— Filed by News 8 WROC

Rochester, NY, July 5, 2023 - An EPA vessel was out on Lake Ontario Wednesday, collecting various pieces of data. Two members of the ship’s crew are members of our community.

Tara Spitzer-List with the Virtual Academy of Rochester and Tucker Ruderman with the World of Inquiry School No. 58 are among the 15 educators on the vessel, learning from scientists as a part of the 2023 Great Lakes Shipboard Science Workshop.

Spitzer-List called it a great opportunity to pass on knowledge to the kids.

“So many of our students live right here and might know Charlotte Beach but don’t understand the importance of it or how they are connected to the other lakes, so I think it’s a good connection to a lot of classes that they teach, environmental science or living environment,” she said.

Spitzer-List said it was also a great opportunity to connect with other teachers from across the state with similar interests.

News 8 WROC is the CBS television affiliate in Rochester, NY.

For more on the 2023 Shipboard Science Workshop, including insights from the educators onboard, see NYSG's pre-workshop press release, "Educators to Learn from Scientists and NY Sea Grant Aboard Ship on Lake Ontario". There's also NYSG's post-media analysis news item, "On YouTube, On Air: Teachers Learn Aboard the Lake Guardian".

Additional video and audio clips related to this workshop can be found below ... 




More Info: New York Sea Grant

New York Sea Grant (NYSG), a cooperative program of Cornell University and the State University of New York (SUNY), is one of 34 university-based programs under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Sea Grant College Program.

Since 1971, NYSG has represented a statewide network of integrated research, education and extension services promoting coastal community economic vitality, environmental sustainability and citizen awareness and understanding about the State’s marine and Great Lakes resources.

Through NYSG’s efforts, the combined talents of university scientists and extension specialists help develop and transfer science-based information to many coastal user groups—businesses and industries, federal, state and local government decision-makers and agency managers, educators, the media and the interested public.

The program maintains Great Lakes offices at Cornell University, SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Oswego and the Wayne County Cooperative Extension office in Newark. In the State's marine waters, NYSG has offices at Stony Brook University and with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau County on Long Island, Brooklyn College and Cornell Cooperative Extension in NYC and Kingston in the Hudson Valley.

For updates on Sea Grant activities: www.nyseagrant.org has RSS, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube links. NYSG offers a free e-list sign up via www.nyseagrant.org/nycoastlines for its flagship publication, NY Coastlines/Currents, which is published quarterly.