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Welcome, everyone, today to our
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National Marine Sanctuaries Webinar Series.
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This is a series that is hosted by the
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NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries,
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and it's a way that we are able to connect with educators
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and other interested parties.
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In today's case, there's perhaps people that are part
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of dive shops and dive clubs and interested parents,
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but this is a chance for us
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to provide educational expertise, in some cases,
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scientific expertise to you as well as resources
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and training to help support ocean and climate literacy.
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So with that, I wanted to introduce myself.
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Claire Fackler here.
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I'm the national education liaison for the Sanctuary System.
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I am a one-woman show today.
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I'll be your webinar host and the primary presenter.
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And I'm hoping that
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after my presentation, we do have a special guest
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that will have an opportunity to share sort of a testimonial
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of trying out these materials
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and then we'll have plenty of time for question and answer.
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So with that, I'll start my introduction.
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So if you're not already familiar,
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the National Marine Sanctuary System,
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I like to think of it like the park system,
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but these are underwater parks.
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So you're looking at
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16 national marine sanctuaries
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and two marine national monuments that make up the system.
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And I say 16
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because just earlier
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last week during Capitol Hill Ocean Week,
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NOAA made an announcement
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that our new Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary
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that was proposed has now been designated.
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It still has about a 45-minute window with Congress
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for final comment,
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which then it officially becomes
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our country's 16th sanctuary.
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So right now it's depicted by a yellow box.
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When the new map comes out, that'll be another white circle,
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which represents one of these special underwater treasures
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that protects the ocean and the Great Lakes for now
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and future generations.
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This system encompasses about 620,000 square miles
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of ocean and Great Lakes.
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So just a little snapshot about these areas.
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These are spectacular places
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and iconic places that are being protected.
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And sometimes they're set aside
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as a national marine sanctuary,
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because of the biodiversity
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that can be found in these iconic spots.
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In some cases, it's because of the cultural
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or maritime heritage
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that can be found in the area, like this shipwreck.
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But all in all, these marine-protected areas provide shelter
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for threatened and endangered animals,
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like this Hawaiian green sea turtle.
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So we follow,
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under the legislation
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of the National Marine Sanctuaries Act,
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which just over 50 years ago, so in 1972,
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was made into law.
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So we're mandated to conduct education and outreach.
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Through the act we're also mandated to conduct research
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and monitoring, and we do all of this
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to help protect the resource.
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So the special places, the plants,
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the animals, the habitats.
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And just like a national park
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or even a national forest, you know,
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these are special places I mentioned already
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in the ocean and the Great Lakes.
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But we encourage you to get out there,
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get into your sanctuary.
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We want you to enjoy it,
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which will lead you to respect it
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and hopefully protect it.
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And the kinds of activities
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that you can do in a marine sanctuary include kayaking,
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in some cases, fishing,
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snorkeling, scuba diving,
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surfing, going on boats,
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and viewing marine life.
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And some people get so inspired
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by their experiences in these treasures
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that they become volunteers for the sanctuary system
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and help with some stewardship activities.
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And I also thought I'd make note
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that marine-protected areas,
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like national marine sanctuaries
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and marine national monuments are all part
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of climate change solution
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because they can help with climate resilience
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by protecting biodiversity and storing carbon.
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But now let's get into the meat of our presentation.
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We're gonna be diving in, literally,
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into the educational material
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of our NOAA Ocean Guardian Dive Club.
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So this is not a new program,
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but we did just recently relaunch it
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and complete having educational materials for all of
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the sanctuaries and monuments found in the sanctuary system.
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So my colleague, Marlies Tumolo,
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who's now an educator down
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in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary,
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was the brain child
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of this dive club probably about a decade ago.
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And so this was an educational program that was designed
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to strengthen youth involvement in diving
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and ocean conservation.
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So we're really trying to build that connection
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between youth and the ocean.
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And so we inspire them to enjoy and protect the ocean now
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and throughout their lifetime and
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these are materials
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for a younger audience, so ages 8 through 12
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that can easily be scaled up for, you know,
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older teens and even young adults as needed.
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But it's really to capture those youth that, you know
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before they're even qualified to become junior divers,
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to get them interested in this experience.
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And the reason this all came
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to fruition was way back about a decade ago
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in the 2014 annual report,
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the Dive Equipment Manufacturing Association, DEMA,
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listed one of their main goals as helping
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to promote sustained growth and recreational diving.
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So making sure that there's a new generation
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of future divers.
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And so dive shops
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that are doing the Ocean Guardian Dive Club
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back during our first couple years
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of piloting it were given the curriculum
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and they were connecting to
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that next generation of divers.
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And it was allowing them to distinguish themselves
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as leaders in this youth-based ecotourism activity.
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And those dive shops that did participate in the past,
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there's some still today
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that are incorporating materials from our dive club
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into their summer camps and other programs.
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So if you are in fact participating from,
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as a representative of a dive shop or dive club, you know,
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we're encouraging you
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to use these free educational materials and find ways
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to incorporate them into your scuba certification programs
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or even your pre-junior scuba programs.
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The materials that I'll go through,
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there's classroom and pool-based sessions
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that help practice diving techniques.
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The youth are gonna learn about issues
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and threats facing our ocean and our marine sanctuaries.
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They're also gonna learn about ocean conservation
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and stewardship with a focus on safe diving techniques.
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If you happen to be a parent
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that's interested in this dive club for your child who's,
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this is actually my daughter who at 12 was like, "Hey, Mom,
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like I wanna get scuba certified.
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Can we figure this out?"
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So this is a way for you as a parent
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to share this information with your local dive shop
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and see if they're able to bring in any of this content
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as your child goes through their,
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their pre-dive certification
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or even their junior dive certification.
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So all the materials are completely free
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and we encourage shops and clubs
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and parents to use the lessons as part of your programs.
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So to give you a snapshot of what students learn,
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they're gonna learn about just general ocean literacy
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and that's basically, you know,
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what's your influence on the ocean
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and the ocean's influence on you?
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They'll learn about different conservation topics.
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I've already mentioned,
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they'll learn about some of the threats
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and issues facing the ocean.
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They'll learn about special places that are protected,
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like these underwater parks in the sanctuary system.
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They'll be equipped and inspired to be ocean stewards
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and it gives them the opportunity through the pool missions
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to practice these important diving skills
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and learn basic science diving concepts.
