We have associated many of our Ocean Gazing episodes with lesson plans that can be used in high school and college classrooms. Here’s a complete listing:

• #0: Introductory lessons to ocean observing
  • a) Coastal Observing Systems
    b) Discrete vs. Continuous Data
    c) Ocean Observation
    d) Oceanography through Time
    e) OOS Primer
• #1: An Internet Portal into the Ocean: A conversation with John Delaney
  • Plate Tectonics: Recycling the Seafloor
• #3: Coral concerns: Chris Martens studies the reef by living on it
  • Coral Bleaching: A White Hot Problem
• #4: Sonar in the sea: Kelly Benoit-Bird listens to the ocean
  • Coral Snapshots: Biodiversity in Marine Protected Areas
• #5: Cyber fiber: John Orcutt and Frank Vernon wire the ocean
  • OOS Primer
• #6: Top models: Huijie Xue gazes into the future of the Gulf of Maine
  • Discrete vs. Continuous Data
• #7: The glide of a lifetime: Part I
  • Hatch to Catch
• #8: The glide of a lifetime: Part II
  • Lobster Larval Recruitment
• #9: The ocean as classroom
  • a) Satellites & Storms
    b) Ocean Science Careers
• #10: Of bonds and blooms
  • Can Agricultural Runoff Cause HABs: Effect of Nitrate Concentration on Algal Growth
• #11: Penguins in the hot seat
  • Heat Capacity: Can’t Take the Heat?
• #12: A gust of energy
  • a) Sea Breeze
    b) Conditions at Sea
• #13: Autonomous, enormous, ingenious
  • Exploring Ocean Robots
• #14: Dungeons and Darwins
  • Waves: An Alternative Energy Source
• #15: Gliding on Earth
  • Exploring Ocean Robots
• #16: Antarctica melting
  • a) Carbon Cycle Game
    b) Ocean Acidification
    c) Ships, Oceans, and Satellites
• #17: The prince’s predictions: Part I
  • a) Satellites & Storms
    b) Message in a Bottle
• #18: The prince’s predictions: Part II
  • Adrift
• #19: Clearing a carbon catastrophe
  • The Heat Is On: Global Climate Change Revisited
• #20: The final frontier
  • National Marine Sanctuaries Shipwrecks
• #23: Keeping watch on a changing ocean
  • What’s a Water Column Profile
• #24: The little sub that could
  • Exploring Ocean Robots
• #25: A green ocean
  • Follow That Bloom
• #26: The Antarctic circumpolar current, composed
  • Ships, Oceans, and Satellites
• #27: Bobbing and bowling
  • Chlorophyll-a from Space!
• #28: Adroitly adrift
  • a) Currents & Drifters
    b) Construction of a Drifter
• #29: A 60-ton wakeup call
  • Deep Sea Communities: Diversity of the Deep
• #30: Liquid light
  • Rhythms of Our Coastal Waters
• #32: A Cook at sea
  • Current Events
• #35: Accentuate the positive
  • Ocean Science Careers
• #36: Music from the bottom of the food chain
  • Ooze Clues
• #37: A field of green
  • Satellite Tracking
• #39: Scientists, teachers and artists, oh my!
  • a) A “Bit” of Engineering
    b) CORKS in the Crust
    c) Tagging a Microbe
• #40: Sounds of science
  • a) Ocean Science Careers
    b) Get Onboard
    c) Tales of the Resolution 1 & 2
  • d) Tales of the Resolution 3, 4 & 5
• #41: A diary of dirt. Un cuento sobre el clima.
  • Ooze Clues
• #43: Thunnus thynnus
  • Tale of a Tuna
• #44: ROVers over and under
  • Coral Snapshots: Biodiversity in Marine Protected Areas
• #46: An Imminent Thaw
  • Ocean Front Property: An “Immerging” Market
• #47: Dotted Shrimp and Sugary Fish
  • Being a Salt Marsh Scientist
• #49: Slick of oil
  • a) Oil in Our Lives
    b) Drilling in the Ocean
    c) History of Oil
    d) Exploring Ocean Robots
    e) Gulf Loop Current
    f) Trouble in the Gulf
    g) Wildlife Rescue
  • h) Oil in the Water
    i) Scientific Research
• #51: Only One Ocean
  • Plate Tectonics: Recycling the Seafloor
• #52: A rockfish reserve
  • Fish Communities

Special thanks to CeNCOOS, CMOP, JOIDES, MBARI EARTH, and NANOOS.