2nd Ocean Observers Workshop

Context

The Ocean Observers is an international educational network of marine scientists and communicators, teachers, and other stakeholders who are willing to share marine science educational resources and experiences for exploring the possibilities to establish new international collaborative activities. A long-term goal of the Ocean Observers initiative is to assemble all educational materials in a unique, free access repository, which will help to build a global ocean observation learning platform.

Marine science education and outreach are fundamental tools to raise awareness among the communities that a monitored, preserved, and healthy ocean is vital for the well-being of generations to come. The existing outreach activities, focused on in situ ocean observations, are isolated and lack national, European, and international visibility and coordination. Moreover, these activities involve various categories of people who lack opportunities to talk together. The Ocean Observers workshop wishes to promote discussions and collaboration between all actors involved in marine science outreach activities and help them to properly disseminate scientific knowledge about the ocean.

If you are an ocean scientist, teacher or representative of an educational authority, marine communicator, and more generally a citizen involved in educational activities focused on ocean observations, please join for this 3-day interactive marine science education event!

Objectives of the workshop

• Share experience and resources around ocean observing educational activities
• Generate and support discussions and collaboration between people engaged in marine science educational programmes
• Engage new schools, educators, scientists, NGOs, citizen, etc. in ocean observing educational activities

Programme

The Ocean Observers workshop is a 3-day on-line, interactive event, organised around oral presentations, roundtables and informal discussions, hands-on experiments, and poster exhibitions.

Each day includes 2 sessions of 2 hours duration per day, at two different times of the day, trying to suit different time zones. The workshop language is English, with some sessions translated into other languages.

Important dates

• Call for contributions open until 12^th September 2021
• Abstract acceptance notification & Final Programme: 7^th October 2021
• Workshop registration: 7^th – 22^nd October 2021