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ANNUAL REPORT for Year 6, No-Cost Extension

[covers Oct 2010-Oct 2011] Award: NA06OAR4170017

Contents

Participants and Partners 1 Institutional Collaborators 2 Advisors 11 Year 6 Activities [10/10-10/11] Task 1 13 Task 2 16 Task 3 16 Task 4 17 Task 5 17 Task 6 18 Training and Development 19 Outreach Activities 19 Products 23 Findings 25 Contributions 26 Appendix 1: GL Literacy final report to UC Berkeley 30 2: Portrait of COSEE GL for Decadal Review 34 3: Lake Guardian evaluation from USEPA 38 Participant Individuals: Co-Principal Investigator(s) : Helen M Domske; Rosanne W Fortner; James F Lubner; Bruce

H Munson Senior personnel(s) : Robin Goettel; Elaine Andrews; Stephen Stewart; Anne Danielski;

Rochelle Sturtevant; Marti A Martz; Howard D Walters; Peter Tuddenham Other key staff : Terri Hallesy; Nicholas Zlonis; Cynthia Hagley; Sue O'Halloran; Christopher

Benson; Brandon Schroeder; Nicole Koehler; Joel Hoffman; Jackie Adams; Tomas Hook; Gregory Boyer; Ashley Moerke; Kristin Tepas; Diane Desotelle; Eric Osantowski

Graduate student(s) : Chankook Kim; Kenneth Brubaker; Tsikata, Sarah Shimer, Paul Lucas; Deanna Erickson

Undergraduate student(s): Ann Marshall; Evan Heisler, Michelle Wunderley, Ryan Hueffmeier

Partner Organizations: NOAA, Office of Sea Grant: This partner provided one-half of the funds for COSEE Great Lakes every year, 2006-2010. Because of NOAA’s requirement of matching funds, each subcontractor for COSEE GL also provided funds for an additional 25% addition to the COSEE budget.

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Great Lakes Sea Grant Network The project’s Co-Principal Investigators are affiliated with Sea Grant programs in the Great Lakes region. The seven programs, in MN, MI, WI, IL-IN, OH, PA, NY, and the Network office at NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, have provided office facilities, in-kind support, access to research scientists, and support of their communications staff. Great Lakes Nat'l Program Office, USEPA: In-kind Support; Facilities; Collaborative Research; Personnel Exchanges In 2006: Provided use of research vessel for Shipboard and Shoreline Science workshop on Lake Erie; contributed two scientists for week's program and follow-up with participants, contributed support for captain and crew for use by the project. In 2007: Dr. Beth Hinchey-Malloy served on the Center's Advisory Committee, led re-vitalization of educators' network: Great Lakes Educators of Aquatic and Marine Science; contributed newsletter articles. Jacqueline Adams served as GLEAMS officer and provided outreach for teachers. 2008: Provided use of research vessel for Shipboard and Shoreline Science workshop on Lake Ontario; contributed two scientists for week's program and follow-up with participants, contributed support for captain and crew for use by the project. Dr. Hinchey-Malloy serves on the Advisory Committee and writes for the newsletter. 2009: Provided use of research vessel for Shipboard and Shoreline Science workshop on Lakes Superior and Huron; contributed two scientists for each week's program and follow-up with participants, contributed support for captain and crew for use by the project. 2010: Provided use of research vessel for Shipboard and Shoreline Science workshop on Lake Michigan; contributed two scientists for each week's program and follow-up with participants, contributed support for captain and crew for use by the project. 2011: [Beyond COSEE funding years] Provided use of research vessel for Shipboard and Shoreline Science workshop on Lake Superior; contributed two scientists for the program and follow-up with participants, contributed support for captain and crew for use by the project. Institutional Collaborators: [listed in order of entry over 6 years] Great Lakes Aquarium: In-kind Support; Facilities Provided facilities and support for the week-long Lake Superior Exploration Workshop in 2006. In 2007-8, hosted two student groups for lake science programs at the Aquarium, including Fond du Lac tribal school. In 2009-10, hosted two student groups for O’LAKERS. 2011 – hosted Guardian workshop land-based activities, and workshop for teachers and students regarding Augmented Reality stories for estuary learning. Great Lakes Science Center, Cleveland: Financial Support; In-kind Support; Facilities; Personnel Exchanges Provided coordinating site for Shipboard and Shoreline Science on Lake Erie in 2006; provided educational experiences for Cleveland students about Great Lakes in 2007. Supports services of the Education Coordinator as an Advisory Committee member. 2008: Hosted Teachable Moment in conjunction with new IMAX film on the Great Lakes;

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developed summer science experiences for community children with O'LAKERS funding. Hosted 2008 COSEE Great Lakes advisory meeting. 2009 - 2011: Provided education services for 100 neighborhood students each summer in the Lake Erie Science program. Internat'l Assoc - Great Lakes Research: In-kind Support; Facilities In 2006: Assisted in distribution of COSEE Great Lakes baseline survey for scientists; provided carrying cases for workshop participants. In 2007: Provided conference venue for 3-hour symposium, the 'School for Scientists.' 2007-9: Provided conference bookbags for Exploration Workshop participants. In 2009: Provided conference venue for ‘School for Scientists,’ ‘Great Lakes Science for Everyone’ and ‘Education and Outreach’ as well as support for a special student poster session and free day registrations for teachers. 2011: provided reduced registration plus conference room for Teacher Day at annual conference. Ohio State University Franz Theodore Stone Laboratory: In-kind Support; Facilities; Collaborative Research; Personnel Exchanges Hosted Shipboard and Shoreline Science workshop for Lake Erie, and offered two graduate courses as Marine Immersion workshops in summer 2006. 2007: Offered three graduate courses for Marine Immersion credit for teachers. 2008: Hosted two O'LAKERS groups, offered a Curriculum Development and Evaluation for Marine/Great Lakes Education. Hosted Realtime Data Workshop for collaboration with COSEE Coastal Trends. 2009: Hosted Lake Erie Exploration Workshop, providing logistical support, research personnel and vessels. 2010: Hosted COSEE-supported graduate course, Teaching with Google Earth and Google Ocean. Supported instructors and provided research staff, vessels, and technology access. Hosted two groups of students [4th grade inner city, 7th grade rural] for Lake Erie workshops with COSEE support. 2011: Hosted COSEE-supported graduate course, Climate Change Education. Supported team teacher and travel for primary instructor, plus scholarships for two teachers. Hosted two groups of students [4th grade inner city, 10th grade rural] for Lake Erie workshops with COSEE support.

ERIE2 BOCES: In-kind Support; Collaborative Research; Personnel Exchanges Coordinates stateside activities and leads field experiences related to Tropical Marine Ecology Workshop for Teachers, all project years. 2008: Provided educator and facilities for teachable moment workshop on Tropical Marine Ecology; hosted site visit by new CCO leader in Sept 08. 2009: Provided science curriculum specialist as participant in Lake Erie Exploration Workshop.

Old Woman Creek NERR: In-kind Support; Facilities; Personnel Exchanges 2006: Hosted Shipboard and Shoreline Science workshop for lessons about estuaries. 2007: Hosted Lake Erie Teachable Moment, providing facilities, staff and services. 2009: Hosted Lake Erie Exploration Workshop program about estuaries. 2011: Hosted GLOS workshop. Great Lakes Research & Educ Center, NPS: In-kind Support; Facilities; Collaborative Research; Personnel Exchanges 2006: Provided facilities, support and collaboration on Great Lakes Institute, a Teachable Moment for Lake Michigan. Providing services of Education Coordinator as member of

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Advisory Committee. 2007: Conducted O'LAKERS program for minority high school students to learn about Wetlands. 2008: Hosted a day of activities for educators and scientists of the Lake Michigan Exploration Workshop. Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore: In-kind Support; Facilities; Collaborative Research 2006: Provided housing [at Environmental Learning Center] and other facilities in support of Great Lakes Institute, a Teachable Moment for Lake Michigan in 8/06. 2007: Conducted O'LAKERS program for inner city students from Gary, IN, to learn about Great Lakes human history. 2008: Hosted teacher education program and provided scientists for a day of learning at the Dunes during Lake Michigan Exploration Workshop Alliance for the Great Lakes: In-kind Support; Collaborative Research 2006: Provided curriculum assistance and dunes instruction at Great Lakes Institute. 2007: Coordinated O'LAKERS program to 'Adopt a Beach'. 2008: Provided curriculum materials and instructional program for teachers in LMEW. 2007-10: Representative served on COSEE advisory committee. 2011: engaged several COSEE staff and educators as participants in GL Education Collaborative Minnesota Geological Survey: Personnel Exchange 2006: Provided field trip leader and lecturer for Lake Superior Exploration Workshop in Duluth. 2008: Provided scientist lecture for online workshop. USEPA Mid-Continent Ecology Division: Collaborative Research, facilities, personnel exchange, in-kind support 2006: Provided materials and speakers for Lake Superior Exploration Workshop. 2009: Provided facilities and scientists for a Great Lakes Educator House Call; contributed one scientist for the week-long Lake Superior Shipboard and Shoreline Science workshop; provided a second scientist to lead wetland research activities with the workshop educators. UWS Lake Superior Research Institute: In-kind Support; Facilities; Collaborative Research 2006: Contributed use of the LL Smith research vessel and presentations for the Lake Superior Exploration Workshop; 2010: Hosted U/U students from Duluth for shipboard learning with O’LAKERS support. Regional Science Consortium - Tom Ridge Env Ctr: In-kind Support; Facilities; Collaborative Research; Personnel Exchanges 2006: The Regional Science Consortium at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center at Presque Isle provided an informal learning environment, exhibits, and film presentation for Lake Guardian workshop participants in Erie, PA. 2007: Hosted O'LAKERS program for Erie City Schools 2008: Hosted O'LAKERS program and Environmental Rediscoveries experience for three groups of PA students 2009: Co-hosted Lake Erie Exploration Workshop and provided speaker/tour leader for kayak trip through Presque Isle State Park lagoons for workshop participants 2010-11: hosted teacher workshops in Great Lakes Data.

