NOAA Education social media archives: January-March 2023

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Four people pose together on a pier. They wear bright yellow shirts that say “Discover Boating, Miami International Boat Show” and have lanyards identifying them as manatee observers.
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

EPP/MSI scholars volunteered as manatee observers at the Miami International Boat Show.

A graphic of the Earth’s orbit around the sun. Meteorological seasons: Winter starts on Dec. 1, spring on Mar. 1, summer on June 1, and fall on Sept. 1. Astronomical seasons: Winter begins on the winter solstice (Dec. 21) when the North Pole is tilted to the max extent away from the sun, spring begins on the spring equinox (Mar. 20), summer begins on the summer solstice (June 21), when the North Pole is tilted to the max extent toward the sun, and fall begins on the autumnal equinox (Sept.21).
Monday, March 20, 2023

#SpringIntoScience with NOAA!

A side-by-side view of two spherical images. The left is a colorful drawing of the brain stem and nervous system. The right is a colorful Earth showing differences in color throughout the ocean.
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Register for the 2023 Gordon Research Conference on Visualization in Science and Education

March 14, 2023: Happy Pi Day!

Beth Russell Wehe, Hilary Peddicord, and Shilpi Gupta stand in front of the Science On a Sphere tool, a large globe projector that hangs from the ceiling and projects global science data.
Wednesday, March 8, 2023

International Women's Day

A screenshot from a website showing documents that you can download, including Ocean Literacy, Climate Literacy, Conocimiento Climatico, The Handbook for Increasing Ocean Literacy - Practitioners Guide, Ocean Literacy Scope and Sequence for Grades K-12, and Alignment of Ocean Literacy to the Next Generation Science Standards
Friday, March 3, 2023

Ocean and climate literacy.

A grid of science photos that cover atmospheric and oceanic topics such as weather models, arctic ice, how wind is formed, and what causes fire weather.
Thursday, March 2, 2023

Ask A Scientist!

A student’s illustration of a hawksbill turtle swimming through ocean water that fades from light to dark blue with shafts of light shining through.
Thursday, March 2, 2023

Greater Atlantic Region Marine Endangered Species Art Contest

Diagram of the ocean that shows upwelling, a plankton bloom, sea ice, humpback whale migration. Read the narrative at www.noaa.gov/education/infographic/what-happens-in-ocean-in-springtime.
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Spring into science with graphics, educational resources and more from NOAA

A flyer displaying information for the next CELC Aquaculture Education webinar: "documenting the underwater world of shellfish farms for science and public outreach" on March 21, 2023 from 4-5 PM. It notes that the webinar series is hosted by NOAA's Office of Education and the CELC network. The flyer also shows a bucket holding oysters, and the NOAA and CELC logos.
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

CELC Aquaculture Education Webinar Series

A two page excerpt from the book. An illustrated child is superimposed over a photo from a real aquarium as though she is looking at an exhibit. The text reads "People who work at zoos and aquariums can have different job titels, like aquarist, curator, research, or educator."
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Sea Grant's marine biology children's book.

Screenshot of the Lake Level Viewer tool, which is displaying aerial imagery of Lake Michigan and shows several buttons users can manipulate, such as Mapping confidence, lake level change, opacity, and more.
Monday, February 27, 2023

Interactive lake level viewer.

A close up of coral polyps, which look like tubes with small tentacles coming out around the top of the tube. The tentacles are slender and appear gelatinous and are nearly see-through and have rounded white tips.
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Coral reef resource collection

Ocean waves in a sunset with a NOAA logo and the words, "NOAA ocean podcast."
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

NOAA Ocean Podcast

A classroom of students use iPads while following along with a virtual presentation in the classroom.
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

NOAA Boulder virtual visits

A community based sometime in the future where there are many resilient activities such as students learning at an aquarium, students studying sea grass, community members that are civically engaged and people doing green activities.
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Resilient Community: NOAA Science on a Sphere dataset

A pink border with hearts at the corner surrounds a graphic of a pink cloud raining heart emojis and question marks. Four squares next to it read: Contestant one, the unique beauty; Contestant two, the dynamic heartbreaker; Contestant three, the shy adventurer; Contestant four, the passionate dynamo.
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

My frozen valentine: Can you guess each mystery contestant before they’re revealed?

A Valentine's Day card showing a graphic of two cartoonish clouds and a lightning strike between them. Text: My love for you is electric!
Monday, February 13, 2023

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with NOAA

Green sea turtles rest on a Hawaiian beach. The turtles have white number markings on their carapaces.
Monday, February 6, 2023

Honu count: Help us find numbered sea turtles in Hawaii

On an undisturbed sandy beach, Kaitlyn smiles, holding out a pigeon-sized bird, with a long beak that is wide at the base and quickly narrows to a point. Both of her hands appear gently, but firmly wrapped around the bird, holding it's wings against its body. Her shirt identifies her as a volunteer with Rookery Bay Research Reserve.
Thursday, February 2, 2023

Storymap: My internship study on human disturbance of protected seabird nesting colonies

Teacher at Sea alumnus Jeff Miller sits at a workbench, his face mostly obstructed from view by a large magnifying glass ringed with bright lights. A small, square green circuit board is mounted at an angle underneath the light. The focus of the photo is on Jeff’s hands.
Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Get to know NOAA Education by the numbers!

