About the Site
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Technical Information
The purpose of the NOAA Teacher at Sea Web site is to inform teachers of the opportunities we offer and to engage students and others with the wealth of marine research offered by past and current Teachers at Sea. Our mission is is to bring hands-on ocean research experience to the classroom. Teachers from elementary school through college go to sea aboard NOAA research and survey ships to work under the tutelage of scientists and crew. Then, armed with new understanding and experience, the teachers bring this knowledge back to their classrooms.
Every attempt has been made to make this site compliant with Section 508 of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Additionally, we have provided a link to a detailed Site Index on every page. This index provides a direct link to all the pages in the site.
Please notify us of any specific accessibility problems that you encounter, or any suggestions you might have on how we could improve the site's access. Please email comments and suggestions to: tascomments@noaa.gov.
Browsers. This site is best viewed in Netscape, version 6.0 and above, or Internet Explorer, version 5.0 and above. Web site visitors using earlier versions of these browsers may encounter occasional format anomalies when viewing and printing pages from the Web site. Performance of this site has not been tested on browsers other than Netscape and Internet Explorer.
Links. External sites that are accessed by these links will launch a new browser session in a single, separate browser window. A limited number of links to non-U.S. government sites are included. Users are notified that they are leaving a U.S. government Web site by a separate page that appears on screen for approximately 20 seconds.
Fonts and Type Sizes. Verdana is the default font for this site; 9 point is the default size. All browsers allow users to select specific fonts and type sizes for display. Some users select large type sizes for ease of reading, or specific fonts for personal tastes. The text and layout should not be adversely affected by a user's selection of alternative fonts and type sizes.
Printing Pages. This site has been designed to ensure simple printing in portrait format.
Downloadable Documents. Some documents are available on this site as downloadable files in Portable Document Format (PDF). These files can be viewed on microcomputers equipped with recent versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader. Adobe Acrobat Reader can be downloaded for free.
There are some known issues with downloading PDF documents, particularly on Windows systems, due to conflicting changes in the way in which Acrobat Reader and various browsers talk to one another. But there is a simple work-around: if you right-click (Windows) or option-click (Macintosh) on the link, the entire file will be sent to your machine, and then you can open it off your own hard drive using Acrobat Reader.
Index. A link to the site index appears on every page. The site index is a complete listing of every page on the site and includes links to each of those pages.