PAT-UC Covers - California Sea Grant - UC San Diego
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to motivate students and build self-confidence in their academic<br />
abilities. Many of the participating students attend schools at<br />
which a majority of families qualify for federally subsidized<br />
school lunch programs.<br />
Another component of the project has been the creation and<br />
publication of new classroom materials on topics such as<br />
bioluminescence and kelp forests, aimed at helping students<br />
pass the state’s Science Standards and fostering a genuine<br />
– lifelong – interest in learning.<br />
The principal investigator, Miriam Polne-Fuller of <strong>UC</strong> <strong>San</strong>ta<br />
Barbara, was awarded the university’s Alumni Association<br />
Teaching Excellence Award in 2001 (see project R/E-54PD).<br />
Assessing <strong>San</strong>ctuary Shorelines<br />
<strong>Sea</strong> <strong>Grant</strong> provided funding to develop the Seymour<br />
Intertidal Monitoring Program, a quantitative monitoring<br />
program designed to be conducted by high school students,<br />
volunteers and teachers in perpetuity. The goal is to survey<br />
plants and animals living within rocky intertidal habitats of<br />
NOAA’s Monterey Bay National Marine <strong>San</strong>ctuary, both as<br />
an educational program and to provide long-term baseline<br />
ecological data. The need for this type of data was made<br />
apparent in the 1980s as people tried but were unable to fully<br />
evaluate the ecological damage caused by an oil spill.<br />
The project is a collaboration with area schools and NOAA’s<br />
Monterey Bay National Marine <strong>San</strong>ctuary and was adapted<br />
from a college curriculum developed by widely regarded<br />
emeritus biology professor John Pearse of <strong>UC</strong> <strong>San</strong>ta Cruz. His<br />
work in biology and education has long captured the attention<br />
of media. In response to this most recent work, the <strong>San</strong>ta<br />
Cruz Sentinel ran, “Students Get Their Feet Wet in Intertidal<br />
Monitoring Project” in November 2000. Pearse and four<br />
participating students were also interviewed on a radio show in<br />
April 2001, and <strong>UC</strong> <strong>San</strong>ta Cruz featured the project in their online<br />
magazine. Pearse was awarded the <strong>San</strong>ctuary’s Recognition<br />
Award for Education in 2003 (see project E/UG-5PD).<br />
<strong>California</strong> <strong>Sea</strong> <strong>Grant</strong>: 1998-2003<br />
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