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John G. Shedd Aquarium: In-kind Support; Facilities; Collaborative Research; Personnel Exchanges Hosts COSEE events in informal setting, provides a member of the Advisory Committee, collaborates on teacher education activities. 2008: Hosted LMEW for a day of aquarium programming, urban fishing, and informal education input. 2010: provided facilities for components of Guardian workshop on Lake Michigan. Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, NOAA: In-kind Support; Facilities; Personnel Exchanges 2007: Hosted Lake Huron Exploration Workshop, provided technical support for workshop, speakers, transportation to shipwreck site for 30 participants. 2009: hosted a day of presentations for the 2009 Lake Huron Shipboard and Shoreline Science workshop. US Fish and Wildlife Service, Alpena MI: Facilities; Personnel Exchanges Provided speakers, laboratory leaders and facilities for use by Lake Huron Exploration Workshop participants in 2007. In 2008, provided speaker for Teachable Moment on lake sturgeon, Cleveland, OH, and Lake Huron Fishery Teachable Moment workshop held in Alpena. 2009: provided speaker for Lake Huron Fishery Teachable Moment workshop in Bad Axe, MI, and for Lake Huron Shipboard and Shoreline Science workshop.

US Fish & Wildlife Service – Lower Great Lakes Office 2009: Provided scientists (field biologists) for teachable moment workshops

Seaborg Center, Northern Michigan Univ: Facilities 2007: Provided scholarships with O'LAKERS funds for Native American high school students in Lake Superior Summit. Discovery World Ltd: Facilities; Personnel Exchanges 2007: Conducted O'LAKERS program for Milwaukee school students aboard S/V Denis Sullivan. 2008: Conducted two O'LAKERS programs for Cleveland inner city schools. 2010: Conducted two O’LAKERS programs for Erie schools Niagara Aquarium Foundation: Facilities 2007 and 2008: Conducted programs for Native American students in Head Start program for O'LAKERS Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve, Inc.: Facilities; Personnel Exchanges 2006: Provided services of informal educator for R/V Guardian workshop. 2007, 2009 and 2010: Conducted nature program for elementary students with O'LAKERS support. Grand Valley State University: Collaborative Research; Personnel ; Data sharing Provided scientist as speaker and field trip leader for Lake Huron Exploration Workshop, 2007; offered a course with Marine Immersion scholarships in 2008. 2010: Annis Water Resources Institute scientists led water testing at the Muskegon Lake Area of Concern, and discussed historic impacts of human activity on the Great Lakes.

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Central Michigan University: Collaborative Research Assisted 2007 Lake Huron workshop through Don Uzarski, Biology Dept, Mt. Pleasant MI. Noble Odyssey Foundation: In-kind Support; Facilities; Collaborative Research 2007: Provided use of the U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps and the Pride of Michigan vessel for use of Lake Huron workshop participants, visits to underwater archaeology sites and fisheries field work. USGS – Hammond Bay Biological Station: Collaborative Research Provided science support for Lake Huron Exploration Workshop, 2007 The College of Exploration: In-kind Support; Facilities; Collaborative Research Facilitated on-line workshops in 2007, 08, 09: advised staff on workshop efforts, develops video components, hosts workshop site, assists participants with software, facilitates workshop flow. 2010: Produced online workshop airing proceedings of the Great Lakes Education Summit. 2011: Developing DVDs of online workshop lectures for COSEE staff use at later dates. US Fish and Wildlife Service, Lower GL: In-kind Support; Personnel Exchanges 2008: Provided speakers and field biologists for R/V Lake Guardian Workshop participants 2009: Provided scientists (field biologists) for teachable moment workshop

Tuscarora Nation of Indians: Personnel Exchanges Tuscarora Nation of Indians (Haudenosaunee) 2008: Provided speaker for R/V Lake Guardian Workshop participants; 2007-8: Sent student groups from tribal school to Niagara Aquarium for O'LAKERS program Thousand Island Biological Laboratory, N: Facilities; Personnel Exchanges 2008: Provided facilities and researchers to interact with R/V Lake Guardian Workshop participants NYS Office of Parks and Historic Preserv: Facilities; Personnel Exchanges 2008: Provided speakers and nature center facility for R/V Lake Guardian Workshop participants Erie County Environmental Educ Institute: Financial Support; In-kind Support 2008: Provided scholarships for inner city students to attend the Great Lakes Student Summit; 2010: Sent two groups of students to Great Lakes Student Summit using O’LAKERS support. NYS Dept of Environmental Conservation: Personnel Exchanges 2008: Provided biologists to present to stakeholders during the annual State of the Lake Erie meeting

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2009: Provided biologists to present to stakeholders during the State of the Lake Erie program

Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper: Personnel Exchanges 2008: Provided services of informal educator for R/V Guardian workshop. Asbury Woods Nature Center: In-kind Support; Facilities; Personnel Exchanges 2008 Provided staff, materials and the site, (Walnut Creek, a main tributary of Lake Erie), for a day-long look at water chemistry for 40 middle school science students. Bayfront Center for Maritime Studies: In-kind Support; Facilities 2008 Provided classroom facilities and ship time aboard the sailing vessel Momentum for the Pennsylvania Sea Grant Environmental Rediscoveries program. Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources: Facilities; Personnel Exchanges 2008: Urban Fishing Program, Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources. Provided minority science teacher to lead workshop participants in fishing for invasive species in Lake Michigan Great Lakes WATER Institute: 2008 Provided two scientists and research vessel for on-the-water teacher education about round gobies in Lake Michigan; 2008-2010, Scientists Cuhel and Aguilar awarded COSEE Collaborative Grant from NSF; Aquilar on Advisory Committee; 2010 – provided 5 scientists for interaction with educators during the Guardian workshop on Lake Michigan. Mitchell Museum of the American Indian: Executive Director made presentation at Lake Michigan Exploration Workshop Purdue University: Facilities; Personnel Exchanges 2008: Department of Forestry and Natural Resources provided speaker and lab experience for Lake Michigan Exploration Workshop Indiana Geological Survey: Facilities; Personnel Exchanges 2008; Provided senior scientist for presentation and field experience during LMEW Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum: In-kind Support; Facilities 2008: Hosted Lake Michigan Exploration Workshop, provided meeting space, AV facilities, catered lunches Detroit Public Schools. Invited a display and presentation on COSEE Great Lakes at the DPS Science Connection Expo. September, 2007. 2010: Sent two teachers to Google Earth workshop; sent Science Center Director to GL Education Summit

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University of Michigan Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory. Provided speakers and tour guides for Midwest NOSB Teachable Moment workshop for team coaches and members, 2008

Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. Provided speakers for Midwest NOSB Teachable Moment workshop for team coaches and members. February, 2008. Hosted COSEE Great Lakes Advisory Committee meeting, 2006-7. Provided speakers and materials for most COSEE workshops. Provided office support for education fellows assisting with COSEE projects (summers 2008-9). Hosted two educator House Calls (2006 and 2009). 2007-2010: provided posters and fact sheets for workshops. 2011: Developed traveling display for NOAA’s Maritime Heritage program, based on GL Literacy Principles.

Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Provided speakers for Lake Huron Fishery Teachable Moment workshops held in Alpena and Bad Axe, MI. April, 2008, and in Bad Axe in April, 2009

USGS Great Lakes Science Center. Provided speakers for Lake Huron Fishery Teachable Moment workshops held in Alpena and Bad Axe, MI. April, 2008, and again in Bad Axe in April, 2009.

Great Lakes Research Consortium 2008: provided researchers from numerous institutions to interact with R/V Lake Guardian Workshop participants; 2009: Provided researcher to present at State of the Lake program Buffalo Museum of Science 2009: Provided scientist (ecologist) for teachable moment workshop Tifft Nature Preserve 2009 and 2010: Provided naturalist/educator for teachable moments workshop TREC Natural History Museum: Facilities; Personnel Exchanges 2009: Hosted hands-on, weeklong O’LAKERS program for undergraduate students from four colleges. This experience allowed the students to understand the importance of natural history collections and to work with experts in the fields of botany, ichthyology, herpetology and entomology. 2010: Hosted O’LAKERS student group for Lake Erie experience. Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI. In-kind Support; Facilities Provided dockage in Detroit for start of the 2009 Lake Huron Shipboard and Shoreline Science workshop.

Michigan State University: Collaborative Research Provided research scientists (Mike Wagner and David Lusch) as speakers for 2009 Lake Huron Shipboard and Shoreline Science workshop.

University of Michigan: Collaborative Research Provided research scientist (Guy Meadows) as speaker for 2009 Lake Huron Shipboard and Shoreline Science workshop.

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SUNY-ESF: Collaborative Research. Provided research scientist (Greg Boyer) as chief scientist for 2009 Lake Huron Shipboard and Shoreline Science workshop

Hartley Nature Center: In-kind Support; Facilities Provided facilities and support for the Isle Royale Teachable Moments Workshop. 2009-2010: Provided facilities and programs for O’LAKERS workshops College of St. Scholastica: In-kind Support; Facilities Provided staff support and facilities for a Great Lakes Educator House Call held in conjunction with the Lake Superior Youth Symposium Large Lakes Observatory: In-kind Support; Personnel Exchange Provided three research scientists to contribute to the Great Lakes Educator House Call held at the College of St. Scholastica as part of the Lake Superior Youth Symposium. Also provided a scientist to speak to educators during the Lake Superior Shipboard and Shoreline Science workshop. Natural Resources Research Institute: In-kind Support; Personnel Exchange Provided scientists to speak to educators as part of the Lake Superior Shipboard and Shoreline Science workshop in 2009 and 2011. Michigan Technological University: In-kind Support; Personnel Exchange Provided two scientist who each participated in ½ of the week-long Lake Superior Shipboard and Shoreline Science workshop and a graduate student who participated in the full week. All years: presented partner workshops on Lake Superior for Marine Immersion scholarship winners. Isle Royale Institute: In-kind support; Personnel Provided a day-long workshop for educators, including bringing in two wolf-moose researchers as part of a COSEE GL Teachable Moment workshop. Northland College: In-kind Support; Equipment Use; Personnel Provided kayaks and canoes and well as trip leaders for wetland exploration during the Lake Superior Shipboard and Shoreline Science workshop. Buffalo Outdoor Education Foundation: Equipment use; Personnel 2010: Hosted three O’LAKERS student groups from urban schools for a shipboard learning experience. Inland Seas Education Association, Suttons Mill, MI: Equipment use; Personnel 2008-2010: Hosted shipboard program for classes of Native American [Chippewa] school students; 2010 provided presentation for Guardian workshop on Schoolship programs. Grand Traverse Lighthouse, Leelanau State Park. Facilities, in-kind support. History and culture program for Guardian participants in 2010.

