Explore a collection of NOAA videos, lesson plans, posters, webinars, web stories, virtual reality, and more to gain a deeper understanding of whale species and NOAA's efforts within the sanctuary system to protect them and limit the threats they face. Resource type: website, reference.

Explore a collection of NOAA webinars, a virtual reality dive, lesson plans, videos, posters, web stories, and more to gain a deeper understanding of sea turtle species and NOAA's efforts within the sanctuary system to protect them and limit the threats they face. Resource type: website, reference.

Coral reefs are one of the most important ecosystems on our planet that protect and foster biodiversity. Explore this collection of NOAA webinars, lesson plans, posters, videos, infographics, virtual reality, and more. Resource type: website, reference.

Plastics are particularly problematic: they gather in large, circulating gyres, floating islands of waste. Some of these gyres are enormous. For example, the North Pacific gyre is home to over a million individual pieces of plastic.

The tanker Exxon Valdez spilled almost 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989, injuring 28 types of animals, plants, and marine habitats. Resource type: website, reference.

Just outside of Philadelphia on November 26, 2004, an oil tanker called the Athos I unknowingly ripped its hull on an 18,000 pound anchor hidden on the river bottom. Resource type: website, reference.

More than half of global seafood supply now comes from aquaculture and this percentage is projected to increase dramatically in the upcoming decades. Resource type: website, reference.

This infographic illustrates how a large underwater cataract (waterfall) naturally forms underneath the waves within the Denmark Strait. A map in the upper right of the graphic shows the location of Denmark Strait, between Greenland and Iceland. Resource type: website, reference.

No need to be a full-time marine biologist to know about humpback whales. Check out this handy and jam-packed infographic to get a crash course on the life and world of humpbacks.

This is an 18-lesson curriculum designed for third grade on the biology and ecology of a manatee. Lessons take approximately one class period each (exceptions are noted in the lesson descriptions). Resource type: infographic.

Offers undergraduates the opportunity to work closely with scientists on current research projects. Students will develop a research plan, conduct their proposed work, prepare a project summary and poster, and give an oral presentation at the end of the program. Resource type: website, reference.

In the past, marine debris was primarily considered an eyesore. Marine debris brochures, posters, fact sheets, guidebooks, and activity books tailored to many different audiences. Resource type: website, reference.