Tsunami Events: 1850-Present
What the time-lapse of events with a tsunami from the year 1850 to present day.
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3rd - 5th
Podcast: NOAA and the Octonauts
Welcome to “NOAA and the Octonauts,” an episode-by-episode discussion of the children’s TV show the Octonauts, which features a crew of quirky and courageous undersea adventurers. Their mission: to explore the world’s ocean, rescue the creatures who live there, and protect their habitats. Our monthly podcast brings together experts from inside and outside of NOAA to help you and the children you care about learn more about the real-life versions of the Octonauts sea creatures and the ocean they call home.
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Ask a Scientist: Do You Live in the Ocean?
NOAA Corps Officer Marisa explains what it’s like to work on a ship doing NOAA science on the ocean.
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Videos From National Marine Sanctuaries
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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Age of the Ocean Floor
World Data Center-A for Marine Geology and Geophysics Report MGG-12 (1996) Published by the National Geophysical Data Center
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Learn More About Tsunamis
Printable information about tsunamis
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Help Nemo Find his Home!
In their ocean habitat, clownfish use an exceptional sense of smell as a
mechanism to help determine which direction to swim, called “olfactory homing”. When given a choice between two water currents, one with the scent of an anemone and the other with the scent of the open ocean, clownfish will choose the anemone scent nearly every time! They can also tell the difference between the scent of a predator
and the scent of a friendly non-predator…like Dory…choosing the nonpredator nearly every time! However, recent research in Australia has shown that the olfactory homing ability of clownfish is severely disrupted by ocean acidification (through interference with neuron
function).
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Dive Into an Active Submarine Volcano
This web site lets you dive with a remotely operated vehicle to the seafloor and back at Axial Seamount, an active submarine volcano. Dive! is an interactive experience using video and computer animation that allows you explore black smoker vents, unusual life forms, and newly erupted lava flows.
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Mountains in the Sea
In this 6-7 day investigation, students begin with an introduction to seamounts that are present in the Gulf of Alaska. They learn how seamounts were formed and look at a bathymetric map of a seamount. In Activity 3A, students explore sea floor mapping techniques as they participate in an activity to create a map of a sea feature they have molded out of clay. In Activity 3B, students watch a short animated presentation, “Who cares about Sea Floor Mapping?” then create a model of a seamount found in Alaska. They use pre-sonar techniques to collect data and create a graph of their seamount using Excel.
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