OCEANS AND OCEAN ACIDIFICATION RESOURCES AND
WEBSITES FOR EDUCATORS
Ocean and Climate Literacy Principles
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/literacy.html
The Ocean Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts, and Climate Essential Principles and
Fundamental Concepts. Together, they present a vision of an ocean and climate-literate society.
Oceans and Ocean Acidification Education Web Sites
Ocean Acidification Curriculum Collection
http://www.oacurriculumcollection.org/
Awesome resource! A curated collection of free resources on ocean acidification for communicators and K12 educators.
Sharing Ocean Acidification Resources for Communicators and Educators (SOARCE)
http://oceanacidification.noaa.gov/AreasofFocus/EducationOutreach/SOARCEWebinarSeries.aspx
A collection of webinars that provides ocean acidification communication tools to formal and informal
educators to integrate effective ocean acidification education into their classrooms or programs.
Ocean Acidification: Educational Resources for the High School Classroom
http://coralreef.noaa.gov/education/oa/
Presentations, curricula and activities, interactive and multimedia resources and background materials.
Ocean Acidification Educational Tools
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/OA+Educational+Tools
Educational resources that describe the changing chemistry of the oceans and the potential impacts on marine
ecosystems.
Investigate Earth Processes Using Real Data: http://www.dataintheclassroom.org/
• El Niño
• Sea Level
• Water Quality
• Ocean Acidification
Coral Reefs, Ocean Acidification and Climate Change –
Education and Outreach
http://coralreef.noaa.gov/education/
Resources for teachers and students.
Estuaries: Real-time data, curriculum and climate resources
http://epa.gov/cre/
http://estuaries.noaa.gov/
SENSE IT Curriculum
http://www.senseit.org/
STEM and NGSS-friendly curriculum modules in which students build and use sensors.
The Bridge
http://web.vims.edu/bridge/
Large collection of teacher-approved marine education resources.
Earth Labs: Use satellite imagery, numerical data, and computer visualization software to explore
Earth system processes.
Corals
http://serc.carleton.edu/earthlabs/corals/index.html
Drought http://serc.carleton.edu/earthlabs/drought/index.html
OCEAN ACIDIFICATION INFORMATION, DATA AND REPORTS
Nanoos
http://www.nanoos.org/
Access a wealth of data on oceans including ocean temperature and ocean acidification. Includes live and
historical data. Includes a page on ocean acidification in the Pacific Northwest at
http://www.nanoos.org/education/learning_tools/oa/ocean_acidification.php
Coral Reef Ecosystems and Climate Change
http://coralreef.noaa.gov/threats/climate/
Wealth of information about coral reefs, their importance and the impacts of climate change and ocean
acidification on them.
Washington Sea Grant Ocean Acidification Web Site
http://wsg.washington.edu/our-northwest/ocean-acidification/
Lots of information on ocean acidification in the Pacific Northwest.
Ocean Acidification’s Potential to Alter Global Marine Ecosystem Services (Cooley et al. 2009)
https://darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org/bitstream/handle/1912/3182/22-4_cooley.pdf?sequence=1
Journal article in popular science format describes the possible changes that ocean acidification may incur on
the ecosystem services that the oceans provide to us.
Extensive dissolution of live pteropods in the Southern Ocean (Bednaršek et al. 2012)
http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/20728/1/Bednarsek%20et%20al%20NGEO.pdf
Scientific journal article led by local researcher Nina Bednaršek shows that pteropods (salmon prey) in the
Southern Ocean are dissolving in the Southern Ocean due to ocean acidification.
A Time-Series View of Changing Surface Ocean Chemistry Due to Ocean Uptake of Anthropogenic
CO₂ and Ocean Acidification (Bates et al. 2014)
http://tos.org/oceanography/archive/27-1_bates.pdf
Journal article in popular science format discusses long- and short-term changes in ocean chemistry,
including carbonate chemistry.