Great Lakes Shipboard Science Workshop
Apply Today for the 2025 Shipboard Science Workshop!
About the 2025 Workshop
Formal and nonformal 5-12th grade educators from Great Lakes’ states are invited to apply for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend a week aboard a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency research vessel alongside scientists and to bring the Great Lakes back to their classrooms. The workshop, organized by the Center for Great Lakes Literacy (CGLL), is July 7-13, 2025. Deadline for applications is Feb. 10, 2025.
Through a partnership with the EPA Great Lakes National Program Office and NOAA, and funding from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, educators will engage in scientific research aboard the ship. Hosts for the Lake Michigan workshop are CGLL partners Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant and Wisconsin Sea Grant.
The annual Shipboard Science Workshops promote Great Lakes science while forging lasting relationships between Great Lakes researchers and educators. CGLL is a collaborative effort led by Sea Grant educators throughout the Great Lakes watershed in the U.S. CGLL fosters informed and responsible decisions that advance basin-wide stewardship by providing hands-on experiences, educational resources, and networking opportunities promoting Great Lakes literacy among an engaged community of educators, scientists, and youth.
For more information on the 2025 Shipboard Science Workshop and application materials visit the Center for Great Lakes Literacy website.
2024 Shipboard Science Workshop Storymap
In July 2024, fifteen educators from across the Great Lakes states joined Sea Grant educators from the Center for Great Lakes Literacy (CGLL) and Great Lakes scientists for a week-long Shipboard Science Workshop (SSW) on Lake Erie. The opportunity, which took place aboard the EPA’s research vessel (R/V), Lake Guardian, launched July 7 from Cleveland, Ohio. Throughout the week, participants recorded their experience via photos and commentary, which have been compiled into a Storymap.
Michelle Niedermeier, education lead for Pennsylvania Sea Grant, was one of the trip’s facilitators and developed the StoryMap.
