NOAA Education social media archives: October-December 2022

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An illustrated holiday card featuring a satellite in space above the Earth and a NOAA logo in the corner of the card. Text: Hoping your holidays are out of this world! noaa.gov/education
Thursday, December 22, 2022

Hoping your holidays are out of this world

An illustrated holiday card featuring three stingrays swimming in a column of light. There is a NOAA logo in the corner of the card. Text: May your rays be merry and bright! noaa.gov/education
Thursday, December 22, 2022

May your rays be merry and bright

An illustrated holiday card featuring waves in the sea and a NOAA logo in the corner of the card. Text: We hope your holidays are swell! noaa.gov/education
Wednesday, December 21, 2022

We hope your holidays are swell

An illustrated holiday card featuring a hermit crab with a shell decorated for the holidays including a wreath, red and white striped ribbon, and a Santa hat on top. There is a NOAA logo in the corner of the card. Text: Home for the holidays! noaa.gov/education
Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Home for the holidays

Twenty nine small illustrations of a wide variety of plant and animal life that have been cut out and arranged overtop a background photo of the marsh. The illustrations are detailed in ink and colored in a realistic style
Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Illustrations of California marsh plants and animals from my Hollings internship research

An illustrated holiday card featuring a polar bear wearing a scarf while walking in the snow. There is a NOAA logo in the corner of the card. Text: Wishing you a chill holiday season! noaa.gov/education
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Wishing you a chill holiday season

NOAA B-WET competitions are now open! The B-WET program is an environmental education grant program that promotes place-based experiential learning for K–12 students and related professional development for teachers. For open competitions and more information visit https://www.noaa.gov/office-education/bwet/apply.
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Great Lakes B-WET competition is now open!

An illustrated holiday card featuring a mug with a NOAA logo that is full of hot chocolate and marshmallows. Text: Happy holidays! When can your hot chocolate predict the weather? When it’s muggy out! noaa.gov/education
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

When can your hot chocolate predict the weather?

An illustrated holiday card featuring a lopsided ocean buoy with a NOAA logo in choppy seas. Text: We hope you have a rockin’ holiday season! noaa.gov/education
Monday, December 19, 2022

We hope you have a rockin' holiday season

NOAA B-WET competitions are now open! The B-WET program is an environmental education grant program that promotes place-based experiential learning for K–12 students and related professional development for teachers. For open competitions and more information visit https://www.noaa.gov/office-education/bwet/apply.
Monday, December 19, 2022

California B-WET competition is now open!

An illustrated holiday card featuring a decorated kelp tree with a sea star at the top, presents in the sand under the kelp tree, and a NOAA logo. Text: Happy holidays! noaa.gov/education
Monday, December 19, 2022

Happy holidays

B-WET’s 20th Anniversary logo: "B-WET 20 years and growing.” To the left of the text is a water drop shape and inside there a sketch of two people kneeling with a plant between them.
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

NOAA B-WET impacts

Two children facing away from the camera lean in front of a bench and work on small jigsaw puzzles. From the other side of the bench, Abigail helps one of the children, gesturing to a piece in front of them. She wears a fabric mask over her mouth and nose, as advised by the CDC during the covid-19 pandemic.
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Scholar educates about ocean life by drawing connections to culture, art, and STEM concepts

NOAA B-WET competitions are now open! The B-WET program is an environmental education grant program that promotes place-based experiential learning for K–12 students and related professional development for teachers. For open competitions and more information visit https://www.noaa.gov/office-education/bwet/apply.
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

New England B-WET competition is now open!

An illustrated holiday card featuring a decorated kelp tree with a sea star at the top, presents in the sand under the kelp tree, and a NOAA logo. Text: Happy holidays! noaa.gov/education
Monday, December 12, 2022

Happy holidays from NOAA Education!

NOAA B-WET competitions are now open! The B-WET program is an environmental education grant program that promotes place-based experiential learning for K–12 students and related professional development for teachers. For open competitions and more information visit https://www.noaa.gov/office-education/bwet/apply.
Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Pacific Northwest B-WET competition is now open!

