Susan At Sea

10/05/2024

2 Weeks left to register for the CT Science Teachers Conference! Being held in Glastonbury on Oct 19. Breakfast and Lunch included in registration. Indoor and outdoor workshops to attend. Over 25 workshops and exhibitors including:

Meeting All Students’ Learning Needs through STEM Project-Based Learning -Attendees will be provided with lessons, worksheets, lab activities, online resources, and more.)

Applying Exemplary Climate Change Education Resources in Your Classroom - Presented by Jim Clifford who wrote climate change & environmental literacy standards for CT Social Studies Model Curriculum, CT Climate Education Hub

Time traveling through Earth’s history with scientific ocean drilling - Attendees will receive access to 100+ free educational resources such as lesson plans, lab activities, children's books, stickers, pencils, etc. Presented by Maya Pincus Science Communications Officer, International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP)

Connecticut Science Teachers Association CSTA Connecticut Science NGSS Connecticut NGSS NGSS Assessment

08/25/2024

Save the Date! I'm part of the organizing committee for the CT Science Teachers Association Conference and I'm so excited about it! Check out our conference program and plan to visit us on October 19 in Glastonbury!

Connecting and Collaborating Climate Change, The Environment, Connecting Teachers to Technology and Connecting Elementary Teachers to Science along with collaboration on NGSS curriculum, instruction and assessment. 

06/11/2024

Sporting our JOIDES Resolution temporary tattoos and ready to give our students awards for their outstanding work in science this school year. Thank you to the OnBoard Education Officers who gave our entire school a tour of the ship earlier this year!

07/06/2023

I met Jim Toomey many years ago at a Blue Frontier event. He keeps up with all the latest ocean science and incorporates it into his comics. He has started a story arc about the recent JOIDES Resolution expedition to Atlantis Massif! Excited to see how long it goes! It started on July 3

View the comic strip for Sherman's Lagoon by cartoonist Jim Toomey created July 03, 2023 available on GoComics.com

06/21/2023

Happy Solstice! Spending my summer vacation floating around latitude 57 degrees North. The sun barely sets here and you can always see a little light on the horizon even when my shift starts at midnight.

Who says teachers take the summer off? Susan At Sea is spending her summer as a thin section technician aboard the JR!

06/18/2023

is a wrap, and what an expedition it's been! You've already read about our record-breaking cores in Science, the Washington Post, USA TODAY, IFLScience, and more... but we can't forget our humble roots!

Check out this article from Vox and listen to an episode of the Unexplainable podcast to revisit Project Mohole, where it all began: https://www.vox.com/unexplainable/22276597/project-mohole-deep-ocean-drilling-unexplainable-podcast

📷 Fritz Goro/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images

04/22/2023

A team of scientists on the JOIDES Resolution drill for sediment cores off the coast of Portugal — an area where the seafloor is especially rich with information about earth's history.

03/09/2023

Big big news. This week student teaching I ended our Astronomy unit and began Earth's History and Structure. I've been waiting all year to get to this unit and have been flooded with emotions. We always knew it was a possibility, but seeing it in writing was quite a blow. I feel incredibly lucky to have played even a teeny tiny role in the program that is responsible for so much of our knowledge of planet Earth. 🌏💔

The U.S. Science Support Program is deeply disappointed by NSF’s decision not to extend JR operations past 2024. The ship has made invaluable contributions to science and generations of researchers. We gratefully acknowledge the community’s efforts in working toward an extension. We thank Siem Offshore, Entier, and JRSO, whose stellar efforts over the decades have made our JR expeditions so successful. A more detailed letter from USSSP and USAC to the community will be forthcoming soon.

07/04/2022

You better believe I'll be making my future students practice taking notes with paper and pen. Currently you can visit a high school for a day and not see a single piece of paper. It is a very worthwhile skill to learn. Thank you Tessa Peixoto for this wonderful post!

Notes are everywhere in any form. Read up on the use of note taking and the variety of notes you can find around the ship: https://joidesresolution.org/the-persistence-of-note-taking/

📸Tessa Peixoto/ IODP

06/02/2022

If I believed in signs from the Universe this would have been the blindingly bright sign that every decision I've made in the past few years has been the right one. I've quit my job on the JOIDES Resolution and have just started a Master's in Education program. I was shadowing a middle school science teacher this week. Told the day before it was casual day for teachers, I thoughtfully deliberated with my former coworkers if I should wear my JOIDES or my Muppets t-shirt for my first day. The JOIDES shirt obviously won due to it being too good and too easy of an ice-breaker when introducing myself. During the last period of a day I was flipping through a book and jumped with pure joy and excitement when I saw "my boat" on a page about plate tectonics. I was excited, the teacher was excited, the kids were excited, it was a beautiful moment. It's something I say all the time, "the ship I work on is the reason plate tectonics is in school textbooks" but I've never seen this literal example with my own eyes. I was just standing in front of the kids pointing at my shirt, pointing at the book, then back at my shirt. I have never felt so proud and so absolutely in the right place at the right moment. Thank you Mr. Grant, Mrs. Pellegrino, and Greene-Hills School !!!

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01/27/2022

Along with shrunken foam cups we also pulled up another ocean treasure- this mysterious yet-to-be-identified globby jelly thing! Someone out there please help us ID this! It's thick and heavy, we think was a big tube shape before it got tangled in the camera frame, rough and bumpy outside, and inside looks like pomegranate seeds!

01/27/2022

Someone is curious