STEM Ed Announcement: Topics in Oceanography Workshop

["Mort Sternheim" <mort@k12s.phast.umass.edu>]

This is not a STEM Workshop
 Contact Information is below
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 Topics in Oceanography
 Professional Development Workshops for Educators
 
 Monday, July 25, 2011, 9:30am-3pm, at the 
 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA
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 â??HabCam: using advanced imaging technology to study New England seafloor 
 ecologyâ??  An opportunity to participate in current and ongoing 
 oceanographic research 
 
 Â Presenters: 
 - Scott Gallager and Amber York, Biology Department, Woods Hole 
 Oceanographic Institution
 - Â Karen Bolles, Arnie's Fisheries
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 - See the HabCam (habitat camera) and computer technology that are 
 providing scientists with current information about the New England 
 coastal ocean floor and how this ecosystem is changing over time. 
 - Find out how citizens and classrooms can participate in an exciting 
 scientific image analysis project, and learn how to get started. Become 
 familiar with the HabCam web site and how to use it with your class. 
 - Participants will have hands-on individual instruction in how to use 
 and analyze images collected over time of seafloor organisms, 
 biodiversity, and invasive species, and find out how to carry the 
 project forward into the school year.
 
 Registration: $50, breakfast and lunch included. Please include your 
 contact information, so we can send directions to the workshop site.
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 Checks payable to WHOI; no purchase orders.
 Mail to: Kathy Patterson, WHOI, MS # 16, Woods Hole, MA 02543.
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 Contact: Kathy Patterson, kpatterson@whoi.edu, 508-289-2700, or
 Kate Madin, kmadin@whoi.edu, 508-289-3639

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