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National Park Service, Sleeping Bear Dunes NP. Facilities, Personnel. Presentation and naturalist walk through dune system, with science of dunes. US Coast Guard, Sleeping Bear Point Station. Facilities. Tour of historic station for Guardian participants, 2010. NOAA, GLERL – Muskegon MI. Facilities, Personnel. Presentation on the Green Ships program for GL research vessels. GL Naval Memorial Museum, Muskegon. Facilities BaySail, Appleton MI: Equipment use; Personnel 2009, 2010: Hosted shipboard program for Native American secondary school students Sturgeon for Tomorrow; Personnel, facilities 2011: Staffed and provided research facilities for teacher workshop on sturgeon research Michigan State University Department of Fisheries and Wildlife; Personnel 2011: Staffed teacher workshop on Sturgeon research US Fish and Wildlife Service; in kind support 2011: Support for teachers at sturgeon research workshop Huron Pines Board of Directors; 2011: Sturgeon research workshop for teachers The Field Museum; facilities, in kind support 2011: Hosted Teaching with Great Lakes Data workshop University of Notre Dame; personnel 2011: provided scientist to lead program for IL-IN workshop Indiana University – Northwest; personnel, in kind support 2011: two professors coordinated curriculum workshop using their material as well as COSEE. Spinoff from IAGLR conference presentations. Friends of the Chicago River; in kind support 2011: Provided speaker for COSEE program Illinois Geographic Alliance; personnel 2011: Co-presenter in watershed conference Windy City Earth Force; personnel 2011: collaborated on service learning project, IL-IN

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Great Lakes Innovative Stewardship through Education Network (GLISTEN); in kind support. 2011: coordinated conference in which IL-IN staff shared COSEE efforts in service learning Science Education for New Civic Engagement and Responsibilities (SENCER); in kind support on service learning. Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve. Minnesota Sea Grant is working with the new NERR. MN helped plan and support their two-day Estuary Science workshop, held in conjunction with the summer 2011 Lake Guardian workshop, sponsored by the U.S. EPA in cooperation with COSEE Great Lakes.

Lake Superior State University. Personnel. 2011: Dr. Ashley Moerke served as a resident scientists aboard the Lake Guardian for educators’ workshop. Great Lakes Education Collaborative, Chicago, IL. In kind support, 2011. Led by Alliance for the Great Lakes. Participated in development of place-based education plan for Great Lakes Region. Indiana University Northwest. Personnel, in kind support. In 2011, Indiana University Northwest Professors Julie Peller (Department of Chemistry) and Erin Argyilan (Department of Geosciences), collaborated with IL-IN Sea Grant COSEE staff to present an educator workshop with new curricula. Cranbrook Institute of Science. Facilities 2011: Hosted Teaching with Great Lakes Data workshop Harper Woods School District. Facilities, In-kind support 2011: Grade 7 classes pilot tested Basic Observation Buoys; expanded project submitted as B-WET proposal. ----------------------------- Individuals as collaborators: This project has an Advisory Committee which is made up of important individuals representing aspects of K-12 Education, Science and education research, and Informal Education. The members of the committee and their affiliations are: Representing Formal Education, K-16 Garry Dole (2006-10) Science Resources Coordinator, Erie 2 BOCES, Fredonia, NY Lyndsey Manzo (2007-10) High School Science Teacher, Westerville (OH) School District Tiah McKinney (2006-10) Biotechnology Institute, Arlington, Virginia

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Jennifer Niemi (2008-10) Advisor, Eni-gikendaasoyang, Center for Indigenous Knowledge Revitalization, UM Duluth

Joaquin Jordan (2006-7) High School Science Teacher, Columbus (OH) Public Schools Dr. Tom Peacock (2006-7) American Indian Education Chair, University of Minnesota Duluth Representing Informal Education Joy Kubarek-Sandor (2009-2010) Education Program Manager, John G. Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, IL Blake Andres (2006-10) Vice President for Education & Programs, Great Lakes Science Center, Cleveland, OH Rachel Bergren (2006-8) Director of Conservation Awareness , John G. Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, IL Stephanie Smith (2006-10) Education Program Manager, Alliance for the Great Lakes, Chicago, IL Wendy W. Smith (2006-8)

Education Coordinator, Great Lakes Research & Education Center, National Park Service, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore

Representing Research Science Dr, Sandra Rutherford (2009-2010) Geology & Geography Dept., Eastern Michigan University Dr. Carmen Aguilar (2006-10) Assistant Scientist, Great Lakes WATER Institute, Milwaukee, WI Ellen Brody (2006-8) Regional Coordinator, NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries Program Dr. Elizabeth Hinchey Malloy (2007-10) Benthic Ecologist, USEPA Great Lakes National Program Office Dr. Janice McDonnell (2006-10)

IOOS Programmer, NJ Institute of Marie & Coastal Science, COSEE - NOW, COOL Classroom

Dr. Jeff Reutter (2006-10) Director, Ohio Sea Grant; President, National Association of Marine Laboratories Dr. Joseph DiPinto (2006-7) Senior Scientist, Limno-Tech, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI

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Year 6 ACTIVITIES [YEARS 1-5 ARCHIVED in NSF reporting system. This section includes Fall 2010-October 2011 additions only.] Task 1. Teacher Enhancement Since our Year 5 report was submitted, COSEE Great Lakes provided partial support for teacher enhancement experiences as follows:

- A week-long summer workshop aboard the R/V Lake Guardian on Lake Superior - COSEE Collaborative workshop, Education Aquanauts - A week-long graduate course on Climate Change Education at F. T. Stone Lab - an 8-day tropical marine ecology workshop for Great Lakes teachers - Teacher Day at IAGLR - Eight half-day workshops for Teaching with Great Lakes Data, (two in MI, one

each in WI, IL, MN, OH, PA, NY), October 2010 through July 2011, serving 147 educators.

- Great Lakes Conference, pilot program for EPA funding (Bringing Great Lakes Science to the Classroom via the Lake Guardian and other Dynamic Professional Development Experiences to Strengthen the Educator/Scientist Community of Practice: An Initiative of EPA-GLNPO and the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network).

- Workshop on “Reduce Aquatic Invasions through Student Stewardship” - Seven “teachable moment” workshops, collaborative with state Sea Grant

programs - Two half-day vessel-based workshops for educators

The Lake Guardian workshop was held July 20-27, 2011. Fifteen educators from five states worked side by side with five scientists on limnological inquiry. This event is in partnership with USEPA's Great Lakes National Program Office, which has agreed to continue support of the program for another four years. Blogs reporting on perspectives are found at http://coseegreatlakes.net/weblog [classroom educators], http://searchingsuperior.blogspot.com/ [aquarium educator], and http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?s=joel+hoffman [EPA scientist]. The 14 classroom educators in the workshop will work directly with over 900 students in grades 3-12 in the 2011-2012 school year alone, and their use of their new science knowledge and commitment to environmental quality will extend far beyond this year! Our aquarium educator personally reaches thousands of people, from young children to senior citizens, and the support of the Great Lakes Aquarium in this program will assure that programming reflects her newly acquired skills and knowledge.

Tropical Marine Ecology, an 8-day workshop, was held at a tropical reef in Roatan, Honduras, July 30-August 6, 2011. Eleven educators [eight supported with COSEE scholarships] participated. Lectures, combined with snorkels and scuba diving, local tours and culture, brought educators into close encounters of the best kind. The blog for this workshop is at http://tme2011.blogspot.com/.

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Educator Aquanauts’ Experiential Workshop on Lake Michigan. The COSEE Collaborative Program at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee conducted its summer workshop for K-12 educators from June 27 - July 1, 2011. This hands-on aquatic science enhancement workshop included shipboard hypothesis-testing research on Lake Michigan, laboratory-based sample processing, demonstration of classroom-style activities, professional alignment to State and National standards. Participants were supported with some classroom equipment, travel and housing.

7 Teachable Moment Workshops [1-1.5 days]

Sturgeon Research Workshop, Onaway MI, August 11-12

Fourteen educators from ten different schools convened at the COSEE Great Lakes Sturgeon Research Workshop for Educators in Onaway, Michigan to learn about lake sturgeon research, exploring educational linkages and opportunities related to this incredible and charismatic fish. Educators gained new knowledge through research presentations, fisheries-related curriculum and resources, and networked with agencies and community partners directly involved with sturgeon work. New partnerships for the workshop included Michigan State University Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Sturgeon for Tomorrow, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and Huron Pines Board of Directors.

“Catch the Wave! –Reduce Aquatic Invasions through Student Stewardship” March 24, 2011 at The Field Museum, Chicago, IL Twenty Educators grades 4-12 from Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan learned about Great Lakes aquatic invaders and related issues from University of Notre Dame scientist Matt Barnes. Participants actively engaged in hands-on activities as they incorporated problem-based learning about AIS. Through exposure to many existing lessons, educators were able to integrate content into their current science units and involve their students in community stewardship projects. Awareness, Education and Action: Students and Educators Taking Ownership of the Lake Michigan Watershed through Integrated Curriculum July 14, 2011, Indiana University-Northwest Coordinated by Indiana University Northwest Professors Julie Peller (Department of Chemistry) and Erin Argyilan (Department of Geosciences), 12 high school science teachers learned about Indiana’s Lake Michigan watershed through workshops, lectures, field trips and research experiences, guided by the local scientific community. COSEE Great Lakes staff, Robin Goettel and Terri Hallesy were invited to conduct a ½ day workshop to increase awareness, understanding, and action for educators in the Lake Michigan watershed regarding the protection and sustainability of local watersheds through integrated COSEE Great Lakes curriculum, Greatest of the Great Lakes, and Fresh and Salt. Participants were introduced to the Great Lakes Literacy principles and their applicability to their science curricula. The integration of Lake Michigan watershed science into high school curricula will lead to greater awareness and ultimately, protection of our local natural resources. This project will provide a crucial step toward greater education and civic responsibility within the Lake Michigan watershed.

