OIP’s own Fritz Stahr stars in this video posted by the Seattle Aquarium, documenting it’s annual Family Science Weekend, held this year November 11th through 13th. Fritz held a demonstration using a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) in one of the tanks, while visitors got a chance to try making their own.

On November 3rd and 4th OIP helped COSEE-OLC co-host the 2nd annual boat-based educators workshop. The workshop was held at the University of Washington’s School of Oceanography, and aboard the schooner Orion. One of the goals of the workshop was to foster a sense of community and cooperation among Puget Sound boat-based educators, and we’d like to thank all who participated for making it a great success!

After much anticipation, our new website is up and running! We’ve had a busy past three years, and it’s high time we have a site that reflects that. Feel free to explore our photos and videos, more will be on the way.

And pardon any hiccups or broken links– we’re busy working the bugs out.

The OIP crew headed up to Vancouver BC last week to present a poster entitled “Ocean Inquiry Project: Bringing ocean researchers, students and marine volunteers together through field research”(a link to the pdf will be up soon). We met a lot of great people and sat in on some very interesting talks. Citizen science was on display in many of the sessions and posters, great job to everyone!