Understanding trends in coastal ecosystems through science-education partnerships

The Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence (COSEE) Coastal Trends is addressing issues that face our changing coastal oceans through unique partnerships among research scientists, educators, and students. Using a team approach, we apply a visual approach to communicate key coastal trends messages. The teams utilize current research to develop ¿coastal trends modules¿ for use in the K-12 classroom and by the general public. This article features two education modules created by our Scientist-Educator teams, one on dead ¿zones¿ and the second on seagrasses.