3. Blue green algae (microcystis or cyanobacteria)
washing up on the eastern shore of Pelee Island, Sept.
4, 2009. (Photo credit: Thomas Archer)
4.
5. Typology of Civic Engagement in Higher Education
Collaboration
(advocacy,
shared
resources &
community
leadership)
Application
(‘deliverable” class
projects; service
learning; community-
based research)
Contact (guest speakers, field
trips)
Conversation (class discussion, case
studies)
6. Opportunities for undergraduate
involvement (research and outreach)
Recycling of toxins and nutrients
Eutrophication
(from urban stormwater and agricultural
runoff )
Endocrine disruption in fish
(attributed to personal care products)
7.
8. Typology of Civic Engagement in Higher Education
Risk Control Community Complexity
Collaboration
(advocacy, interaction
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shared
resources &
community
leadership)
Application
(‘deliverable” class
projects; service
learning; community-
based research)
Contact (guest speakers, field
trips)
Conversation (class discussion, case
studies)
10. Funding Source:
Learn and Serve America Higher Education
program of the Corporation for National and
Community Service (CNCS)
(CNCS is better known for highly-visible
programs like AmeriCorps/VISTA)
11. SCIENCE EDUCATION FOR NEW CIVIC
ENAGEMENTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
SENCER is a comprehensive faculty development and science
education reform project funded by the National Science
Foundation. It is the signature program of the National
Engagement,
Center for Science and Civic Engagement, based at the
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology.
SENCER engages student interest in the sciences and
mathematics by supporting the development of
undergraduate courses and academic programs that teach “to”
basic science “through” complex, capacious, and unsolved
issues.
public issues.
12. GLISTEN Vision
Integrating Great-Lakes-stewardship-focused
civic engagement into undergraduate
coursework in the STEM disciplines
Aligned with SENCER (Science Education for New
Civic Engagements and Responsibilities), an
NSF-funded program of the National Center
for Science and Civic Engagement
www.sencer.net
13. GLISTEN Goal
Build the capacity of STEM faculty and
departments to
• significantly increase their undergraduates’
understanding of the STEM disciplines
byengaging them in direct action (i.e., service-
learning) and community-based research
benefiting resource-strapped governmental
and community-based organizations
14. GLISTEN Goal (cont.)
• better prepare those students for “green”
professional opportunities likely to result from
President Obama’s $5 billion pledge to restore
the Great Lakes, and
• provide them with the basic scientific
knowledge necessary to become enlightened
stakeholders who exhibit proactive
stewardship behaviors in their private lives.
17. GLISTEN Advisory Board (Cont’d)
- higher education curricular and resource
specialists
- students (stewardship liaison representatives)
18. GLISTEN Collaborative Clusters
2- and 4-year higher education institutions
(regional councils/collaboratives/
consortia, where applicable, e.g., WNYSLC)
Resource Conservation and Development
Councils (representation from county
commissioners, county planning commissions,
and soil and water conservation districts)
Local non-profit and governmental agencies, and
AOC (Areas Concern) representatives
19. Duluth/Superior
* Brockport/Rochester
Grand Saginaw
*
*
Rapids
* * Buffalo
Milwaukee
* * Erie
Toledo
* *
Chicago
** Gary
Cleveland/Akron
22. Jahnke and Lisdahl, biology majors at the University of Wisconsin-Superior,
conduct the first plant survey in 50 years on Wisconsin Point, the long
finger of beach, dunes and forest separating Superior Bay from Lake
Superior. Their work will guide other students in learning more about the
point's dune environment, and help future efforts to manage the area and
rid it of invasive plant species.
23. Environmental science major Kandice Spera, left, records
measurements of Beauty Creek on the west side of Valparaiso,
Indiana. She’s recording flow rates that could affect the health
of living species – plants, fish and other organisms.
24. "This is real field work ... you have to go in and get dirty to get the data,"
said Spera. "We take the water samples back to Valpo labs to find the
phosphorous concentration levels and to labs at IU-Northwest where
testing is done to measure suspended solids (sediment) in the water."
Spera said she is motivated by knowing that her work can help make a
difference in protecting the natural environment.
"There are many species of these little creatures that live in the bottom of
the stream, and if there's too much sediment they won't be able to live,"
said Spera.
25. Students calculating canopy at Burr Oak
with Shirley Heinze Land Trust
Stream Monitoring with Save the Dunes
Conservation Fund
Observation of a brown field with
environmental consultants
Plant identification with NIRMI
26. Color satellite photo produced from NOAA-14 AVHRR satellite imagery (channels 1, 2, and 4) collected
on June 21, 1995 at 18:48 GMT (about 2:48 pm local time). GLERL, G. Leshkevich, 1995.
