Students will learn to critically think about the world around them, and start to understand the scale of their surroundings in comparison to the scale of things much bigger and much smaller than themselves. 

I am an Oceangrapher-Mom with a PhD who switched to soundscape ecology when my kids were young and we moved to Montréal.  My kids and I started recording with a hydrophone in the lake and a recorder on a floating dock at the University of Montreal's Biological research station, and kept on listening in our backyard and the roof of their school.   I have worked with marine biologists, fishermen,  fisheries managers, ship captains, environmentalists, and all sorts of oceanographers (physical, chemical, biological, geological). As a team, we have looked at how plankton dynamics are affected by ocean currents, how fisheries respond to climactic changes in circulation, and how whales and dolphins respond to our research efforts in their homes.   I am teaching these classes because the world needs citizen scientists who can think critically about how our world is changing, and find new ways to communicate, innovate, and compensate.   I am so lucky to have found Outschool-- I have learned so much from exploring with students from all over the world during the past year.

We will refer to websites at NASA (satellite observations), UCSD (whales and dolphin songs), and the Discovery of Sound in the Sea (dosits.org).  Students will also have access to the Google Classroom for this course, which will include links to all the materials that some learners may find easier to navigate.