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Science Teachers Association of NYS, March 24 After school workshop for 20 educators, featuring COSEE GL curriculum materials. Educators and the Erie Canal Workshop, August 16 All day workshop for 12 educators in partnership with US Fish and Wildlife Service at the Cornell University Biological Field Station in Shackelton, NY. The workshop featured AIS curriculum materials produced by COSEE GL. Lake Erie Workshop, Buffalo, August 17 Day-long workshop aboard the schooner, Spirit of Buffalo, for 15 teachers, featuring COSEE GL curriculum materials. State of the Lake Program – Co-sponsored by COSEE GL May 12 – (Public Education) 250 stakeholders, including many educators, learned scientific information about Lake Erie from 4 biologists. Other Professional Development models: Great Lakes Conference at MSU, East Lansing, MI, March 2011 COSEE supported the participation of 31 educators in this review of Great Lakes science by leading researchers, including a luncheon COSEE meeting. This will be funded annually through 2015 as part of the spinoff proposal funded by EPA (Bringing Great Lakes Science to the Classroom via the Lake Guardian and other Dynamic Professional Development Experiences to Strengthen the Educator/Scientist Community of Practice: An Initiative of EPA-GLNPO and the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network). Great Lakes Science for Teachers – two half-day research/education cruises (July and August 2011) on waters of Huron-Erie corridor for a total of 21 formal/informal teachers, featuring materials from GLERL and EPA. Evaluation of Task 1 was necessarily completed without the personal assistance of Dr. Walters, whose contract had been completed. Evaluation consisted primarily of repeating his methods with the new audiences. In the case of the Guardian workshop, PI Fortner conducted the concept mapping evaluation, compiled journal entries and lists of intended applications of workshop materials. The workshop blogs developed by classroom teachers, and informal educator and a scientist offered additional richness in perspectives and reflections. Reports are being compiled for the USEPA as a record of its impact, and will be published as a Technical Report at a later date. Engaging underserved/underrepresented groups Twelve high school teachers from underserved schools in Northwest Indiana participated in a workshop at Indiana University-Northwest to learn how to increase knowledge and understanding in their students regarding watershed stewardship using COSEE GL curriculum collections, Greatest of the Great Lakes and Fresh and Salt.

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Efforts to recruit teachers for the “Catch the Wave!—Reduce Aquatic Invasions workshop” ensured that we had representation from teachers of underserved student populations in Chicago, IL, Porter, IN, Hammond, IN, Green Bay, WI COSEE Lake Guardian 2011 applicant review ensured that underserved schools were represented among the 15 educators selected to participate in the Lake Guardian workshop July 20-27, 2011. Two Detroit teachers and one from Buffalo were on board the Guardian in 2011, and one Guardian educator teaches at the Red Lake Tribal High School in MN. Newspapers in Education: The city of Erie, where the majority of students who participate in the NIE program reside, has a poverty rate of 30.2 percent. Of the total number of people living in poverty, 43 percent are younger than 18. In the Erie School District 77 percent of students qualify for free or reduced lunches. NIE copies are given to the schools at no charge by PA Sea Grant. Task 2. Research Scientist Interactions Teacher Day at IAGLR, Duluth MN Twelve scientists speaking at the IAGLR meeting were invited to lunch with 12 educators to discuss questions about their science training and how they interact with audiences. This was the first event of its type and responses were excellent among both teachers and scientists. New collaboration with Indiana University Northwest Professors Julie Peller (Department of Chemistry) and Erin Argyilan (Department of Geosciences) resulted in a partnership for Great Lakes curriculum and teacher education. Workshop leadership: Five scientists participated full-time in the weeklong Guardian workshop on Lake Superior, working side by side with educators on science data collection and interpretation, and another designed a shipboard investigation that engaged the educators. Two scientists led the Education Aquanauts workshop on Lake Michigan. Interacting with scientists at their professional organizations and conferences: International Association for Great Lakes Research, American Fisheries Society, American Geophysical Union, Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, NOAA branches, and Sea Grant Site Reviews.

Task 3. Informal and Internet activities The internet activities described and/or disseminated at http://coseegreatlakes.net in Year 6 included - Archiving of events and newsletters by year and access to Workshop weblogs through anchored text

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- 6 News briefs related to program activities and personnel, updating visitors regularly to demonstrate dynamic project: http://coseegreatlakes.net/news/ - Announcement of availability of Fresh and Salt curriculum and Teaching with Great Lakes Data - Announcements of program events, including application forms http://coseegreatlakes.net/events/ Task 4. Engaging teachers in curriculum Fresh and Salt Curriculum Development - Greatest of the Great Lakes CDs 40, Fresh and Salt hardcopy 200, CD’s 65 - We have begun to disseminate the curriculum nationally as a COSEE Great Lakes product. GLOS Curriculum Development Teaching with Great Lakes Data, www.greatlakeslessons.com, is the newest curriculum effort for educators supported by COSEE Great Lakes. The website makes it easy to incorporate real scientific data about the Great Lakes into the classroom. This comprehensive resource covers physical, earth and life science content and includes three primary components: lessons and activities, data sets, and inquiry-based tools. Newspapers in Education PA Sea Grant works with a former biology teacher to produce environmental pages and lessons every Tuesday during the school year. Lesson links are Corresponding lessons for Sept 14 and 21 are at: http://www.goerie.com/nie/lessonplans/September_7_21_2010.pdf

December 7, Lessons http://www.goerie.com/nie/lessonplans/11%2030%20-%2012%2014.pdf

December 14 Lessons http://www.goerie.com/nie/lessonplans/121410.pdf

December 21 Lessons http://www.goerie.com/nie/lessonplans/122110.pdf

March 29 http://www.goerie.com/nie/lessonplans/Water%20ProtectionTeacher_Resources.pdf

Task 5. Student interactions with science During Year 6, several O’LAKERS programs were funded, providing support to about 100 students. Data currently reflect that these students are primarily African American, but also include Latina/o students. Most of these students are from low SES environments and are consequently considered “at risk” by most measures. Each group was brought to a site at which they encountered scientists and conducted hands-on science learning in aquatic environments. All programs were done in partnership with other support.

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Equipment for construction of Sea Perch remotely operated vehicles was purchased for PA Sea Grant programs that engage students in underwater exploration with their personally built ROVs.

A special opportunity in November 2011 will bring 10 secondary students along with their teachers to the Lake Superior NERR for a program from MN and WI Sea Grants, to introduce new electronic media for spatial narratives about the estuary. COSEE supports teacher and student expenses for the two-day program.

Science Exploration Day – Co-sponsored by COSEE GL March 16 – (k-12 Education) 800 high school students and their teachers spent the day at the University at Buffalo learning about STEM research by interacting with UB & agency researchers. Task 6. COSEE Network collaborative efforts Great Lakes Literacy collaboration with COSEE CA. This collaborative research with COSEE CA was completed in September 2011. A final report for the project is appended to this one. Decadal Review: Director Fortner served on the DRWG and prepared seven lists required from each Center, detailing efforts in professional development, curriculum, publications, broader impact, partnerships, presentations and grants secured as a result of COSEE funding. The COSEE GL staff contributed six Program Highlights publications for the DR as well. A “portrait” of the center is Appendix 2 of this report. Scientist Engagement Working Group [SEW-G]. Dr. Joel Hoffman, Chief Scientist aboard the R/V Lake Guardian in 2010-11, is the GL representative for this Network project. COSEE personnel from New England visited Joel on the Guardian for interviews and interaction. The completed profile will be showcased at http://www.cosee.net/engaging_scientists/ later this year. COSEE Network News [CNN] has featured GL news and information in 80% of the issues since the Year 4 report. In our no-cost extension year COSEE GL provided: Sturgeon workshop report and link to Guardian article in Seiche

http://www.cosee.net/about/cnn/#centernews Center profile, A Loon’s Song for COSEE Great Lakes, September 2011

http://www.cosee.net/about/aboutcenters/coseegl/ NOSB national winners from GL school

http://www.cosee.net/about/cnn/cnn0911/#announcements August 2011 Update on GL activities and Hagley award:

http://www.cosee.net/about/cnn/cnn0811/ July 2011: Announcement of coming Guardian workshop May 2011: Announcements of Fresh & Salt, Cuhel workshop, and Twineline article

www.cosee.net/about/cnn/cnn0511/ March 2011: Announcement of Stewart award

http://www.cosee.net/about/cnn/cnn0311/

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Feb 2011: GL Literacy website named Site of the Month by GLIN http://www.cosee.net/about/cnn/cnn0211/

January 2011: Last issue of Sweetwater Seascape announced December 2010: College of Exploration airing Summit proceedings

http://www.cosee.net/about/cnn/cnn2010/cnn1210/ November 2010: Announcement of Teaching with GL Data website

http://www.cosee.net/about/cnn/cnn2010/cnn1110/ COSEE Collaborative. This program at the Wisconsin WATER Institute conducted its third teacher workshop in summer 2011. ------------------------------------ Training and Development: COSEE GL has been a model of professional development in collaboration with scientists, and Year 6 was no exception. Details of the PD program were listed in Task 1. Lake Guardian pre/post tests...summary: There was a positive shift in self-perceived confidence in explaining scientific concept > 25% increase. There was a positive shift in knowledge with a 64% increase in perceived knowledge. There was a positive shift in comfort interacting with scientists, with a 50% increase in personal comfort. It was interesting to see that the 73% of people who said they would use information on a regular basis before shifted to 57% after the workshop, and 7% of the participants said they would use it as a specialized unit before the workshop had shifted to 29% after the workshop. This could possibly indicate that participants didn't understand what the workshop would consist of, but after the workshop they had more realistic goal for the information they received and how to incorporate it into the classrooms. The Climate Change Education course at Ohio State’s F.T. Stone Laboratory in July 2011 has resulted in materials for updating many of the GLIMCES lessons from 1996 [Great Lakes Instructional Materials for the Changing Earth System]. In addition, one teacher and two nonformal educators are working with Ohio Sea Grant on additional ways to highlight in the GL in programming and curriculum. ---------------------- Outreach Activities: Year 6 Our internet site at http://coseegreatlakes.net is our primary outreach mechanism for continuing information about the program. The site has received about 190,000 hits over its pages since it opened in February 2006, and about 100,000 of those are unique hits [different people coming in and searching at least one page]. The weblog is the most popular page, and the home page is the second most popular. Search terms that most often

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result in finding coseegreatlakes.net are COSEE Great Lakes, Paddle to the Sea, Great Lakes, and COSEE. Sixteen issues of the quarterly newsletter Sweetwater Seascape, written by Director Fortner with input from Co-PIs and Advisor Hinchey-Malloy, were produced and distributed electronically to over 1200 COSEE participants and interested individuals. Back issues are found at http://coseegreatlakes.net/news/ . The last issue was published in December 2010. COSEE GL was the featured Center in the CNN [COSEE Network News as noted on page 17. The Great Lakes Sea Grant Network provides outlets for outreach through state program newsletters. In this project year the COSEE efforts were featured as follows: HELM articles [IL-IN Sea Grant] Irene Miles, “Teachers engage in Lake Michigan shipboard science,” The HELM, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant, www.iiseagrant.org/newsroom/helm/previoushelms.html, Fall 2010, pp. 4-5.

