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Follow 15 educators as they experience life as Great Lakes researchers on the R/V Lake Guardian during the week-long Shipboard Science Workshop.
In a couple days, 15 educators will be boarding the R/V Lake Guardian for an experience of a lifetime– participating in the week-long Shipboard Science Workshop on Lake Huron!! F0llow them along on this blog while they experience what it... Read More →
Ahoy! Welcome aboard the Lake Guardian. This communication is coming to you from two scientists – well, science teachers – Karla Schuessler and Molly Schuld. We are Wisconsin educators, but we are also joined by thirteen other science teachers... Read More →
Ahoy! This is Skye & Andy, guest contributors for today. Day 2 of our shipboard science workshop focused on learning sampling techniques that we will use throughout the week. We began our day bright and early with Rosie the Rosette.... Read More →
Greetings from Alpena, MI! Melanie (follow me at @mmyau1 on Twitter) and Sarah here as guest bloggers today. We may have sea legs, but they are not helpful on land! We had a jammed packed day in port today…so let’s... Read More →
The Lake Guardian crew, scientists and visiting teachers woke up this morning shrouded in fog. Most of the teachers tumbled from their bunks to the sound of a long horn every two minutes. The horn served to warn other vessels... Read More →
Greetings from Saginaw Bay! Donna and Holly are your bloggers today! After a foggy and overcast morning, we began a busy day of visiting four different sampling stations (Our final station sampling just wrapped up at 10:20PM). Teams “Fish Anuses”... Read More →
Hello! This is Katie Melgaard and Marta Johnson, your bloggers for the final day of the Shipboard Science Workshop 2017. We were only on board for the morning, but it was a typically busy time. After breakfast, we gathered for... Read More →
Jeff Kalember here, Gaylord High School, Gaylord Michigan posting our final wrap up after the 7 day teacher trip hosted by the Lake Guardian. I teach Chemistry, AP Chemistry and a semester “Limnology” course at my school and have always... Read More →