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An infographic explaining carbon sequestration

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Blue Carbon Infographic

When plants in the ocean die the carbon they use to build their tissues gets stored...

Staci DeSchryver, Jason Moeller, and Caitlin Fine, during their time in NOAA’s Teacher at Sea Program

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Staci DeSchryver, Jason Moeller, and Caitlin Fine participants in NOAA’s Teacher at Sea Program

Staci DeSchryver, Jason Moeller, and Caitlin Fine, during their time in NOAA’s...

Students from Veracruz, Mexico, are working with the Veracruz Aquarium and their local community to learn about the perception of climate change among the youth population in Veracruz.

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Veracruz Aquarium Delegation

What can students do to help the ocean? It turns out, a lot! These students from...

Scientist Kevin Raskoff documents organisms by building an aquarium.

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Photographing Captured Animals

To document fragile organisms found in the Arctic, scientist Kevin Raskoff builds...

Dr. Kathy Crane and colleagues stand on solid sea ice in the Canadian Arctic.

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Kathy Crane with colleagues on ice

From left to right, Dr. Ian MacDonald, Dr. Russ Hopcroft, Dr. Kathleen Crane, and...

Geologist Charles Paull (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) investigates geologic features similar to pingos on the Arctic Ocean floor where methane bubbles through sediments and forms hundreds of low hills. On land, a pingo is a place where permafrost bulges beneath a dried lake bed like this one in northern Canada.

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Ocean “Pingos”

Geologist Charles Paull (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) investigates...

A light painted image of a hand-painted ceramic fish with light emitting from its mouth

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Using Light Painting to Teach Bioluminescence

What does a bioluminescent creature that lives more than two miles below the...

November 2011

a colored shakemap from the M5.8 Virginia Earthquake depicts the shake range and epicenter of the earthquake

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A Guide to Earthquake Lesson Plans

It isn’t everyday that a magnitude 5.8 earthquake strikes the East Coast of the...

August 2011

On August 23, 2011 a 5.8 earthquake emanated from the little-known Central Virginia Seismic Zone. The epicenter was near Mineral, VA, but the tremor shook homes, schools, and office buildings in Washington, DC and beyond. In this brief video, Smithsonian e

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Demonstrating an Earthquake's Seismic Waves

On August 23, 2011, a 5.8 earthquake emanated from the little-known Central...

Wed, 08/24/2011 - 19:58

Each year, thousands of local teachers join us for Smithsonian Teachers’ Night.

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Teacher's Night Logo

Each year, thousands of local teachers join us for Smithsonian Teachers’ Night....

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Staci DeSchryver, Jason Moeller, and Caitlin Fine participants in NOAA’s Teacher at Sea Program

Veracruz Aquarium Delegation

Photographing Captured Animals

Kathy Crane with colleagues on ice

Ocean “Pingos”

Using Light Painting to Teach Bioluminescence

A Guide to Earthquake Lesson Plans

Demonstrating an Earthquake's Seismic Waves

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Staci DeSchryver, Jason Moeller, and Caitlin Fine participants in NOAA’s Teacher at Sea Program

Veracruz Aquarium Delegation

Photographing Captured Animals

Kathy Crane with colleagues on ice

Ocean “Pingos”

Using Light Painting to Teach Bioluminescence

A Guide to Earthquake Lesson Plans

Demonstrating an Earthquake's Seismic Waves

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