Sofia stands on a rocky shore characteristic of the Pacific coast that is covered in seaweed and mussels. Choppy water breaks against it. She smiles at the camera, wearing a jacket, waders, and knee pads and holds a clipboard in one gloved hand and rests the other on a sampling pole.
Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Life in the rocky intertidal: My internship studying dynamics of urchin reproduction and density

A student stands at a podium speaking at the NOAA B-WET 20th anniversary event.
Tuesday, December 6, 2022

B-WET celebrates their 20th anniversary at a special event on the Chesapeake Bay

A digital painting that looks similar to a watercolour painting of a spiny lobster with its tail curled under its body and its characteristic long, sturdy antennae spread wide.
Wednesday, December 1, 2022

Heather Bruck believes that art is key to helping people connect with marine life and research. View her art and read about the internship research that inspired it.

Tabletop display materials will be used at outreach events such as here at the Ohio Fish and Shrimp Festival in September 2022.
Monday, November 28, 2022

Ohio Sea Grant and partners increase visibility and understanding of the yellow perch fishery.

People stand and sit around a table, engaged in conversation. They are looking at a large sheet of paper that says "youth" and holding markers.
Monday, November 21, 2022

We’re feeling thankful for our partnership with the Coastal Ecosystem Learning Centers.

Delián poses in business casual clothing and smiles for the camera in front of a glass wall with an etched NOAA logo on it. In the background, the words "National Hurricane Center, National Weather Service" are written on the wall above two large monitors showing satellite weather
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

How I reaffirmed my career aspirations and built key skills through my Hollings internship

A student looks through binoculars at a body of water with greenery surrounding the area.
Monday, November 14, 2022

2022 B-WET awards

Learn about density by making a fancy layered hot cocoa or find out the "secc-tea" depth of your perfect up of tea with our oceanography in a mug activities. Two mugs are placed on a kitchen counter. One mug has the NOAA logo on it and a miniature secchi disk is suspended above it. (The secchi disk is made of a white disk with black on opposite quarters. It is hanging from a string that has markings every centimeter.) The other mug is made of clear glass, and it contains hot cocoa topped with a layer of
Monday, November 14, 2022

Oceanography in a mug

Kaleigh Ballantine smiling in front of the beach at sunset.
Thursday, November 10, 2022

Follow your art: Lessons on communicating science

NOAA B-WET competitions are now open! The B-WET program is an environmental education grant program that promotes place-based experiential learning for K–12 students and related professional development for teachers. For open competitions and more information visit https://www.noaa.gov/office-education/bwet/apply.
Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Gulf of Mexico B-WET competitions are now open!

Jacob stands in safety vest on an overpass and smiles at the camera. River rapids flow under the overpass. The river is surrounded by low vegetation that shifts into an evergreen forest, which appears to spread all the way to cover mountains in the distance.
Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Photo series: A Hollings intern's trip to document weather impacts in rural Alaska

Headshots of Julio, Summer, and Travis.
Monday, November 7, 2022

Announcing the 2022 EPP/MSI Graduate Fellows

NOAA B-WET competitions are now open! The B-WET program is an environmental education grant program that promotes place-based experiential learning for K–12 students and related professional development for teachers. For open competitions and more information visit https://www.noaa.gov/office-education/bwet/apply.
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Chesapeake B-WET competitions are now open!

Lauren, in semi-formal clothing, smiles at the camera from where she sits on concrete stairs outside of a building.
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

A Hollings scholar's internship comparing methods for mapping plant hardiness zones

Five pumpkins carved with different NOAA-themed templates including an anglerfish, a jellyfish, a tornado, a bony fish, and a ship and plane.
NOAA Spooky Science features

Catch up on NOAA Spooky Science!

A grid of photos of seafood experts. Left: Katheryn Parraga (top), Charles Clark (bottom); Middle: Bay McLaughlin; Right: Noah Boldt (top), Wendy Stout (bottom).
Friday, October 28, 2022

Get a taste of Seafood Month: Explore and learn from East Coast experts

A grid of photos of Great Lakes seafood. Amy Schrank holding a coho salmon caught outside of Duluth Harbor in Lake Superior (left), satellite image of the Great Lakes coastline (top right) and Lake Michigan lake whitefish on ice (bottom right).
Friday, October 28, 2022

Get a taste of Seafood Month: Explore and learn from Great Lakes experts

Caroline talks to a few people from behind an exhibit table. The table has materials including pamphlets, a plush salmon, and outreach swag typically found at conference exhibits.
Thursday, October 27, 2022

My internship communicating messages of ocean literacy, conservation, and protection

Students pose for a group photo outside NOAA headquarters.
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Informational webinar series: EPP/MSI and Hollings undergraduate scholarships

Kaohao Public Charter School students react to the launch of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that the students are using to map the Kawainui Marsh in Kailua, Hawaii. After they collect the map generated from the UAV’s flight, the students will trek through the marsh themselves to ground truth the map and align their collected water quality samples with it. This project is part of the Watershed Investigations, Research, Education, and Design (WIRED) Project, run by the Pacific American Foundation and
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Hawaii B-WET competition is now open!

