2005 Educator at Sea
NWHI Reserve Educator at Sea Expedition Aboard the NOAA Ship Hi'ialakai
 On
August 12th the first-ever NWHI Reserve Educator at Sea expedition
took place aboard the NOAA Ship Hi'ialakai. Reserve Education
Coordinator Andy Collins lead a select group of ten Hawaii educators
on an
expedition of discovery to the first three islands and atolls
in the NWHI - Nihoa,
Mokumanamana, and French Frigate Shoals. The ten day voyage introduced
these hand picked educators and teacher trainers, who were chosen from
a field of over 80 applicants, to the spectacular ocean wilderness
of the NWHI.
During
the voyage the participants learned about the marine and terrestrial
environments of the NWHI and compared them to their "marine
backyards" in the main Hawaiian Islands. Teacher journals,
lessons and activities are posted on the www.hawaiianatolls.org
website
(you
will be directed to a non-NOAA website),
and more formal curricula based on concepts gleaned from the
voyage will be developed in the months after the voyage.
Congressman
Ed Case joined the voyage as a participant at French Frigate Shoals,
and Diane Leone, a reporter from the Honolulu based Star-Bulletin,
sent back dispatches during the votage. You can read her articles here: www.starbulletin.com
(you
will be directed to a non-NOAA website).
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