This data tip from Bridge, the Ocean Sciences Education Teacher Resource Center archive, focuses on learning about ocean exploration. Students are invited to study the results of the September 2001 Deep East Mission to study coral communities of the Atlantic at Georges Bank Canyons and Bear Seamount off the coast of Maine, deep sea life and sediment transport at Hudson Canyon off the coast of New ... Full description.

The Chesapeake Bay Observing System (CBOS) provides live insitu data from buoys and weather stations located in and near the Chesapeake Bay. The data includes wind speed and direction, rainfall, temperature, humidity, and salinity. In addition to current conditions, archived data are available by day, two-day period, week, month, three-month period or for a year. Some stations feature voice reporting ... Full description.

This diagram illustrates some of the most abundant stores of carbon and identifies some of the pathways in the carbon cycle along which carbon is transferred from one form to another. Long-term sinks of carbon are labelled in black; shorter-term fluxes are labelled in purple. Amounts are in billions of tons. Full description.

In this lesson, students learn about the occurrence and significance of methane hydrates on the Blake Ridge offshore Charleston, South Carolina. They will be able to define methane hydrates and describe where these substances are typically found and how they are believed to be formed. Students will also describe at least three ways in which methane hydrates could have a direct impact on their own ... Full description.

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) is a component of the UK Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) environmental data center network and has designated responsibility for marine data. BODC's mission is to operate a world class data center in support of UK marine science by maintaining and developing the UK's national oceanographic database, developing innovative marine data products ... Full description.

The Marine Science Pictionary is a lexicon of basic terms which were used during the problem-based learning experiences on the RV "Connecticut". These were used by students from the American School for the Deaf who were participating in the Classroom of the Sea program. The Pictionary includes marine science terms in alphabetical order, pictures (some animated), written definitions, video representations ... Full description.

The High Tide program involves Virginia area high schools in making measurements of the water in lower Chesapeake Bay in order to note how salinity, temperature and density change with different wind conditions and various freshwater discharges into the Chesapeake Bay area. Students collect, analyze, and interpret weekly temperature and salinity profiles obtained with a CTD instrument at different ... Full description.

This report describes a project in which a team of scientists on board the research vessel 'Ronald H. Brown' are measuring the amounts of ozone absorbed and interchanged from the atmosphere into the oceans. Topics include how the ozone is to be measured and the possible role played by plankton in ozone interchanges. There is also a tutorial on ozone, a glossary, and brief biographies of the researchers ... Full description.

Discovery Stories are case studies in coastal and ocean science drawn from research conducted by NOAA's National Ocean Service (NOS). They are opportunities to learn through inquiry and are accompanied by a set of supporting resources, including student and teacher guides, interactive quizzes, exercises with real data, and interviews with NOS scientists that explore how scientists think. In addition, ... Full description.

This website explores an active submarine volcano just off the Oregon coast, Axial Seamount, on the Juan de Fuca Ridge. On this site, users explore an interactive 3-D model of the seafloor and can view hydrothermal vents and fresh lava flows. At each of the six virtual tour sites there is an animated tour, an interactive panorama, links to video clips taken by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), and ... Full description.