Ocean Observations in the Classroom - Dec 1, 2007

• PowerPoint Presentation by Dr. George Matsumoto, Senior Education & Research Specialist, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) Ocean Observatories: What are they, where are they, and how can you use them? (PPT) (Power Point, 23.09 MB)

Background Information

• Santa Monica Bay Observatory
• MBARI EARTH: Education and Research: Testing Hypotheses
• What are Ocean Observatories?
• What is a Coastal Ocean Observatory? Major Components (COSEE-Mid-Atlantic)
• Why do we need them?
• Seeding the Seafloor with Observatories (from Oceanus, vol 42, no 2, 2004)
• Going Wireless in the Deep Blue (from Oceanus, Jan 11, 2006)
• Will the Ocean Circulation Be Unbroken? (from Oceanus, Oct 31, 2007)
• The Way Forward on IOOS (from Marine Technology Reporter, Oct. 2007) (PDF, 120 KB)

Lesson Plans

• What’s in a Name? Scientific American, Oct 25, 2004, by Christine Soares
• EARTH: Classification Lessons
• Hardware (Office Supply) Sort
• Local Animal Sort
• Classifying Deep-Sea Organisms

Resources

• Santa Monica Bay Observatory (SMBO); Ocean Observing Systems (OOS) (PDF) (PDF, 117 KB)