The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) Annual Meeting brings together teachers, undergraduate educators, scientists, library developers, and others interested in teaching and learning about the Earth with DLESE resources and services. This years meeting was held in St. Petersburg, Florida and hosted by the University of South Florida College of Marine Science. This years meeting consisted of workshops, field trips, birds-of-a-feather sessions, design review sessions, focus groups, reports to the community, lab time to engage in resource review, and plenary sessions with keynote speakers. attendees were treated to a wide variety of Earth Science topics including a look at the effects of a hurricane on a coastline as Hurricane Dennis passed by during the conference.

Attending from Elizabeth City State University this year were Dr. Darnell Johnson, Chair of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Dr. Stephanie Johnson, and Mr. Jeff Wood. Workshops ranged from building your own underwater robot to studying the newest evaluation tools for earth science materials in the classroom. Participants were kept busy and in the after hours provided with plenty of entertainment and beautiful sunsets.