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So I'm gonna, since I'm doing this on my own,
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I'm just gonna make sure
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there aren't any questions coming through.
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Oh, I like this idea.
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What about collecting sales tax for ocean protection such
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as non-consumptive recreational gear,
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much like happens for hunting or fishing gear?
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Well, that's an interesting idea for sure.
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Thanks for sharing that.
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If we're not a dive shop,
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but we run a dive certification as a program
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of our nonprofit, can we also use these materials?
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Absolutely, these are free
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and available to anyone
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that has interest in incorporating them
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into what you're doing.
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You can even use these materials
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where the students aren't learning to be scuba certified,
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you wouldn't do the pool mission per se,
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but you could certainly do some of the classroom elements.
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So this Ocean Guardian Dive Club Instructor Guide,
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I kinda did a screen capture here,
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so it gives me a chance to kinda walk through
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what elements are in each lesson.
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So in the blue box on the left,
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there's lesson specifications.
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So this is a box that informs you
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of the basic information needed to complete the lesson.
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It tells you the age, which,
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for all of these, is generally ages 8 through 12,
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but again can be scaled up, the timeframe.
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So an estimate of the time needed
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to complete the lesson from start to finish.
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The materials that you'll need to have on hand
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to complete the lesson
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and the pool activity.
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Keywords, so these are vocabulary words that'll be,
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students will learn throughout the completion of the lesson.
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And then standards, so a list of educational standards
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that this lesson satisfies.
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So I'll go into more of the standards when we get
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to the third page here.
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Then on the right is the activity summary,
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so basic summary of the lesson,
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which includes the focus topics
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and what the students will learn.
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Then there's the learning objectives,
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which are the measurable outcomes
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that help you gauge
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if your students understood the material.
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Going to the middle picture here,
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there's the larger big-picture questions.
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These are the essential questions that are in the lesson.
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And then there's
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the sanctuary diver performance requirements.
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So this is for the lesson,
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both at the surface and underwater with the pool mission.
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Then there's a whole background section.
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So let's say we're diving into the topic
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of ocean acidification,
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all the science on OA
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and all that background information will be
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in the lesson in that section.
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We already mentioned there's the vocabulary,
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so the definitions of the key terms.
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There's then a description of the procedures
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of how to introduce the lesson in a classroom setting.
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And then there's the pool mission,
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which is outlining what should occur in the pool session
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to strengthen student understanding of the lesson topic.
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And then in the blue box on the right,
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those are the education standards.
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So we do link, like I mentioned, to the ocean literacy
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as well as, when relevant, to climate literacy principles.
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And then the dive industry standards.
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So this section outlines the dive industry certification
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such as SSI Scuba Rangers or PADI Seal Team,
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or NAUI passport diver.
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I fear that some of the names of these youth programs
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with PADI and NAUI and SSI may have changed since some
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of this was developed, but you get the idea.
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And then there's this information section
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that has a lot of web links.
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So for further information, you can explore that content.
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put it into your question box.
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I'll periodically pause and check that.
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Okay, so there is this one particular lesson called
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the Ocean Guardian Diver, which is the overview lesson
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that introduces your students
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or your young divers
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to the National Marine Sanctuary System.
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of the NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries
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and they'll start to understand the role
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of marine-protected areas in supporting a healthy ocean.
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So you can now see with this screenshot here
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what those different sections on the lesson, you know,
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the activity summary, the learning objectives,
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the essential questions, et cetera.
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So this is a great lesson to kick off your program with
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'cause it kind of sets the stage
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and the framework of the whole dive club.
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So if you do the complete series of educational materials,
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your students will learn about marine conservation issues,
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like marine debris, invasive species, coral reef etiquette,
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maritime heritage and shipwrecks,
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ocean acidification, et cetera, et cetera.
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So we're really trying to create these ocean stewards.
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Like the benefit to us in NOAA
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is that more people are gonna learn
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about America's underwater treasures
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that are protected now and for the future.
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So like a national park, we want people to love
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and appreciate these special places
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and want them to be protected for the future.
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that they can take conservation action
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to help with these, you know,
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with protecting the ocean and coastal communities.
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So that's the benefit for us
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and so we provide these materials out there,
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hoping that the clubs
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and nonprofits and other groups will take advantage of them.
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So I'm gonna now highlight one lesson
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and the materials that are associated with it from each
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of the regions that we have on the website.
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So, for example, these are the Pacific Islands sites.
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National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa
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is the one we're gonna go into, which is focused on OA,
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but there's one hump
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for the Hawaiian Islands humpback whale,
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and that's the importance of humpback whales
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to Hawaiian culture and like human interaction.
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We've got the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument.
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So this lessons simulate the dissection
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of an albatross bolus.
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That's what the albatross bird likes, regurgitates up.
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or trash can be an indicator of ocean health.
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So the one we're gonna dive into, like I mentioned,
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is an American Samoa
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and focuses on ocean acidification.
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So your students, if they participate in this lesson
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and pool mission,
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are going to learn about national marine sanctuaries,
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or sorry, the Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa
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on Tutuila Island and the important living
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and non-living resources
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that that marine-protected area protects.
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of ocean acidification
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and the use of photo-transect survey
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to monitor coral health.
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So they're gonna learn, you know,
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the important resources protected by the Samoa Sanctuary,
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what are corals and why they're important,
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what causes OA and how does it impact corals,
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and how do scientists monitor coral health?
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So not only can you download the free lesson plan,
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but we have in, not all cases,
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maybe in all cases,
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we have presentation slides that you can also download.
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And there's notes on each slide.
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So if you're not really familiar with the content
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that you're presenting,
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you have the notes to kind of get yourself up to speed
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and to read through when you're making your presentation.
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So these are just snapshots of what those slides look like.
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So this could be how you kick off that particular lesson,
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talking about, you know,
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introducing them to the different resources that that
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marine-protected area protects:
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the coral reefs and different organisms
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like humphead wrasse,
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that there's great diving in American Samoa.
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That middle slide on the top is actually of Big Momma,
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which is this massive coral head
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somewhere off to Tutuila Island, well,
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in one of the islands in American Samoa.
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but we have virtual reality content for Big Momma
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and some of our other sites that you can also introduce
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to your students so they can actually, you know,
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virtually dive into these places.
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But as you can see, it kinda goes through,
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these aren't all the slides, it's just a snapshot,
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but, you know, what are corals, why are they important,
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why are they threatened, how are they monitored?
