NOAA employees from 21 states represented NOAA at the annual conference of the National Science Teachers Association in New Orleans as part of the agency’s mission to support science educators and foster an environmentally literate public. [more] |
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NOAA Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary Celebrates Opening of New Learning Center NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco joined Senators Daniel K. Inouye and Daniel K. Akaka, Hawaiian cultural practitioner Kimokeo Kapahulehua, and others at the April 13 grand opening of the Sanctuary Learning Center for the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary in Kihei, Maui, Hawaii. [more] |