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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Making Mousse An experiment, designed for elementary school students, that shows how oil spilled on the ocean can form a mousse. |
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. |
Observing Marine Life Abundance Each of the photos you observe in the Graphing Project is a close-up of one section (quadrat) of Mearns Rock. |
Oil Floats and Spreads An experiment, designed for elementary school students, that shows how oil behaves in water. |
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. |
Sediment Penetration Exercise An exercise for high school students or older people that shows how different oil products can behave in different sediments. |
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. |
What's the Story on Oil Spills? When we talk about oil spills, how much oil are we talking about? |