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Faculty Coordinator Education & Outreach
Biological Oceanographer & Science Educator
Ph.D.,51在线, 2008
Office Phone: 727.553.3921
Email: greely@usf.edu
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Areas of Interests

Dr. Greely provides expertise in the areas of biological oceanography, ecological physiology, marine fishes, and ocean science education. She has broad research interests which encompass teaching and training about the ocean sciences in three areas: graduate and undergraduate education, teacher education, and ocean literacy amongst youth. She currently coordinates four education programs: (OCG), the In-service Teacher Oceanography Workshops (In-TOW), the National Ocean Science Bowl鈥檚 regional Spoonbill Bowl competition, and the Teaching and Communication Ocean Sciences Graduate Certificate Program.

In addition to teaching natural sciences and science education courses, Dr. Greely, also developed a series of graduate courses focused on teaching and communicating ocean sciences. Programs and courses are designed to teach science parallel to the way science is practiced in a research setting: courses are inquiry based, experiential, and learner guided.

Dr. Greely鈥檚 current research encompasses Ocean Literacy and reasoning about ocean issues by determining the influence of content, experience, and morality. The objective is to determine what youth around the world know about the ocean, what their attitudes are about ocean stewardship, and what they think about ocean issues.

Ecology and physiology of oceanic and estuarine fishes, age and growth, graduate and undergraduate teaching, teacher education, ocean literacy, and communicating science.

OCEAN LITERACY RESEARCH

Ocean literacy is an international issue necessary to sustain environmental, economic and human health. Ocean issues with conceptual ties to science and society have captured the attention, imagination and concern of international audiences: Global climate change, over fishing, pollution, freshwater shortages, energy and commerce. We look increasingly to the ocean for our everyday needs and sustainability.

However, a broad disconnect exists between what scientists know and the public understands about the ocean. Thus, there is a critical global need to advance ocean literacy. This book provides new metrics for ocean literacy and introduces ocean socioscientific issues (OSSI) and stewardship as essential components.

Three questions are analyzed: What teens understand about the ocean, how they feel about ocean stewardship, and how understanding and feelings are organized when reasoning about ocean socioscientific issues. The analysis should help shed light on current US ocean literacy constructs to go beyond cognitive understanding and include engaging learners in how to apply what they know through actions as citizens, stewards and consumers.

Reference:

Greely, Teresa, 鈥溾�� (2008). Theses and Dissertations. Paper 271.

Greely, T. M. and Lodge, A. 鈥溾�� American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #ED32A-08.

Greely, Teresa (2010) 鈥淥cean Literacy and Reasoning about Ocean Issues鈥� Lambert Academic Publishing ISBN 978-3-8383-4638-0, paperback, 240 Pages

Greely T., Lodge A., Betzer P., Pyrtle A., and Ivey S. 鈥淏roadening the Impacts of Graduate Education and Training: Contributions to Ocean Literacy & Communications Across Disciplines鈥�

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