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#WhereScienceLives: Educator Jason Osborne

Have you ever participated in a live interview while hanging from a cliff face? Jason Osborne has. Learn more about why and how.

Published September 22, 2017

By Attila Szász
Academy Contributor

Jason during a Google Science Fair live interview while hanging from a 110-foot cliff along the Chesapeake Bay. Google broadcasted the live interview through Jason’s smart phone to students around the world.

Getting scientists and students to work together on meaningful scientific research that’s also engaging is not an easy task. We work to do it through The New York Academy of Sciences’ (the Academy’s) Global STEM Alliance programs, but we’re also always interested in seeing how others do similar work. That’s how we learned about Jason Osborne.

Jason is currently the President and Co-Founder of Paleo Quest and the Chief Innovation Officer at Ector County Independent School District in Odessa, Texas. And he’s been everywhere from the White House to Google to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to champion STEM learning and citizen-science projects.

At Paleo Quest Jason focuses in particular on leveraging citizen-science to advance paleontology and geology. On this work in particular, Jason told us: “I love contributing to science and helping to figure out our prehistoric past. I get to choose my scientific questions and field excursions. How cool is that? I also share experiences and my field research with K-12 students.”

Check out photos of him at work below:

Jason getting ready to scuba dive for fossils in the Great Dismal Swamp located on the eastern boarders of Virginia and North Carolina.

Jason holding a huge fossil Megalodon shark tooth found while scuba diving in a Virginia swamp river.

Jason navigating and searching for ancient sea life along Cretaceous outcrops in West Texas.

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