NOAA's National Ocean Service: Roundtables

Promoting Ocean Awareness and a Stewardship Ethic

Roundtable Program | Attendees | NOS Coordinating Offices

Education is an essential part of ocean stewardship. It is not enough to govern our oceans in isolation; stewardship implies that we are striving to achieve a sustainable future for the ocean realm. We must communicate the importance of responsible ocean governance to those who will be doing the governing long into the future. This Roundtable focused on opportunities for improving and increasing ocean literacy and stewardship, formal and informal marine science education for grades K-12, and NOS outreach activities. NOS is looking for new partnerships with governments, nongovernmental organizations, the private sector, and academia to improve ocean awareness and stewardship.

Roundtable Program

9:00	Welcome - Dr. Richard Spinrad
9:10	Introduction of Roundtable Participants
9:30	Opening Remarks - Dr. Richard Spinrad
9:50	Discussion of NOS's Activities and Initiatives
10:30	Break
10:45	Discussion of NOS's Educational Activities
11:55	Closing Remarks - Dr. Richard Spinrad

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Attendees (listed alphabetically)

Jennifer Black, National Marine Sanctuary Foundation

Tyson Brown, National Science Teachers Association

Beth Burgess, National Aquarium in Baltimore

Andrew Burnett, US EPA Office of Environmental Education

Francesca Cava, National Geographic Society

Penelope D. Dalton, Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education

Marguerite Duffy, Coastal America

Vicki Fabiyi, National Aquarium in Baltimore

Melissa Goslin, National Geographic Society

Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.

Rachel Lillestolen, National Marine Sanctuary Foundation

Chris Mann, Center for SeaChange

Blanche Meeson, Ocean.US

Jennifer Merrill, Oceans Studies Board

Betty Olivolo, World Wildlife Fund

Jane Biggs Sanger, Delaware Department of Natural Resources

David Smith, United States Naval Academy

Sallie Smith, Prince George's County Public School

Peter Tuddenham, College of Exploration

Lisa Weiss, Jacques Costeau National Estuarine Reseach Reserve

NOAA Ocean Council

Marlene Kaplan, NOAA Office of Education and Sustainable Development

NOS Coordinating Office

One NOS program office is coordinating the sixth roundtable:

The National Marine Sanctuary Program (NMSP) protects and manages 13 sanctuaries encompassing over 18,000 square miles of U.S. ocean. Important habitats like breeding and feeding grounds of whales, sea lions, sharks and sea turtles; coral reefs; kelp forests; and historic shipwrecks are represented within the system of sanctuaries. Each sanctuary maintains an on-site field staff that conducts research and monitoring, resource protection, and educational activities. Information on the NMSP program can be found at the program’s Web site -- sanctuaries.noaa.gov

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