Clallam Bay School

Clallam Bay Student Working with Danny Grunbaum

Students in L. Indendi's biology and art classes at the Clallam Bay School are fortunate to experience the powerful integration of science exploration and art. In 2014, they explored some of the most novel organims on Earth that live on/near submarine hot springs where fluids exit the seafloor at temperatures >700 °F!. One student chose to learn about this lovely gastropod.

For three years Kelley has been visiting the Clallam Bay School in a collaborative effort to bring the experiences of active researchers and undergraduates to K12 students at the school. Part of the partnership includes student exploration of Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano off the coast of Oregon that hosts 20 instruments all cabled to the Internet and streaming live data to shore 24/7 from 5000 ft beneath the ocean's surface. It is a highly active volcano, having erupted in 1998, 2011, and again in 2015. Elementary teacher L. Indendi has brought this volcano live into the classroom - here students learn about the volcano, underwater hot springs and the life that they host. Integrating science and art, students choose a vent animal that they want to learn about, and in art illustrate these animals that live in some of the most extreme environments on Earth.

Located on the Straits of Juan de Fuca, and boardered by local streams and the Olympic mountains, this area offers exceptional opportunities for students to explore and characterize local dynamic ecosystems impacted by changing weather conditions that include high rainfall and storms and highly productive ocean waters with strong tides and currents. During this past two years, Kelley and Grünbaum and undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Washington have been working with teachers K. Eyers and J. Wonderly at Clallam Bay to build environmentally-relevant sensors to explore and characterize their local environments. It is a remarkable partnership with strong ties to the students and teachers at this wonderful school. This past year, they installed a variety of instruments in their garden. The students are learning the same skills that undergraduates are learning at the University of Washington. In 2014, Wonderly sailed with Kelley on the global class research ship the R/V Thompson as part of the National Science Foundation's underwater cabled observatory called the Cabled Array.

Clallam Bay Student Working with Danny Grunbaum

Students in L. Indendi's biology and art classes at the Clallam Bay School are fortunate to experience the powerful integration of science exploration and art. In 2014, they explored some of the most novel organims on Earth that live on/near submarine hot springs where fluids exit the seafloor at temperatures >700 °F!. One student chose to learn about this lovely gastropod.