CINMS Partner Activities

Partner Educational Activities
The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary works collaboratively with a variety of regional and national partners to develop educational activities for teachers and students.
Click on the links below to find out more about these different projects.

MERITO at the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
MERITO is the multicultural education program for the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (CINMS) and it stands for Multicultural Education for Resource Issues Threatening Oceans. MERITO (which means ‘merit’ in Spanish), began implementation at CINMS in 2006 by delivering bilingual ocean conservation related products and services to students, teachers, adults, and families living near the Santa Barbara Channel region. MERITO targets mainly Hispanics, a group that represents over one third of the Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties’ population (according to the 2000 US Census Bureau). The 2008-2009 MERITO Academy Educators Workshop
will be held Fri. & Sat. September 26 & 27, 2008 with a follow up WKS on Feb. 7, 2008. Click here for more info.

OCEAN EXPLORERS
Ocean Explorers will engage southern California teachers and their students in the marine science laboratory that is right at their doorstep—Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and the southern California coast and will introduce them to professional visualization tools—geographic information systems (GIS) and image processing and analysis (IPA)—that can be used to study the anthropology, biology, chemistry, ecology, economy, meteorology, physiography, and sociology of southern California’s coastal waters and the Pacific Ocean. Using these tools, teachers will be able to involve their students in original research on issues of interest to their home communities: stormwater pollution, migrations of whales and other ocean life, balancing commercial uses of coastal waters with preservation of key features that make those waters special; and countless other topics. With assistance from the Ocean Explorers project, teachers will create inquiry-based activities for their students that will help their school achieve federal, state, and local standards.

For more information, please visit the Ocean Explorers web site at www.exploreoceans.org

JASON XIV plus Workshops
During the 2002-03 school year, the JASON Project explored the terrestrial and marine ecosystems that extend from California's coast to the Channel Islands Marine Sanctuary to learn how such systems affect life on our planet.

Mapping an Ocean Sanctuary pdf format
The Sanctuary partnered with the Center for Image Processing in Education (CIPE) and National Geographic Society’s Sustainable Seas Expeditions to help teachers bring Geographic Information Systems (GIS) into their classrooms.

Project Oceanography
is a live television program designed for middle school science students. Each week during the school year, you can learn about a variety of ocean science topics right in your classroom.

LiMPETS (Long-term
Monitoring Program and Experiential
Training for Students) Program
Long-term Monitoring Program and Experiential Training for Students (LiMPETS) is a collaborative effort among the 5 west coast National Marine Sanctuaries: Olympic Coast in Washington, Cordell Bank, Gulf of the Farallones and Monterey Bay along the northern central California coast and Channel Islands in southern California.
To find out more click here

UCSB MSI Oceans to Classrooms
The Sanctuary education staff is working collaboratively with researchers and educators from the University of California, Santa Barbara Marine Science Institute and area teachers on developing kits and lesson materials for bringing ocean sciences into the classrooms.

Waves on Wheels Program
This curriculum, linked to state and local science standards, provides important outreach to the farthest corners of Santa Barbara county, spreading the message of appreciation and stewardship of the Sanctuary’s precious marine resources.

Marine Reserves Digital Lab
Check out this interactive Marine Reserves simulation. Choose to be a commercial fisherman or a different stakeholder and decide where to put these "no-take" areas around Anacapa Island. Can you reach consensus?

National Geographic Society’s Sustainable Seas Expeditions
Sustainable Seas Expeditions was a joint project of the National Geographic Society and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to explore, conduct research and develop public education programs about the National Marine Sanctuaries.