Teachers who met through the Maury Project Initiative have established an effective network for student collaboration to gather, exchange, and interpret data. During the 1998-99 school year students will collect local climate data and gather data via the Internet from weather satellites and ocean data buoys.
Florida middle school students will collect local climate data from the northeast coast of Florida and the adjacent Gulf Stream. Nevada high school students will collect data from southeastern Nevada and the adjacent Pacific Coastal waters. The students will exchange data via e-mail, prepare an analysis of the implications the data might have for understanding climate, then compare their work. This paper is to present the techniques used by the teachers and students and to present examples of the student data and analysis.