Outreach at CIOSS

Outreach is an integral activity at CIOSS. CIOSS addresses outreach to the general public through its fifth theme, Outreach, consisting of: Formal Education; Informal Education; and Data Products and Access. Improved data products and data access are primarily accomplished through collaborations with the NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch program. Additional outreach is accomplished in the form of workshops and meetings that are held throughout the year. Agendas and presentations from these workshops can be found on the navigation bar under Workshops and Meetings.

• CIOSS Outreach Poster
• Handout for CIOSS Outreach Poster (2 pg)
• Venice Symposium Paper on CIOSS Outreach (6 pg)

Formal Education in the SMILE Program: CIOSS is helping the Science and Math Investigative Learning Experiences (SMILE) program to develop its high school curriculum and activities in the thematic areas of Oceanography and Remote Sensing. The purpose of the program is to increase the number of educationally disadvantaged students and those from groups with low high school graduation rates who graduate from high school qualified to enroll in college and pursue careers related to science, math, health, engineering, and teaching. The SMILE Program conducts a year-round schedule of activities designed to provide hands-on science experience, strengthen students' knowledge, and raise students' academic and career aspirations.

The High School SMILE Program culminates in an annual High School Challenge Event, where SMILE club members work in teams of students from around the state on a community-based scenario. Students examine and collect data, develop a plan informed by the data, and implement strategies to communicate that plan. They then defend that plan to “community members, experts and other stakeholders,” as played by teachers, OSU students and faculty.

• PowerPoint Overview of SMILE
• Highschool Challenge 2007 Narrative
• Highschool Challenge 2008 Review (pdf),
  Website with pictures of Tsunami Public Service Announcements

SMILE Highschool Teacher Workshops are held throughout the year to enable the teachers to provide their students with the necessary skills and materials to prepare for the Challenge Event. The link below goes to a page where the acitivites from the last few years are available for download.

• The SMILE Program website
• Highschool Teacher Workshop Activities
• Tsunami Movie

Formal Education in the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program: During the summer of 2007, CIOSS sponsored 4 undergraduate students from around the United States to come to OSU and work with CIOSS Fellows. We plan to continue this program over the next several years. Here are some examples of past projects, given by the students' final reports.

1. Daniel Fulton: "Modeling the Columbia River Plume on the Oregon Shelf during Summer Upwelling" with Alexander Kurapov

2. Beth Prier: "Evidence for photoacclimation by the diatom Chaetoceros muelleri due to fluctuating light" with Ricardo Letelier and Pete Strutton

3. Jenny Rolling: "Correlation of Sea Surface Temperature in the Gulf Stream Extension with the Northern Hemisphere Annular Mode" with Dudley Chelton and Eric Maloney

4. Regina Yopak: "Comparing Glider Observed Velocities and Geostrophic Currents" with Kipp Shearmann

Informal Education at Hatfield Marine Science Center (HMSC): CIOSS is helping HMSC to build an interactive public display that will highlight the use of remote sensing to monitor the coastal ocean off Oregon and in other coastal locations. An interactive, touchscreen display will allow visitors to explore satellite data sets showing the surface of the ocean, as well as in situ data sets that allow the visitor to fly through the ocean underneath the surface.