Performance Report for Cooperative Agreement No: na06oar4810163 for the Period from September 1, 2006 to August 31, 2012 University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Table 21. Upward Bound Marine and Estuarine Science Program sessions (Nov. 2007 – Jul. 2008)
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- Table 22. Upward Bound Marine and Estuarine Science Program Academic Year Sessions (Oct. 2008 – Feb. 2009)
- Table 23. Upward Bound Marine and Estuarine Science Summer 2009 Program (Jul. 2009 – May 2011)
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- Eastern Shore Restoration and Education Program (ESREP) at UMES
- Table 27: Mean pre- and post-test scores of Coast Camp participants 2007-2011.
- South Florida student shark program (SFSSP) at UM-RSMAS.
Table 21. Upward Bound Marine and Estuarine Science Program sessions (Nov. 2007 – Jul. 2008)
Table 22. Upward Bound Marine and Estuarine Science Program Academic Year Sessions (Oct. 2008 – Feb. 2009)
Table 23. Upward Bound Marine and Estuarine Science Summer 2009 Program (Jul. 2009 – May 2011)
Table 24. Upward Bound Marine and Estuarine Science Program Academic Year Sessions
Table 25. Upward Bound Marine and Estuarine Science Program Sessions
Table 26. Upward Bound Marine and Estuarine Science Program Sessions
Eastern Shore Restoration and Education Program (ESREP) at UMES: This is a leveraged program of the LMRCSC, funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency, LMRCSC, National Park Service, Worcester County Public School System and Maryland Coastal Bays Program. It was designed to promote environmental literacy among middle and high school students through research and restoration projects on the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland. ESREP was offered in two phases: 1) An environmental restoration and monitoring program which began in Fall, 2007 and continued through Spring, 2008 and 2) a Marine and Environmental Science Summer Camp offered in July, 2008. LMRCSC students and faculty led a group of three hundred (300) students and four teachers from Stephen Decatur Middle School in Berlin, MD in water quality and species diversity monitoring at a site adjacent to UMES’ Paul S. Sarbanes Coastal Ecology Laboratory following removal of the invasive marsh grass Phragmites in 2007. Water quality monitoring was conducted on March 27-April 2, 2009 and on May 5, 2009. The group also experimented with paper making utilizing the discarded Phragmites. LMRCSC students Dan Cullen, Lonnie Gonsalves, Josh Newhard, Reginald Black, Eryn Kahler, Dan Luers and Ryan Corbin along with Dr. Andrea Johnson (UMES) and Todd Christenson (UMES) led these activities, which formed part of the middle school students’ service learning project. The Marine and Environmental Science Summer Camp was offered to 21 students in grades 8-12 for two weeks from July 7 to 18, 2008. Drs. Joseph Love and P. Chigbu, and Ph.D. student, Lonnie Gonsalves designed research projects for the students focusing on species diversity in the Coastal Bays, fish diets, and land use effects on water quality. An overview of these research topics was presented on the first day of camp, and the students selected the project in which they preferred to participate. Students conducted field and lab studies under the guidance of their mentors and concluded the camp by presenting the findings of their research using both posters and Powerpoints to an audience of their peers, parents, and faculty. In between field and lab research, students also participated in field trips to the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, NASA Wallops Island, National Aquarium in Baltimore, and COMB, where Mary Stapleton, Rosemary Jagus and graduate student led a session on the blue crab life cycle. S  SU Coast Camp: The Coast Camp at SSU funded by the LMRCSC from 2007 to the present was based on Ocean Literacy principles for youth aged 7-18. In 2007, 86 students (93% African American) were enrolled. This camp coordinated by Dr. Dionne Hoskins, also provided training and jobs for 6 collegiates, 4 of whom were also African American. Additional funding ($4000) and material support (establishment as a free lunch site) was obtained from the NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center and the City of Savannah. In 2008, there were 105 youth that enrolled in the summer camp at SSU. The camp was designed to teach students how to be better stewards of the marine environment using NOAA’s 7 ocean literacy principles. Students were divided into 4 classes: lower elementary (7-8 years), higher elementary (9-10 years), middle school (11-13 years), and high school (14-18 years). Each class was taught by 3-4 counselors. By serving a broad age group and being affordable, the SSU Coast Camp offered strong, accessible science instruction and long term exposure to marine science for a diverse audience of youth. Materials advertising the LMRCSC Coast Camp were submitted to the Savannah Morning News for inclusion in its annual camp guide and were distributed by the Savannah Chatham County Board of Education. The camp was also featured in a Savannah Morning News article.
Participants were administered pre- and post-tests to assess the extent to which they learned materials that were covered in class. The pre- and post-test scores of Coast Camp participants are presented in Table 27 and show that there was a 5 to 12% improvement in learning at the end of the program. Table 27: Mean pre- and post-test scores of Coast Camp participants 2007-2011. 
The South Florida student shark program (SFSSP) at UM-RSMAS. In this program, graduate and undergraduate students, acted as mentors for one another and for high school students at the same time that they engaged in shark research. This program had participation from graduate students from the University of Miami Division of Marine Biology and Fisheries, undergraduate students from the University of Miami Marine Science Program and high school students from the MAST Academy, South Broward High School and the Palmer Trinity High School. Over 150 high school students have participated in this program since it was established, http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/users/fmg/research/sfssp.html. The South Florida Student Shark Program was the main outreach and high school educational activity conducted by the LMRCSC at RSMAS. The LMRCSC supported the activity by partially funding the participation of a MA graduate student in the Marine Affairs and Policy program, Anthony di Silvestro, who acted as coordinator of the field program of the SFSSP. The SFSSP was also the only LMRCSC activity that involved undergraduate students at the University of Miami. These students did not receive support for their participation, but instead did it voluntarily. More than 30 undergraduate students from the University of Miami Marine Science participated in the SFSSP. In 2010, the South Florida Student Shark Program, which for the previous 4 years was partially funded by the LMRCSC, successfully obtained private donor support to create a long-term program for Ocean Conservation and Education. A gift, provided to the University of Miami by the R.J. Dunlap foundation allowed for the creation of the R.J. Dunlap Marine Conservation Program http://www.rjd.miami.edu/ . The program is now led by Dr. Neil Hammerschlag, a new Research Assistant Professor at the Division of Marine Affairs and Policy of UM and a former graduate student of the LMRCSC. The RSMAS LMRCSC project has begun to partner with this new program in its outreach and high school education efforts. More than 10 undergraduate students from the UM and more than 100 high school students were associated with the South Florida Student Shark Program, and since January 2010 with the R.J. Dunlap Marine Conservation Program. Directory: cms300uploadedFiles cms300uploadedFiles -> Kiah 1127 phone: 410-651-6429 office hours: mw 9: 00-10: 00 am, tu th 12: 00-3: 00PM cms300uploadedFiles -> Performance Report for Cooperative Agreement No: na11sec4810002 for the Period from July 1 to December 31, 2011 University of Maryland Eastern Shore Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center Paulinus Chigbu, Ph Download 7.02 Mb. Share with your friends:
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