2007 COAS Faculty and Student Outreach Activities
Abbott, Mark
Jan. ’07 – “Climate change in the Pacific Northwest”; presentation to the Portland Garden Club.
Feb. ’07 - Oregon’s Climate Change Integration Group; presentation to Conference on Forests and Climate Change.
Mar. ’07 – “Climate change and Oregon’s Ocean”; presentation to the Salem Rotary Club.
Mar. ’07 - Visits to Oregon Congressional delegation, Washington, DC; presentations on COAS science.
Apr. ’07 - OSU and Earth System Science; presentation to the OSU Alumni Association, San Jose, CA.
Collier, Bob
Began planning for a new year of professional development programs for Adult Basic Skills Development teachers at Oregon community colleges as part of a collaborative program with the State of Oregon. Our year-long pilot effort entitled “Ocean Sciences & Math Collaborative Project” (http://literacynet.org/ocean) involves instructors focused on workforce training, workplace education (cannery workers), adult basic education, adult secondary education (GED preparation), English to Speakers of Other Languages, Family Literacy, and Tribal Education (Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians). Recently submitted a proposal to Oregon Seagrant with Marta Torres (which was funded) to continue the development of this program for the 2008-09 year. Submitted a new “COSEE supplement proposal” with Marta Torres and the HMSC COSEE to expand the Ocean Sciences and Math Collaborative Program to include the OSU SMILE program and to establish stronger connections with the community colleges.
Education and Public Engagement coordinator for the OOI Coastal-Global Scale Node Implementing Organization. Working with the Consortium on Ocean Leadership, other OOI participants, and NSF to help specify an RFP for a new Education Implementing Organization. Foster the connection between community E&O opportunities and the technical infrastructure of the OOI. - Crater Lake outreach
Crater Lake – Ongoing support for outreach through presentations about Crater Lake research – most recently the aquatic moss exploration and contributions to NGS television materials.
http://www.craterlaketrust.org/science- and-
discovery/moss
http://www.news.com/Diving-into- mysterious-
Crater-Lake/2100-11394_3-6109485.html
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/ series/
naked-science/3031/Overview
Goñi, Miguel
Oct. 11-14, ’07 - Speaker at the 2007 Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) National Conference, Kansas City, MO. As part of this activity, also led the “Scientific Symposium on Coastal Environments” held Fri., Oct-12-2007; introduced topics of coastal oceanography and biogeochemistry to Chicano and Native American students attending the conference.
Facilitated the publication of a couple of articles for the COAS web site and Ocean & Air magazine
http://oceanandair.coas.oregonstate.edu /index.cfm?fuseaction=content.display&pageID=142
http://oceanandair.coas.oregonstate.edu/ index.cfm?fuseaction=content.display&pageID=148
Harte, Michael
Mar. ’07 - Organizer: Alternative Approaches to Discounting and the Management of Fisheries Resources. Special Session Theme IV: Fourth Biennial Forum of the North American Association of Fisheries Economists, Universidad Marista de Mérida, Merida Mexico.
June ’07 - Organizer: Teaching Case Writing Workshop. Studies in International Seafood Trade, University of Rhode Island.
Harris, Rob
Organized and led NSF sponsored workshop on “The future of marine heat flow: defining scientific goals and experimental needs for the 21st century.” Workshop report available at http://mgg.coas.oregonstate.edu/
~rob/36_MHF_workshop_final.pdf
Komar, Paul
In 2006 presented Byrne Lecture in Corvallis to the general public: “Living on the Oregon Coast in a Century of Climate Change.” In 2007 presented much the same talk on two occasions:Mar. 11, 2007 at Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport;Dec. 5, 2007 - The Osher Lifetime Learning Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene.
Koppers, Anthony
Gave two web seminars for the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) in collaboration with the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA). The seminar was part of the NSTA Learning Center (http://learningcenter.nsta.org) and entitled “Plate Tectonics Made to Order.”http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/symposia
_seminars/NSDL/webseminar4.aspx (Nov 2006) and “Hotspots, Plumes and LIPs: Everything's Coming Up Igneous”http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/symposia
_seminars/NSDL2/webseminar2.aspx (Oct 2007).
