Education Highlights

Ocean FEST is online!

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Ocean FEST (Families Exploring Science Together) puts science in the hands of Hawai‘i’s students and their families. Our overarching goal is to interest Hawai‘i’s kids in careers in ocean science and related Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields through fun, hands-on activities. Read more about it in the UH News.

Teacher participates in science-at-sea program

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Wrayna Fairchild, a teacher at Innovations Public Charter School on the Big Island of Hawai‘i, recently participated in a four-day cruise with the Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) as part of the C-MORE Science Teachers Aboard Research Ships (STARS) program. Read more about it in West Hawaii Today. (Image courtesy of West Hawaii Today.)

Previous announcements are available on the Archived News and Announcements page.

Education & Outreach

Photo of boy collecting water samples at the beach. Kids’ Korner

Where kids learn about the tiniest creatures imaginable. Discover your microbe personality, win a prize while testing your Microbial Oceanography IQ, challenge yourself with the word search game, and connect with whyville, a virtual community where kids play games to learn about microbes.

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Photo of teachers using astrolabe. K-12 Teachers

Join us on a Science Teachers Aboard Research Ships (STARS) experience. Apply for a Grant for Education in Microbial Science (GEMS). Borrow a C-MORE Science kit. Or play Oceanography Jeopardy.

Photo of C-MORE scholar. Undergraduates

Apply to our C-MORE Scholars Program during Fall and Spring semesters. We also partner with Summer Internship programs at Woods Hole and MBARI.

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Photo of student in lab. Graduate Students and Post-doctoral Scholars

Meet the C-MORE graduate students and post-docs. Check out our Microbial Oceanography: Genomes to Biomes summer course. C-MORE students and post-docs can apply for C-MORE EDventure grants.

Cover of 'Key Concepts' brochure “Key Concepts in Microbial Oceanography”

This brochure explains key concepts in microbial oceanography in easy-to-understand language. It also features brief interviews with C-MORE personnel at various stages (undergraduate, graduate, post-doctoral) in their career paths. Download the 15.3 MB PDF, or request your copy by emailing cmore@soest.hawaii.edu.

 

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