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Coursera’s first marine science MOOC: Marine Megafauna | An Introduction to Marine Science and Conservation

In her preface to the second edition of “The Sea Around Us”, Rachel Carson succinctly captured the importance of the ocean when it comes to life on earth, including humans. Life started in the ocean, and we disrupt ocean processes at our peril. [quote author=’Rachel Carson’] “It is a curious situation that the sea, from…
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New Article in Eos – Smartphones and Geoscience Education

[photo size=’medium’ align=’right’ title=’Heather Heenehan records a marine species sighting on her iPhone’ icon=’zoom’ lightbox=’image’ link=’http://superpod.ml.duke.edu/johnston/files/2013/11/2013-11-05-DWJ-IMG_1112.jpg’]http://superpod.ml.duke.edu/johnston/files/2013/11/2013-11-05-DWJ-IMG_1112.jpg[/photo] As we are approaching the launch of the Coastal Walkabout citizen science network in Western Australia with the MUCRU folks, Marine Ventures and Gaia Resources, I’d like to point out a new feature article published today in Eos (the weekly magazine of geophysics published…
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$1500 outreach grant awarded to Superpod members

Earlier this fall the Duke Center for Science Education announced a small grant ($500-$1500) competition for student teams to work on hands-on activities for 4th through 10th graders.  Joy Stanistreet (PhD student), Sean Stanton (MEM Student) and I along with our faculty mentor Dr. David Johnston got together with local teacher Mrs. Jennifer Coggins from…
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