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Acidification in Our Oceans
This infographic developed by NOAA aims to teach the basics of ocean acidification and to provide information on what the reader can do to help this global problem.
Ocean Acidification Building Blocks of the Sea
This educational resource from NOAA, OAP and the National Marine Sanctuaries aims to have students understand the impact human activities can have on the chemistry/health of the ocean, and how changes in ocean ecosystems impact ocean and human life.
Understanding Ocean and Coastal Acidification: Teacher Resources
Through the lessons in this module, designed for grades 9-12, students will explore relationships between carbon dioxide, ocean pH and aragonite saturation state
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Coastal Acidification Interactive Story
This educational module from NOAA is an interactive way to learn about the impacts of humans changing water chemistry. This module specifically focuses on how changing water chemistry results in coastal acidification
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OA Alliance
The OA Alliance is an international organization whose goal is to create a network of governments and organizations. They use this network to take action against the growing threat of Ocean Acidification to protect coastal communities all over the world.
Climate Change and Ocean Acidification: Olympic Coast- Video
In recent years, shellfish growers in Washington state have needed to develop monitoring and treatment practices to avoid spawning failures that have been linked to periodic upwelling of more acidic ocean waters. Read this overview of OA research on the Olympic coast!
Back to Blue Initiative: An Ocean Crisis in the Making
The Back to Blue Initiative has created an interactive webpage that educates the user on the basics of ocean acidification. These basics are broken down into an introduction, the science, the impacts, and soultions?
Understanding OA
Learn how our oceans are absorbing increasingly more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, leading to lower pH and greater acidity with this educational resource from NOAA. Ocean acidification is fundamentally changing the chemistry of the world’s oceans and threatening our marine resources.
Whale Jenga: A Food Web Game
This educational resource from NOAA and the National Marine Sanctuaries aims to have students understand how organisms are connected through the marine food web and how small changes to to food webs can have larger scale impacts.
DITC CIA Worksheet: How Does Rising CO2 Impact Ocean pH?
This "Data in the Classroom" (DITA) worksheet aims to teach the impacts of CO2 on the ocean by studying important graphs and figures, which encourages students to think deeper about ocean chemistry.
Crabs in a Changing Ocean
This infographic from NOAA and National Marine sanctuaries, outlines how crabs will be impacted by changing water chemistry and what you can do to help!
Ocean Acidification Impact on Oysters and Other Shellfish-Video
PMEL Carbon Program Video- The world's oceans are absorbing carbon dioxide at an unprecedented rate and the resulting acidification is transforming marine ecosystems. Hari Sreenivasan, of PBS NewsHour reports on how ocean acidification is already affecting oysters and other shellfish in the U.S.
Ocean Acidification: pH and the Ocean's Balance
This educational resource from NOAA, OAP and the National Marine Sanctuaries aims to have students understand the pH is a measurement of ocean acidification, understand the pH scale, and the impacts that small changes to this scale can have.
Dungeness Crab Case Study Resources
Dungeness crab is a valuable species throughout the National Marine Sanctuaries of the West Coast from Washington state to throughout California. This communication toolkit is designed for educators and communicators to use to teach others about the impact of ocean acidification on Dungeness crab.
NOAA: Ocean Acidification
This NOAA webpage walks you through the basics of ocean acidification, highlighting the impacts on important organisms, and the current research in the USA.
Coastal Acidification in the Classroom
This educational module developed about the Mid-Atlantic ocean (compiled by the Mid-Atlantic National Estuarine Research Reserve System and MACAN) aims to teach about coastal acidification in this region
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UN Ocean Decade: OARS
Ocean Acidification Research for Sustainability (OARS). The programme will address the SDG target 14.3 ‘Minimize and address the impacts of Ocean Acidification (OA), including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels’.
The Olympic Coast as a Sentinel Video
This webinar funded by the NOAA OAP focuses on regional vulnerability assessment and the 4 Olympic Coast Tribes who depend on local marine species that are at risk from ocean acidification.