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and kinda talking about the pH scale and such.
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So again, there's many more slides with notes that go
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with this particular lesson.
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And then when you get to the point, if you're going to
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do the pool mission, you're going to use objects
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that are negatively buoyant that are gonna be
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simulated coral heads
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and you're gonna put 'em in the pool for the students
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and you can use, you know,
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weight belts or any other materials
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that you readily have available.
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kinda walk through this procedure.
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how scientists take photos along transect lines,
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so you could put out a transect tape.
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And they do this in order to monitor changes
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to coral health over time.
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So they're gonna practice their dive skills
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while simulating a coral photo transect
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of those different objects on the bottom of your pool
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that are representing those coral heads.
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So they're gonna learn how to take a compass heading,
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how to lay down a transect line,
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how to make sure that they have the right buoyancy
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so they're not falling onto the coral
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in the pool, et cetera.
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So this kinda gives you a sense of, you know,
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what a pool mission looks like that's based off
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of that particular lesson on OA.
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So let's take a little snapshot
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if there's any questions coming in.
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Nope, we're good for now, all right.
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(mouse clicks)
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Now moving on to the West Coast.
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So we have five current national marine sanctuaries,
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four in California
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and one in the Pacific Northwest, the Olympic Coast.
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There is a site called the
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Proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary
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that's undergoing the designation process as we speak,
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but for the time being,
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these are the five sites along the West Coast.
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And the one I'm going
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to dive into today is the Greater Farallones.
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So this is our site
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that's located around the Farallone Islands off
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of San Francisco area.
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So through a case study of this national marine sanctuary,
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students are gonna learn about the main components
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of a kelp forest ecosystem
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and how these ecosystem interactions can be impacted
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by changing ocean conditions.
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And they're gonna learn ways
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that marine-protected areas can address this threat.
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So they're gonna learn about kelp forest ecosystems,
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they're gonna model a food web
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for a kelp forest ecosystem,
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practice scientific diving techniques
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for monitoring the health of kelp forests,
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and naming two ways that humans
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can positively impact kelp forest ecosystems.
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So again, there's presentation slides with notes
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and this kinda just gives you a snapshot,
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not all the slides,
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but talking about sea surface temperature,
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is the water temperature close to the ocean surface?
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And how scientists are using satellite data
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to record sea surface temperature,
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how that's impacting kelp forests
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and the ecosystem that kelp forests support.
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Also that, you know, and this has happened even sooner than,
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or more recent than just 2014,
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but that there was the, you know, giant blob,
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that unusually warm water that was sitting off
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of the West Coast
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and parts of Canada back in 2014 and other years
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and how that really impacted sort of a die off.
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There was sea star wasting syndrome,
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which then led to, you know, more urchins devouring kelp,
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you know, kelp needs cooler water,
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so if the sea surface temperature's warmer,
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the kelp's already getting threatened by that warmer water,
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And then you add the fact that sea stars are
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like Pycnopodia, the sunflower star,
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who eats urchins wiped out,
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so now the urchin are eating the kelp
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and they become urchin barrens.
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And so learning how scientists use quadrats
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and transects to do monitoring of the kelp forest ecosystem.
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And then of course if you're happen
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to be in the California area for your dive shop or club
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or your group, you can actually participate, you know,
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if you're in Marin, Sonoma,
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or Mendocino Counties on reporting kelp canopy sightings,
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and there's information on that.
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And then for the pool mission,
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you're gonna practice diving a transect
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and using a quadrat to monitor urchin populations.
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So those two examples talk about transects underwater.
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Not all of the pool missions incorporate transects,
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but it just so happens that the ones I selected yesterday
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to put into my presentation both have that.
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But you can see there's these other visuals here,
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so those can be printed up
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and laminated, you know,
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cut up into individual species cards and laminated
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and can be used on the pool floor to represent, you know,
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the areas that they're gonna then take a quadrat
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and do the monitoring.
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like this food web question sheet
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that are all part of the educational materials.
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Okay, so moving to the East Coast
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and Gulf of Mexico region,
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you can see we've got Florida Keys.
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In that lesson,
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students are learning about the three habitats
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that can be found there:
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so mangroves, seagrass beds and coral reefs.
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And with an understanding of those habitats
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and how they're connected to the coral reef ecosystem
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in the Flower Garden Banks site,
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which is in the Gulf of Mexico,
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that's the one I'm gonna give the example.
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It's about lionfish, so invasive species.
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Gray's Reef, which is off of Savannah, Georgia.
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The lesson talks about
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the important resources that that site protects
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and students simulate tracking fish with acoustic tags
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and they learn about the differences between Gray's Reef,
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which is a live bottom temperate reef
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and what those differences are from a coral reef.
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Moving to our site off of Boston, Massachusetts
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and Scituate, Massachusetts is Stellwagen Bank.
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So in that lesson, students investigate how whales use sound
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to communicate and gain information about their environment
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and how acoustic masking can affect whales
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in Stellwagen Bank.
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And that students are actually gonna simulate
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using echo location as part of their activity.
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One of our newer sites, the Mallows Bay-Potomac River.
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In that lesson, the students are going to learn
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about the importance of submerged aquatic vegetation
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and how it's affected by sediment pollution.
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So that's an interesting one.
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And then the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary.
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This lesson is going to focus on the importance
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of maritime archeology.
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So students learn the process that our maritime,
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our real NOAA maritime archeologists use
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to map shipwrecks underwater by creating a site plan
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that gives them a general outline of the shipwreck,
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interpreting the data that's collected
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to make inferences about the ship and the crew,
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and it's like photogrammetry,
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like they learn how to do all of that.
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Lemme just pause for a second.
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Oh, so someone that came in a little late.
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Yes, we did cover the sites that are in the Pacific Islands
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And so I suppose you can just go to the website
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and see the three lessons
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that are found in the Pacific Islands region
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and you can always watch the recording
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to catch the beginning of today's presentation.
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Okay, so diving in
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to our Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary lesson.
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So this particular lesson's going
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to teach students about invasive species.
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So the lionfish,
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if you're anywhere in the Gulf of Mexico,
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Florida Keys, East Coast,
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you understand the huge impact this invasive species
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is having on the ocean and the ocean inhabitants.
