COSEE SE can help
Whether you are preparing a broader impact plan for a proposal or looking to improve elements of your outreach activities.

You're not alone
Writing a broader impact section or planning an outreach event for communicating your research can be stressful. Partnering with professionals who have experience translating science and a pre-existing network with formal and informal education institutions can help.

• COSEE SE Team
• COSEE SE Informal Education Partners (SEPORTs) (PDF, 162 KB)
• Sea Grant Educators
• Campus outreach and extension units; colleges or departments of education
• Diversity and Inclusion Programs
• Community-based youth programs (Boys and Girls Club, 4-H, scouts, etc.)
• Local museums and aquaria
• Parks and state environmental education agencies
• National Estuarine Research Reserves

What to expect
Broader impact budgets and time commitments vary. COSEE SE can support, collaborate, or partner with you. Read more...

Do it yourself
References and readings on presentations, publications,and communication. Read more... (PDF, 9 KB)

Professional Development Opportunities for Scientists

• Research Educator Exchange Forum (REEF)
• Brown Bag Series COSEE SE at NCSU (PDF, 74 KB)
• Boot Camp for Scientists COSEE Florida
• Communicating Ocean Science (COS) COSEE California
• Communicating Ocean Sciences to Informal Audience (COSIA) COSEE California
• Concept Linked Integrated Media Builder (CLIMB) Ocean-Climate Interactive and the Concept Map Builder COSEE Ocean Systems
• Educator House Call COSEE Great Lakes
• Tell Your StoryCOSEE New England

In addition to these COSEE Resources, your campus Center for Teaching and Learning or Office of Faculty Development should offer workshops and classes.

Broader Impacts Toolbox
This toolbox provides general examples of broader impacts and ideas for types of and resources of broader impacts and outreach.

COSEE SE Scientist Partnerships

• BenDim Dan Kamykowski (NCSU) and Jan Healy (HS Media Specialist)
• PMN, Phytoplankton Monitoring Network
• SECOORA, Southeastern Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association
• SEACOOS, SouthEast U.S. Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing System (Archival website from 9/2003-9/2008. Post 9/2008 assets have been transferred to SECOORA)
• Scientist and Educator Connections

For assistance with your Broader Impacts or Outreach Events, contact a COSEE SE Team member near you.
North Carolina: Carrie Thomas, Director and Terri Kirby Hathaway
South Carolina: Elizabeth "EV" Bell
Georgia: Angela Bliss