Sunshine Menezes Executive director Metcalf Institute for Marine & Environmental Reporting Rhode Island STAC award 2014 STAC grant: Data Narratives — Climate Change in Narragansett Bay as a Case Study for Engaging Communication of Scientific Information. This team’s efforts focus on gaps in data collection and its dissemination to scientists, decision makers and the public. […]
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RISD experience evokes wonder, challenges assumptions
Jennifer Bissonnette Rhode Island School of Design Biological programs designer, The Nature Lab SURF program mentor With an undergraduate degree in biology, a Ph.D. in marine science, and a passion for art, Jennifer Bissonnette embodies what Rhode Island School of Design brings to the Rhode Island NSF EPSCoR table — the marriage of scientific investigation […]
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Andrew Beers arrived on the Brown University campus his freshman year with the intention of majoring in English until he changed course and headed into public health. But then, he landed in Caroline Karp’s environmental law and policy class, where he wound up mapping flood zones and using sea level rise projections to estimate where […]
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Take about 60 first graders out of school and set them down in a place brimming with wonder and discovery, and the stage for chaos seems readily set. But, under the capable direction of their teachers and Edna Lawrence Nature Lab staff, the young Paul Cuffee School students saw their science and art curriculum come […]
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STEAM possible: Opening up the 8th grade mind Panelists share stories of paths taken, lessons learned Catalina Martinez, a physical scientist with NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, grew up in a large, traditional, multi-generational Cuban family that didn’t view education as important for girls. Still, she told about 60 eighth graders at The Learning […]
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