MMC facilitated Professional Development on-site workshops for middle and high school educators partner sites around the country as part of NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research education program. Groups of 25-30 teachers participated in each workshop. As part of the Learning Ocean Science Through Ocean Exploration curriculum, workshop content focused on ocean science topics such as marine biology, marine geology, bioluminescence, exploration, and seabed mapping, as well as the use of the NOAA Ocean Explorer web site.
Through a NOAA grant to the Ocean Technology Foundation, MMC led efforts to implement NOAA Ocean Exploration workshops in Portugal and the Azores. Relationships between teachers and ocean researchers were catalyzed, and each of the four workshops contained classroom, lab, and field components.