Ocean Observing Systems Summer Teacher Institute – August 11-15, 2008
Many of the activities below were developed by COSEE-Coastal Trends for the east coast of the USA. COSEE-Coastal Trends and COSEE-West have adapted those activities for southern California.

Monday, Aug 11 at University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Lecturer: Graduate student Ivona Cetinic, USC

• "The Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS): Ocean at your fingertips" (PDF, 5.1 MB)
• Globe Toss (PDF, 171 KB)
• Exploring Ocean Observing Systems (PDF, 340 KB)

Tuesday, Aug 12 at Ocean Institute, Dana Point
Lecturer: Sue Magdziarz, Ocean Institute

• "Ocean Observing System Data in the Classroom"
• Data from our 2 CTD casts while on the boat (XLS, 88 KB)

Wednesday, Aug 13 at Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, San Pedro
Lecturer: Dr. Laura Murray, UMCES

• “What makes waters move?” with short video (MPEG, 7.36 MB)
• Density Driven Currents demonstration (PDF, 1.77 MB)
• Horizontal water movement using Drifters (PDF, 216 KB)
• Surface Circulation Model (PDF, 2.18 MB)
• Vertical Water Movement (PDF, 324 KB)
• Where are the Organisms? (southern California) (PDF, 217 KB)
• Where are the Organisms? (East Coast) (PDF, 158 KB)
• Density Webquest (PDF, 24 KB)
• Local Weather and the Ocean (PDF, 159 KB)

Thursday, Aug 14 at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena
Lecturer: Mr. Benjamin Holt, JPL
Lecturer: Ms. Annie Richardson, JPL

• OSTM/Jason-2, sea level rise, climate change

Lecturer: Ms. Karen Yuen, JPL

• NEO and POET

Friday, Aug 15 at University of California, Los Angeles
Lecturer: Dr. Anita Leinweber, UCLA

• “Time-series measurements in Santa Monica Bay, CA”
• Santa Monica Bay Observatory

Resources for the week

• Websites (PDF, 98 KB)
• Articles
• Yellow Submarine Probes Undersea World
• Cytobot Gives Early Red Tide Warning (from Oceanus July 2008)
• Underwater Gliders for Ocean Climate Observations (PDF)

You can find the lesson plans that were developed by the teachers who participated here.