Massachussetts Marine Educator’s upcoming events

Register now for the Annual Meeting and Conference at WHOI Please mark your calendar for MME’s 41st Annual Meeting and Conference in Woods Hole at WHOI’s Clark Building, Quissett Campus, which will be held on Saturday, April 8th from 8:30am to 4:15pm. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Kara Dodge, WHOI Guest Investigator Insights into Leatherback Behavior using Tags, Cameras and Robots Ken Kostel, WHOI Web Science Writer/Editor Hands Across the Water: Introducing Students to Science at Sea WORKSHOPS Seabird CSI: Using Chemical Tools to Study the Biology of Seabirds How Do We Explore? Turtle TLC: Using Sea Turtles, Cape Cod Sea Turtle Strandings, and Turtle Tour of WHOI’s New High Speed Mass Spectrometry Laboratory Using Atlantic Salmon Telemetry Data and Developing Stream Obstruction Bypass The Educational Whale Watch Discovering Oceanography and Meteorology with Real-Time NERACOOS Buoy Data RECEPTION All are invited to a networking reception at SEA Education immediately following the conference. Click here to register For more information, including descriptions of each session and an event flyer, please visit our website! Please help us to spread the word about this exciting event.

The annual MA Marine Educators’ annual marine art contest is underway with a deadline of April 28. All students in grades K-12 are invited to participate. Entry is free. The theme is “Exploring marine biodiversity at Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.” Winning art is incorporated into an annual calendar and tours the region in a traveling exhibit. Click here for more information.