A network of undergraduate professors is creating a new edition of an open-source online laboratory manual, full of free educational data activities for anyone to use in undergraduate or graduate oceanography classes. Developed by the Ocean Data Labs project, each chapter of the online lab manual focuses on different oceanographic concepts typically taught in an […]
As March came to a close, several members of the OOI Data Labs community convened in Charlotte, North Carolina for the 2025 ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting. The meeting featured several education sessions on building an ocean and aquatic scientific workforce, along with scientific sessions. As part of the program, Data Labs team members hosted […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