Six teens stand or sit on rocks that cross a stream. Two are holding sampling probes and another holds a clipboard. There is thick, shrubby vegetation on either side of the stream, and there are large mats of algae in the water.
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

New guide helps educators lead Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences

A grid of photos of seafood experts. Erin Arneson (top left); Maggie Allen (bottom left); Angela Caporelli (bottom middle); Kellie Casavalle (right).
Friday, October 21, 2022

Get a taste of Seafood Month: Explore and learn from Southeast experts

Kate and Nicole stand together with one arm around each other. They are smiling and standing next to a display of paintings, which are nested inside of a 1 meter by 1 meter square made of pvc (a sampling quadrat).
Thursday, October 20, 2022

2021 Hollings scholar Kate Lochridge used fine art to spark discussion around sea level change in Alaska during her artist-in-residence internship.

Tammy, Rose, and Jefferson stand together and pose for the camera with relaxed smiles. They wear each sun glasses and stand in front of a water and sky that are calm and blue.
Friday, October 14, 2022

 2021 EPP/MSI scholar Rose Leeger used machine learning to analyze drone imagery of penguin colonies in the Antarctic.

A grid of photos of seafood experts. Left: Kayla Menu-Coursey, Middle: Students at Santa Monica College (top) and a person pouring mussel water samples, with a picture of a mussel under a microscope(bottom). Right: Geoduck survey divers from the Nisqually Tribe (top), Peter Struffenegger (bottom).
Friday, October 14, 2022

Get a taste of Seafood Month: Explore and learn from experts in California, the Pacific Northwest, and Canada.

A grid of photos of seafood experts. Left: Katheryn Parraga (top), Charles Clark (bottom); Middle: Bay McLaughlin; Right: Noah Boldt (top), Wendy Stout (bottom).
Friday, October 7, 2022

Get a taste of Seafood Month: Explore and learn from East Coast experts

Connor poses in front of a building that has a NOAA logo and the words "National Weather Service" above the door.
Thursday, October 6, 2022

How a scholar helped modernize forecasting software used in NOAA offices across the U.S.

The watery remains of a once verdant woodland. Dead trees and broken limbs fill the beach. Border of the photo is black with orange atmospheric graphics of a lightning bolt and a tornado. Text: What is a ghost forest? #NOAASpookyScience with NOAA logo.
Thursday, October 6, 2022

NOAA Spooky Science: What is a ghost forest?

Phil Moorhouse holds up a red Vermilion rockfish with bulging white eyes. Border of the photo is black with orange sea creature graphics of octopus tentacles and a fish skeleton. Text: Look what the net dragged in #NOAASpookyScience with NOAA logo.
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

NOAA Spooky Science: Look what the net dragged in

Alison sits at a lab bench, holding a scallop in one gloved hand and examining it with a pair of forceps in the other. A tray with weighing tins and a laptop with a data sheet open are on the lab bench.
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

EPP/MSI and Hollings scholar blog

Five pumpkins carved with different NOAA-themed templates including an anglerfish, a jellyfish, a tornado, a bony fish, and a ship and plane.
Tuesday, October 4, 2022

NOAA Spooky Science

Lady's Island Oysters provides seed to local oyster growers. The final products are large, single oysters, which don't compete with the wild harvested cluster oysters in the area.
Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Harvest stories: Sustainability, Environmental, and Economics (SEE) of oysters

Cartoon illustration of community members discussing and collaborating on a schematic featuring maps and environmental information. Speech bubbles show that they are discussing storms, tornadoes, and storm shutters. Next to them, two people look at NOAA information on a laptop.
Tuesday, October 4, 2022

NOAA awards $4 million to advance community resilience through education

Audrey and Gracia are underwater in full SCUBA gear. They pose for the camera and though their mouths are difficult to see around the scuba mouthpiece, their eyes are clearly smiling. Gracia holds a large, professional-looking underwater camera while Audrey has a smaller underwater camera.
Monday, October 3, 2022

Applications for the EPP/MSI and Hollings undergraduate scholarships are now open