Resources
Check back here frequently as we work to post links and presentations from this year’s summit.
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View the Summit Welcome Guide
Photos to enjoy: https://www.flickr.com/photos/127608312@N04
Thursday evening:
Friday:
Keynote:
clips referenced during talk: Jon Stewart and John Holdren and John Oliver on Global Warming
Session 1:
1A: Adding Salt to the Water Cycle
Dr. Ray Schmitt, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Ryan Elizabeth Cope, Marine Education Associate, Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence – Ocean Systems (COSEE‐OS)
1B: The Nerve: Marine Organisms Provide Insights to the Human Nervous System
Dr. Jennifer Morgan, Associate Scientist, MBL; Lara Lewis‐McGrath, PhD Candidate, Northeastern University Marine Science Center
1C: Healthy Oceans: You Are What You Eat
Dr. John Mandelman, Director of Research/Senior Scientist, New England Aquarium; Seth Yarish, Joe Hage – Classroom teachers, Connecticut
1D: Climate Change Is Local: Impacts on New England Waters
Dr. Andy Pershing, Chief Science Officer, Gulf of Maine Research Institute; Lauren Rader, Chief Instructor, Project Oceanology
1E: Dealing with extreme events in the community
Ellen Mecray, NOAA Regional Climate Services Director, Eastern Region; Greg Bermen, Woods Hole Sea Grant
Session 2:
2A: Design Science Meets Ocean Science: Engaging Challenging Learners with Innovative Projects While Collaborating with an Ocean Scientist
Dr. Tim Moore, Research Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire; Amy Holt Cline, Science Teacher, AIM Academy
2B: Aquaculture in the Field and the Classroom
Dr. Scott Lindell, Director, Scientific Aquaculture Program, Marine Biological Laboratory; Seth Garfield, MESM, Northeast Maritime Inst., Aquaculture Program Coordinator; Erin Hobbs, Biology Teacher, Newburyport High School, MA, President, Mass Marine Educators
2C: Welcome to the “Plastisphere”: A World of Microbes on Plastic Marine Debris
Dr. Linda Amaral‐Zettler, Associate Scientist/Associate Professor, Marine Biological Laboratory; Dr. Erik Zettler, Associate Dean for Institutional Relations and Research, Professor of Oceanography, Sea Education Association
2D: Ocean Acidification: What does it mean for the Northeast?
Dr. Joe Salisbury, Research Assistant Professor, Oceanography/Biogeochemistry, University of New Hampshire; Cassie Stymiest, Program Manager, Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS)
2E: Coastal Resiliency: What does this mean and is it possible?
Dr. Juliana Barrett, Coastal Habitat Specialist, University of Connecticut, CT Sea Grant College Program; Dr. Anamarija Frankic, Director‐ Green Harbors Project, Founder ‐ Biomimicry LivingLabs, Faculty ‐UMass Boston and University of Zadar Croatia
Session 3:
3A: Ocean Currents: Going With the Flow
Dr. Amy Bower, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Kate Fraser, Science Teacher, Perkins School for the Blind
3B: Energy From the Ocean
Anthony Viselli, Research Engineer, University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center; Dr. Andrew Goupee, Assistant Research Professor, University of Maine
3C: Watching Grass Grow: Remotely Monitoring Erosion and Sea Level Rise In Salt Marshes
Neil Ganju from the USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center in Woods Hole; Heather Deschenes, New England Aquarium and Sarah Bursky, Program Manager, NEOSEC
3D: The Science and Technology of Warming Oceans
Dr. Glen Gawarkiewicz, Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Francois Choi, Northeastern University Marine Science Center
3E: Understanding Sea‐Level Rise and How It Is Changing Our Coasts
Dr. Rob Thieler, Research Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey (Woods Hole); Janan Evans‐Wilent, NNOCCI Project Supervisor, New England Aquarium
National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation (NNOCCI)
Closing Panel: Sustaining and Protecting Our Oceans: Our Collective Goal
Moderator: Ari Daniel, National Public Radio
Panelists:
Jonathan Bird, Oceanic Research Group, NPR Jonathan Bird’s Blue World
Anamarija Frankic, Director‐ Green Harbors Project, Founder ‐ Biomimicry LivingLabs, Faculty ‐UMass Boston and University of Zadar Croatia
Jen Kennedy, Executive Director, Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation
Jill Farrell, Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership: www.PREPEstuaries.org, Facebook: www.Facebook.com/PREPCommunity, Twitter: @PREPCommunity
Programs that get kids interested in programming:
code.org, building underwater fact-based worlds in minecraft, Jane McGonigal: video games as tools to teach coding, makerspaces
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