COSEE-OLC and our web design partner Locus Interactive are happy to announce the development of our community microsite.  Please join us in previewing our upcoming new web site and be among the first to sign up for our electronic community.
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COSEE-OLC is proud to partner with Washington SeaGrant and the Puget Sound Partnership to host a workshop highlighting opportunities in Citizen Science. We are in the planning phase for the workshop. Look for more information posted to our website this fall.

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COSEE-OLC is launching an initiative to add COSEE information to the Wikipedia.   Until the start of this initiative, there was no information in the World’s largest Encyclopedia about COSEE, its missions, or the themes of ocean education.  You can help. 

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On June 26, 2008, COSEE-OLC researchers Carrie Tzou, Giovanna Scalone, and Philip Bell presented findings from a cross-setting ethnographic study of how youth learn about the environment and ocean science at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The poster, entitled “Developing a sense of place: Privilege, class and positioning [...]

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COSEE-OLC has an active, deep collaboration in place with the LIFE Center, an NSF-funded Science of Learning Center. In 2004, the LIFE Center and the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington established the LIFE Diversity Panel. The Panel’s goal was to summarize important principles that educational practitioners, policy makers, and researchers can [...]

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COSEE-OLC provided support for the participation of a teacher-student team from the Ocean Research College Academy (ORCA) in Everett as part of the Schools on Board International Polar Year expedition to the Arctic. This opportunity to send a Washington school in the Arctic arose through collaboration with Dr. Jody Deming, professor at the University of [...]

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On March 5, 2008, Véronique Robigou will present COSEE Ocean Learning Communities at the 2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Orlando, Florida. The meeting focuses on “From the Watershed to the Global Ocean” through plenary sessions, special events, and topical sessions. From March 2 to March 7, these sessions will emphasize the important nature of the connections that water provides [...]

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