The Tides and Waters Levels Tutorial, presented by NOAA's National Ocean Service (NOS), is an overview of the complex systems that govern the movement of tides and water levels. The tutorial is made up of 11 chapters that can be read in or out sequence and include many illustrative and interactive graphics to visually enhance the learning process. To complement the information highlighted in the tutorial, ... Full description.

This site uses text and photos to explain how the physical characteristics of the Bay of Fundy create the unique tides that occur there. It also explains how the extreme tides affect nutrient cycling and plankton in the Bay, mudflats, and salt marshes. A static 3D map shows the areal extent of the Bay and an interactive 3D map explains the concept of vertical exaggeration. A short movie shows real ... Full description.

This Flash animation illustrates wave motion, or the movement of energy through water. Users can stop, play, fast forward and rewind the animation at any time. This visualization is one of several animations in a series developed as a component of Exploring Earth, a website that supports the textbook Earth Science. Full description.

This site houses a collection of web-based visual resources suitable for teaching about tides. Visualizations include photos, simple animations, animated maps and field videos. Resources can be integrated into lectures, labs, classes, or other activities about tides, their distribution in space and time, their role in sedimentary processes, and their use as an energy source. Full description.

This homepage for an introductory physical oceanography course provides the class syllabus, an outline of clearly defined learning goals, and an interactive lecture schedule with links to text and graphics for each topic. Homework assignments, links to PDF and online versions of class text, and a detailed semester review including sample exam questions are also provided. Also featured is a list of ... Full description.

This site provides data sets and graphical display tools for viewing and analyzing mean ocean surface current data from the tropical Pacific Ocean. Ocean surface velocity data is collected via satellite and made available to users as latitude/longitude and time series plots. Users can select location range, date range, data type, and plot type to create graphical displays. This resource is part of ... Full description.

This site features Flash animations and a QuickTime movie that illustrate how waves and water molecules behave along the shore and in deep water settings. Animations depict the orbital motion of water molecules and show cross sections of waves at varying depths. These resources are suitable for use in lectures, labs, or other teaching activities. Full description.

This site provides a collection of visual resources about turbidity currents and their deposits. Visualizations include animations, photos, static images, videos of experimental models, and visual output from numerical models. These resources can be integrated into lectures, classes, labs or other activities. Full description.

This site provides animations and images showing a variety of depositional landforms resulting from longshore drift. Animations demonstrate both naturally occurring landforms and what happens when humans interrupt sediment transport processes through river and coastal engineering projects. The site also features a collection of coastal photographs. These resources can be integrated into lectures, ... Full description.

This site provides a diverse group of visualizations depicting sedimentation models. Visualizations range from photos and still image sequences to animations, and represent simple conceptual models, output from computer simulations, and physical experimental models. Visual resources can be integrated into lectures, labs, classes, or other activities about sedimentation and stratigraphy. Full description.