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An App Helps Scientists Combat Illegal Fish Trade

Relationships often begin with the locking of eyes. For Yvonne Sadovy, it was a...

Lesson Plan

Oyster Disease

Along the East Coast of the United States, two diseases can cause significant...

Lesson Plan

Expedition to the Poles

Students will use NASA satellite data to...

Lesson Plan

Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale Activity Book

This book is filled with activities about the humpback whales of the Hawaiian...

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Collision Course

Students analyze maps of shipping lanes and whale sightings to devise a new...

Lesson Plan

WebQuest: Sensory Biology and the Plight of the Right Whales

This lesson introduces high school students (grades 9-12) to the topic of sensory...

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Tale of a Whale

Students exercise their observation skills to do some of the actual work of marine...

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Game of Life

The goal of this game is to illustrate to the students what happens to a fish stock...

Lesson Plan

Net Results

Students will study and replicate a model of the factors affecting fisheries...

Personal Perspectives

Comics at Sea: An Antarctic Logbook

For five years, I've had a photograph of Palmer Station, Antarctica, tacked up over...

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Not Just Another Fuzzy Face

Who hasn’t grinned at the sight of a sea otter floating on its back while...

Personal Perspectives

Shipboard Life in the Antarctic

Strapped in to a harness on the back deck of a 230-foot research vessel off the...