If You're Only Going to Read One Oyster Book This Year, Oscar's Day Out Is It!
The BOP-CCERS community is growing a huge body of interdisciplinary curriculum that ties together STEM subjects with humanities and the arts. Oscar’s Day Out is a wonderful piece of student work that embodies this, weaving together science, writing, and art.
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Oscar’s Day Out, as the back cover tells us, “follows Oscar the Oyster and his life in the city. He teaches us about all his friends and how they can help the environment.” Written by Cassie, a student in BOP-CCERS fellow Emily Chandler's class at P.S. 371, as a way to teach fourth graders about important environmental topics, we hope you'll love this book as much as we do! Check it out in its fabulous entirety on our blog!
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May Fellowship Colloquium Recap: Microbiology of New York Harbor
Professor Gregory O'Mullan displaying a New York Harbor water sample + fluorescent nutrient solution mix in an IDEXX tray that's ready for the heat sealer, emphasizing that it's important to keep it upright! |
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More than 25 BILLION GALLONS of raw sewage and polluted stormwater discharge into New York Harbor each year. Massive numbers of pathogens enter our waterways whenever this happens, creating human health risks and damaging marine habitats. For the BOP-CCERS May Colloquium, we explored this phenomenon and the microbiology of New York Harbor with guest expert Professor Gregory O’Mullan, an environmental microbiologist from CUNY Queens College. Click here to learn how the teachers engaged in citizen science water quality testing- and how you can too!
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Preparing for Field Expeditions with the BOP-CCERS Fellows
BOP-CCERS fellows getting hands-on with oysters from The River Project’s Oyster Restoration Station at Pier 40 in the Hudson River. |
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Citizen science in the classroom, expeditions in the field, getting up close with Hudson River organisms- the BOP-CCERS Field Training #2 covered it all! Read the full recap here.
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Partner Spotlight: What advice do you have for young scientists?
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Jon Dohlin
Director of the New York Aquarium
"My advice to young scientists—or any young person—is to try to understand what really motivates you, and then keep following the vein of that passion through all the unforeseeable directions and places that lie ahead. The world changes so quickly that we can’t even imagine most of the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Whether you are using science, or art, or business… if you understand what it is that gives you satisfaction and happiness, you’ll have a guide through every twist and turn in the path ahead. Good luck!”
Stephanie Wortel
Manager, Education, New York Academy of Sciences
"Something young scientists should remember is that the process of collecting data and doing science includes making mistakes, getting messy, seeing something fascinating, getting frustrated, but always being persistent. A scientist does not have to be a super genius, but they do have to be curious, and have a drive toward being interested and getting involved!”
Jennifer Zanger
Division Director, Good Shepherd Services
"Get your hands dirty, discover things that you didn’t know, ask questions, and be curious. Know that you have much to contribute and that the little pieces count towards the bigger ones of restoring our waters and our environment and making our part of NYC healthier and more beautiful. It is yours…take it….” |
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1440869. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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