Irene Miles, “New teacher resource links freshwater and marine sciences,” The HELM, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant, http://www.iiseagrant.org/newsroom/helm/helm_spring_2011.pdf, Spring 2011, p. 8.

Webpage Blogs

· Irene Miles, “Fresh and Salt curriculum is inspiring teachers,” http://lakesideviews.blogspot.com/2011/07/teachers-learn-new-ways-to-connect.html,7/15/11. · Irene Miles, “New curriculum connects freshwater and marine sciences,” Lakeside Views, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant, www.lakesideviews.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-curriculum-connects-freshwater-and.html, 4/25/11. · Irene Miles, “Teachers learn Great Lakes science, develop stewardship action plans,” Lakeside Views, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant, http://lakesideviews.blogspot.com/2011_03_01_archive.html, 3/31/11. · Irene Miles, “Catch the wave! Sign up for two Great Lakes teacher workshops at the Field Museum, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant, http://lakesideviews.blogspot.com/2011/01/catch-wave-sign-up-for-two-great-lakes.html, 1/14/11 · Irene Miles, “COSEE Great Lakes recognizes U.S. EPA's Paul Horvatin,” http://lakesideviews.blogspot.com/2010/10/cosee-great-lakes-recognizes-us-epas.html, 10/12/10. · Irene Miles, “COSEE Great Lakes Enhances Knowledge, Teacher-Scientist Partnerships,”http://lakesideviews.blogspot.com/2010/10/cosee-great-lakes-enhances-knowledge.html, 10/7/10.

Seiche [Minnesota Sea Grant] Blogs, View from the Lake Curriculum (10 lessons).

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Other MN coverage compiled by MN Sea Grant [over 390,974 total audience potential for all of the media listed below.]

15-Jul PBS Almanac North - cindy and joel educators cruise for science 5-Apr U of M Shoreland Education News - teacher training 6-Apr Duluth News Tribune - Hagley St. Louis River Alliance award 7-Apr Cloquet Pine Journal - Hagley St. Louis River Alliance award 22-Apr Lake County News-Chronicle - teachers wanted 2-Jun The River Voice Newsletter - Hagley laes award 18-Jul Northland's NewsCenter - superior science exp (Lake Guardian) 19-Jul KBJR-TV Channel 6 - superior science exp 20-Jul Fox radio duluth 20-Jul WDIO - educator workshop on research vessel 21-Jul WTIP 21-Jul GLIN - shipboard science 21-Jul Duluth News Tribune - article with interviews 21-Jul Duluth News Tribune - shipping section 20-Jul News Release - Innovative Research on EPA's R/V Lake Guardian 22-Jul SEEK Bulletin - 15 educators embark 28-Jul GLIN Hagley honor 28-Jul WDIO.com - Hagley award 1-Aug SEEK Bulletin - Hagley award 1-Aug BLPortal - Hagley award 15-AugStevens Point (WI) Journal web site - local teacher conducts science 15-AugStevens Point (WI) Journal - local teacher conducts science 16-Aug Voyageur Press of Mc Gregor - fantasy camp for science teachers 9/9/11 Red Lake Net News - Babaamaajimowinan. What's New in Red Lake High

School Biology. Janet Nelson. Lake Guardian. 9/24/11: Rosholt Record – Rosholt teacher studies the Great Lakes. P.12. [Cindy

Byers] Pennsylvania: In addition to Newspapers in Education, described elsewhere, PA components of COSEE were published: · Erie Times-News, March 4, 2011: Water Testers. Perseus School students build underwater vessels Ohio Sea Grant, Twineline 33(1): 5-8, Winter-Spring 2011. Take Home Lesson: COSEE Great Lakes Program Review Presentations COSEE Great Lakes continued to disseminate program information to potential participants and to interested colleagues through professional conferences. We reached these audiences: IAGLR, 2011, Duluth MN

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Hagley, C., Fortner, R. Manzo, L. and C. Aguilar. COSEE Great Lakes: Great Lakes Research Meets Great Lakes Education. Learnings from the COSEE Great Lakes Summit. IAGLR. 6/2/11

Fortner, R. COSEE Great Lakes: Reaching Multiple Audiences for Science and Education

Goettel, R, and T. Hallesy, Creating New Understandings of Great Lakes and Marine Issues through “Fresh and Salt” Curriculum [poster]

Walters, H. and R.Fortner, COSEE Great Lakes: Findings of the Evaluation Study Munson, B., M. Martz, and S. Shimak, Effective scientist-teacher collaborations. Manzo, L and R. Fortner, Introducing the Great Lakes Literacy Essential Principles

and Fundamental Concepts for Great Lakes Learning: An Educational Framework to Enhance Research Proposals [Poster]

Ballard, K., D. Hart, C. Wu, G. Clark, Learning How to Become More Resilient to Coastal Hazards on the Great Lakes: Inquiry-Based Lessons Integrating Open Water Observations and Local Government Spatial Data

North American Association for Environmental Education [NAAEE, Raleigh NC, October 13-16, 2011]. This meeting attracted over 1000 participants from 9 countries. - Fortner, R.W. From Sea to Inland Sea: COSEE matches environmental literacy NAAEE, Buffalo, September 29-October 2, 2010. This meeting attracted over 900 individuals representing 12 countries. The following presentations were offered: - GREAT LAKES LITERACY: LINKING TEACHERS TO THE REGIONAL ENVIRONMENT

[Rosanne Fortner and Helen Domske represented staff, with Lyndsey Manzo, teacher and COSEE Advisor, and William J. Edwards, scientist from Niagara University]

- COSEE GREAT LAKES: FROM SHIPBOARD, TO SHORELINE, TO CLASSROOM [Nancy Bires, PA teacher and 2006 participant]

- COSEE GL – PARTNERSHIPS IN CONSERVATION EDUCATION [Helen Domske, Michael Goehle (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service), Lauren Makeyenko (informal educator)]

- EXTENDING LEARNING INTO THE COMMUNITY: THREE MODELS FOR CIVIC ACTION [Robin Goettel and Terri Hallesy, COSEE GL staff]

USEPA Annual Report The 2009 Lake Guardian COSEE cruises are mentioned in the 2009 EPA's Environmental Education Highlights: Examples of current EPA efforts to solve our nation's environmental problems through environmental education. Page 41 of http://www.epa.gov/enviroed/, distributed in October 2010. Hoosier Association of Science Teachers Inc., Indianapolis Goettel, Hook and Katzer: A Dynamic Learning Experience on Lake Michigan—Teachers and Scientists Exchange Information through COSEE Workshop on Research Vessel Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago, IL Goettel: “Confluence: Setting a Collaborative Course for GL Education—Service-learning Workgroup”

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Michigan Science Teachers Association, March 2011, Grand Rapids, MI. Stewart: “COSEE Great Lakes – 2010 Successes, 2011 Opportunities” American Fisheries Society, August 2011, Seattle – COSEE was featured in Stewart poster session “COSEE Great Lakes: Michigan’s Successful Fishery Collaborations” National Marine Educators Association Conference, Boston MA, July 2011 - Hallesy and Goettel: “Stand by Your Principles with a Little Fresh and Salt” - Fortner, COSEE at 10: Lasting contributions of an ocean sciences network [panel chair

and GL presenter] - Fortner, Challenges for marine education research [Panel] - Laura Florence, Teaching with Great Lakes Data - Stewart and Lubner, Vessel-Based Education - COSEE Great Lakes Collaborative science

and education Great Lakes Service-Learning Conference Institute, GLISTEN; Butler University Indianapolis Title: “Opportunities to Increase Great Lakes service-learning education partnerships”

Robin Goettel participated in a panel discussion on how to promote and increase Great Lakes education. Goettel brought attention to numerous COSEE Great Lakes resources and upcoming events. Minnesota Sea Grant Site Review, 11/3/10. Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence Great Lakes. With Joel Hoffman, Sarah Erickson. Science Education Council of Ohio [SECO], February 2011. Short course: Great Data from the Great Lakes: Integrating Great Lakes Technology into the Classroom

Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation [CERF], November 6-9, Daytona Beach FL. Hoffman, Joel and Ralph Garono, Taking teachers from the river to the coast: a COSEE Great Lakes and Lake Superior NERR collaboration

ASLO Annual Meeting, San Juan PR, Feb 15, 2011. Aguilar, C and R. Cuhel, SCIENTIST-TEACHERS AND TEACHER-SCIENTISTS: TRANSMITTING THE THRILL OF DISCOVERY THROUGH HANDS-ON HYPOTHESIS-TESTING EXPERIENTIAL RESEARCH: A COSEE SUPPLEMENT ----------------------

PRODUCTS of the Program [Yr 6] Journal Publications Fortner, R.W. and L. Manzo, in press. Great Lakes Literacy. CURRENT: The Journal of Marine Education Fortner, R.W. and L. Manzo, 2011. Great Lakes Literacy Principles. Eos Transactions AGU 92(13): 1-2. March 29.

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Books and other One-time publications, 2011: Curriculum

Greatest of the Great Lakes CDs 40, Fresh and Salt hardcopy 200, CD’s 65

Newspapers in Education, through PA Sea Grant: Nov. 16, 2010: Same wavelength [Ocean and GL Literacy] Dec 7, 2010: Lake effect weather Nov. 30, 2010: Grape expectations [viticulture and lake effect] Nov. 9, 2010: New angle on biology [trophy fishing] May 10, 2011: Measured response [monitoring and data] Sept 27, 2011: It’s what you can’t see [hidden chemicals in water] Sept 28, 2010: Dose of reality: remedies to keep chemicals out of waterways

Audio or video products Great Lakes To Go! A set of presentations about the region and individual lakes, as well as key geology and biology principles. These were prepared for internet distribution to educators. Internet Dissemination: Great Lakes Education Summit, An Interactive awareness workshop. The key presentations and panel discussions from the September 2010 culminating event have been videotaped for dissemination through a workshop produced by the College of Exploration. Programming was live from December 8-10, 2010. http://greatlakesliteracy.net Site supports the use of Great Lakes Literacy Principles by linking them to Ocean Literacy and to resources for teaching about the lakes. Populated with extensive resources in Yr 6. COSEE Staffer Terri Hallesy presented “Curriculum Developed in the NSF-Funded ITEST and COSEE Programs—Fresh and Salt” as part of a Webinar www.learningtimes.net/itestwebcasts.html Great Lakes and Ocean Literacy, Fresh and Salt Curriculum, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Website, http://www.iisgcp.org/education/freshandsalt.html

http://coseegreatlakes.net Site url has been renewed for five additional years beyond the life of the program, and arrangements have been made to retain its links to http://www.cosee.net for national visibility. It is used for public awareness of programs and opportunities, daily input from workshops, and recruitment of participants for events. Links to other significant education and science programs in the region. Important functions of the website are to - provide assistance to scientists in education and outreach

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- archive our newsletters and share current happenings - document activities through weblogs for our major events - announce and recruit for program events - publish regional news in education New material on the COSEE GL web in Year 6 included

“Fresh and Salt Curriculum,” COSEE Great Lakes, http://www.coseegreatlakes.net/curriculum/.

