National Science Education Standard: B Physical Science Grades 9 to 12
An imminent thaw
In the Bering Sea, ice is everything. It controls the life, the people living there, and the climate. So what’s happening now that the thickness and the quality of that ice is deteriorating?
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2010/11/og46.mp3]
ROVers over and under
Rovers and remotely operated vehicles are hulking beasts on land. But in the ocean, they glide gracefully through the water and along the seafloor, and they’re crucial in surveying the watery deep.
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2010/10/og44.mp3]
California’s ocean
Up and down the coast of California, abalone farmers, bar pilots and environmentalists — among others — are staking their profits, well being, and peace of mind on real-time ocean data.
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2010/09/og42.mp3]
A diary of dirt. Un cuento sobre el clima.
Our planet Earth lays down a record of its climate on the seafloor in certain parts of the world. All you have to do is know how to read it.
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2010/08/og41.mp3]
Scientists, teachers and artists, oh, my!
Right now, in the middle of the Pacific, a team of scientists, educators, animators and artists are hunkered down on a ship together. For two months straight. The idea is something big, and it’s not a reality TV show.
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2010/07/og39b.mp3]
Music from the bottom of the food chain
Guess what kind of organism this is: There are billions of them in every bucket of the salty sea, some of them glow, and some are responsible for killing more people every year than sharks. Give up? Have a listen.
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2010/05/og36.mp3]
A Cook at sea
A teacher and her students at a junior high in the middle of Arkansas make the case that the ocean touches landlocked states too. All it took to drive the point home was a voyage on the Pacific Ocean.
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2010/04/og32.mp3]
Adroitly adrift
Little floats with GPS units are coursing all over the eastern seaboard, and they’re rousing community college students and lobstermen from bed at the earliest of hours.
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2010/02/og28.mp3]
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, composed
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current courses through the Southern hemisphere, cooling down and getting heavier all the while. And for the first time, this current gets its own musical scoring.
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2010/01/og26.mp3]
A green ocean
What color would you paint the oceans on our planet? Blue? Try green. At least that’s what a NASA satellite 450 miles above our heads is telling us to do.
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2010/01/og25.mp3]
