Online Interdisciplinary Education Portal
Academic Room (beta: http://www.academicroom.com/)
Academic Room is an online platform that was developed at Harvard University to facilitate interdisciplinary engagements among scholars and researchers around the world. Academic Room’s mission is to curate and disseminate scholarly resources, which are organized in over 10,000 academic sub-disciplines. They share the conviction that easy and unimpeded ability to obtain quality educational resources should be a right and not a privilege. The platform allows academics, researchers and students to create highly specialized portals for their subfields. These portals can be enriched with professional directories, scholar profiles, video lectures, bibliographies, journal articles, books, reviews, images, ancient manuscripts and audio recordings.
You are invited to participate in the pilot launch.Please register and also encourage students, teachers and researchers within your institution to join.
Conservation International Produces Free Educational Videos
Conservation International recently produced several short conservation films focused on marine animals. The videos range from 3-15 minutes and highlight climate change and conservation issues. The educational videos are available for free and public distribution. To watch “What If You Were Born A Shark?” and more Conservation International videos, click here.
NERACOOS Announces E-Newsletter and New Website
The Northeast Regional Association of Coastal and Ocean Observing Systems published their first e-newsletter a few days after the start of the new year. The e-newsletter comes on the heels of the brand new NERACOOS website. The redesigned look will highlight NERACOOS activities, partners, work, and upcoming events. With the launch of the new NERACOOS website that incorporates much of the content from the Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System (GoMOOS), GoMOOS’ existing site will go offline in the coming months.
Visit the new website http://www.neracoos.org/ and sign up for the e-newsletter while you’re there!
EOL Google Earth Tours – Biodiversity on the Move!
EOL Google Earth Tours – Biodiversity on the Move!
Atlantic Public Media and Eduardo Garcia Milagros were granted a Google Earth Developer Grant to produce “One Species at a Time: Stories of Biodiversity on the Move, with the Encyclopedia of Life”, in Google Earth narrated tours. Narrated by our podcast host Ari Daniel Shapiro, these tours are available as videos and Google Earth kmz files.
Interactive Ocean Site Goes Live
The Blu, a new interactive ocean-focused website recently went live and is offering invitations to access the site in its beta form. As the website states The Blu’s mission is “to create the ocean on the web as a globally shared media experience. It is a beautiful interactive online world where every species and habitat is a unique work of art created by digital artists and developers around the world. The Blu is a geosocial web application where people connect across the Internet and explore a vast ocean on the web.” To learn more about The Blu and request an invite for the site, go here.
Additionally, Dr. Sylvia Earle, who spoke during NEOSEC’s 2010 Ocean Literacy Summit events, recently joined the Board of Advisors at The Blu. Dr. Earle is an oceanographer and a National Geographic Explorer in-residence. To read more about her work click here.
