Maryland State Department of Education Environmental Education Specialist, Rebecca Bell, is getting hands-on research experience aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship as part of NOAA’s Teacher at Sea program. Bell is currently sailing aboard the NOAA fisheries research ship Delaware II out of Woods Hole, MA, and will return August 29. She is helping scientists with the Ecosystem Monitoring Project where they will assess changing biological and physical properties which influence the sustainable productivity of living marine resources of the northeast continental shelf ecosystem.

To see pictures of her adventure or to check her daily blog click here and here.