Sharing Ocean Acidification Resources for Communicators and Educators

Sharing Ocean Acidification Resources for Communicators and Educators or SOURCE is a new webinar series that provides ocean acidification communication tools to formal & informal educators, and stakeholders across the country. One of its primary goals, is to promote a more integrated and effective ocean acidification education community by sharing ocean acidification education and communication activities virtually. With awareness of and access to these resources, the ocean acidification education and communication community will be able to utilize and continue to create cutting edge communication tools that incorporate current scientific and communication research. This series is jointly sponsored by the NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries and Ocean Acidification Program.

Check out these upcoming webinars!

COMMUNICATING OCEAN ACIDIFICATION AROUND THE WORLD: STORIES & STRATEGIES OF USING NARRATIVES TO COMMUNICATE ACROSS BARRIERS

Between July 2012-2013, Alexis traveled on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship studying how human communities in Norway, Hong Kong, Thailand, New Zealand, the Cook Islands and Peru might be affected by ocean acidification. She interviewed, lived and worked with hundreds of members of marine dependent communities, investigating how they valued resources threatened by ocean acidification. The vast majority of the community members she worked with had no knowledge of ocean acidification and poor ocean literacy. Over the year, she developed tools to communicate and contextualize this complex science issue across language and cultural barriers. She found the most effective method of communication was to explain the science of ocean acidification in a personalized, narrative format, drawing from the lives of her audience to make connections between ocean acidification and resources and practices they value. In this webinar, she will share examples of how she listened and learned from her audiences and structured communication platforms for diverse communities, ranging from Seventh Day Adventists in the Cook Islands to scallop farmers in Peru. She will explain her methodology and discuss how formal and informal educators can design narrative tools suited for their own audiences.

Join in on Wednesday, April 2, 2014 4:00 pm Eastern Time

BRINGING OCEAN ACIDIFICATION RESEARCH TO THE CLASSROOM A SYSTEMS THINKING APPROACH

Presenter: Claudia Ludwig, Institute of Systems Biology

Primary audience: Teachers, Formal Educators

Date/Time: Wednesday, April 23rd, 6pm ET

Project Website: http://baliga.systemsbiology.net/drupal/education/?q=content/ocean-acidification-systems-approach-global-problem

This work is funded by National Science Foundation OCE-0928561 (to Mónica V. Orellana and Nitin S. Baliga).

OCEAN ACIDIFICATION: A WASHINGTON STATE HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULAR FRAMEWORK

Presenters: Meg Chadsey & Paul Williams, Washington State Sea Grant

Primary Audience: Teachers, formal educators

Date/time: Wednesday, May 14th 6pm ET