Seven News articles at http://coseegreatlakes.net/news/ Two week-long event blogs [Guardian on Superior, Tropical Marine Ecology] at

http://coseegreatlakes.net/weblog USEPA Annual Report The 2009 Lake Guardian COSEE cruises are mentioned in the 2009 EPA's Environmental Education Highlights: Examples of current EPA efforts to solve our nation's environmental problems through environmental education. Page 41 of http://www.epa.gov/enviroed/, distributed in October 2010.

FINDINGS Results of the final survey sent to workshop participants are being compiled for later publication, but a summary indicates program successes, even five years out for some respondents. Seventy-four respondents provided complete data for the items of interest, or approximately 28% of the database. While the percentage overall of respondents was moderate, the distribution of the respondents was excellent, with near equal responses from NY, OH, IL, MI, WI, and MN, and fewer responses from PA and IN. The largest groups of respondents had participated in Lake Exploration workshops and Lake Guardian-based workshops. Of the 74 respondents, there was near equal distribution for the grade levels 4-6 (22%), 7-8 (26%) and 9-12 (32%), with smaller numbers of respondents associated to the K-2 and informal education areas/levels.

The respondents were provided a set of generalized rating items to record their perceptions of the overall quality of a variety of the program elements. These responses were uniformly very high and included:

98% rated the quality of resource materials received as Excellent or Good; 96% rated the workshop presenters’ understanding of education as Excellent or

Good; 95% rated the science presenters at the programs as Excellent or Good; 98% rated the degree to which scientists related to their professional needs as

Excellent or Good; and, 95% of respondents perceived that scientists at their programs related very well to

participants beyond these scientists’ formal presentations.

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The educators, having experienced direct interactions with these scientists in structured programs, were asked to rate a series of statements as true or false from their perception. These responses showed:

89% now see scientists as real, approachable people; 69% now know at least one scientist that they can call on for assistance or

information; 76% now know more science vocabulary than before the workshop (this statement

was verified empirically through concept map analysis and reported in the years 4 and 5 final reports by the evaluator);

82% now feel that they have skills to bring new science into their teaching; 87% now would be comfortable having a lunch conversation with a scientist; 82% now could speak up at a social event with colleagues and state several reasons

why teaching the Great Lakes is important; and, 86% now could tell colleagues in multiple subject areas ways in which they might

infuse Great Lakes content (and this response pattern was also verified empirically by concept map analysis).

These educators are collectively responsible for the annual instruction of approximately 56,441 students in their classrooms and informal education/outreach efforts—suggesting that the overall, annual secondary impact of the COSEE project on students and the general public has been and continues to be substantive. Further, these students are comprised of 11,489 minority students, as identified by the educators responding to the survey. This number is approximately 20% of the students reached annually by the program and again, is a substantive contribution of the COSEE Great Lakes program at the secondary level.

CONTRIBUTIONS

CONTRIBUTIONS within the Discipline [we consider our discipline to be Science/Environmental education]

Within this section we classified our six years of contributions as they appear in the COSEE Cornerstone Claims [COSEE Council 2009]

Claim 2) COSEE promotes innovation by generating and disseminating research-based OS content and educational approaches to improve OS education and enhance OS research.

COSEE-GL improved OS education by: · Innovative evaluation: A model using concept mapping to monitor increased complexity of cognitive knowledge of GL science was implemented in weeklong workshops and published as a contribution to the field (Walters, 2009). The data show emergence of a hierarchical network of GL science content that is substantially more complex and deeper after educators participated in the program. · Research-based workshop design: Weeklong educator workshops were designed based on results from the NSF Program for Leadership in Earth Systems Education (1990-95), in which educators read science papers by researchers in advance of working with the

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researchers, building educators’ science background and raising comfort levels for collaboration with scientists (Mayer, Fortner & Hoyt, 1995). · Leveraging learning through service: COSEE-GL educators pilot-tested a university service-learning program that culminated in college undergraduates leading youth in community stewardship projects to raise awareness and understanding about the need for a balanced approach to the use and protection of aquatic ecosystems.

Claim 5) COSEE engages hundreds of K-16 educators, scientists, future scientists, and informal educators each year in a range of professional development programs and courses that incorporate and exchange OS content and pedagogy. · In six years, COSEE-GL provided professional development (PD) and courses for over 1350 classroom and informal educators through programs from 1/2 day to two weeks, in environments from shipboard to land-based to online. We contributed to and are models of COSEE Best Practices in Teacher Professional Development (2009). · Shipboard workshops were highly effective, engaging educators in research and monitoring, providing career-changing experiences for many. It was clear to teacher Ron Pilatowski that, “the experiences that we shared on the Lake Guardian were both inspiring and amazing and they would change the way we taught and how we looked at the Great Lakes.” · COSEE-GL provided scholarships to allow 130 GL teachers to participate in professional development delivered by regional partners. · To enable GL teachers to compare GL and OS firsthand, COSEE-GL provided scholarships for a partner program in Tropical Marine Ecology, exploring OS in a weeklong field experience.

CONTRIBUTION to Ocean Sciences

Claim 2) COSEE promotes innovation by generating and disseminating research-based OS content and educational approaches to improve OS education and enhance OS research. COSEE-GL enhanced OS research by: · Hypothesis-based workshop design: Developed a model for shipboard research in which educators work with researchers to develop and test hypotheses about the interrelationships among water quality parameters and organism distribution. Researchers also engaged educators in data collection and analysis in support of their own Great Lakes research. · COSEE Collaborative: Supported a Collaborative Education Aquanauts program engaging teachers in original research about invasive species in Lake Michigan, with concurrent live broadcast onshore. · Teaching scientists about Broader Impacts: Schools for Scientists offered at Great Lakes research conferences and Educator House Calls at research facilities (Sturtevant & Marshall, 2009) brought Broader Impacts education directly to scientists in their own venues. · Interacting with scientists at their professional organizations and conferences: International Association for Great Lakes Research, American Fisheries Society, American

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Geophysical Union, Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, NOAA branches, and Sea Grant Site Reviews. Claim 4) COSEE engages hundreds of research scientists each year in partnerships to design and contribute to OS education and outreach through a range of formal, informal and online educational activities. · Over six years we have engaged over 230 scientists in COSEE-GL programs. · The Scientist Engagement Survey from the national Evaluation Working Group documented characteristics of 48 of the 77 scientists who were engaged with COSEE-GL in 2009. Fourteen research scientists played integral roles in our program efforts, as leaders or/and partners. Forty-six percent of respondents were female, 10% were from underserved groups, and 27% had NSF research support. · Sample responses from scientists: “Participating in the COSEE workshop helped me learn my own job better, to help people who weren’t experienced with sampling procedures.” “Participating in COSEE has helped me become better with communication with the public—more awareness of how teachers present science will help me better package science presentations to general audiences.” Claim 7) COSEE supports and develops leaders in OS education and empowers them to act through strategic and diverse collaborations. · Twenty science researchers were supported as presenters or co-presenters in education professional meetings. A co-presenter, regarding his Ocean Sciences presentation with a teacher, reported: “If not for our talk, I doubt I would have attended a single Outreach and Education presentation. Yet, because of this professional presentation, I remained in the entire session. More importantly, I learned from it.” · Researchers who accompanied educators to professional meetings reported enhanced awareness of educator needs and obstacles to research infusion in education. CONTRIBUTION to Human Resource Development Claim 1) COSEE fosters mutually beneficial and reciprocal partnerships/collaborations between OS research, K-16 formal education, and informal education communities for improving public understanding of OS. · Regional baseline studies among educators and scientists (Kim & Fortner, 2007, 2008) gave guidance to assist collaborations and overcome barriers. Research components were used in follow-up studies. · Weeklong educator/scientist collaborative, interdisciplinary workshops increased educators’ subject matter knowledge, and participating educators passed their knowledge to students, changing their curriculum to increase Great Lakes content. · Student group scholarships allowed informal partners to provide Great Lakes science experiences beyond regular school budget capability. We filled the “$400 gap” (Elthon, 2008) between classroom instruction and science field experiences by providing funds for O’LAKERS (Ocean/Lake Aware Kids Engaged in Relevant Science).

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Claim 8) COSEE pursues multiple strategies to broaden participation of underserved populations in ocean sciences education and promotes a diverse ocean sciences workforce through programs and partnerships with organizations and institutions that work with and serve underrepresented populations. · COSEE-GL supported over 300 Native American students to participate in science programs at the Niagara Aquarium, Duluth’s Great Lakes Aquarium, BaySail and Inland Seas programs, and the Lake Superior Student Summit. · The COSEE-GL Advisory Committee has included an African American and a Native American educator. The Native American member serves on the COSEE Council’s Diversity Working Group. · Nearly 65% of COSEE-GL educators directly serve student/audience populations that are comprised of over 50% underserved/underrepresented groups. · Students from urban, rural and high-poverty areas are engaged annually in science programs through COSEE support for our informal partners in Cleveland, Buffalo, Erie, Chicago and Detroit. CONTRIBUTION to Resources for Research and Education Claim 6) COSEE develops, identifies, adapts, evaluates and disseminates research-based OS education resources that are used by K-16 educators and scientists in formal, informal and online settings. · The Greatest of the Great Lakes curriculum collection (2007) assembled existing lesson plans validated by scientists and educators for teaching about our six science content areas: hydrology, climate/weather, biology, coastal processes, special issues and special habitats. · Our Fresh & Salt curriculum collection (2010) cements our ocean connection and was designed for sharing with all COSEEs. This collection provides two lesson plans for each Ocean Literacy Principle. · A special Ocean Literacy edition of Science Activities journal (Fortner, 2009) engaged researchers and graduate students from four COSEE Centers and NOAA in developing innovative lesson plans for professional publication. · Each of the three online workshops included Resource Rooms in which participants and staff contributed ideas, materials, and instructional tools on workshop topics. · The Abstracts of Research in Marine and Aquatic Education [Fortner, 2010] will serve the next generation of researchers in the field of OS education, and will provide ideas for scientists seeking to develop broader impacts for their research. · Great Lakes Literacy Principles are in place for continued use in programs relating the Great Lakes to Ocean Sciences and providing guidance for curriculum.

