Person: Leslie Peart

Abstract

Following up on Part 1 of this project, the goals of the Summer 2013 AT26-03 education activities included:

• Increasing educational participants’ understanding of the science of the expedition and comfort level in communicating science to the public and;
• Raising awareness and understanding among shore-based followers about the nature and process of science and marine science careers

The project ran a variety of EOC activities during AT26-03, facilitated by an energetic team of four EOC specialists. The team included an elementary/secondary school science teacher, a pre-service teacher, and a videographer and college instructor. The project also partnered with an extensive telepresence program operated by the Inner Space Center at the University of Rhode Island, which provided live video and audio feeds from the Jason cameras and main lab. Collectively, the EOC program focused on the nature and process of science – how researchers ask questions, test ideas, gather data, problem-solve, circle back to new questions and collaborate with both the local, on-board community of participants and the broader science community at large – all in the service of a transformative research agenda. The partnership with Inner Space Center meant that the project had a high-bandwidth internet connection while at sea. During the expedition, a total of 80 real-time video webcasts were conducted, including 72 telepresence interactions and 8 longer format programs. This allowed the project to reach more than 2000 people through these events. In addition, project personnel completed blogs, video projects and curricula relating to the science of the expedition.

• See the activities at the Expedition Hub
• Videos, videos, videos!
  • Return to Juan de Fuca 2013, Videographer Lisa Strong
  • What is a CORK?, Videographer Lisa Strong
  • Octopus's Garden in a CORK, Videographer Lisa Strong
  • What is an Elevator?, Videographer Lisa Strong
  • Ask a Jason Pilot, Videographer Lisa Strong
  • Ask the Captain, Videographer Lisa Strong
  • Ask a Large Roundish Purplish Deep Sea Creature, Videographer Lisa Strong
  • Exploring a Land Down Under, Videographer Lisa Strong
• 5 scientist interviews
• Adopt a Microbe program
• How Science Works poster and activity
• Searching for the Intra-Terrestrials Microbiology beneath the Seafloor mini poster with microbe tagging activity

Abstract

This project supported an education, outreach, and communications (EOC) program during Atlantis/Jason expedition AT18-07 during June/July 2011. This EOC program complemented the scientific experiments begun during IODP Expeditions 301 (Summer 2004) and 327 (Summer 2010), and provided a longitudinal extension of EOC efforts begun during separate IODP expeditions that are of interest to C-DEBI. This project provided cross-cutting and robust education, outreach and communication support to the already-funded hydrogeologic experiments on the eastern flank of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. Using proven outreach methods, highly qualified and experienced educators, and full science personnel support, the project trained a core of educator/communicators to translate the transformative science emerging from this set of expeditions and build awareness, understanding and excitement around C-DEBI themes for students, educators and the general public. The project worked with 3 classroom teachers, one museum educator and one videographer to produce blogs, curricula and videos about the expedition science. In addition, the education staff conducted 13 live video broadcasts to shoreside audiences during the expedition, reaching about 300 students and educators. EOC specialists received training in interviewing and video production, and a variety of video products were created during the expedition. These included extended interviews and interview clips addressing common questions, overview presentations on expedition goals, videos about deep sea observatories and the C-DEBI STC, and a video from the R/V Atlantis to the Space Shuttle Atlantis during the latter's last mission. EOC educators also developed curricular materials based on AT18-07 goals and related topics.

• See the activities at the Expedition Hub
• Videos, videos, videos!
  • Mission to Juan de Fuca 2011, Videographer Lisa Strong
  • R/V Atlantis to Shuttle Atlantis, Videographer Lisa Strong
  • Looking for Life Below the Seafloor, Videographer Lisa Strong
  • AT18-07 CORK flowmeter description and calibration test deployment, James Ringlein
  • Black Tape, Duct Tape and Glitter, James Ringlein
  • Getting onboard Atlantis.. the right way, James Ringlein
  • Jason2, Ken Hamner
  • What is it like to be a scientist?, Sharon Cooper