1. Education Schoolyard COSEE/SINERR Undergraduate Graduate Courses
Taxonomic database

2. Schoolyard
: >50 teachers, 113 teacher slots, impact on 11,278 students
Continued participation
Collaboration with UGA Marine Extension Service
Leveraged funding

3. Schoolyard Time divided between research and application
GCE PIs and students as mentors in field
Paradigm shift: how science is done
Presentations at national meetings
Ken Leach, Halley Page and Patricia Hembree national awards

4. Schoolyard
Student wiki

7. COSEE Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence
National program for educators (NSF funded)
Focused on ocean science
Exploring partnerships for 2010

8. SINERR
70,000 visits/y (residents, guests of residents, UGAMI, GCE, hunters, tour groups, etc.)
Brochures at Visitor’s Center
Daniel has given ~20 talks (45 min) to tour groups in last 2 y
SINERR teacher training workshops often visit the marsh with GCE researchers
Opportunity to do more by giving a script to the tour guides, more interpretive signs, etc. Schoolyard could help develop materials

9. Undergraduate ~10 undergrads/year 7 US and 2 foreign institutions
Several coauthors

10. Graduate 22 students from 4 institutions
7 PhD and 3 MS finished in past 3 years

11. Coursework
Marine Biology
(Moran and Alber, undergraduate)

12. Fouling Community Study

13. Coursework Biological Oceanography (Burd, undergraduate) uses GCE data
Quantitative Methods (Burd, graduate) analyzes GCE data
UGA Seminar (Meile, graduate), 5 GCE PI and 5 GCE graduate student talks, discussed LTER synthesis papers
Functional Ecology (Pennings/NCEAS, 7-institution graduate), writing paper on GCE data

14. Taxonomic database

15. ~2,500 visitors to species pages in 2008 ~ 25,000 visitors since 2002 Used by researchers, educators, general public