Promoting marine science: International science camp as a platform

Kataržytė, Marija; Hille, Sven; Terlecka, Regina

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2017.07.003

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“…Science education in schools, which involves marine scientists in outreach and teaching, can also play an important role in enhancing ocean citizenship and literacy and public support for conservation science. Targeted events, such as "science camps, " considerably increase youth interest in marine science and champion science as an acceptable and viable career path (Kataržyté et al, 2017).…”

Section: Diversify Public Outreach: There Are Infinite Ways To Engagementioning

confidence: 99%

Social Licence for Marine Conservation Science

2018

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Marine environments are complex and dynamic social-ecological systems, where social perceptions of ocean stewardship are diverse, resource use is potentially unsustainable, and conservation efforts rely strongly on public support or acceptance. Decreasing trust in science in recent years has led to weakened social acceptance and approval of marine conservation science. Social licence is a concept that reflects informal, unwritten public expectations about the impacts and benefits of industry and government practises, including research, on natural resources, including the ocean. Working toward improving social licence may provide opportunity to bolster support for marine conservation, by allowing communities to engage with marine issues and marine science, and voice their concerns and views. Here, we argue that marine conservation requires social licence and we highlight science advocacy, accomplished through outreach, as a means to achieve this. We identify a role for marine conservation science to engage with the public through advocacy to improve understanding and perceptions of conservation. Drawing from the literature, we describe how science advocacy can enhance social licence for marine conservation research and outline four steps that can advise marine conservation scientists to achieve and promote social licence for their research and the wider marine conservation community.

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Section: Diversify Public Outreach: There Are Infinite Ways To Engagementioning

confidence: 99%

Social Licence for Marine Conservation Science

2018

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“…To have a deep understanding of the ocean, explore the ocean and effectively protect the marine resources, it is necessary to invest human, material and financial resources in the basic and applied research of Marine Science, and to build the research capacity of marine Science [1,2]. To improve the competitiveness of marine science and technology, the cultivation of marine talents, especially the cultivation of high-quality research talents in marine science, is the important first step [3,4]. Urban and Boscolo (2013) discussed the continual development of next-generation scientists and the special role of scientific meetings in their professional development [5].…”

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confidence: 99%

An Analysis on the Current State of Doctoral Training in Physical Oceanography of Ocean University of China

Liu¹,

Ma²,

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2022

Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Diversified Education and Social Development (DESD 2022)

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Academic papers are important results of scientific research and an important quality indicator of the doctoral training programs. In this paper, the doctoral students majoring in Physical Oceanography who enrolled in the Ocean University of China from 2012 to 2017 serve as the study objects. The academic papers published by these students while studying for the doctoral degree serve as the study samples. Statistical analysis was carried out on the quantity and quality of the published papers. The results show that in recent years, the per capita number of academic papers published by the PhD students majoring in physical oceanography is relatively low. Students who have published less than 2 papers account for 70% of the total students. However, the overall quality of the papers is good with most of the papers in English language and 80% published in the Zones 1 and 2 journals in the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) journal ranking. In order to promote the ability of doctoral students to write academic papers to a higher level, it is suggested that the college should conduct in-depth research and discussion in the improvement of the doctoral training programs and the cultivation of academic writing skills.

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“…In this way, scientists can take a more active role in attracting young people to the STEM educations. Through practical involvement, scientists can provide opportunities for the students to understand how we discover more about the natural world (Fortner and Mayer, 1989;Katarzyté et al, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Large efforts are invested in creating awareness of environmental issues regarding the oceans (Ducrotoy et al, 2000;Katarzyté et al, 2017), but teaching and education about the oceans present challenges due to the inaccessible environment (Fortner and Mayer, 1989;Lambert, 2005). This study used new technologies to show live-stream video from an artificial reef (a sunken ferry) when teaching Danish students' marine biology (see Seidelin et al, 2018).…”

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Does teaching about artificial reefs trigger students’ situational interest in marine biology?

Seidelin

Albrechtsen

Schöps

et al. 2019

Journal of Biological Education

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The lack of interest among pre-university students to choose STEM subjects for their higher education is a heavily debated issue in many western-world countries. To boost Danish students' interest in biology, a study event on artificial reefs was introduced when teaching marine biology in lower secondary school and upper secondary school (student age 13-20 years). The purpose was to investigate if the focus on artificial reefs could generate an increased interest in natural science and marine biology among the students. The students' interest in science was evaluated using electronic questionnaires before and after they had completed the teaching program. The students were significantly more interested in natural sciences and marine biology after than before the teaching program. The development in situational interest in science and in the oceans was different for males and females with females being most interested. Thus, it is possible to trigger a situational interest for science and marine biology by teaching about artificial reefs, but the way interest is triggered differs between different age groups and sexes.

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Promoting marine science: International science camp as a platform

Cited by 4 publications

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Social Licence for Marine Conservation Science

Social Licence for Marine Conservation Science

An Analysis on the Current State of Doctoral Training in Physical Oceanography of Ocean University of China

Does teaching about artificial reefs trigger students’ situational interest in marine biology?

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