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00:27:15.360 --> 00:27:17.910
So students learn how to minimize the threat
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of invasive species to marine ecosystems
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and also identifying actions that can be taken
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00:27:25.320 --> 00:27:26.793
to minimize that threat.
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00:27:28.140 --> 00:27:32.673
So again, here's an example of the presentation slides,
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kinda giving you a little snapshot
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of the special ocean area
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that's a national marine sanctuary.
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This is about 110 miles off the Texas-Louisiana border.
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Our Flower Garden Banks site.
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Talk about the invasive species, lionfish.
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This is an old map from 2015 on the right,
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but all those dots, I'm now, you know,
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nine years later, are gonna be even more
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invasion from the lionfish.
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There's lots of different groups working on trying
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to remedy the situation.
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There's lionfish derbies
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and imitational competitions.
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There's different organizations looking
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to find market solutions.
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So not only for eating lionfish,
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but there's a company that uses lionfish
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00:28:22.350 --> 00:28:25.510
skin in handbags and jewelry
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and things like that, like the leather.
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So you can see a little snapshot there.
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And then the pool mission
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for this site is having the students practice identifying
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and reporting lionfish sightings.
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So they're gonna wanna record information,
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like location of the dive, the time of day,
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the number of lionfish sighted,
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the compass heading direction from the mooring buoy,
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the size of each lionfish,
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the depth of the location where they were cited.
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And there's an actual, you know,
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data sheet which is just for this lesson,
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but it's modeled off what scientists
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and recreational divers are using in real life in the field.
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So kind of a fun,
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00:29:10.200 --> 00:29:11.350
and again those are
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color cards that you can print up from the website,
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00:29:17.850 --> 00:29:19.770
cut them up so they're individual
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and make them laminated so they can go underwater with you
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as part of your activity.
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(mouse clicks)
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Okay, so the last region I'll cover
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is our Great Lakes.
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So Thunder Bay, students are gonna learn about the threat
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00:29:36.210 --> 00:29:40.890
of invasive zebra and Quagga muscles and the integrity,
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00:29:40.890 --> 00:29:44.100
and what they do to the integrity of the shipwrecks.
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00:29:44.100 --> 00:29:46.710
And then also one of our newer sites,
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the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast,
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students are going to simulate using photogrammetry
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to make a model of a shipwreck.
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So kinda similar to the monitor one
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off the coast of North Carolina.
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And I did mention that we have
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our new Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary,
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but we do not have a lesson in the Dive Club
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for that site yet.
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But we will.
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So for this particular lesson,
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photogrammetry is what the students will learn
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to make that model of a shipwreck.
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00:30:16.770 --> 00:30:17.940
And then in the pool mission,
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they're gonna practice buoyancy control,
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00:30:20.460 --> 00:30:23.730
kind of having awareness of their environment
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00:30:23.730 --> 00:30:24.663
and their buddy,
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00:30:25.620 --> 00:30:28.440
making sure that they're managing their air well,
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00:30:28.440 --> 00:30:32.820
while drawing a wreck site plan on a dive slate underwater.
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00:30:32.820 --> 00:30:36.210
So kinda multitasking, you gotta be making sure, you know,
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you don't get so distracted
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00:30:38.220 --> 00:30:40.290
that you're drifting far away from your buddy,
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that your buoyancy is, that you're neutrally buoyant
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00:30:42.840 --> 00:30:44.280
and you're not, you know,
633
00:30:44.280 --> 00:30:46.680
floating up and down, hitting the shipwreck.
634
00:30:46.680 --> 00:30:49.170
And then of course while you're doing your work
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00:30:49.170 --> 00:30:50.010
on your dive slate,
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that you're keeping track of how much air you're consuming.
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00:30:54.330 --> 00:30:58.860
And you can also use those negatively buoyant items
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so that you have like artifact locations
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00:31:01.560 --> 00:31:03.690
where the students can then, you know,
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00:31:03.690 --> 00:31:06.330
have their transect line and with the photogrammetry,
641
00:31:06.330 --> 00:31:09.960
they go out and you know, at this angle,
642
00:31:09.960 --> 00:31:13.620
and this many feet and that's where this artifact is.
643
00:31:13.620 --> 00:31:17.130
So like all of the materials,
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00:31:17.130 --> 00:31:21.040
there's the slides with notes that go through it
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00:31:23.250 --> 00:31:25.740
and it actually gives you an example.
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00:31:25.740 --> 00:31:29.490
The one on the bottom left, that's actually a sonar image
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00:31:29.490 --> 00:31:33.693
of a shipwreck from Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast site.
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00:31:34.560 --> 00:31:37.650
And then on the bottom right you can see a diver
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00:31:37.650 --> 00:31:41.913
who's kind of simulating that photogrammetry.
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00:31:44.130 --> 00:31:45.240
And then we kinda covered this,
651
00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:46.590
but like using colored weights
652
00:31:46.590 --> 00:31:50.013
or other negatively buoyant objects, yeah, it could be like,
653
00:31:51.595 --> 00:31:52.428
(chuckles) like "Little Mermaid,"
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00:31:52.428 --> 00:31:55.290
like forks and things that you can put down on the bottom
655
00:31:55.290 --> 00:31:57.600
that are the artifacts from the wreck.
656
00:31:57.600 --> 00:32:00.120
And then the students will work in their buddy pairs
657
00:32:00.120 --> 00:32:02.913
to explore the simulated wreck site in the pool.
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00:32:03.750 --> 00:32:05.970
They'll start to drop that site plan,
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00:32:05.970 --> 00:32:10.050
maybe even take photographs underwater of the artifacts.
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00:32:10.050 --> 00:32:11.940
They'll work on compass headings
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00:32:11.940 --> 00:32:15.060
so they can know on their dive slate, you know,
662
00:32:15.060 --> 00:32:18.030
what compass heading is that particular artifact
663
00:32:18.030 --> 00:32:21.630
that's 10 feet away, how many fin kicks?
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So lots of good things that they can learn
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through this particular pool mission.
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Take a quick pause, check my questions.
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Looks like we're good for now.