Oct. ‘07 - participated on the FeMO2 Dive Cruise 2007 Studying Fe-Oxidizing Microbes on Loihi Seamount using the JASON2 on the R/V Kilo Moana (KM0719). I participated on the cruise not as a scientist, but as the lead investigator leading the outreach component of this second FeMO cruise. To that extent we had a high school teacher onboard that helped fill in the following EarthRef.org website http://earthref.org/FEMO/cruises/2007/index.html of which I am the webmaster and designer.
Kosro, Mike
Chairman, Education and Outreach Committee, Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS).
Scientists and Fishermen Exchange Program; quarterly meetings.
Miller, Bob
May 11, ’07 - Lecture to the Geological Society of the Oregon Country (GSOC), Portland State University. “El Nino: What Does it Meano?”
Mueller, Rachael
Winter ’07 - Cruise Journal “Oceans and Ice Shelf Interactions Around the West Antarctica Ice Shelf,
http://www.esr.org/wais07_index.html.
Nielsen, Mark
Media attention to published journal article:
Interviewed by Bridgett Ennis for MicrobeWorld radio program about microbial fuel cell technology. Aired on a nationwide network of 75+ radio stations and heard by an estimated 75,000 people.Link: http://www.flpradio.com/microbeworld/
audio/080218080314/MW080221.mp3
Interviewed by Tom Simonite from New Scientist magazine about microbial fuel cell technology. Article appeared online in November 2007: http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn12894The same interview was picked up by Fuel Cell Today and re-written and published online: http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/online
/news/articles/2007-11/ Microbial-fuel-cells-used-to-pow
Interviewed by Rachel Petkewich from Chemical & Engineering News about microbial fuel cell technology. Appeared in CE&N October 29, 2007, also online at www.cen-online.org
June ’07 - Represented COAS graduate students and presented my work to the general public at SeaFest at Hatfield Marine Science Center.
Pearcy, Bill
Oct. ’07 - Member ISAB; Lecture on climate change and salmonids, Thyme Garden; Marys River Watershed Council; Salmon Watch to educate students on salmon biology, etc.
Perlin, Alexander
Gave a course of lectures on Physical Oceanography in a summer school for advanced kids (high school age) organized by volunteers from Moscow University and some other places; held in Russia.
Prahl, Fred
Feb. ’07 - Moderator at COAS-sponsored Annual NOSB Salmon Bowl.
Schmittner, Andreas
Sept. 21, ’07 - Interview with film crew from History Channel about the Younger Dryas.
Shaman, Jeff
Interview on climate science consensus, Houston Chronicle, Printed in January 22, 2007 entitled “Climate Scientists Feeling the Heat.”
Feb. 20, ’07 - Lecturer, Climate Change and IPCC 4th Assessment, OSU Sustainability Group.
April 21, ’07 - Lecturer, Climate Change, Human Health and Local Ecology, Earth Day Celebration, Hatfield Marine Science Center.
June 11, ’07 - Lecturer, Climate Change and IPCC 4th Assessment, Isaac Walton League, Corvallis.
June 15, ’07 - Lecturer, Climate Change and IPCC 4th Assessment, League of Conservation Voters, Newport.
Sept. 26, ’07 - Lecturer, Climate Change and IPCC 4th Assessment, The Seminar Group, Global Warming and the Effects on Environmental Law, Portland, OR.
Oct. 2, ’07 - Lecturer, Climate Change, Human Health and Local Ecology, Marys Peak Group, Oregon Sierra Club, Corvallis, OR.
Oct. 3, ’07 - Lecturer, Climate Change and IPCC 4th Assessment, 63rd Annual Conference of the Oregon Public Health Association, Corvallis, OR.
Dec. 12, ’07 - Speaker, Operational Hydrologic Monitoring of Mosquito-Borne Disease Transmission, Oregon Department of Health, Portland, OR.
Shell, Karen
April 21, ’07 - Earth Day seminar, “Uncertainty and Climate Change” at Hatfield Marine Science Center.
Oct. 20, ’07 - Speaker at Marylhurst University’s Climate Change Forum, “Climate Models and Predicting the Future.”
Featured in “Experts Tell Us” featurette in The Atmosphere, by Andrew Bridges, children’s (9+) book in the “Our Changing Climate” series by Sally Ride Science.
Sherr, Barry and Ev
Continued work with undergraduates in our lab by involving them in our research program; this activity has proven to be beneficial for both parties.
Interacted with the local, indigenous population in Barrow, Alaska during which we helped to keep them informed about our NSF-sponsored, multi-investigator research project in the coastal waters off Barrow. This generally took the form of developing lectures for community groups.
Spitz, Yvette
This paper [Bane J. M., Spitz, Y. H., Letelier, R. M. and Peterson, W. T., 2007: Intraseasonal Oscillations in Oregon's Coastal Upwelling System: From the Jet Stream to Zooplankton, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 104 (33)] got a lot of publicity last summer and fall:An article appeared in The Oregonian on August 9 and I was interviewed for OPR (August 8).An article was posted on the OSU News and Communication Services website
http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/
newsarch/2007/ Aug07/jetstream.html
On August 10, Rhett Butler contacted me and posted the story on http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0806-oregon.html
Strub, Ted Support (through CIOSS) the SMILE High School program and personally participate in the planning of after-school activities and the annual High School Challenge (April 2007) that have an oceanographic and/or remote sensing theme.
Visited the NOAA Office of Education twice (initially in May, 2007) to introduce them (OEd) to the SMILE program and discuss ways that it might help NOAA create a more National version of the SMILE program.
Directed CIOSS to use unspent funds to support 4 REU students (summer 2007); took part in the process of selection of students and their placement with mentors.
Participated as an instructor in a NOAA/NMFS short course on Remote Sensing for Fisheries in March 2007; also arranged for the use of the Geosciences Computer Lab for this course.
Hosted visits by two Chilean PO professors from the U. de Concepcion (June and July 2007) in order to expand the contact between our faculty and theirs.
Interact with Dave Foley, NOAA CoastWatch, fairly frequently to discuss new products for CoastWatch.
Joined the JPL Users Working Group in 2007, at their request, to represent coastal users of JPL remote sensing data.
Spent a fair amount of time developing plans for a Coastal Altimeter Workshop, originally scheduled for November 2007, then postponed to February 2008.
Visited the coastal ocean modeling group in NOAA/NOS (Frank Aikman) to discuss interactions between the NOAA/NOS modelers and the COAS modelers.
Suggested and sponsored a Workshop on Data Assimilation in Support of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems, held in Corvallis in April 2007.
Provided material to NASA demonstrating the need for high-resolution winds in coastal locations, to help motivate development of a high-resolution scatterometer.
Strutton, Pete
Feb. ’07 - Faculty liaison for the NOSB Salmon Bowl.
Mar. ’07 - Lecture to NOAA fisheries scientists as part of a NOAA Research-to-Operations Ocean Satellite Data Course at COAS/OSU.
July ’07 - Speaker (2 lectures) at the Apprenticeships in Science and Engineering Midsummer Conference, OSU.
Oct. ’07 - Speaker (3 lectures and invited seminar) at the Sea Education Association (SEA) program on oceans and climate, Woods Hole, MA.
Torres, Marta
Adult Education: Oregon Ocean Science and Math Collaborative Program, Planning for new series of institutes in 2008-2009Distinguished Lecturer for the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (2005-2008): Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, Feb 2007
Twohy, Cindy
Advisor for Kim Johnson, Honors College student (Physics), who graduated in June 2007.
Walczak, Paul
April ’07, National Ocean Science Bowl 2007 10th Anniversary National Competition at Stonybrook, NY: Gave a talk to NOSB high school finalists giving them an idea of what NOSB alumni are doing, specifically in oceanography. (I participated in the inaugural competition in 1997.)
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