Entries by Mitaali Taskar

Teaching with Ocean Data in the Age of ChatGPT

How do you engage students in ocean science, data literacy, and programming skills–especially when your students have access to AI models like ChatGPT?  In this fast-changing world, each instructor has come up their own tricks. For two Data Labs members, Dr. Mikelle Nuwer and Atticus Carter of the University of Washington, it meant tapping into […]

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The Inner Workings of Updating a Lab Manual Chapter

Dr. Mikelle Nuwer’s favorite OOI Lab Manual Chapter is the one that focuses on primary production in the Atlantic Ocean. She prefers it over Lab 3, which focuses on the plate tectonics in the Pacific Northwest, even though it’s near where she teaches at the University of Washington. She also prefers it over Lab 5, […]

Teaching the Power of Data to All Audiences

Students walk into our classrooms with a myriad of interests, experiences, and motivations. Some might be there because it’s a required box to check for their major. Others are genuinely curious and signed up for an interesting elective. And a few… well, they are trying to figure out if oceanography—or whatever your course is about—is […]

Princeton Data Literacy Workshop Inspires New OOI Educational Activities

Fresh off the success of a multi-institutional workshop on oceanographic data literacy, Rutgers Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (DMCS) staff Janice McDonnell and Sage Lichtenwalner have just completed another data literacy workshop, this time in Princeton, New Jersey. Nineteen undergraduate-level university faculty and staff were invited to the Chauncey Hotel & Conference Center on October […]

Data Labs at the 2024 OOIFB Community Workshop

Data Labs community members gathered with other educators, scientists, stakeholders, and NSF OOI team members to brainstorm new ways to use Mid Atlantic NSF OOI data in the classroom.    This past fall, the NSF OOI Facilities Board (OOIFB) hosted a workshop to bring together scientists, educators, and NSF OOI operators to learn about the […]

Awash With Data

Forty-seven professors from 13 states, driven by their dedication to providing the best education for their students, chose to spend their summer at our Data Labs 2024 workshop in Wilmington. They recognized the importance of engaging their students with raw oceanographic data from the NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), an opportunity they did not want […]

UNCW Workshop Welcomes New Faculty to the OOI Data Labs Community

Members of Rutgers University Center for Ocean Observing Leadership (RUCOOL) hosted a data literacy workshop in Wilmington, North Carolina on June 2-5. Led in part by Janice McDonnell and Sage Lichtenwalner, the workshop involved nearly 50 professors from across the country learning about each other’s experiences teaching at various institutions, including community colleges, primarily undergraduate […]