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00:32:33.180 --> 00:32:34.980
So as mentioned in the beginning,
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the goal of the Dive Club is really
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to create a strong connection between these
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00:32:41.910 --> 00:32:43.620
interested young divers,
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00:32:43.620 --> 00:32:48.620
these youth divers, learning about these special places
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00:32:48.870 --> 00:32:52.020
so they can be a part of the solutions,
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they can become ocean stewards,
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00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:57.270
they can learn to recreate and enjoy these places,
676
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but also understand why they're important,
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00:32:59.640 --> 00:33:01.060
what the challenges
678
00:33:02.370 --> 00:33:04.980
that those sites are facing and the ocean in general,
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and then what they can do to protect them.
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So with that, I'm going to call up
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Dr. Allyson Brown,
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00:33:15.870 --> 00:33:19.860
who's the founder of Sea Scope Incorporated.
683
00:33:19.860 --> 00:33:23.100
She agreed to join us today.
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00:33:23.100 --> 00:33:24.810
So Sea Scope Inc
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00:33:24.810 --> 00:33:27.990
is a 501c3 organization
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00:33:27.990 --> 00:33:31.080
with the mission to increase diversity in science
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00:33:31.080 --> 00:33:33.210
and aquatics for the purpose
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00:33:33.210 --> 00:33:37.650
of increasing conservation efforts of our ocean planet.
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00:33:37.650 --> 00:33:41.940
So, Dr. Brown, please feel free to...
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Let's see, maybe you already have, put on your web camera.
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Yeah, there you are.
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00:33:46.020 --> 00:33:48.930
And share a little bit more about yourself
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00:33:48.930 --> 00:33:51.750
and your background and what you
694
00:33:51.750 --> 00:33:53.400
and your organization have been doing
695
00:33:53.400 --> 00:33:56.010
with the Dive Club materials.
696
00:33:56.010 --> 00:33:58.170
Thank you so much, Claire, for having me today.
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We actually have some of our Discoverer students
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that are on the webinar today.
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00:34:02.850 --> 00:34:05.100
I'm excited they can join us as well.
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00:34:05.100 --> 00:34:09.630
With most of our students we started working with in 2022,
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I had to begin to create curriculum
702
00:34:13.110 --> 00:34:14.850
for Sea Scope Incorporated.
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00:34:14.850 --> 00:34:16.620
My background is actually optometry,
704
00:34:16.620 --> 00:34:18.270
everyone, so, (chuckling)
705
00:34:18.270 --> 00:34:21.630
this was a venture that I decided to jump into
706
00:34:21.630 --> 00:34:23.850
because of my love for the ocean.
707
00:34:23.850 --> 00:34:28.850
So during COVID, I began diving to relieve my stress
708
00:34:29.220 --> 00:34:33.130
and it was just the relief of anxiety that I received
709
00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:36.120
and realizing that we being in
710
00:34:36.120 --> 00:34:38.280
a landlocked state in Indiana,
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00:34:38.280 --> 00:34:40.350
we just have not been afforded the privilege
712
00:34:40.350 --> 00:34:42.720
or opportunities to have exposure
713
00:34:42.720 --> 00:34:46.410
or even education centered around the marine environment
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00:34:46.410 --> 00:34:47.850
and the underwater world.
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00:34:47.850 --> 00:34:50.280
So when I formed Sea Scope Incorporated,
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00:34:50.280 --> 00:34:53.730
it was a lot of of new research
717
00:34:53.730 --> 00:34:57.180
and studying for myself in environmental sciences
718
00:34:57.180 --> 00:34:58.440
and ocean sciences.
719
00:34:58.440 --> 00:35:00.630
I do not have that background.
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00:35:00.630 --> 00:35:04.530
So also on this call that's listening today is one
721
00:35:04.530 --> 00:35:07.080
of our organizational partners,
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00:35:07.080 --> 00:35:08.730
Curious Minds Dive Foundation
723
00:35:08.730 --> 00:35:11.700
and STEAMpunk Oceans, Kelly Abella.
724
00:35:11.700 --> 00:35:14.370
And we actually partnered to provide our students
725
00:35:14.370 --> 00:35:18.670
with virtual workshops incorporating a lot of these
726
00:35:20.010 --> 00:35:23.790
different activities that the students could engage in past
727
00:35:23.790 --> 00:35:26.130
the ocean literacy principles that they were taught
728
00:35:26.130 --> 00:35:29.370
a couple years ago or a year ago in the classroom setting.
729
00:35:29.370 --> 00:35:32.130
Most of our students are Discoverer divers,
730
00:35:32.130 --> 00:35:33.810
so they're junior open water divers
731
00:35:33.810 --> 00:35:37.320
and we do have some students even on this webinar today
732
00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:39.450
that are Discoverer snorkelers
733
00:35:39.450 --> 00:35:42.450
and we spend a lot of time in the Florida Keys
734
00:35:42.450 --> 00:35:45.510
and exploring the national marine sanctuary
735
00:35:45.510 --> 00:35:47.460
of the Florida Keys.
736
00:35:47.460 --> 00:35:50.220
We have a partner dive shop in the Florida Keys,
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00:35:50.220 --> 00:35:51.540
Conch Republic Divers,
738
00:35:51.540 --> 00:35:54.720
who's also been developing new curriculums
739
00:35:54.720 --> 00:35:57.120
and establishing things for our students
740
00:35:57.120 --> 00:35:58.530
to do when we get to Florida.
741
00:35:58.530 --> 00:36:01.530
But the problem is, again, this is times we have
742
00:36:01.530 --> 00:36:04.080
to travel on the students' breaks.
743
00:36:04.080 --> 00:36:06.120
So when I came across
744
00:36:06.120 --> 00:36:08.550
the Ocean Guardian Dive Club curriculum
745
00:36:08.550 --> 00:36:10.140
that was recently launched,
746
00:36:10.140 --> 00:36:11.250
I was extremely excited
747
00:36:11.250 --> 00:36:12.570
because it was allowing me
748
00:36:12.570 --> 00:36:15.210
to add more curriculum here in Indiana.
749
00:36:15.210 --> 00:36:18.120
So we still do our classroom workshops,
750
00:36:18.120 --> 00:36:20.490
we call our program Eco-Warriors.
751
00:36:20.490 --> 00:36:23.850
And the students were this year at school 79
752
00:36:23.850 --> 00:36:25.320
and one of those students is on the call,
753
00:36:25.320 --> 00:36:27.240
but he is a junior diver.
754
00:36:27.240 --> 00:36:31.560
His fourth and fifth grade class were actually introduced
755
00:36:31.560 --> 00:36:33.750
to the initial introduction
756
00:36:33.750 --> 00:36:36.270
to National Marine Sanctuary Foundation
757
00:36:36.270 --> 00:36:39.720
and the actual National Marine Sanctuary System.
