Connecting the Threads

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Connecting the Threads
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NOPP Structure
U.S. Navy DaRPA NOAA MMS NSF OSTP NASA OMB DoE DoS
EPA USACE USCG USGS
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Context for IOOS education Planning
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NOPP Charter

• NOPP established by Congress (Public Law 104-201)
  in 1998
• 1. To promote the national goals of
• assuring national security,
• advancing economic development,
• protecting quality of life, and
• strengthening science education and communication
  through improved knowledge of the ocean
• 2. To coordinate and strengthen oceanographic
  efforts in support of those goals bya)
  identifying and carrying out partnerships among
  federal agencies, academia, industry, and other
  members of the oceanographic scientific community
  in the areas of data, resources, education, and
  communication, and b) reporting annually to
  Congress on the Program.

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NOPP Strategic PlanDraft

• 5 main elements
• IOOSthe observing system
• Education and communications
• Oceanographic infrastructure
• Interagency research and connections to
  operations
• Interagency and inter-sector partnering

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ORAP Strategic Education AgendaDraft

• OVERALL GOAL To lead the Nation in articulating,
  implementing, coordinating, assessing, and
  sustaining a National Agenda that improves public
  ocean and coastal literacy and strengthens
  science and technology education through an
  enhanced understanding of ocean and coastal
  concepts and their interrelationship with the
  atmosphere, cryosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere
  and biosphere.
• SPECIFIC GOALS NOPP serves the Nation by
  coordinating federal agencies, academia,
  industry, and other members of the oceanographic,
  scientific and technical communities to
• Catalyze, strengthen, and sustain effective
  outreach and public education programs
• Facilitate the use of the national infrastructure
  in advancing the overall goal of improving ocean
  literacy and strengthening science and technology
  education
• Promote the development and diversity of the
  ocean-related workforce
• Formulate a policy/investment plan designed to
  maintain a viable ocean-related education
  infrastructure to address ocean and coastal
  literacy needs.

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Build Upon ExistingReports, Plans,
Recommendations

• NSF pre-COSEE workshops and recommendations
• ORION workshop and recommendations
• Agency/program education plans
• NASA, NOAA, USGS, Sea Grant, NMS, etc.
• US Commission on Ocean Policy Report when it is
  available (April 20th)

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Considering Issues think about

• Purpose, policy, program, practice aspects of
  Issues
• Need for coordination, collaboration, coherency,
  continuity and issues these needs might generate
• Distributed-local, state, national
• Participation of educators not on the coast?

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Considering recommendations and strategies

• Build on the best of whats already in place or
  underway
• Try to avoid reinventing the wheel
• Perfect the wheel for new uses that are
  known(wheels evolved from carriages, to
  bicycles, to cars, to airplanes, to ..)
• Create new where gaps exist
• Use assessment and evaluation to guide decision
  making
• Again consider
• Purpose, policy, program, practice aspects of
  recommendations
• Implication for coordination, collaboration,
  coherency, continuity within education

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K-12 Programs
Radio Programs
Internet Programs
Informal Lrn Ctr Exhibits
Park/Sanct/Reserve Programs
Training/ Continuing Ed
Youth Programs
TV Programs
UndergradCurricula
Ocean Science Assets
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Sample Existing Ocean Education and Science Assets
AMS Edu DataStemes, Maury, Atmo- spheres, etc.
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K-12 Programs
Radio Programs
Internet Programs
Informal Lrn Ctr Exhibits
Park/Sanct/Reserve Programs
Training/ Continuing Ed
Youth Programs
TV Programs
UndergradCurricula
Ocean Science Assets