Performance Report for Cooperative Agreement No: na06oar4810163 for the Period from September 1, 2006 to August 31, 2012 University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Increased use of the Virtual Campus for a) curriculum development and b) meetings
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- MEES 682 Fisheries Science Management
- MEES 608i Fisheries Policy Management- An Ecosystems Approach to Fisheries Management
- Table 1. Course schedule for Fisheries Policy and Management (MEES 608i)
- Table 2. Schedule for Fisheries Policy and Management (MEES 608N) taught in Spring 2010
- Table 3: Course taught by LMRCSC faculty and NOAA Collaborators via the LMRCSC Virtual Campus in Spring 2010.
- MEES 688 Introduction to Environmental and Resource Economics
- MEES 688 Fishery Survey Sampling
- MEES 642
- MEES 644 Multivariate Statistics
- Table 4. Courses Offered Online during Fall Semester 2011
- Table 5. LMRCSC Spring 2007 Seminar Series
- Table 6. LMRCSC Seminar Series 2010-2011.
Increased use of the Virtual Campus for a) curriculum development and b) meetings, Strengthening collaborations among center partners, and Strengthening administrative and programmatic components of the Center i) Increased use of the Virtual Campus: LMRCSC institutions have established a network of videoconferencing facilities. This Virtual Campus was used to provide courses to students, hold graduate student thesis and dissertation committee meetings, Executive Committee meetings, thesis and dissertation defenses, and to interview candidates for post-doctoral and faculty positions. Additionally, LMRCSC scientists used the facility to execute activities for LMRCSC leveraged projects. For example, Dr. Deidre Gibson (HU) used the system to connect for COSEE meetings and to connect Elizabeth City State University for the DREAMS seminar series. The Virtual Campus concept was expanded in 2011 to include not only courses offered through videoconferencing, but also in an online format. At the LMRCSC institutions, the videoconferencing facility was also used by faculty members who were not directly affiliated with the LMRCSC. For example, at HU, Dr. Jim Russel of the Atmospheric Sciences Department used the LMRCSC-funded videoconference facility to connect to a site in Mexico and explain HU’s research on upper level ice clouds and their implication for global warming. ia) Academic Courses: Several University System of Maryland MEES courses were offered each semester, from 2006 to 2012, to LMRCSC students and others at UMES. Additionally, LMRCSC scientists offered courses, some of them newly developed, including those considered by NOAA NMFS as essential for training fisheries scientists, to students using the Virtual Campus Facility. Examples of courses taught at UMES via the Virtual Campus are presented below; a detailed list of the courses is available in Appendix I. Biol 688B Ichthyology: Through the use of the Virtual Campus, students at DSU were able to enroll in Dr. Joseph Love’s (UMES) course in Ichthyology (BIOL 688B) for the Fall semester, 2006. Seven students at UMES and nine from DSU participated in the class which also featured several lectures by Dr. Dewayne Fox who was the LMRCSC Project Director at DSU until 2010. Similarly, students at SSU were able to enroll in Dr. Love’s Ichthyology course in Fall semester, 2007. Seven students at UMES and eight from SSU participated in the class which met on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 to 10:50am. MEES 682 Fisheries Science & Management: The Virtual Campus, enabled UMES graduate students, Ryan Corbin and Larry Alade to enroll in Dr. Ed Houde’s (UMCES, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory) Fisheries Science & Management course, taught over the University System of Maryland’s Interactive Video Network. Though located in Woods Hole, Larry was able to participate in the class, a requirement for his degree, using the NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center’s videoconferencing unit. The course met Wednesdays from 1:30 – 4:30pm during the Fall semester, 2006. MEES 608i Fisheries Policy & Management- An Ecosystems Approach to Fisheries Management: Like the Fisheries Policy and Management course originally taught in Spring, 2005, a team of fisheries management experts from NOAA and other agencies was assembled by Dr. Eric May (UMES) and Dr. Kevin Chu (NOAA Northeast Regional Office) to offer this course via the Virtual Campus to students at all Center partners for the Fall semester, 2007. The schedule for the course is presented in Table 1 below. Table 1. Course schedule for Fisheries Policy and Management (MEES 608i)
In spring 2010, the Fisheries Policy and Management course was offered by Drs. Brad Stevens and Eric May, (Tables 2) and was designed to give students an introduction to the science and application of fisheries management at the federal and state levels. Four students at UMES and six at DSU were enrolled in the class (Table 3). Kate Fleming, who was stationed at the NOAA NMFS facility at Panama City, FL took the course via audioconference/Skype due to the lack of video equipment at the lab. Table 2. Schedule for Fisheries Policy and Management (MEES 608N) taught in Spring 2010
Table 3: Course taught by LMRCSC faculty and NOAA Collaborators via the LMRCSC Virtual Campus in Spring 2010.