758
00:36:39.720 --> 00:36:41.610
They were able to learn
759
00:36:41.610 --> 00:36:44.880
what the National Marine Sanctuary System is
760
00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:47.370
and also what NOAA is as well.
761
00:36:47.370 --> 00:36:50.760
And those students have not gotten into the pool
762
00:36:50.760 --> 00:36:51.720
or into the water
763
00:36:51.720 --> 00:36:54.510
to do our surface disease programs just yet,
764
00:36:54.510 --> 00:36:56.970
but they're actually this weekend attending
765
00:36:56.970 --> 00:36:58.590
our Water Safety Festival.
766
00:36:58.590 --> 00:37:00.810
So with our curriculum we introduced the students
767
00:37:00.810 --> 00:37:03.450
to ocean literacy principals, then we introduced them
768
00:37:03.450 --> 00:37:06.390
to water safety, basic swim and snorkeling,
769
00:37:06.390 --> 00:37:09.420
and then we transition them into the Discoverers program.
770
00:37:09.420 --> 00:37:14.160
So mostly I'm excited about in incorporating the curriculum
771
00:37:14.160 --> 00:37:17.190
with the students that have already been certified as divers
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00:37:17.190 --> 00:37:19.680
because it gives me the next steps for them.
773
00:37:19.680 --> 00:37:22.710
So we have some partnerships with IU's
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00:37:22.710 --> 00:37:24.420
Underwater Science Department,
775
00:37:24.420 --> 00:37:27.090
and we're thinking about introducing maritime
776
00:37:27.090 --> 00:37:29.337
and marine archeology to the students
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00:37:29.337 --> 00:37:31.410
and your curriculum actually will allow me
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00:37:31.410 --> 00:37:34.170
to give them that introduction and that pool training
779
00:37:34.170 --> 00:37:36.510
before they even get to working
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00:37:36.510 --> 00:37:40.530
with the Underwater Science Center at IU next year.
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00:37:40.530 --> 00:37:42.990
So I'm extremely excited about continuing
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00:37:42.990 --> 00:37:44.880
with STEAMpunk Oceans
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00:37:44.880 --> 00:37:48.300
and us working together to facilitate
784
00:37:48.300 --> 00:37:49.530
adding this curriculum into
785
00:37:49.530 --> 00:37:52.680
what we've already been working on with the students
786
00:37:52.680 --> 00:37:54.840
and then just advancing their education
787
00:37:54.840 --> 00:37:57.510
and understanding of how they can play their part
788
00:37:57.510 --> 00:37:58.920
as underwater explorers,
789
00:37:58.920 --> 00:38:01.413
but also ocean stewards and advocates.
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00:38:04.350 --> 00:38:07.770
Oh, thank you so much for sharing your experience
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00:38:07.770 --> 00:38:09.930
and all those great programs.
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00:38:09.930 --> 00:38:11.670
We're so pleased to be connected
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00:38:11.670 --> 00:38:14.700
to you and your nonprofit organization.
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00:38:14.700 --> 00:38:17.470
So look forward to continuing
795
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answering questions and providing materials as needed.
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00:38:22.170 --> 00:38:24.120
And there was something that came through
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that I kinda shout out to everybody.
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So, you know, an effort to scale this up
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for high school level and, honestly,
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00:38:31.230 --> 00:38:33.810
although we say they're for the 8 to 12 year olds,
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00:38:33.810 --> 00:38:36.630
they, without really doing much,
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maybe adding some additional vocabulary words and such,
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you can really scale that for the older teens
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and have it be just as effective.
805
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But the individual here has shared their emails,
806
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so if any of you wanna connect for that high school level,
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there's someone to start coordinating with.
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So let's see, I think with that,
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we're gonna go to questions.
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So if there's any additional,
811
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oops, lemme go back to my slides here.
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Any additional questions you have about materials
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or anything, now's a great time.
814
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I'll give folks a minute or two.
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I've been kinda answering questions
816
00:39:26.520 --> 00:39:29.580
throughout the presentation so we'll see
817
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if any more come in.
818
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I have a question.
819
00:39:33.570 --> 00:39:36.240
When are we going to be able to expect
820
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that new curriculum
821
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with the Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary?
822
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Oh,
About how long do you think
823
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that's gonna be before that comes out?
824
00:39:45.150 --> 00:39:46.623
That's a great question.
825
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I'm not sure I can totally answer that right now,
826
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but it's possible within the next three
827
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to six months, we may have some materials.
828
00:39:56.220 --> 00:39:58.530
We've got some other project priorities,
829
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but we do wanna be supporting our new sites that are coming
830
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on board into the National Marine Sanctuary System.
831
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So I will get back to you on that,
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but I think it's fair to say like a three
833
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to six-month timeframe.
834
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And then one last question from Dr. Brown.
835
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(Claire chuckles)
(Allyson chuckles)
836
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Do you have a notice
837
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or a heads up on which sites would be added
838
00:40:21.810 --> 00:40:24.780
and is there a site within the north coast
839
00:40:24.780 --> 00:40:27.963
of the Dominican Republic that's potentially gonna be added?
840
00:40:29.550 --> 00:40:30.660
in this-
Okay.
841
00:40:30.660 --> 00:40:34.560
So yeah, we only, because we're US Federal Government,
842
00:40:34.560 --> 00:40:35.640
we're only dealing
843
00:40:35.640 --> 00:40:37.980
with sites in the United States
844
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and our US territories, like in American Samoa.
845
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So there won't be anything that we are producing
846
00:40:44.640 --> 00:40:46.500
for Dominican Republic.
847
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And then as new sites come on, for example,
848
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the Proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary,
849
00:40:52.080 --> 00:40:53.340
again, there might be a period
850
00:40:53.340 --> 00:40:55.920
of time while the material's being developed,
851
00:40:55.920 --> 00:40:59.220
but everyone that's registered for today's webinar,
852
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we have your email,
853
00:41:00.570 --> 00:41:03.480
so you'll be added to an email group that will make sure
854
00:41:03.480 --> 00:41:05.370
to notify you when new materials
855
00:41:05.370 --> 00:41:07.863
for the Dive Club are available.
