The North Inlet-Winyah Bay Reserve is excited to partner with South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium and children's author Kevin Kurtz to offer a professional K-5th teacher development opportunity in Georgetown, SC July 23-24, 2019. The deadline for this NOAA 'Teachers on the Estuary' workshop is May 31st so don't delay. Find out more and apply here.

You can find a complete listing and descriptions of all the NOAA 'Teachers on the Estuary' workshops taking place around the country this summer on their workshop calendar web page.

The Challenge will be held in Aurora, IL in October and is open to teams of 3-4 high school students and their faculty sponsor(s). Student teams compete in research and design thinking to create innovative responses and solutions to address their selected water challenge.  Space is limited! Find out more and register your team.

Join NOAA Planet Stewards, NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) and the Aldo Leopold Nature Center( ALNC) on November 7th and 8th for a two day workshop featuring hands-on activities for integrating climate, STEM, and data resources into your classroom or informal science curriculum. Teachers will leave ready to coach their students in using satellite data to investigate weather and natural hazards. CEU credits and reimbursement of up to $200 per participant are available. Find out more and register today!

Interested in what parts of the U.S. have the highest chances for a soggy summer? Read more here.

Or might you be looking for a way to explain how global warming influences extreme weather? Then access the video from the National Center for Atmospheric Research and resources on the CLEANET website here.

Now in its 5th year, the "Get Into Your Sanctuary Photo
Contest 2019" helps raise awareness about marine sanctuaries in a fun and informative way. Contrary to popular misconception, marine sanctuaries are not, "hands off," regions, but rather places where all kinds of activities including fishing, diving and boating are encouraged. Check out this photo contest, learn more about marine sanctuaries, and help spread the word about what marine sanctuaries are all about. The contest runs from May 25 through September 2 (Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day weekend). Find out more. 

Do you want to enhance your knowledge of Earth system science and earn graduate credit?  Over 22,000 teachers have boosted their STEM curriculum and impacted millions of students through involvement in one or more of AMS Education’s teacher professional development programs that are largely all-expenses-paid including DataStreme, the Maury Project, and
Project Atmosphere. Find out more here!

The MATE Center is co-hosting four workshops this summer.

• Tucson, Arizona - July 9 - 12, 2019·     
• Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Alabama - July 28 - August 1, 2019

• Tucson, Arizona - July 22- 26, 2019
• Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon - August 5 - 9, 2019

You can learn more about these workshops on the MATE website here.

2019 ESIP Summer Meeting July 16-19

Data to Action: Increasing the Use and Value of Earth Science Data and Information.  

For 20 years, Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) have brought together the most innovative thinkers and leaders in Earth observation data, forming a community dedicated to making Earth observations more discoverable, accessible and useful to researchers, practitioners, policymakers, educators and the public. Participants will learn how to put data in action in the classroom through using Jupyter Notebooks and other Earth science tools. Registration for teachers is $50, but those attending the meeting will receive a full refund plus a stipend of $200. A full registration will be given until June 10th. Register here.

Middle school science and high school biology teachers are invited to submit an application to attend a free one-day workshop presented by Project 2061, the science education initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The workshops will be offered at three locations:

• Brookhaven National Lab,  Upton, NY on July 9th;
• Teach for America in New York City on July 10th;
• Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago on July 31st. 

Deadlines are approximately a month before the actual conference is to occur. Questions? Please call Barbara Goldstein at 202 326 6628 or email her at bgoldste@aaas.org.

The Gulf of Maine Marine Education Association is proud to host the National Marine Educators Association National Conference, July 21-25, 2019 at the University of New Hampshire campus in Durham, NH. The Association's mission is to make known the world of water both fresh and salt, and its annual conference brings together formal and informal marine educators from around the world, drawing 300-500 professionals for four days of learning, sharing, and networking. Hope to see you there! For more information and to register, click here.

Climate Generation has a special professional development opportunity coming up for humanities teachers! Join them for their 14th annual Summer Institute for Climate Change Education in Washington, D.C. for three days of hands-on activities, field trips, and opportunities to see how climate change fits into your subject area. Registration is open, and they also have scholarships thanks to their Teach Climate Teachers Scholarship Fund! Learn more here.

The 2020 Ocean Sciences Meeting will be help from Feb.16th to Feb. 21st, 2020 in San Diego, California and a K12 youth session is planned for select students with abstracts due in October 2019. Contact Elizabeth Eubanks at wocaca@yahoo.com if you'd like to learn more about oral and poster sessions opportunities for K-12 students.

Scientists at the United Nations' intergovernmental body focusing on biodiversity sounded alarms earlier this month with its report on the looming potential extinction of one million species. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) released its report on what it called nature's "unprecedented" decline. IPBES's report detailed how "The health of ecosystems on which we and all other species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever," the panel's chairman, Sir Robert Watson said in a statement.

An educational psychology Ph.D. Candidate at Texas tech and former HS science teacher is conducting a survey to ask K-12 teachers of any subject about their experience of incorporating (or excluding) information on climate change into their classes. He developed a survey to help explain the barriers science teachers face when tackling tough political issues in the classroom like climate change. The survey is completely anonymous. Please take 20 minutes to help out science teachers in the United States!
Click here to go to the survey. 

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