Highlights from the Cooperative Science Centers are based on their Educational and Scientific Research activites.
Fourth Quarter 2008
Education
Establishing a PhD pipeline among the NCAS partner institutions to graduate programs across the partnership.
Education
All Center partners support undergraduate researchers during both the summer and academic year, including undergraduate student exchange among partner institutions.
Education
Weather camps conducted each summer at three NCAS partner sites: Howard, JSU and UPRM; afford high school students the opportunity to learn about basic weather systems and forecasting techniques and the impact of worldwide climate and catastrophic weather events.
Fourth Quarter 2008
Education
Implementing strategies to recruit, mentor and train graduate students in NOAA-mission science, engineering and technology areas.
Education
Training activities that target students from middle school through college, introducing them to NOAA-mission science, engineering and technology areas.
Education
CUNY activities geared toward inner city students, especially from Harlem, North Manhattan and the Bronx, serving a population that is more than 85% Hispanic/Latino and African American.
Fourth Quarter 2008
Education
Adding an environmental science course for non-majors at FAMU to satisfy their basic science requirement, enhancing both environmental literacy for students majoring in teacher certification and recruitment into the University’s Environmental Science Institute.
Education
FAMU team of selected high school students-coached by ECSC graduate students-competed in the National Ocean Sciences Bowl, a national academic competition for high schools on topics related to the study of the oceans.
Education
FAMU poster competition for middle and high school students to encourage their awareness of estuarine ecosystems, in conjunction with a school lesson module developed by the Apalachicola Reserve.
Fourth Quarter 2008
Fourth Quarter 2008
Education
Established a pipeline program from high school through doctoral levels to recruit, mentor and train students in the study of living marine resources and their habitats.
Education
Developed intensive short courses at the Center to enable students in some undergrad programs lacking fisheries/aquatic sciences courses to fulfill program requirements with these courses.
Education
Created a summer Fish Stock Assessment program that includes internships at NOAA labs.
