The Maury project and Datastreme Ocean: AMS teacher enhancement programs for the ocean sciences

Since 1990, the American Meteorological Society has designed and disseminated a number of educational opportunities for teachers in the atmospheric, oceanographic and hydrologic sciences. This includes summer workshops and distance-learning courses for teachers as well as instructional materials appropriate for the classroom. The Maury Project trains approximately 24 teachers annually at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. In this workshop teachers attend lectures, conduct field studies, and receive training and learning materials pertinent to coastal processes. DataStreme Ocean is a semester-long course partially delivered via the Internet and offered through LITs nationally. Both programs are designed to enhance the knowledge of pre-college teachers about the marine environment, which includes not only the blue waters of the deep ocean but coastal and near shore regions as well. By participating in such programs, teachers are well schooled on ocean properties and processes.