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You can also view and post messages to the NMEA/Bridge message board at. This is a great place to learn about professional development, learning and career opportunities in aquatic and marine science.

Book Recommendation!
You may be interested in reading Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage, an amazing book about the natural history of the Atlantic Ocean. Great Waters, written by Deborah Cramer, describes how the sea nourishes and sustains us, and how we are becoming a persuasive influence on these waters. The book synthesizes the last 25 years of compelling oceanographic research into a biography of the sea. Great Waters is available through major book sellers like Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble. Check it out!

If you’d like to recommend another book for good reading for aquatic and marine educators, let us know! Send an email to rbergren@
sheddaquarium.org and we’ll add it to our book recommendation section.

On-line Resources for Educators

We’ve compiled a list of online resources that we hope you’ll find useful. We will add to and update these links frequently. If you know of others that should be included, please let us know by sending an e-mail to rbergren@sheddaquarium.org. Please note that neither GLEAMS nor Shedd Aquarium is responsible for the content contained in these links.

The Bridge is an on-line marine and freshwater sciences resource center. Visit the Bridge at http://www.vims.edu/bridge/

Sea Grant has programs in all of the Great Lakes states. You can find information and resources at:

Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant
http://www.iisgcp.org/

Lake Champlain
http://snr.uvm.edu/seagrtvt/

Michigan Sea Grant
http://www.miseagrant.org/

Minnesota Sea Grant
http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/

Ohio Sea Grant
http://www.sg.ohio-state.edu/

Pennsylvania Sea Grant
http://www.pserie.psu.edu/seagrant/seagindex.htm

Wisconsin Sea Grant
http://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/index.asp

You can also find Great Lakes focused information and resources at the Great Lakes Information Network (GLIN): http://www.great-lakes.net/

Then visit T.E.A.C.H. The Education and Curriculum Homesite of GLIN to find Great Lakes-related educational materials for educators and students: http://www.great-lakes.net/teach/about/

Decision Making for the Great Lakes is an internet site about Great Lakes topics for high school classes. The site features a structured decision making approach called PrOACT, with steps of:

Problem definition
Objectives for the outcome
Alternatives
Consequences of selecting the alternatives
Tradeoffs in reaching a conclusion