This lesson plan addresses the topic of Coastal Management. Students will discover that the nation's coasts are managed by the coastal states and territories through financial grants from the federal Coastal Zone Management Program (CZMP) and this program is a federal-state partnership that encourages restoration and sustainable development of the nation's coastal communities and resources. The program, ... Full description.

Coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the shocking state of the ocean today: overfished, overheated, polluted, with indicators that things will get much worse. A leader in the study of the ecology and evolution of marine organisms, Jeremy Jackson is known for his deep understanding of geological time. This 18:19 minute film, filmed as part of Mission Blue Voyage in April, 2010, is one of four ... Full description.

This website provides a search engine for exploring data resources on coral reefs maintained by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Resources include literature, data, and photographs from NOAA's coral reef research, other coral reef websites, and conferences and workshops that are significant to the coral reef community. An extensive glossary is included. Full description.

In this article, The Why Files examines the state of the world's oceans. Threats to our oceans include invasive species, sewer contamination, cholera, and algae blooms. These threats, their effects on humans and marine life, and possible long-term effects of these problems are discussed. Full description.

This lesson serves as an introduction to the discoveries and benefits that have resulted from exploration of the Earth's deep oceans. Students will be able to describe at least three human benefits from and identify separate examples of deep ocean exploration. All of the lessons emphasize hands-on activities using online data resources, and each inquiry-based activity includes focus questions, learning ... Full description.

In this lesson, students will learn what hydrothermal vents are and investigate the methods scientists use to look for them. As they proceed, they will learn about the CTD instrument packages (conductivity, temperature, and depth) and how they are towed by a research vessel ("tow-yo"). They will also learn the concept of pH and how it is used to measure the acidity or alkalinity of a substance. Full description.

Dr. John Delaney leads a team that is building a cabled network of deep-ocean sensors that will study, over time and space, the way the ocean's complex processes interact. The lecture explores the need to understand these interactions and research that is currently on-going and planned for measuring, sampling and sensing the deep ocean processes and organisms that are new to science. Full description.

Users can access remote imagery of coral reefs by clicking on an interactive world map. The imagery consists of tiled mosaics which can be zoomed, panned, and downloaded. This archive of coral reef images is part of a project whose purpose is to develop global reef maps as a base for future research. It was created in a partnership with NASA, international agencies, universities and other organizations ... Full description.

This curriculum focuses on the coastal ecosystem in the Gulf of the Farallones, in the Pacific Ocean near San Francisco Bay. One goal of this curriculum is to teach about the natural connections in this ecosystem and how humans fit into it. Topics include the seasonal upwelling of ocean water, the feeding relationships among organisms in the open water, the sandy beach habitat along the shoreline, ... Full description.

This lab aims to teach students about the nature of carbon, the different types of compounds it exists in (e.g. charcoal, glucose, carbon dioxide), the biochemical reactions it takes part in (photosynthesis and respiration), the range of processes that carbon and carbon compounds are involved in on Earth, and how these link together to form the carbon cycle. In this activity, carbon dioxide is released ... Full description.