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Understanding Sea Level Using Real Data

Students will use graphical data to understand changing sea levels and how they...
Fri, 03/19/2010 - 14:07
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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Where There’s Smoke…

Students explain how fundamental relationships between melting and boiling points,...
Tue, 12/01/2009 - 11:59
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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Light at the Bottom of the Deep Dark Ocean

Students will be able to list the various adaptations that enable deep-sea fishes...
Mon, 11/30/2009 - 18:46
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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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What Was for Dinner?

Students will be able to compare and contrast photosynthesis and chemosynthesis as...
Mon, 11/30/2009 - 18:43
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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Keeping Watch on Coral Reefs

Students learn why coral reefs are important, and what can be done to protect them...
Mon, 11/30/2009 - 12:41
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A tornado of sardines swirls around diver and photographer Erwin Poliakoff in the Philippines.
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Why the Littlest Fish Matter a Whole Lot

Top predators along the California coast are having a rough year. Recently starving...
May 2015
This queen parrotfish scrapes algae from Caribbean reefs with its parrot-like beak.
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From Despair to Repair: Protecting Parrotfish Can Help Bring Back Caribbean Coral Reefs

Reef biologists over a certain age are haunted by memories of what glorious places...
July 2014
A diver collects water samples.
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Ocean Sampling Day – Taking the Pulse of the World’s Oceans

If you are a bird watcher you have probably heard of the Christmas Bird Count. The...
June 2014
Grey reef sharks are among the most versatile and tough predators on a Pacific coral reef, but they are also among the most vulnerable species, as they are threatened by wasteful fishing practices like shark finning.
Article

Where the Shark and the Snapper Roam

The pre-industrial American landscape was once rightly described as a place where...
March 2014
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 student uses a marker to decorate a reusable lunch bag with ocean creatures
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Teaching Your Students About Marine Debris: a Classroom Activity

Have you ever gone to your favorite coastal or lakeside beach and instead of having...
September 2011
The Havre volcano lies three thousand feet (900 meters) beneath the sea surface.
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The Mystery of an Underwater Volcano

Three thousand feet (900 meters) beneath the sea surface, in the middle of the...
March 2018

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