Extreme Weather
The news continues to inform us of severe weather conditions around the world. Vivid images and reports of hurricanes and typhoons, tsunamis and rogue waves, droughts and wildfires, and inundation of coastal areas by torrential rains, mudslides, storm surge, record tides, and sea level rise are familiar to us all. The impact on natural resources, coastal communities, and human dislocation and life can be devastating. How do CO2 emissions or global warming affect our weather? Is there a correlation between our behavior and these phenomena? How can we protect ourselves from the destructive effect?
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DISTANCE LEARNING RESOURCES
To support all educators and parents teaching from home in the weeks ahead, the World Ocean Observatory is pulling together a compendium of home-study tools and resources for teaching and learning about the ocean. These resources can be used by parents, schools, educators and others to address the educational gaps being created by local and national ‘shelter in place’ initiatives to help flatten the curve on the Covid-19 outbreak. This list of resources is a work in progress: please reach out if you have other key elements that we should be sharing with our global community.
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WORLD OCEAN EXPLORER 2020
With a game capable of reaching a global audience, WORLD OCEAN EXPLORER can expand interest in ocean issues and habitats, and excite students about the infinite possibilities associated with ocean exploration. LEARN MORE.
