HR: 0830h
AN: ED21B-1211    [PDF]
TI: Edge of the Arctic Shelf: an Online Education Expedition
AU: * Linder, C A
EM: clinder@whoi.edu
AF: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI DEPT PO MS 21, Woods Hole, MA 02543 United States
AB: The Edge of the Arctic Shelf website communicates scientific results and the beauty of the Arctic Ocean to a broad audience (junior high to PhD). The website supports the physical oceanographic component of the Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions Experiment (SBI), an extensive three-year field program in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. The website features four main segments: expedition overview, daily updates, images and facts, and science highlights. Starting this year (2003), I enlisted ten junior high classrooms to participate "virtually" in the cruise. While at sea, I received questions from the students via email. My daily updates incorporated answers to these questions, plus observations and digital photos of the science activities and environment. I then created the html and transmitted the pages to our server. In this fashion, students, scientists, and the general public interacted with our cruise in "near-real-time." This presentation will focus on highlights from the website and lessons learned.
UR: http://www.whoi.edu/arcticedge
DE: 4207 Arctic and Antarctic oceanography
DE: 4223 Descriptive and regional oceanography
DE: 6605 Education
DE: 9315 Arctic region
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting