The National Marine Sanctuary System protects some of the most iconic underwater places throughout the United States, but we can’t do it without you. No matter where you are, the ocean and Great Lakes are in your hands. We hope these images inspire you to help care for our ocean and to spread the word that Earth isn’t green – it’s blue.
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National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Scientist Nicolas Arcos teams up with Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences Scientist Lindsey Wright to explains Tsunamis.
Do You NOAA: Tsunamis Read More »
NOAA’s Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) Scientist and Janet Intrieri explains what is happening to Arctic sea ice .
Do You NOAA: Arctic Ice Melt Read More »
Most reef-building corals are made up of hundreds of thousands of individual polyps like this one. These polyps generally range in size from one to three millimeters in diameter.
Anatomy of a coral polyp Read More »
Hydrography is the science that measures and describes the physical features of bodies of water and the land areas adjacent to those bodies of water.
Tsunamis start because of a sudden displacement of ocean water, usually from an earthquake.
World Data Center-A for Marine Geology and Geophysics Report MGG-12 (1996) Published by the National Geophysical Data Center
Age of the Ocean Floor Read More »
Printable information about tsunamis
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Students will define methane hydrates, describe where these
substances are typically found, and explain how they are believed to be formed.
What’s the Big Deal? (Methane Hydrates) Read More »
Students will learn:
• how multibeam sonar is used to explore and study the shape and composition of the ocean floor (bathymetry)
• how to analyze and interpret maps of specific seafloor features using multibeam sonar data.
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