Contains information on REEF, an organization devoted to preserving marine life through education, research and involvement. It includes a fish gallery with images and information on a variety of tropical fish. Membership provides reduced-cost dive trips all over the world to conduct observational research while diving. New data is added daily from volunteers world-wide and is available for download ... Full description.

The Resource Center is a central clearinghouse for an ongoing web project to provide access to information and data related to the Long Island Sound. Visitors can learn about scientific research, access data, view interactive maps, search literature related to the Sound, browse a directory of organizations and information sources, or look for locations to access the Sound. Full description.

This data tip from Bridge, the Ocean Sciences Education Teacher Resource Center archive, dicusses El Nino's effects on the oceans, climate, and ocean life. It includes links to a variety of educational sites, and a data activity in which students track some of the common climate changes caused by El Nino, paying close attention to wintertime changes such as temperature, precipitation, and incidence ... Full description.

Central to good science are accurate observations, testable hypotheses, well-designed experiments or other tests, and reasonable data analyses. The purpose of this activity is to introduce the basics of designing and analyzing experiments. This is accomplished by using a computer simulation that involves the real-world industry of farming fish. The two laboratory exercises include further steps in ... Full description.

This integrated collection of charts and maps summarizes the conditions of the world's natural ecology and human cultures, their interactions, and impact on one another. The graphics conveniently illustrate the connections between apparently disparate topics: core statistics on forests, soil, fresh water and ocean fisheries are displayed side by side with statistics on climate change, carbon dioxide ... Full description.

Five lessons at increasing levels of sophistication incorporate real data from NOAA to help students understand how sea level is measured and monitored. Along the way, they will learn how different factors such as storms affect tide levels and how to measure them. The goal is for students to become experienced with this type of data and the tools for accessing them, so that, by the end of the module, ... Full description.

Project Oceanica's goal is to integrate education with oceanographic research and exploration, and to develop educational resources and programs available to college and high school students, as well as to K-12 educators. Site is a comprehensive collection of Project Oceanica programs and resources. Features expedition and research information, photo and video galleries, field guides, shark and billfishes ... Full description.

The National Wetlands Inventory of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service provides information on the characteristics, extent, and status of U.S. wetlands and deepwater habitats. In addition to status and trends reports, this site contains publications, including manuals, plant and hydric soils lists, field guides, posters, wall size resource maps, atlases, state reports, and articles published in professional ... Full description.

Educators and students can explore the Great Lakes through their hydrology, physical and chemical properties, dead zones, climate/weather and fish habitat. Data for this website has been compiled by the NOAA-Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory and other agencies from buoys, satellites and other monitoring devices and has been customized for use in the classroom with fewer data and decimals ... Full description.

These United States Geological Survey (USGS) publications cover issues surrounding trace elements found in streams, ground water, reservoir bed sediment, fish tissue, and clam tissue across the US. The research is part of the National Water Quality Assessment program (NAWQA), which studies 31 metals and radionuclides present in our nations water resources. These include arsenic, lead, zinc, radon, ... Full description.