Shell Environment Fund awarded to racerocks.com





			*~The SHELL ENVIRONMENT FUND~*

	December 2003: We are very grateful for funding provided by the Shell Environmental Fund for assistance in the operation of the racerocks.com activity, and archived and live video of the website.	See this article by Kerry McArthur in the Winter 2004 edition of Energy

	Jonathan (Newfoundland), Emmanuel (Ghana), Sonam (Bhutan), Stephanie (Shell), Tya (Indonesia), Jano (Slovakia), Garry (faculty).

On the 9th of December, 2003, Stephanie White from the Shell Environmental Fund came out to Lester B. Pearson College to present a cheque from the Shell Environmental Fund for the support of Race Rocks. In these pictures some of the students of the Race Rocks Activity show Stephanie the Race Rocks website.

The funds will be used for upgrading the software and hardware to allow greater participation of students in the production of the archived video and the Race Rocks Taxonomy
In particular, this fund will help in funding:
1. Support of the portion of the project which is dedicated to providing regular live webcasts to schools and museums.
2. Upgrading and enhancement of the Race Rocks taxonomy project. This class assignment allows students in environmental systems and biology to link in educational videos of species in their habitats at Race Rocks, thus providing an enriched educational resource. We have also linked to this exercise a template to encourage other schools to use a similar approach for recognition and conservation of biodiversity in their own local ecosystems. http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/eco/newecosystem/genusfolder/studentemplate.html
3. The purchase of additional equipment and software dedicated to more efficient compression of digital video and for an enhanced program of Live web casting to school rooms directly from the Ecological Reserve.

THE SHELL ENVIRONMENT FUND IN ACTION:


A video on the diving that went on that week.	A summary of the daily chores of the students while running the light station.

Emmanuel from Ghana was one of our most productive team member using the new Shell Environment Computer.

Emmanuel and Paul were two students who had participated in the Johan Ashuvud week in June and as well as providing daily hour long webcasts at the time. While on the island, they used the new camera and computer to produce a number of educational videos which are now on the website.

A highlight of the week was the production of webcasts for several school groups that came out to Race Rocks as part of the program.

These elementary school students were able to watch the field experience back in the school with their classmates and at home with parents.

Another school visit: Emmanuel has since done many hours of editing on the shell environment equipment to produce several documentaries of the events

Some of the videos by Paul:
Intertidal animals

A video of Pigeon Guillemots

Paul Omole from Nigeria allso did much of the video for the week. He filmed this unique video in the lab using the new camera and then did interviews for the overlaid sound track.

Paul videoed and edited this unique image of a vermillion star.He just finished editing it on the new Mac G4, which is appropriately named the "Shellenv" computer.

Diomedes and Imani edited this vido done by Paul using the equipment from the Shell Environment Fund.

Sylvia Roach, college faculty, also worked with the students in the racerocks.com activity this past year. Here she helps them download video from the new SONY camera for editing.

In June 2004, Garry Fletcher receives from Sir John Daniels on behalf of the College and the racerocks.com activity, a COL education award.

Students in Biology and Environmental Systems are always working on new taxonomy files. Here are a few examples of new ones being produced:


Scorpion fish	Puget Sound King Crab	Solmissus -a jellyfish	Grey Whale	Peregrine Falcon
			In May of 2005, Rita from Brazil filmed this sequence of a current profiler being installed for research.	She learned the iMovie process and helped in the editing of the video.

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