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Appendix 1: Final Report, Great Lakes Literacy subaward from COSEE CA Collaborative Research – COSEE California Final Report on Great Lakes Literacy component Submitted by Rosanne W. Fortner and Lyndsey Manzo, COSEE Great Lakes Original goals and intent of the subaward: To illustrate the applicability of the Ocean Literacy Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts to the Great Lakes. Accomplishments/Outputs: 1) We designed and implemented a Great Lakes Literacy workshop for 15 science and

education leaders in the GL region. From a Lake Erie Literacy prototype, based on Ocean Literacy components, participants drafted a list of Great Lakes Literacy Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts. The list includes 8 Principles [herein called GLLP], with the eighth one related to historical, cultural and economic importance of the Great Lakes for the region, the nation and the world.

2) The document was sent to five GL scientists and five key educators in each of the eight GL states, a total of 80 reviewers. Responses were synthesized and returned to the reviewers for concurrence or editing.

3) The communications staff at Ohio Sea Grant produced a brochure similar to the layout of the brochure for Ocean Literacy.

4) An internet site was developed through Ohio Sea Grant at http://greatlakesliteracy.net to establish a location for

a. distribution not only of GL Literacy Principles and Concepts but also for b. support materials for educators [web links, curriculum materials, datasets,

organizations, etc.]. c. Since the National Science Education Standards will soon be replaced by a new

Framework for Science Education, correlation of the GL principles and concepts was done on the internet site rather than in print.

d. The development process and schedule is on the site, including names and affiliations of the reviewers.

5) The Great Lakes Literacy Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts [GLLP] have been marketed through COSEE and Sea Grant networks, as well as professional organizations of educators and scientists, and branches of NOAA.

Impacts/Outcomes The brochure has been in print since July 2010 and the website has been live since May 2011. The latter is still acquiring materials for the Resources pages. In July 2011, NOAA’s Office of Education, with representatives of each branch of the agency, invited an online presentation about GL Literacy, and this prompted an inventory of uses and impacts, as follows: All 7 Sea Grant programs in the Great Lakes use the brochure in education workshops

as a content organizer, and for web distribution of resources. The GLLP materials are a COSEE legacy that will continue to inform our audiences after our grant has ended this year.

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Preservice and inservice education courses use GLLP at o The Ohio State University, F.T. Stone Laboratory o Eastern Michigan University [preservice and education research] o University of Illinois [service learning] o Niagara University [Environmental Literacy grant]

Michigan Sea Grant uses GLLP in its public shipboard programs, “Great Lakes Education Program,” reaching 4200 4th gr students/year with 150 teachers; 1500 public attendees. Focus is on Principles 1,3,4,5,6.

Michigan Sea Grant’s “Teaching with Great Lakes Data” matches its lessons with GLLPs [ http://greatlakeslessons.com/ ]

IL-IN, NY and PA Sea Grants’ P2D2 program is linked to GLLP 6a, c, and f. http://www.p2d2program.org/index1.html

NOAA’s newest B-WET program for the Great Lakes has GL Literacy as a goal [http://thunderbay.noaa.gov/B-WET/ ]

Newspapers in Education, developed through PA Sea Grant, featured GLLP when they were debuted, and match articles with principles.

Teachers use GLLP in the classroom in lessons and in assessment [numerous examples submitted by teachers].

Presentations have been made specifically about GLLP in the following venues: o National Science Teachers Association, 3/10 o National Project WET Conference, 6/10 o National Marine Educators Association, 7/10 o North American Association for Environmental Education, 10/10 o NOAA Education Council, 7/11 ! o National Council for Geographic Education, 8/11 o State science education and EE associations, since 7/10

A traveling GL educational exhibit has been developed by NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. The title is Great Lakes Discovery, and its content goals are these [abbreviated]

o The Great Lakes are massive. 1A o Fresh water is an essential and valuable resource. 4B o The Great Lakes system is a watershed, and includes the land, feeder streams

and rivers. 1B o People are a part of the ecosystem. 6 & 8

The exhibit’s affective goals also match GLLP: o Engage visitors with the Great Lakes 8A o Encourage learning more about the system 6F o Move visitors to be passionate about the Great Lakes 8A o Impress visitors with the scale of the GL 1A o Cultivate curiosity and ownership 7B o Stimulate family discussion

Other nonformal education institutions have assimilated GLLP into exhibits and programming:

o John G. Shedd Aquarium, Chicago Guidance for programming and new exhibits

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o Great Lakes Science Center, Cleveland Expanding and updating Great Lakes Hall with GL Literacy Principles

o National Park Service Education Research Ctr, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Structuring programs around GLL

o GL Aquarium, Duluth Hosting new EPA programs with focus on GLL

o Alliance for the Great Lakes Education Consortium focuses on GLLP

The Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research [CILER] is developing animations related to concepts in the GLLP for a kiosk in their administrative facilities at the University of Michigan.

Sustainability/Institutionalization * Internet site: This will be maintained by Ohio Sea Grant, and materials will be kept up to

date by the Communications staff in collaboration with Fortner and Manzo. All GL Sea Grant Network programs have contributed to the site and use it in their programming.

* Brochures: The last printing of brochures has been cost-shared by four GL states in anticipation of their uses of the materials in workshops and outreach. The complete pdf file is online for use by others. We expect that new NOAA efforts in the region will embrace the principles, and this has already begun.

Future activities: Given the reception that GLLP has received in educational institutions and in NOAA facilities, we are encouraged that others can use this as an organizer for science and a justification for policy. It is a bit early to assess outcomes in knowledge change among the audiences, but the growing pervasiveness of the Principles keeps them in front of many important eyes. We have a “bucket list” of what we would like to see happen with further dissemination and applications:

News media and National Weather Service attention [trusted science media] Political attention

Council of Great Lakes Governors GL Literacy Week in major cities

Increased attention in education Major urban school districts use as model [work has begun in Detroit

schools] Influence on state standards & new Framework is desirable. Framework

comments were submitted. Textbook inclusion of more GL science, since publishers confirm lack of

content specific to the region. Scientists reference GLLP in grant applications Kiosks, billboards & geocaches for public GL Literacy

We will always acknowledge the support of COSEE CA for this effort. It is a great and lasting benefit from our COSEE GL days, and stands to enhance lifelong education in the region.

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Our Sea Grant programs have embraced the products, and we will see increasing use of and reference to Great Lakes Literacy. Thank you to our sponsors for making this possible!

--- submitted by Rosanne Fortner & Lyndsey Manzo, October 2011.

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Appendix 2: COSEE GL Profile for Decadal Review

In the world of ocean sciences education, COSEE Great Lakes (GL) is something of a Cinderella story. For so many years the beauty of the Great Lakes and their contributions to the welfare of the nation were understated and unsung. Like Cinderella, the Lakes and their educators worked hard and served well, expecting little, their story yet to be told. The Great Lakes of North America span 7o30’ of latitude and 16o of longitude, reaching more than 1200 km from east to west and some 724 km north to south. These vast freshwater seas form the north coast of the United States, with more than 16,000 km of shoreline, roughly the same as the Atlantic coast. The Lakes drain over 247,000 square km of watershed and hold 20% of the world’s supply of fresh surface water. The eight Great Lakes states are home to 82 million U.S. citizens, more than one-quarter of the nation’s population, of which more than 13 million are K-12 students. With the inclusion of a Great Lakes program among the Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence, and concurrent federal recognition of the Lakes as a key component of ocean policy, the values and wonders of the region and the contributions of its dynamic scientists and educators have been recognized. Educators in the seven Sea Grant programs of the Great Lakes – MN, WI, IL-IN, MI, OH, PA and NY – were regulars at ocean education’s royal ball, having hosted the National Marine Educators Association’s (NMEA) annual conference three times, providing a President for that organization, leading the Sea Grant Educators Network and a regional chapter of NMEA, and offering the greatest number of published works in marine and aquatic education through the 20th Century (Fortner, 2010). Yet for these Sea Grant educators, activity was primarily confined to their respective states; opportunities for multi-state efforts in marine and aquatic education were rare, and working as a region was mostly done ad hoc, unfunded. When the COSEE request for proposals came out in 2005, the slipper fit. A COSEE for the Great Lakes was seen as the next step toward recognition of that hidden beauty and potential for ocean sciences education contributions. The seven Great Lakes Sea Grant programs crafted a proposal to do regionally what they had previously done only in states, to build together a program based on educational research, science excellence and outreach expertise. Our goal was to share the science of the sea using lake examples with regional educators, and Great Lakes science with ocean educators. It is all the same science. COSEE support gave our network of existing collaborators in schools (including five of the 100 largest school districts in the U.S.), informal institutions in each state, and science laboratories and research consortia the chance to expand the quantity and quality of education efforts, develop innovations in outreach to scientists, and reach greater numbers of underserved groups in the region. The “Fairy Godmother” of our story is NOAA’s Office of Sea Grant. Noting that the COSEE Great Lakes proposal originated in the work of Sea Grant Education, with NOAA personnel in leadership roles, the agency stepped forward to provide half the funding for the 2006-2010 COSEE program. This partnership assured support of the state Sea Grant offices with their considerable connection to aquatic sciences, resources for communication and contact

