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Data Labs at ASLO 2025: Sharing Our Undergraduate Teaching Experiences

  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…

ASLO 2025 Aquatic Sciences Meeting

OOI Data Labs Sessions at ASLO 2025 The OOI Data Labs community had a strong presence at the 2025 ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting in Charlotte, NC—marking our first exciting foray into the broader aquatic sciences community. While OOI Data…
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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…
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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…
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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 graph with 3 plots showing the 2015-2024 bottom pressure timeseries at Axial Seamount, the rate of inflation, and the daily earthquake count.

Will Axial Seamount Erupt Again Soon?

A new example Python notebook activity As you may have heard, the seafloor at the Axial Seamount volcano continues to uplift, and is about to pass the level it reached during the last eruption in 2015. In addition, earthquake activity…
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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,…
A graph showing 3 different timeseries profiles of temperature, salinity and chlorophyll at the new Pioneer Array Southeastern Profiler Mooring

Pioneer MAB Profiler – New Python Notebook Activity

A new example Python notebook activity Have you ever wanted to play with profiler data from the NSF OOI? For simple exploration, the OOI Data Explorer is a great way to browse and quickly plot profiler data.  (There are currently…
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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…
A graph showing a timeseries of winds (top) and waves (bottom) from the Pioneer MAB Central Surface Mooring in April 2024, showing the passage of a storm which is clearly visible as a peak in both datasets on April 12.

Pioneer MAB Storm – New Python Notebook Activity

A new example Python notebook activity As part of the OOI Data Labs 2.0 project, one of our key goals is to create a new series of Python notebook-based lab activities to help professors and undergraduate students use NSF OOI data, especially…
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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…
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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…