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Featured Connection: Marine Microbiology
The Smallest Inhabitants of the Ocean Marine microbiology is the study of microorganisms that exist in saltwater environments, including the deep ocean, coastal waters, estuaries, marine surfaces, and seafloor sediments. Too small to be seen with the naked eye, these...
Why Connect
We certainly devote a lot of space on this website to explaining how to connect to the ocean, but not so much as to why you should connect. And that’s because we all have our own, often unique, reasons for connecting. For some, it is an...
Finding your Opportunity
The Opportunities Database contains information on ocean-related academic programs, awards, contests, enrichment programs, externships, internships, fellowships, grants, research projects, scholarships, summer programs, and training programs available to students from...
Featured Connection: Oceanography
Studying Our Greatest Resource Because the ocean covers over 70 percent of the planet and contains 99 percent of the living space on Earth, its composition (e.g., its physical, chemical, and biological makeup) has a significant impact on all life. This is true whether...
Conservation Careers
Anyone interested in pursuing or just learning about a career in conservation should check out the Conservation Careers website (www.conservation-careers.com). It is full of helpful resources no matter what stage of your career – student, intern, job seeker, early...
Featured Connection: Environmental Justice
The Politics of Place Communities populated primarily by ethnic minorities and economically disadvantaged people have long been burdened with a disproportionate number of environmental hazards such as garbage dumps, toxic waste facilitates, scrap yards, factories, and...
The Week in Climate Change News
A (non-comprehensive) list of interesting and relevant climate change, climate policy, and environmental justice stories. Environmental Groups Cut Programs as Funding Shifts to Climate Change. The Natural Resources Defense Council is eliminating its longstanding...
Information Exchange – oceanXchange
Another way we are creating a more inclusive ocean community is by narrowing the gap in experiential knowledge between students from better-resourced areas and those from under-resourced communities. Our student community page – oceanXchange – will give you the chance...
The Week in Climate Change News
A (non-comprehensive) list of interesting and relevant climate change, climate policy, and environmental justice stories. 2 degrees, 40 feet: Scientists who study Earth’s ice say we could be committed to disastrous sea level rise. A new report details that ice sheets...
Fifth National Climate Assessment
Biden-Harris Administration Releases Fifth National Climate Assessment and Announces More Than $6 Billion to Strengthen Climate Resilience Across the Country. The Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts,...
Featured Connection: Fisheries Management
Managing a Vital Food Source Fisheries play an essential role by providing a vital source of food in a sustainable manner. Fisheries are also a source of employment, recreation, trade, and economic well-being for people throughout the world. Globally, fisheries feed...
Water Insecurity
By 2025, two-thirds of the world’s population may face water shortages. Water and climate change are inextricably linked. Climate change affects the world’s water in complex ways. From unpredictable rainfall patterns to shrinking ice sheets, rising sea levels, floods,...