Over the past two summers I’ve paid visits to the lovely Isles of Shoals to speak to students and scientists at the Shoals Marine Lab. (I wrote a post about my 2007 trip here, and last summer’s journey here.) This year I’ll be trying something new: I’m teaching a week-long college-credit course on science writing. It will run from August 10 to 17, and, like all classes at Shoals, it will be intense. We’ll read a lot, write a lot more, and take advantage of the unique environment of Appledore Island, where you should never be surprised to encounter an underwater archaeologist, an ornithologist banding migratory birds, or a vet dissecting a seal on a picnic table.
The Lab will be taking registrations for the next few weeks. By the way, here’s the whole course list for the summer, including a class on the history of oceans that will start at Cornell and move through time and space to Appledore.
February 18th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
“collete-credit course”
typo?
February 18th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Typo fixed. We’ll spend a couple hours of the class on spelling, too….
February 19th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
SML is an interesting place – I did my undergraduate research out there. I noticed that you didn’t mention the pleasures of trying to write while in the midst of a screeching gull colony!
February 19th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
This sounds like a neat course. Speaking of learning opportunities and maritime history, you should take the time to check out the small museum on the next island over, Star Island!