Informal Ocean Education

Hi Katie, those are interesting comments “from the field.” Thanks for sharing them. I hope they help us focus the activities and messages we should work on. I think much of our response will have to be regionally based, as it’s clear that it’s playing differently in the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Gulf areas.

Carrie,

I’m familiar with what COSIA developed this year, I think I am looking for some things that are also more specific to the Gulf Oil spill and can serve double duty by exposing people to some OOS. I will certainly post my thoughts as I progress.

Hi, Katie! I think that you are correct and that this is a very important issue to get on top of. We are planning on posting a number of lessons that deal with oil spills and other pollutants on COSEENOW very soon. These lessons were designed by our COSIA class and we are just putting […]