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Lesson Plan Development
- National Science Standards—Content Standards
- Standards Excel spreadsheet
- AAAS Benchmarks—Project 2061
- Ocean Literacy—Understanding of the Ocean’s influence on you and your influence on the Ocean
- Ocean Literacy Essential Principles
- Carolina Biological—Correlations to Educational Standards
- Rubistar—a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics
- Cornell Notes—http://coe.jmu.edu/LearningToolbox/cornellnotes1.html
- Wikimedia Commons (great source for images)
Ocean Acidification
- UAF Ocean Acidification Research Center—http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/oarc
- PMEL Carbon Program: Ocean Acidification—http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/Ocean+Acidification
- Nationa Academy of Sciences: Ocean Acidification—http://oceanacidification.nas.edu/
- Gulf of Alaska Ocean Acidification Mooring—http://pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/GAKOA
- Resurrection Bay Real-time Data Buoy—http://www.ims.uaf.edu/gak1/realtime/index.html
- Rapid Acidification of the Ocean During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (Science 10 June 2005: Vol. 308 no. 5728)
- Impact of Anthropogenic CO2 on the CaCO3 System in the Oceans (Science, 305(5682), 2004)
- Global Carbon Budget and Ocean pH—George Matsumoto, CSTA 2008
- MBARI—The Emerging Science of a High CO2 / Low pH Ocean
- Sea Grant Ocean Acidification Fact Sheet
- Ocean Acidification Resources Overview
- pH Measurements
- CO2 Measurements
- PMEL Carbon Program LDEO Surface Ocean CO2 Climatology
- Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
- Marine Institute Ocean Measurements of Carbon Dioxide
- Ocean Acidification: So What? (voicethread)
- I2I: Inquiry-to-Insight project—An International Environmental Science Collaboration
Biological Oceanography
- Seward Line—http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/sewardline/
- Arctic Ocean Diversity—http://www.arcodiv.org/
- Census of Marine Zooplankton—http://www.cmarz.org/
- A new climate regime in northeast pacific ecosystems (Geophysical Research Letters, VOL. 30, NO. 17, 1896)
Gulf of Alaska
- North Pacific Research Board (NPRB)—http://www.nprb.org/
- Gulf of Alaska Integrated Ecosystem Research Program—http://gulfofalaska.nprb.org/
- Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS)—http://www.aoos.org/
- COSEE-Alaska—http://www.coseealaska.net/
- COVE (Collaborative Ocean Visualization Environment)—http://ooi.washington.edu/story/COVE
Ocean Observing
- Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)
Focuses on the science, technology, education and outreach of an emerging network of science driven ocean observing systems.
- U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)
National office for integrated and sustaineed ocean observations that includes eleven regional centers. - Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)
A permanent global system for observations, modelling and analysis of marine and ocean variables to support operational ocean services worldwide.
- Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System (GoMOOS)
Delivering information to solve problems, predict events and better understand the Gulf of Maine.
- Pacific Coast Ocean Observing System (PaCOOS)
Providing ocean information for the sustained use of the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem under a changing climate. - CORMP—Coastal Ocean Research and Monitoring Program
- Cape Fear River Basin Monitoring Coalition's Water Quality Data
- Neuse River Estuary Modeling and Monitoring Project (ModMon)
- North Carolina Coastal Ocean Observing System (NCCOOS)
- Carolinas RCOOS—Regional Coastal Ocean Observing System
- Army Corps of Engineers—Field Research Facility
ERMA: Environmental Response Management Application
- ERMA: Environmental Response Management Application (CRRC)—http://www.crrc.unh.edu/erma/
- ERMA: Environmental Response Management Application (ORR)
- ERMA Portsmouth—https://portsmouth.erma.unh.edu/erma.html
- ERMA Caribbean—https://www.erma.unh.edu/caribbean/erma.html
- ERMA in the Gulf with Deepwater Horizon Spill—http://gomex.erma.noaa.gov/erma.html
- ERMA Introductory Presentation (CRRC)
- Chesapeake Bay Fieldscope—http://chesapeake.fieldscope.org/
Examples of Inquiry-driven Science
- Biology Letters—Blackawton Bees (Study published by 8-year-olds)
Resources Mentioned at the Workshop
- Under the Sea-Wind by Rachel Carson—
- Project Wild Convservation Education Program
- Charting Nature environmental prints