856
00:41:09.057 --> 00:41:12.150
(mouse clicks)
857
00:41:12.150 --> 00:41:14.880
Okay, yeah, great question.
858
00:41:14.880 --> 00:41:18.810
Is this webinar being recorded and where will it be shared?
859
00:41:18.810 --> 00:41:23.160
Yes, it is being recorded and it'll be on our website.
860
00:41:23.160 --> 00:41:27.780
I will be sharing the link in future slide here coming up
861
00:41:27.780 --> 00:41:29.970
as well as in a follow-up email,
862
00:41:29.970 --> 00:41:32.340
'cause these are long URLs, hard to write down.
863
00:41:32.340 --> 00:41:36.030
So you'll be notified of where the archive will live
864
00:41:36.030 --> 00:41:38.133
and you'll have access to the recording.
865
00:41:40.710 --> 00:41:42.690
How can a nine-year-old start
866
00:41:42.690 --> 00:41:46.680
the Ocean Guardian Dive Club in Hawaii?
867
00:41:46.680 --> 00:41:47.850
Another great question.
868
00:41:47.850 --> 00:41:50.280
So if you're
869
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a parent or you want
870
00:41:53.550 --> 00:41:54.930
to figure this out,
871
00:41:54.930 --> 00:41:58.470
go to, I know like Jack's Diving Locker in Kailua-Kona
872
00:41:58.470 --> 00:42:03.420
on Hawaii Island has been doing the Ocean Guardian Dive Club
873
00:42:03.420 --> 00:42:06.170
periodically through their summer camps over the years.
874
00:42:07.020 --> 00:42:08.820
But what you do is you can reach out
875
00:42:09.679 --> 00:42:12.330
the dive shop your most interested in working with
876
00:42:12.330 --> 00:42:16.620
and letting them know about these free educational materials
877
00:42:16.620 --> 00:42:19.440
and finding out if they have a summer camp
878
00:42:19.440 --> 00:42:21.093
or a certification course.
879
00:42:22.380 --> 00:42:23.880
I guess at nine you're not quite ready
880
00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:25.800
to get scuba certified,
881
00:42:25.800 --> 00:42:29.910
but you can do these lead-up materials.
882
00:42:29.910 --> 00:42:31.830
Sometimes they offer a camp where
883
00:42:31.830 --> 00:42:33.750
the younger students are getting some practice
884
00:42:33.750 --> 00:42:35.130
in the pool and such.
885
00:42:35.130 --> 00:42:37.620
So it's really, we try to reach out to
886
00:42:37.620 --> 00:42:39.300
as many dive shops as we can.
887
00:42:39.300 --> 00:42:40.133
We'll be at the
888
00:42:40.133 --> 00:42:42.300
Dive Equipment and Manufacturing Association,
889
00:42:42.300 --> 00:42:45.990
the DEEMA Conference this year kinda spreading the word
890
00:42:45.990 --> 00:42:48.480
about the Dive Club materials.
891
00:42:48.480 --> 00:42:50.160
But you can do your part
892
00:42:50.160 --> 00:42:52.950
by letting your local dive club know about the existence
893
00:42:52.950 --> 00:42:55.020
of these materials and seeing if they're willing
894
00:42:55.020 --> 00:42:56.760
to put together a program
895
00:42:56.760 --> 00:42:59.433
or incorporate some of it into their own program.
896
00:43:01.800 --> 00:43:03.960
And is the curriculum accessible to students
897
00:43:03.960 --> 00:43:05.970
that are not scuba divers, like snorkelers?
898
00:43:05.970 --> 00:43:09.300
Yeah, absolutely, these are materials,
899
00:43:09.300 --> 00:43:11.730
you would just have to make your own modifications
900
00:43:11.730 --> 00:43:14.790
as you're presenting the material where you're not dealing
901
00:43:14.790 --> 00:43:17.850
with the scuba element, and all of that.
902
00:43:17.850 --> 00:43:21.240
But absolutely anybody can use them.
903
00:43:21.240 --> 00:43:22.870
Some of the same activities
904
00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:25.830
for the pool missions can be used,
905
00:43:25.830 --> 00:43:28.170
just like slightly modified if you're gonna be,
906
00:43:28.170 --> 00:43:29.430
you know, surface snorkeling,
907
00:43:29.430 --> 00:43:31.080
and they can maybe dive down
908
00:43:31.080 --> 00:43:33.360
and take a photo of the artifacts
909
00:43:33.360 --> 00:43:36.183
or the mock coral heads, et cetera.
910
00:43:39.060 --> 00:43:42.120
Oh, there's a great question for you, Allyson.
911
00:43:42.120 --> 00:43:45.450
Do you give public lectures focused on the conservation work
912
00:43:45.450 --> 00:43:48.333
that you do within Sea Scope Incorporated?
913
00:43:49.740 --> 00:43:52.170
This is actually my first panel that I've sat on
914
00:43:52.170 --> 00:43:53.370
and I'm definitely open
915
00:43:53.370 --> 00:43:55.920
to doing some public speaking on the conservation work
916
00:43:55.920 --> 00:43:58.950
that my Sea Scope Discoverers are doing. (chuckles)
917
00:43:58.950 --> 00:44:00.540
So, yes, please-
Excellent.
918
00:44:00.540 --> 00:44:02.460
Send us a message through Sea Scope Inc.
919
00:44:02.460 --> 00:44:04.350
We can be found online,
920
00:44:04.350 --> 00:44:07.830
just a Google, or the emails are listed here
921
00:44:07.830 --> 00:44:09.243
by our attendee names.
922
00:44:11.250 --> 00:44:13.950
Yeah, and we'll, if it's okay with you, Allyson,
923
00:44:13.950 --> 00:44:17.340
I'll add your email to my follow-up email to everyone
924
00:44:17.340 --> 00:44:20.100
because they, we as a panelist and organizer,
925
00:44:20.100 --> 00:44:22.410
we see much more comprehensive
926
00:44:22.410 --> 00:44:25.350
go-to webinar control panel than our attendees do,
927
00:44:25.350 --> 00:44:27.210
so they don't have access right now.
928
00:44:27.210 --> 00:44:29.460
So you can either put it into the chat
929
00:44:29.460 --> 00:44:30.570
and send it out to them
930
00:44:30.570 --> 00:44:33.333
or I'll make sure it's in the follow-up email as well.
931
00:44:35.550 --> 00:44:37.620
Okay, a couple more questions coming in.
