CONVERGE, with National Science Foundation support, was a fully integrated scientific and broader impact program focused on a biological hotspot along the Western Antarctic Peninsula. The objective of our approach was to connect field-deployed Science Teams and our target audiences, middle and high school educators and students, through real-world data to elevate our audiences' experience from science aware spectator to working scientist. Based on experience gained from prior work and a documented need to elevate the student experience in science, we applied a multitiered program that integrated existing methods of known success (educator professional development, daily Expedition Diary blogs, live videoconferences between the deployed Science Team and classrooms back in the United States) with new tools that enabled our student audience to participate in and conduct their own peer-reviewed science (data primers, proposal review, and a science symposium). Through a comprehensive evaluation program, educators reported a change in their teaching practice to increase students' data collection and analytical skills and provided more opportunities to authentically emulate the process of science and better understand the impacts of climate change in this Antarctic ecosystem. Additionally, the educators and students both reported personal connections to the data, which motivated the students to push their comfort zones when analyzing real-time data.
Hepatic splenosis, a rare entity, is the ectopic implantation of splenic tissue into the hepatic parenchyma, most often incidentally seen in patients with a history of splenic trauma and splenectomy. We present a unique case of hepatic splenosis in a patient with hemosiderosis and splenectomy following the incidental finding of hepatic masses on pretransplant imaging. Final diagnosis was made based on cross-sectional imaging characteristics matching that of the left upper quadrant splenules alone. We discuss common characteristics of hepatic splenosis on multiple modalities, the effect of iron deposition on the imaging characteristics of hepatic and splenic tissue and how that impacts the differential and diagnosis. This case highlights the unique imaging characteristics hepatic splenosis can have particularly in the setting of hemosiderosis. Hepatic splenosis imaging diagnosis has a significant advantage over tissue diagnosis in terms of decreased risk, time and cost.
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