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networks, and the cross-agency collaboration essentially provided twice the program visibility. Another critical contributor to regional efforts was the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) through its Great Lakes National Program Office (GLNPO). This agency offered COSEE GL the use of its primary research vessel, the 180-foot R/V Lake Guardian, for one week each summer to host a “Shipboard and Shoreline Science” workshop for educators. The experience of 15 educators living aboard ship with scientists and learning about complex lake systems through authentic science data collection protocols emerged as the most valuable of our annual events in terms of impact on conceptual change among educators and attitudinal change among scientists (Walters & Fortner, in preparation). Along the way to our Great Lakes goals, this COSEE contributed to the upkeep of the COSEE “household.” Unlike Cinderella, however, our contributions were not menial ones. COSEE GL contributed to common outreach efforts such as the Current special issue, the development of marketing and visibility plans and materials, presence at national conferences, leadership and participation in Working Groups, and teaching the Communicating Ocean Sciences course at the University of Michigan. Always happy in our work, we reviewed songs for Ocean Literacy (OL) and assembled our own musical Tribute to the Great Lakes, free to educators. The Ocean Literacy we taught in our workshops was enhanced by editing a special edition of Science Activities magazine (2009) and development of the Great Lakes Literacy Principles (GLLP, 2010) through a collaborative grant from COSEE CA. The GLLP mirror OL principles and make it easier for our regional audience to make ocean connections. At the same time, COSEE GL educators and scientists feel pride of ownership with GLLP and plan greater uses of them in outreach. The main tasks we built for ourselves in our COSEE region were focused on professional development (PD) for educators and scientists. We did our homework, basing efforts on baseline studies of scientist and educator collaboration, teacher priorities for Great Lakes education, student knowledge of the Great Lakes, and evaluations of existing workshop models, both for face-to-face and online professional development. The research base provided background information to establish content that was likely to be used, and methods that were proven

effective in the literature. To fulfill our responsibility to the professions of science education and ocean sciences, our program practices and evaluation results are being prepared as contributions to journals. Informal and classroom educators were served through land-based and shipboard venues, long

workshops and shorter Teachable Moments, curriculum collections to take the learning home, Marine Immersion scholarships to enable participation in partner programs, and online programming to bring scientists together on a key topic and make their presentations accessible. PD for scientists, called Limno-Links for Lake Science connected to learning, took the form of a biennial School for Scientists at the annual conference for the International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR), and Educator House-Calls,

Teachers aboard EPA’s Lake Guardian learn to extract water samples.

Hannahville (MI) Indian School students learned lake science firsthand with partner Inland Seas Education Association.

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in which educators visited science facilities to discuss their needs and how the scientists could connect with education audiences. Scientists also reported that their experiences with educators in the workshops and as conference co-presenters were a great form of professional development. Other tasks related to new audiences for Great Lakes education. We intentionally targeted underserved groups of educators and scientists through connections with large urban school districts, tribal schools and IAGLR/Sea Grant scientist networks. We had much success in reaching underserved groups among younger audiences, as we facilitated student experiences with Great Lakes science through partner programs. O’LAKERS (Ocean/Lake Aware Kids Engaged in Relevant Science) support filled “the $400 gap,” the cost of bus rental, which prevents many classrooms from ever seeing the Lakes as their teachers have seen them. Through O’LAKERS we targeted urban and tribal groups, serving over 2900 students of which at least 78% were from majority underserved groups (schools in Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee and Cleveland have < 20% white students). While Cinderella had only her fairy godmother to help her find the magic that would show the world her worth, COSEE GL assembled a confederation of all the Great Lakes Sea Grant Educators, working with their science partners in IAGLR, Sea Grant researchers, NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, and the Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research, plus key informal science education institutions in each state. Together they fulfilled the dream of effective ocean sciences education for the Great Lakes, and formed lasting alliances built on contributing together to the future health of the Great Lakes and oceans through an informed citizenry. Their story is being told in a series of white papers for current review and eventual publication (Summit, 2011). Midnight came and went with no additional funding, but the magic COSEE GL coach continues to roll as leaders are collaborating on several multi-state grants from NSF and EPA that began with COSEE ideas and connections. This is one coach that won’t turn into a pumpkin.

Resources in support of the COSEE GL story (citations above and contributions not included in Highlights)

COSEE GL, 2010. Great Lakes Literacy Principles. Online at www.greatlakesliteracy.net and described in Fortner, R.W. and L. Manzo, 2011. Great Lakes Literacy Principles. Eos Trans AGU, March 28. Fortner, R.W. (Ed), 2009. Ocean Literacy, Special Issue, Science Activities 46(3). http://coseegreatlakes.net/news/20090819 Fortner, R.W. (Ed), 2010. Abstracts of research in marine and aquatic education, 1975-2010. http://beta.w1.oesd.noaa.gov/pubs_reports/2010_Fortner_MarineEducationResearch.htm Great Lakes Education Summit, 2011. Sweetwater Seascape 4(1). Online at http://coseegreatlakes.net/newsletter/nl16.html#article3 Walters, H. and R.W. Fortner (in preparation). Comparative impact of shipboard and land-based professional development on conceptual change among Great Lakes educators (working title). Online workshops presented a Great Lakes overview, plus special focus on regional geosciences and ecosystems, and an opportunity for contribution to summary white papers from

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the Great Lakes Education Summit. Programs reached a total of 1042 educators and scientists over five years. http://coseegreatlakes.net/summit/downloads/GL_CBLIS-CoE.pdf Scientist Engagement brought excellent researchers into contact with educators for opportunities in workshops, classrooms, co-presentations, and curriculum assistance. One example is Dr. Greg Boyer, the focus of this resource item: http://coseegreatlakes.net/summit/index#evidence Research that informed the structure and content of COSEE GL professional development included baseline research specific to collaboration (http://coseegreatlakes.net/summit/index#evidence )

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Appendix 3: EPA report of Lake Guardian media impact, from Chief Science Officer Joel Hoffman

Lake Guardian Workshop: Impact Web Content

Web pages created: 8

Main page: http://www.epa.gov/research/scievents/lakesci11/index.htm

Profiles: http://www.epa.gov/research/scievents/lakesci11/crew.htm

The Lake: http://www.epa.gov/research/scievents/lakesci11/lake.htm

Activities: http://www.epa.gov/research/scievents/lakesci11/activities.htm

Research Onboard: http://www.epa.gov/research/scievents/lakesci11/activities.htm

Mailbag: http://www.epa.gov/research/scievents/lakesci11/mailbag.htm

Multimedia: http://www.epa.gov/research/scievents/lakesci11/multimedia.htm

Blog: http://www.epa.gov/research/scievents/lakesci11/blog.htm

Web statistics: https://maxamine.epa.gov/ord/special/lakesci11/traffic_reports/Daily/

General Statistics

Timeframe: 1 Jul 2011 00:00 - 31 Jul 2011 23:59

Number of Hits for Home Page 1,323

Number of Hits for Entire Site 11,121

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Number of Page Views (Impressions) 2,692

Number of Page Views And Document Hits 2,789

Number of New User Sessions 1,688

Number of Unique Visitors 1,033

Number of Repeat Visitors 242

Average Number of Visits 1.63

Number of Unique Users 0

Number of Repeat Users 0

Total Bandwidth 513.89 MB

User Sessions from United States (US) 80.98%

International User Sessions 11.61%

User Sessions of Unknown Origin 7.41%

Average Number of Hits for Home Page Per Day 43

Average Number of Hits Per Day 359

Average Number of Page Views Per Day 87

Average Number of Page Views And Document Hits Per Day 90

Average Number of User Sessions Per Day 54

Average Bandwidth Per Day 16.58 MB

Average User Session Length 01m 33s

Banner on EPA.gov

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Twitter

Total Tweets Issued by @EPAResearch with #LakeSci11: 56

Total ReTweets of above 56 tweets: 131

Total # of followers reached: 110,928

Blogs

Banner on Greenversations for the week of July 20 – August 1, 2011 (left up until Monday August 1)

Total Blogs posted on Greenversations: 6 posted from 7/20 – 7/27 (1 per day)

http://blog.epa.gov/blog/tag/lake-guardian/

Total Blog Comments: 10

Podcasts

Total Podcasts created: 4

Mailbag

Total questions via Mailbag: 3

Total questions via Twitter: 4

Total questions answered on web (as of 7/28/11): 4

Facebook

Total Wall posts on EPA Facebook page: 4

http://www.facebook.com/EPA

Total Likes: 54

Total Comments: 4

Total Wall posts on EPA Great Lakes Restoration Facebook page: 2

http://www.facebook.com/epagreatlakes?sk=wall

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Total Likes: 3

Other Mentions:

Featured Resource on EPA’s Science & Technology home page: http://www.epa.gov/gateway/science/

Banner on EPA’s Research homepage: http://www.epa.gov/research/

COSEE News article on Cindy Hagley’s award: http://coseegreatlakes.net/news/20110419

Media

Articles

Total Articles Online: 13

Teachers use summer vacation to grow as educators - August 2, 2011. April Lehmbeck, C & G Staff Writer http://www.candgnews.com/news/teachers-use-summer-vacation-grow-educators

Lake Guardian July 20, 2011. Duluth News Tribune http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/image/id/69874/headline/Lake%20Guardian/

Education Wrap Jul. 26, 2011. Keith Uhlig, Daily

Herald http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20110726/WDH04/107260332/Education-wrap

http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/news/education/15-Educators-Go-Out-On-Superior-Science-Expedition-125747928.html http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/home/Keeping-Lake-Superior-Clean-126183353.html

https://secure.forumcomm.com/?publisher_ID=36&article_id=204793&CFID=210793441&CFTOKEN=31213175

http://greatlakesecho.org/2011/07/27/teachers-return-today-after-weeklong-lake-superior-research-trip/

http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20110725/WDH0101/110725228/Merrill-teacher-gains-shipboard-research-experience

http://www.wdio.com/article/stories/S2207369.shtml?cat=11563

http://www.chem.info/News/Feeds/2011/07/manufacturing.net-news-innovative-research-on-epa-s-r-v-lake-guardian-mn/

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http://www.manufacturing.net//News/Feeds/2011/07/mnet-mnet-industry-focus-environmental-innovative-research-on-epa-s-r-v-lake-guardian-mn/

http://www.environmental-expert.com/news/innovative-research-on-epa-s-rv-lake-guardian-247610

http://whtc.com/news/articles/2011/jul/21/lake-superior-science-expedition-begins/

Total Unique Visitors to websites where above articles are found (only those in Vocus: 10 total): 1,306,990

Press Releases

Total Press Releases Issued: 2

Minnesota Sea Grant (issued 7/18): http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/news/2011/07/18

EPA Press Release (issued 7/20 via Region 5): http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/1e5ab1124055f3b28525781f0042ed40/a27a0757877b8fee852578d3005be1e3!OpenDocument

TV coverage

Almanac North (Duluth, Minnesota PBS station): http://www.wdse.org/shows/almanac/watch/almanac-north-july-15-2011