Bermuda Institute Of Ocean Sciences Bios Inc

Programs: Scientific research: research conducted at bios is relevant to the waters surrounding bermuda, as well as global earth system, and is multidisciplinary, spanning the biological, chemical, geological, and physical sciences. The major accomplishments of the largest project at bios, the bermuda atlantic time-series study, includes: provision of climate-change relevant understanding of ocean health and function; publication of more than thirty scientific papers each year; support of more than fifty national and international scientific collaborators; and access of scientific data to several thousand researchers each year. In support of this effort, the ship operations award contributes to multidisciplinary scientific research with numerous cruises. In 2016 ship days at sea totaled 139.

education: from hands-on programs for bermuda k-12 students to graduate internships in shipboard oceanography, bios conducts a variety of education programs each year that prepare the next generation for the scientific and technical challenges of the future. Bios's yearlong ocean academy provides educational resources to local teachers and offers hands-on learning experiences to hundreds of students each year. Bios provides unique experiential learning opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students from the u. S. , including a 14-week, fall semester of academic courses in the marine sciences with an enrollment of 12 students in 2016. Each year, bios hosts a 12-week fall internship program that provides authentic research experience for 8 undergraduate students from the u. S. 2 interns participated in other fall internships. 1 from the u. K. For 12 weeks and the other from italy for 8 weeks. Bios also offers 3-week summer courses for students from around the world and summer research internships of variable duration. Twenty-three students, primarily from the u. S. , canada and the u. K. , participated in summer internships at bios in 2016.