Tsunami Events: 1850-Present
What the time-lapse of events with a tsunami from the year 1850 to present day.
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Oceans
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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Do You NOAA: Tsunamis
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.
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Do You NOAA: Arctic Ice Melt
NOAA’s Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) Scientist and Janet Intrieri explains what is happening to Arctic sea ice .
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Anatomy of a coral polyp
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.
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Hydrography
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.
Tsunami Science
Tsunamis start because of a sudden displacement of ocean water, usually from an earthquake.
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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