With the launch of NOAA’s ship Okeanos Explorer, marine education and exploration enters a new era.  This week NOAA hosts an Education Forum to develop plans for educational use of the new ship.  COSEE representation at this important forum include eleven current or former COSEE members.  OLC’s own Phil Bell is giving a presentation titled ‘How [...]

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Rick Keil, one of the COSEE-OLC researchers, has been evaluating how materials are transferred from urban homes to the sea.  Usually the compounds of interest are fun and safe (cooking spices).  However, last fall he teamed with esteemed researcher Anne Steinemann to evaluate the ‘nasties’ and their flow to the ocean.  Anne has just published a new work [...]

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