NEWSROOM
Ocean
Commotion at LSU on Nov. 2
October 23, 2006
BATON ROUGE –
More than 2,400 students in grades K-8 will attend the 9th Annual
Ocean Commotion on Thursday, Nov. 2, at LSU’s Pete Maravich
Assembly Center (PMAC), hosted by the Louisiana Sea Grant College
Program.
More than 50 exhibitors,
including LSU researchers, private organizations and students
from two area schools, will have displays ranging from coastal
and marine wildlife to the preservation of Louisiana’s wetlands.
“There is such
a diversity of things for children to see, smell, touch and learn
about,” said Dianne Lindstedt, Louisiana Sea Grant
education coordinator. “It’s a real sensory experience
for the children.”
Public and private
schools, as well as home schoolers, have registered for this one
day event. Students from grades 5-8 will attend the first session,
which is held from 8:45 to 10:45 a.m. The second session, held
from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. will be for grades K-4. Schools must
be registered in order to attend.
This year marks the
return of a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter and the Aquarium of the
Americas to Ocean Commotion. Both had been participants in past
years, but were unable to attend in 2005 due to the hurricanes
that devastated the area.
Also attending
this year is the Estuarians, the mascots for America’s Wetland
(www.americaswetland.com).
They will greet the younger group of students as they participate
in the events around the PMAC.
Since its establishment
in 1968, Louisiana Sea Grant has worked to promote stewardship
of the state’s coastal resources through a combination of
research, education and outreach programs critical to the cultural,
economic and environmental health of Louisiana’s coastal
zone. Louisiana Sea Grant, based at LSU, is part of the National
Sea Grant Program, a network of 32 university-based programs in
each of the U.S. coastal and Great Lakes states and Puerto Rico.
Motiva Enterprises
LLC, located in Norco and a subsidiary of Shell Oil Co., is this
year’s platinum sponsor of Ocean Commotion.
Editors/Reporters:
Members of the media are invited to cover Ocean Commotion. Contact
Roy Kron at (225) 578-6564, office, or (817) 691-9026, cell, for
additional information.
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