MEES 688 Introduction to Environmental and Resource Economics: Drs. Kristy Wallmo and David Tomberlin (NOAA Headquarters, Silver Spring, MD) created and taught in fall 2009 a graduate course entitled Introduction to Environmental and Resource Economics, in which a total of eight students enrolled between UMES and DSU. They presented their lectures alternately from UMES and DSU with the other campus receiving the lecture via the Virtual Campus. The course was coordinated at UMES and DSU by Drs. Eric May and Dewayne Fox, respectively. The course was also taught in summer (August 9 – 17) 2010 by Drs. David Tomberlin, Kristy Wallmo, Kornelia Dabrowska and Ayeisha Brinson (NOAA NMFS) along with UMES economics faculty (Drs. Stephan Tubene and Mohammad Ali)to four UMES students. Fish Immunology: Drs. Andrea Johnson and Rosemary Jagus developed a course in Fish Immunology in which 6 students at UMBI-COMB and UMES enrolled using the Virtual Campus facility. MEES 688 Fishery Survey Sampling: This was one of the graduate courses offered via the Virtual Campus. Dr. Brad Stevens taught the course during Fall semester 2010 and 2011. This course trained students in methods of estimating abundance and other parameters of fish, shellfish, and wildlife populations. Students learnt theory and techniques for different sampling strategies including random, stratified, systematic, cluster, adaptive, and ratio estimators, as well as procedures for estimating error rates and sample size for each method. Problems and examples were analyzed using Microsoft Excel or R. Eleven (11) students, mostly from LMRCSC at UMES, were enrolled in 2010. In 2011, six students were enrolled, three of whom were off-campus, and took the class online via Blackboard. MEES 642 Fish Stock Assessment: This course was offered at UMES in Spring 2011, co-instructed by Dr. P. Chigbu, Dr. Larry Alade (NOAA NEFSC) and Dr. Albert Chi and delivered via Blackboard/Wimba. Jessica Blaylock, a contractor at the NOAA NEFSC and UMES Professional Science Master’s (PSM) degree student, enrolled in this course online. Seven others at UMES took the course in real time. MEES 644 Multivariate Statistics: This course was instructed by Dr. Albert Chi (UMES) in spring 2011. In addition to Jessica Blaylock, who participated online, 5 other students enrolled in the class at UMES. Marine Population Dynamics: Drs. David Die and Nelson Ehrhardt (RSMAS) utilized the University of Miami Blackboard System as well as the Go-to Meeting software to offer a course in Marine Population Dynamics in spring 2009 to students at RSMAS and DSU. A total of 6 DSU and 6 UM-RSMAS graduate students enrolled in the course. Dr. David Die (RSMAS) taught the course again in spring 2010 during which four LMRCSC PSM degree students at UMES took the course, and has continued to teach it every spring semester. A list of courses offered in fall 2011 to LMRCSC students is shown in Table 4. Table 4. Courses Offered Online during Fall Semester 2011
*Essential courses for training fisheries scientists The Center developed an Articulation Agreement that has been signed by the LMRCSC partner institutions making it possible for students at non-University System of Maryland institutions to enroll in courses offered at center institutions via the Virtual Campus facility and earn credit. The LMRCSC Virtual Campus Facility was also used to deliver seminars to faculty and students at center institutions. For example, the Center’s Spring 2007 Seminar Series (Table 5) coordinated by Dr. Joseph Love (UMES) and faculty at the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff, that featured guest speakers from various universities and agencies, was made available to faculty and students at center institutions via IVN. This was also the case for the LMRCSC seminar series that was offered in 2010 and 2011 (Tables 6). Forty (40) students and faculty from UMES, HU, DSU and COMB participated in the seminar that was delivered by Dr. Brad Stevens on February 19, 2010. Presentations by Drs. Sook Chung and Eric Schott on April 9 and April 16, 2010 respectively were made from IMET and were made available at all LMRCSC partners via the Virtual Campus. Sixty (60) students and faculty from UMES, HU, RSMAS and IMET participated on April 9, and 50 from UMES, SSU, HU and IMET participated on April 16. Table 5. LMRCSC Spring 2007 Seminar Series
Table 6. LMRCSC Seminar Series 2010-2011.
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