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CONTENTS
& LINKS
Past
Programs
2006
2006
Teacher Institute Week I Itinerary
2006
Teacher Institute Week 2 Itinerary
Week
I Slide Show
Week
2 Slide Show
What
Students Need to Know About Great Lakes Maritime Transportation
(PDF)
2006
Lesson Plans & Teaching Units
K-12
Maritime Transportation Glossary (PDF)
K-12
Maritime Transportation Teaching Resources
Maritime
Transportation Teaching Resources List (PDF)
Maritime
Transportation System Report - Stewart (PDF)
Did
You Know Quiz? (PDF)
Did
You Know Quiz? ANSWERS
Maritime
Transportation Pre-/Post Test (Pregitzer) (PDF)
Maritime
Transportation Pre-/Post ANSWERS (Pregitzer) (PDF)
OTHER
LINKS
Duluth
Seaway Port Authority
Class Photos
Great
Lakes Maritime Research Institute
U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers Detroit District Website
Soo
Locks Webcam
Duluth
Harbor Webcam
COSEE
Great Lakes program
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2006
Itinerary
Schedule
for Week I: Mon-Friday, July 24-28, 2006 (west end of Lake Superior)
TENTATIVE (5/17/06)
Monday,
July 24 (Duluth, MN)
8 am (EST) - Depart Houghton and drive to Duluth
10-11 am (CST) – Visit Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center
in Ashland, WI - Great Lakes History
Noon – Lunch & Course Overview, Schedule, Requirements
in Duluth, MN
2 pm - Tour Coast Guard facility in Duluth
5:30 pm - Dinner at Grandma’s Restaurant in Canal Park. Take
Lake Walk Tour
7-9 pm U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Lake Superior Maritime Visitor
Center
Tuesday,
July 25 (Duluth, MN)
8:30 am - Overview of Shipping on the Great Lakes (Duluth Port Authority
Boardroom)
• Efficiency of Shipping on the Great Lakes
• Changes in shipping on the Great Lakes
• Port Security issues –1000’ long ship can fill
2000-80,000 semi truck!
11:30-2 pm - Harbor Tour & Lunch aboard Vista Queen from Barker’s
Island (Superior, WI) narrated by Davis Helberg, retired director
of Port Authority
3-4:30 pm S.S. William A. Irvin FreighterTour (narrated by Dennis
Medjo, mgr)
5:30-6:30 pm Dinner at Little Angie’s Cantina in Canal Park
7-9 pm – Your Choice: Train museum at Depot in Duluth; Great
Lakes Aquarium, IMAX theatre
Wed.,
July 26 (Duluth & Two Harbors, MN)
8:00 am – Drive to Two Harbors, MN
9:00 am – Overview of taconite shipping on Great Lakes (ore
dock observation deck). (Taconite #1 commodity
shipped on Great Lakes) by Kevin Ehrenreich, Manager, Dock Operations
Mgr, Canadian National and
Katie Ferguson with Great Lakes Fleet Inc.
10:30 am – Tour aboard Edna G. tugboat
Noon – Box Lunches from Savories Restaurant
2-5 pm – Tour of Split Rock lighthouse along north shore
6:30 pm Dinner/Evening on your own!
Thursday,
July 27 (Superior, WI & Duluth, MN)
9-11:30 am - Midwest Energy Coal transition point (Superior, WI)
with Marshall Elder, Manager, Terminal Operations, Midwest Energy
Resources Co. (Coal is 2nd largest commodity shipped on Great Lakes;
this is a phenomenal transition point bringing low sulfur coal,
grain, taconite, limestone from western states to eastern states)
Noon - Lunch at Anchor Restaurant (sailors’ bar) in Superior,
WI
2-4 p.m. - Tour Burlington Northern Santa Fe No. 5 Taconite Facility
(BNSF Ore Docks in Superior, WI with
Trent Kale, Terminal Manager
4:30 – 6:00 pm – Balancing the Social, Economic and
Environmental Aspects of Shipping on the Great Lakes
• Ballast Water Management & Invasive Species (Doug Jensen/Dale
Bergeron, Jim Clark (coastal engineering specialist; ports and harbors
land use impacts; gentrification of deep-water harbors) MN/WI Seagrant.
• EPA Pollution Control Lab or Mary Balcer, UW-Superior will
discuss threats to shipping; toxic sediments in harbors, dry cargo,
Great Ships Initiative studying ship-based strategies for treating
ballast
7-9 pm - Banquet at Radisson Hotel
Friday,
July 28 (Duluth, MN to Houghton, MI)
9-11:30 am – Tour Lake Superior Warehousing Company, Inc.
& Murphy Oil USA Terminal (Duluth Harbor)
11:30 am – Group discussion: What are the “big ideas”
regarding Great Lakes Maritime Transportation that your students
should know about?
Noon (CST) - Course ends. Depart for Houghton (lunch at Subway in
Ashland or box lunch from Savories)
5 pm (EST) - Arrive Houghton, MI
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