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Published: July 14, 2008 06:19 pm

EDUCATION: Learning on the lake

Area teachers take week-long cruise aboard federal research
vessel
By Dan Miner
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Niagara Gazette

A 180-foot boat carrying high school teachers,
academics and real-world scientists made a pit stop Monday in
Youngstown on its way to the open waters of Lake Ontario.

The Peter Wise Lake Guardian set off Sunday from
Buffalo and sailed up the Welland Canal before stopping at the
U.S. Coast Guard Station at Old Fort Niagara, according to a
release from Kara Lynn Dunn, publicist for New York Sea Grant,
the organization running the cruise along with the Centers for
Ocean Sciences Education Excellence.

Teachers from
grades 4 to 10 who teach Great Lakes and marine science had to
apply for the roughly weeklong cruise, which includes stops at
ports in Oswego and Clayton and sailing among federal
Environmental Protection Agency water quality sampling
stations.

The boat belongs to the EPA and is rare in
that it has laboratories on board, making it a kind of
one-stop research shop.

“Many vessels have to take
their samples, come back to the docks, put them in a cooler
and then ship them back to the lab,” EPA spokesperson Mike
Basile said.

The teachers hail from a series of
Western New York school districts, including one from Appleton
West High School and seven from Erie County middle schools and
high schools.

During their stay at Youngstown, the 16
teachers and three COSEE staff members walked through the
Nature Center at Fort Niagara and heard a presentation on the
geology of the Niagara Gorge, according to Helen Domske, a Sea
Grant specialist and associate director of the University at
Buffalo’s Great Lakes Program. They also went through a
simulated fossil dig and more presentations, demonstrations
and educational opportunities before boarding the boat and
taking off again.

“The teachers will take the
scientific information they learned through this cruise back
to their classroom where they will teach their students about
the health of Lake Ontario, as well as the biology of the
plants and animals found in and around the waters,” Domske
said via e-mail.

The Peter Wise Lake Guardian has been
operating on the shores of the Great Lakes for about 12 years,
according to the EPA Web site. It is on the water collecting
data for roughly seven months each year.

It often
hosts different state, federal and Canadian scientists for
studies and learning experiences, Basile said.

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