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Brian Arbic (in person), University of Michigan, Edem Mahu, University of Ghana , An attempt to globalize the oceanography enterprise: The Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School In Nigeria and Ghana
| Date |
Time |
Location |
| March 28th, 2023 |
3:05pm-4:05pm |
Clark 507 |
Oceanography is an inherently global science, yet the number of ocean scientists from some regions
such as Africa, the Caribbean, and others, is very small in proportion to their share of the global
population. We believe that ocean science will benefit greatly from sustained collaborations between
US and African scientists. With these motivations in mind, we have been running The Coastal Ocean
Environment Summer School In Nigeria and Ghana (COESSING;
https://coessing.org) for one week
every summer since 2015. Over time, the school has advanced from a small in-person event to a much
larger hybrid in-person/online event. In 2022, we conducted the school in Nigeria, Africa's most
populous country, for the first time. We will discuss the history, curriculum, participants, and outcomes
of the school, and our vision for expanding the summer school concept to many more countries around
the world.