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Cleaning Oiled Feathers An experiment, designed for elementary school students, that shows how oil affects bird feathers. You can try out different cleanup methods to find out which works best. |
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Coral Reefs and Oil Spills: A Guided Tour Get a basic overview of coral ecology, learn what types of things can harm coral, and see how responders must handle fragile coral reefs in their response and restoration efforts. |
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Dispersants: A Guided Tour Dispersants are one kind of countermeasure to oil spills. Here's a basic explanation of what they are and how they work. |
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Edmonds Dock Tour A presentation of animals and organisms living in the water column at a dock in Edmonds, Washington. |
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about Oil and Chemical Spills Answers to questions that students, teachers, and others have asked us about topics related to our work. |
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Graphing Changes in Marine Life Abundance Try your hand at some marine biology! Follow these steps, designed for middle and high school students, to make a study of the marine life occupying a section, or quadrat, of Mearns Rock. |
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Investigating the Top of the Water Column Take a look at the creatures living at the top of the water column, which could be affected by an oil spill. For high school students or older people. |
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Making Mousse An experiment, designed for elementary school students, that shows how oil spilled on the ocean can form a mousse. |
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Mearns Rock Time Series How does marine life recover from a major, one-time stress, such as an oil spill? As you will learn here, the answer is not simple. |
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Observing Marine Life Abundance As you look through these photos, consider the intense competition for space that exists among marine life forms in the intertidal region. |
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Oil Trajectory Prediction Here's how our computer model predicted the oil spilled from the Exxon Valdez would travel across Prince William Sound, Alaska, during the first week after that spill started in March 1989. |
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Sediment Penetration Exercise An exercise for high school students or older people that shows how different oil products can behave in different sediments. |
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Water Cycle Game This game teaches a more realistic version of the complex water cycle, and, how the water cycle influences the transport of pollutants. |
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What's the Story on Oil Spills? When we talk about oil spills, how much oil are we talking about? |
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Software & Data Sets for Students and Teachers supporting Inspiring Students and Teachers Pages on our site that provide access to software created by the Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R) to aid first responders, planners, and restoration practitioners. |
GNOME
The GNOME Development team has released a Location File for New York Harbor, plus an updated GNOME 1.3.0! |
Using Maps to Evaluate Environmental Tradeoffs
Instructions and materials for an exercise in which you plan a protection strategy for a coastline threatened by an oil spill. |
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Web Portals for Students and Teachers to sites about Inspiring Students and Teachers Pages on our site that provide information about and access to Web sites of closely-related agencies and programs. |
NOS Education Discovery Kit: Corals
A tutorial on the biology of and threats to corals, a roadmap to related Web resources, and a series of coral-related lesson plans developed for students at the high school level. |
Prince William's Oily Mess: A Tale of Recovery
A case study in the Exxon Valdez oil spill, accompanied by a set of supporting resources, including student and teacher guides, an interactive quiz, an exercise with real data, and an interview with a National Ocean Service (NOS) scientist, Dr. Alan Mearns. |
Nonpoint Source Pollution
A tutorial describing the categories of nonpoint source pollution, the various pollutants that originate from nonpoint sources, and our research and monitoring efforts. |
Exploring Earth: What Happens When an Oil Spill Occurs?
A Web-based investigation that uses animations, interactive graphics, and unique imagery to help students gather information about oil spills. |
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GNOME The GNOME Development team has released a Location File for New York Harbor, plus an updated GNOME 1.3.0! (updated: September 9, 2008) |
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IncidentNews News and information on current and historical incidents, including the July 23, 2008 collision and oil spill in New Orleans, LA. |
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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Overview of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Includes links to many related resources, including photo galleries. |
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NOAA Restoration Portal Web Site Provides centralized access to information about NOAA restoration resources, including restoration techniques and NOAA restoration references, through a single point-of-entry. |
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