Engaging students in the ideas behind the types of coral reefs, their zonation, and the processes that make them so special can be challenging. The Building a Coral-Reef activity is a great way to ensure students learn the concepts needed and remember the processes that are acting on coral reefs. And it doesn’t hurt that …
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Every year for every momentous moment in our lives, we check for one reservation before all others. For nearly eight years now, my husband and I have been waiting until the Georgia Aquarium’s Journey with Gentle Giants Dive opened up at just the right time so we could dive with whale sharks together. This year, …
“What is an estuary?” I make a point of asking my students this every year in mid-September and typically get a room full of blank stares and some really weird answers. I’ve gotten “where the sewage water is” to “deep, deep, deep, deep sea” and everything in between, but mostly just lots of blank stares. …
Imagine walking into a room where everyone is interested in what you have to say, and you in turn are thoroughly engaged in whatever everyone else has to say. It’s a weird feeling, that you belong somewhere, and everyone can provide something wonderful to add to your career. This was my first ever National Marine …
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It’s Shark Week! The most jaw-some time of the year! Discovery Channel has been premiering shark themed content every year for nearly 35 years, and we have very mixed feelings about it. While there are some gems on Discovery Channel and it brings many people closer to an appreciation and love of the ocean and …
I literally can’t sit still to save my life. Every weekend I can’t have even one day to just sit at home. I have to do SOMETHING! So, imagine my frustration with summer vacation. School’s out, nothing to do, so naturally I got another (third, fourth, seventeenth?) job. Now, this job isn’t just hanging out …
Welcome to the Reef Down in Key Largo, about six miles offshore, there lies a reef of beautiful clear water, with many fish flitting around, sea fans waving in the current, and a happy me drifting about. This beautiful place is well known as Molasses Reef.
How It All Started Shark tagging can be highly sensationalized, and most people know the gist of what shark tagging is and a basic idea of why it’s done. Shark Week typically shows at least one show every 2 hours that involves someone tagging a shark for research purposes, giving most people that baseline understanding …
Happy PADI Women Divers Day! Nine years ago, PADI had a simple idea, to encourage more women to get into the dive industry. With such a tight-knit community, divers everywhere planned events and encouraged women all over the world to get into SCUBA diving. In the first eight years, women all over the world put …
What is Shark Awareness Day? Are you aware of sharks? It’s a weird question to ask, I’m sure. Obviously, you’re aware of sharks. They’re around, they star in terrible Sci Fi films, they have their own week, the list goes on and on. Shark Awareness Day isn’t about just knowing sharks exist, it’s about knowing …