The National Science Foundation offers a funding website which allows you to search for grants and funding. Visitors can search by keyword, program area, current offerings, and through an advanced search. There are categories for undergraduates and graduates, K-12 educators, and more. The website also offers a Grant Proposal Guide and a helpful Grants.gov Application Guide. Upcoming grants include ITEST (see below), teacher scholarship, Antarctic research, and many more. Be sure to check this out if you haven’t visited before. Visit the NSF funding website
Category Archives: Online Ocean Science Education Resources
Year of Science Oceans and Water Pages
The Year of Science Oceans and Water website is now live. Explore these pages and get a chance to name a new species of jellyfish, ask an oceanographer a question, download videos from ocean research expeditions, visit the Fun Zone, and more.
Follow a Deep Sea Drilling Expedition
The CHIKYU HAKKEN website is the information portal about the Deep Sea Drilling Vessel CHIKYU. Find out about the expedition currently underway, and follow researchers on the daily report. The site is maintained by the Center for Deep Earth Exploration, a center of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. Visit the For Educators page.
Sand for Students
Sand for Students is an education outreach program of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) in which students themselves collect sand from nearby rivers and seashores, to build a worldwide sand database. Visit Sand for Students.
World Ocean Day Podcast
World Ocean Day is June 8
The Thank You Ocean Report podcast features The Ocean Project’s Bill Mott, who discusses the history of World Ocean Day and describes some of the events you can participate in on June 8. Listen to the podcast
Research Vessel Interactive Site
The 470-foot JOIDES Resolution (JR) is one of the most important and largest earth and ocean science research vessels in the world. The JR is run by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, and the core samples and data that its scientists and crew bring up from the seafloor every day hold exciting and significant clues to Earth’s history, climatic changes, geologic events, and much more. You and your students can now get involved in this dynamic researchonlineOn this new interactive site, you can ask real scientists questions, track the ship’s location, explore daily ship blogs, watch up-to-the-minute videos (be sure to check out PNN News on the home page), and take advantage of other real time resources. Become a friend of the JR on Facebook, follow it on Twitter, and explore teaching activities for young children through college – including suggestions for how to use the website and real data from the ship. The site also offers free posters, inflatable JR tracking globes, and other classroom materials.
Graduate Certificate Informal Science Education Distance Learning Program
The University of South Florida is offering a four-course graduate certificate in informal science environmental education, available through online distance learning. Details online.
Oceans, Weather and Climate
NOAA’s new Ocean’s Role in Weather and Climate website features materials to help teachers and students understand factors that impact the Earth’s weather and climate and how changes in temperature or air circulation are part of complex, long-term cycles. The website offers classroom resources, teacher tutorials, web seminar archives, and more.
Undersea Glider Video
An undersea glider
developed by the University of Washington recently returned from a record breaking six months of operating under the ice close to the Arctic Circle. Data collected by the glider helps explain how freshwater affects climate change. Watch the video.
developed by the University of Washington recently returned from a record breaking six months of operating under the ice close to the Arctic Circle. Data collected by the glider helps explain how freshwater affects climate change. Watch the video.
Marine Debris to Energy Project
The New Hampshire Marine Debris to Energy Project studies marine debris at sea and on the shore, incorporating waste-to-energy and recycling as part of cleanup efforts. The website includes individual beach debris breakdowns, a reporting form, and more. Individual beach maps will be available in the future. Visit online