Teacher at Sea alumnus Jeff Miller sits at a workbench, his face mostly obstructed from view by a large magnifying glass ringed with bright lights. A small, square green circuit board is mounted at an angle underneath the light. The focus of the photo is on Jeff’s hands. With his right hand, he holds a soldering iron to the circuit board. His left hand steadies a thin wire against the board while grasping a tube of solder. Other project components — a switch, a brass wool scouring pad — are visible on the
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

2022 NOAA Education Accomplishments Report

A view of the Earth from 66 million years ago shows a red and blue wave propagating out from the point of impact of an asteroid near the Yucatan Peninsula. The colors are associated with both positive (red) and negative (blue) wave amplitudes. As time goes on, the wave spreads around the globe
Monday, January 30, 2023

Tsunami: Asteroid impact - 66 million years ago

A selfie-style photo taken by Keanu. He smiles in the foreground in his kayak. Two people are in a canoe in the background and smile for the camera. Everyone is wearing protective life vests and sun protection as they float among the lotus and lily pads on a calm sunny day.
Thursday, January 26, 2023

Making connections between island and inland ecosystems during my NOAA internship

Delián poses in business casual clothing and smiles for the camera in front of a glass wall with an etched NOAA logo on it. In the background, the words "National Hurricane Center, National Weather Service" are written on the wall above two large monitors showing satellite weather images.
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Scholarships close in one week!

The USS Monitor's turret rises to the surface in 2002 after spending 140 years on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The turret was raised from a depth of 230 feet, 16 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Webinar: Raising the USS Monitor Turret - The U.S. Navy's Role in MONITOR Expedition 2002

Photo of T’Kiyah Reeves and Pa-Shun Hawkins, EPP/MSI Center Students at Eel Pond in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

NOAA awards $60 million in education grants to Minority Serving Institutions

A graphic of human hands holding up a globe. A NOAA logo is in the bottom left corner of the image. Text: Planet Stewards.
Monday, January 23, 2023

NOAA Planet Stewards Book Club

Photos of the impacts of climate change including flooding and drought.
Friday, January 20, 2023

NOAA’s “Picture Climate Change” Student Photo Contest

Anna smiles and gives a double thumbs while standing on a vessel at sea. She wears a safety helmet and life jacket and looks energetic and alert despite the dark night sky.
Friday, January 20, 2023

My internship analyzing long-term data and collecting new data shipboard

Three photos in a line showcasing a tarantula, Sheldon Plentovich, Ph. D., USFWS Pacific Islands Coastal Program Coordinator Nihoa, and the Nihoa Island mountains.
Thursday, January 19, 2023

Hawaii's hidden gem: Nihoa Island and its imperiled biota

6 decorative icons arranged in a square
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

So, you want to be a NOAA scholar? 15 tips for applicants

Aquaculture Literacy Mini-Grant Symposium February 8th and 9th 2023 noaa.gov/aquaculture-minigrant-symposium
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Join us for the eeBLUE aquaculture literacy mini-grant symposium

The photo looks down on Ronja, who is bent over looking through thin roots just under the soil in front of a multi-trunked tree. Ferns and other woodland vegetation obscure the view of her.
Thursday, January 12, 2023

An impactful internship: Research and outreach at Kachemak Bay

Photos of the impacts of climate change including flooding and drought.
Thursday, January 12, 2023

NOAA’s “Picture Climate Change” Student Photo Contest

Buoys and a boat on the water at a kelp farm.
Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Seaweed farming brings hope in the face of climate change

Alison sits at a lab bench, holding a scallop in one gloved hand and examining it with a pair of forceps in the other. A tray with weighing tins and a laptop with a data sheet open are on the lab bench.
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

EPP/MSI and Hollings scholar blog

A green background with the words "U.S. Environmental Protection Agency" and the EPA logo next to the text.
Monday, January 9, 2023

Pollution prevention works: A storytelling challenge for students

Rebekah Hernandez deploys an expendable bathythermograph off the stern of the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer.
Friday, January 6, 2023

NOAA Ocean Exploration Explorer-in-Training Program

The Treasures of NOAA's Ark exhibit on display at the Tellus Science Museum in Atlanta, GA. Several cases are spread throughout the room, with maps, and charts, early scientific instruments, and other historical artifacts inside them.
Friday, January 6, 2023

Treasures of NOAA's Ark

Photos of the impacts of climate change including flooding and drought.
Thursday, January 5, 2023

NOAA’s “Picture Climate Change” Student Photo Contest

NOAA Logo, featuring a white bird separating two fields of blue, darker on top, lighter on bottom. The word NOAA, sits in the darker blue field above the bird.
Wednesday, January 4, 2023

Do you NOAA our history?

Cole wears business casual clothing and sits on a log in a wooded streamside landscape.
Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Hollings scholar among first to research fish's unusual schooling pattern