Posts Tagged ‘Ocean Academy’
Women in an H2O World
Girl Power in Science! As part of her NOAA Teacher at Sea experience, Kaitlin Noyes (BIOS’s Science in Education Coordinator) compiled a list of women working in diverse aspects of ocean science research and education
Read MoreYoung BIOS Employee Embarks on New Adventure Overseas
BIOS bids a fond farewell to Forrest Williams as he sets forth on pursuing an Associate’s of Applied Science Degree in Marine Industry Technology from the Landing School in Arundel, Maine (U.S.) on a full scholarship
Read MoreLeading the Way in Ocean Science Education
At BIOS, we believe that ocean science for human good involves not only research with tangible benefits for communities and the environment, but also education programs that highlight the many ways our lives are connected with the ocean
Read MoreBIOS Explorer Brings Sargasso Science to Bermuda Students
Over 1000 students and teachers from 18 different primary schools around the island came to BIOS for the 2013 BIOS Explorer program
Read MoreSome of our Achievements in 2012
Thanks to your support in 2012, scientists at BIOS were able to make significant strides in understanding pressing ocean science issues of both local and global importance. At the same time, BIOS educators successfully brought ocean science education into the hands of students and teachers throughout Bermuda and beyond its borders
Read MoreTeachers Take an Expedition to the Sargasso Sea
Source: Ocean Academy Blogger
Over a two day period last month, 45 teachers from 25 primary and secondary schools in Bermuda took part in “Expedition Sargasso” – the professional development workshop put on every year by the BIOS Education staff
Hooked on Science
By Helen Jardine for Saltus Magazine Spring 2012
Saltus alum John Paul Skinner swears he has the “best job ever.” In his role as Education Officer at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), “JP,” as he likes to be called, regularly divides his time between running a number of diverse educational programmes and taking students into the field—“the really fun part,” he says, as it typically involves a boat ride out to Bermuda’s reefs
BIOS Explorer 2012: Gizmos and Gadgets to Study the Ocean
Our mission: to explore the ocean around Bermuda. Your challenge: to understand the tools scientists use to study it! In January 2012 over 1,100 primary school students participated in the Explorer program at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, under the auspices of the newly established ‘Ocean Academy’
Read MoreBIOS Highlights Lionfish Threat
Source: Bernews
When more than 1,100 Bermudian primary school children took part in the BIOS Explorer program at the East End research facility in the winter of 2012, two colourful lionfish, Simba and Nala, were among the stars of the show