932
00:44:37.620 --> 00:44:39.630
Anything happening for marine sanctuaries
933
00:44:39.630 --> 00:44:42.060
in the US Virgin Islands?
934
00:44:42.060 --> 00:44:43.590
This person dove there as a youth,
935
00:44:43.590 --> 00:44:48.270
including helping with the marine habitat restoration
936
00:44:48.270 --> 00:44:51.210
off Buck Island near St. Croix.
937
00:44:51.210 --> 00:44:52.170
Oh, that's awesome.
938
00:44:52.170 --> 00:44:54.060
And that's so cool that you had an opportunity
939
00:44:54.060 --> 00:44:57.513
to get involved with that restoration work as a young diver.
940
00:44:58.680 --> 00:45:02.460
So we don't have any national marine sanctuaries currently
941
00:45:02.460 --> 00:45:04.380
in the US Virgin Islands,
942
00:45:04.380 --> 00:45:07.710
so nothing happening on that front.
943
00:45:07.710 --> 00:45:08.853
Sorry to report.
944
00:45:10.140 --> 00:45:12.660
And thank you for letting us know
945
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that the PADI Seal Team starts at age eight,
946
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so that's probably in reference to
947
00:45:19.650 --> 00:45:21.630
what does the nine-year-old in Hawaii do.
948
00:45:21.630 --> 00:45:26.400
So if you find a dive shop that does PADI certification,
949
00:45:26.400 --> 00:45:28.530
you can talk about the PADI Seal Team
950
00:45:28.530 --> 00:45:30.300
and see if they wanna incorporate some
951
00:45:30.300 --> 00:45:34.323
of our Ocean Guardian Dive Club materials into that.
952
00:45:37.260 --> 00:45:41.220
All right, it looks like we might be wrapping up
953
00:45:41.220 --> 00:45:44.010
our Q&A session here.
954
00:45:44.010 --> 00:45:46.770
So I think I'll just, I'll keep an eye on Q&A,
955
00:45:46.770 --> 00:45:49.293
but I'll go through the last couple slides.
956
00:45:50.730 --> 00:45:52.740
We touched on this briefly,
957
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but there will be an archive
958
00:45:55.352 --> 00:45:58.350
and a recording of today's presentation at that long URL.
959
00:45:58.350 --> 00:46:02.670
You'll get that in email Sanctuary.Education@noaa.gov
960
00:46:02.670 --> 00:46:04.863
if you have any follow-up questions.
961
00:46:06.060 --> 00:46:07.980
For attending today's presentation,
962
00:46:07.980 --> 00:46:11.910
all attendees will receive a certificate of attendance
963
00:46:11.910 --> 00:46:15.750
that gives you one contact hour of professional development.
964
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This is just an example from last year,
965
00:46:18.480 --> 00:46:21.993
but we will be, I'll be sending that out shortly over email.
966
00:46:23.520 --> 00:46:25.920
And when this webinar ends,
967
00:46:25.920 --> 00:46:27.720
which we're gonna probably end a little bit early,
968
00:46:27.720 --> 00:46:29.910
but if you don't mind staying on,
969
00:46:29.910 --> 00:46:33.510
a quick evaluation survey will pop up.
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00:46:33.510 --> 00:46:35.340
We've been conducting evaluation
971
00:46:35.340 --> 00:46:38.460
on our webinar series since 2016.
972
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There's only four or five questions on there.
973
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It'll take you less than a minute to respond.
974
00:46:43.380 --> 00:46:46.030
But I'd love to get your responses
975
00:46:47.010 --> 00:46:51.663
to help guide us to continue improving our webinar series.
976
00:46:54.030 --> 00:46:55.050
And with that,
977
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we'll end with my colleague Matt Macintosh's hand drawing
978
00:46:59.340 --> 00:47:03.180
of a cow-calf pair of humpback whales
979
00:47:03.180 --> 00:47:05.520
and little coral reef scene there.
980
00:47:05.520 --> 00:47:08.250
So thank you, everyone, for your participation
981
00:47:08.250 --> 00:47:12.660
in our NOAA Ocean Guardian Dive Club relaunch.
982
00:47:12.660 --> 00:47:15.270
And we look forward to hearing from any of you
983
00:47:15.270 --> 00:47:19.290
that may have follow-up questions or are using the material.
984
00:47:19.290 --> 00:47:22.230
I will also add that shortly on the website,
985
00:47:22.230 --> 00:47:26.280
we'll be adding a Google Form that
986
00:47:26.280 --> 00:47:27.900
if you've been using the materials,
987
00:47:27.900 --> 00:47:31.000
you can provide us some feedback as well as
988
00:47:32.040 --> 00:47:34.230
if you conducted a stewardship activity,
989
00:47:34.230 --> 00:47:35.460
like a beach cleanup
990
00:47:35.460 --> 00:47:38.430
or restoration work with your group of youth divers
991
00:47:38.430 --> 00:47:42.240
or students, you can report to us, you know,
992
00:47:42.240 --> 00:47:43.710
how many pounds of trash you picked up
993
00:47:43.710 --> 00:47:45.720
or how many invasive plants were removed,
994
00:47:45.720 --> 00:47:48.120
or native plants were planted, et cetera.
995
00:47:48.120 --> 00:47:52.080
So when that gets online, I'll be sure to make,
996
00:47:52.080 --> 00:47:55.140
I'll send out an email to everyone to let you know
997
00:47:55.140 --> 00:47:57.930
that you can provide feedback to us
998
00:47:57.930 --> 00:47:59.550
to help us improve the materials
999
00:47:59.550 --> 00:48:01.110
as well as let us know
1000
00:48:01.110 --> 00:48:04.050
if you collected any measurable stewardship data
1001
00:48:04.050 --> 00:48:04.950
that we can share.
1002
00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:11.670
Well, Allyson, thank you so much for joining us today
1003
00:48:11.670 --> 00:48:12.630
as a panelist.
1004
00:48:12.630 --> 00:48:13.920
And thanks to all of you-
Thank you.
1005
00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:15.300
For your participation.
1006
00:48:15.300 --> 00:48:18.630
And with that, we'll end today's presentation.
1007
00:48:18.630 --> 00:48:20.310
Thank you so much, Claire.
Have a great day.
1008
00:48:20.310 --> 00:48:22.473
Okay, take care. Bye.