About Ocean Leadership
The Consortium for Ocean Leadership is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit organization that represents 95 of the leading public and private ocean research and education institutions, aquaria and industry with the mission to advance research, education and sound ocean policy. The organization also manages ocean research and education programs in areas of scientific ocean drilling, ocean observing, ocean exploration, and ocean partnerships.
In addition to these programs, Ocean Leadership has an active education and community engagement program designed to help students, teachers, elected officials, and the general public better understand the significance of research discoveries, as well as the relevance and value of oceans research. For more information on Ocean Leadership outreach activities, contact Susan Boa.
Deep Earth Academy develops programs and materials based on scientific research expeditions to strengthen students' mathematics, science and analytical skills. Our vision is Teaching for Science, Learning for Life™ - using scientific ocean drilling to provide a multidisciplinary approach to earth science education.
We work to equip educators to teach about the earth using all disciplines – from chemistry, physics, biology and math to engineering and technology to reading and writing. We use exploration of the world around us as a model and strive to help students become better decision makers, problem solvers, science-literate citizens and stewards of our planet.
Deep Earth Academy Staff
Leslie Peart Director of Education lpeart@oceanleadership.org
Sharon Katz Cooper Assistant Director of Education scooper@oceanleadership.org
Lynne Pacunas Teacher Fellow 2007-08 lpacunas@oceanleadership.org
Texas A&M
The Department of Oceanography is committed to the discovery and dissemination of knowledge about the ocean. We educate students about the ocean in the classroom and develop their research skills by involving them directly in research ashore and on ships in all oceans of the world. We study processes and interactions among oceans, atmosphere, biosphere and geosphere by collecting, analyzing, and modeling large data sets to solve important complex problems of immediate and long-term concern to society.
Research in the College of Geosciences
The College of Geosciences has one of the largest college research programs in the Texas A&M system. Browse our research areas in the College’s four departments – Atmospheric Sciences, Geography, Geology & Geophysics, and Oceanography – and visit the research pages of our three research centers – the Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG), the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), and Texas Sea Grant.
The College of Geosciences has four academic departments: Atmospheric Sciences, Geography, Geology & Geophysics, and Oceanography, and has an Environmental Program in Geosciences.
Atmospheric Sciences are the sciences of the atmosphere, weather and climate which are so important to human activities and life on this planet.
Geography involves human interactions with the environments—physical, biological and cultural. As an interdisciplinary field, it requires knowledge from the other geosciences as well as from the social and biological sciences.
Geology deals with the processes and forces acting at the surface and within the earth; with the materials of the earth, its forms and structures; and with the history of its development and the evolution of life on its surface and in its waters.
Geophysics deals primarily with the physics of the solid earth from the measurement and understanding of its internal structure and physical properties, plate motions and their effect on continents and ocean basins, to the detection of its natural resources through remote sensing.
Oceanography is the study of the marine environment and its inhabitants. The distribution and nature of marine life, the development of ocean basins, the chemistry of ocean waters and the dynamics of the water masses of the sea are the major elements of oceanography.
Dr. William Sager
Professor
Jane and R. Ken Williams '45 Chair in Ocean Drilling Science, Technology, and Education
Phone: (979) 845-9828
Fax: (979) 845-6331
wsager@ocean.tamu.edu
Office: 317A O&M Building
- Plate tectonics
- Tectonic reference frames
- Paleomagnetism and environmental magnetism
- Magnetostratigraphy and the magnetic polarity reversal time scale
- Pleistocene-Holocene sea level variations
- High-resolution geophysical methods
- Magnetic and gravity field interpretation
MIT Research Programs
Geology, Geochemistry, and Geobiology (PG3)
To trace our planet’s history and better predict its future, we are developing highly accurate means of monitoring material and chemical fluxes through the Earth system, describing and imaging the Earth’s crust, and measuring time in the geologic record. Numerous opportunities exist within PGGG for collaboration among scientists studying tectonics, geochronology, geodynamics, climate change, atmospheric dynamics, physical oceanography, and other related topics.
Frederick Frey
Professor of Geochemistry
Ph.D., 1967, Univ. of Wisconsin
Phone: (617)253-2818
Address:
54-1226
Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA
Email: fafrey@mit.edu
Interests
Origin and evolution of igneous rocks; upper mantle composition and processes.
Group
Staff
Postdocs
Graduate students
As described in our strategic plan, NSF is the only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences. NSF is tasked with keeping the United States at the leading edge of discovery in a wide range of scientific areas, from astronomy to geology to zoology. So, in addition to funding research in the traditional academic areas, the agency also supports "high risk, high pay off" ideas, novel collaborations and numerous projects that may seem like science fiction today, but which the public will take for granted tomorrow. And in every case, we ensure that research is fully integrated with education so that today's revolutionary work will also be training tomorrow's top scientists and engineers.
Editor: Sea90e
For suggestions, comments or additional ideas related to this project, please contact me directly. Many of the materials on this website were developed during or after the 2007 summer expedition to the Indian Ocean. By expanding the website with research results and related research, our goal is to build student interest in ocean science careers.
Rory Wilson
Mathematics Teacher, Curriculum Development, Title I
MS. University of Arizona 1988
Phone: (970) 878-9060 ext. 222
Address:
445 Cedar Street
Meeker, CO 81641
Barone Middle School
Bob Tucker Drive
Meeker, CO 81641 USA
Email: rwilson@meeker.k12.co.us
Interests
Educational Outreach, Ocean science, alternative energy, computer and communications technology.
