S Spaeth's List: Communications-Outreach

• Our communications goal is to inform the public about the science conducted to accomplish our agency's mission. This may sound simple, but it is in fact complex and challenging. We have multiple audiences, from fishermen to middle-school students to the general public, and we have multiple tools that we can use, from pod-casts to visual and written stories to educational presentations.

  • Bonita's article about BioBlitz with Rosa's photos: http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/Quarterly/amj2010/items2.htm

  • They support both the development of communication specialists and the infrastructure (newsletters, ...) for scientists to share their contributions to outreach:
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   The intern will work with the communications team to create a suite of articles based on the science conducted at the AFSC. The articles will focus on "hot-topic" research being conducted at the Center. Examples of some topics are: ice-seal research in Alaska; challenges in assessing population size of marine animals or the importance of science in natural resource management. Articles will be created for a non-scientific audience and may include images, a slideshow or video. Project may require the intern to interview scientists and conduct scientific literature searches.

• BioBlitz intertidal taxon team with ABL scientists Bruce Wing, Pat Harris, and Bonita Nelson.  Photo by Rosa Spaeth.

• “The overarching goal of the research cruise is to study the effects of climate change on the Bering Sea ecosystem. This ecosystem involves everything from the phytoplankton, and the nutrients they provide to zooplankton, to the fish that eat the zooplankton, all the way up to the bigger fish who eat the forage fish (filter feeders who eat zooplankton).”
  

  • Some students who started work at CREA in Glenn Evans' biology class chose to extend their work in CREA's Summer Intern Program. These could become Capstone Projects, too. Students have completed the time-consumming part of the work. Can we find students who want to turn their work into Capstone Exemplars?

  • Note the parallels with research that MTA students are conducting at CREA:
    http://www.youtube.com/user/CREAMaine#p/u/1/z8ZeXfzCf84
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  • • The goals of this research are consistent with Learning Results that we intend for students in both middle and high school science classes.
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• helping individuals like Macke spread knowledge and enthusiasm about the environment.

  • Perhaps we can get Rosa to visit Mt Ararat students to help "spread knowledge and enthusiasm about the environment," too.
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• Interest is being sparked, even on dry land.

  • A group of students at Mt. Ararat Middle School is also working with reports of research and life on the Oscar Dyson and helping to interpret them for middle school audiences.

  • Kate is helping to generate interest here in Maine, too!
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• a senior at Mt. Ararat High School in Topsham.

  • She could turn her digital portfolio of published articles into a Capstone Project and Presentation with ease. It exemplifies service to the community and evidence of meeting goals for Capstone Projects. Some MTA students are already fully engaged with the vision and activities of Capstone Projects. How can we get students, teachers, parents and community mentors to develop and foster comparable engagement?

  • Kate has written many articles about issues and events important to our schools and communities. She will graduate this year. What can we do to encourage younger high school and middle school students to follow Kate's lead in writing articles? Expand on her lead by creating video documentaries? ... graphic documentaries? ... podcasts? ...
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• Write an independant article about LimeSurvey on your blog. Explain what are advantages, what are disadavantages of the software - show how to create a first survey and also write about problems are on the way getting there. Motivate people to participate to help use make LimeSurvey better. The article should be in-depth and correct. It should help other to get hooked up without false promises.