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Art gallery: Browse the 2019 award-winning student artwork inspired by the ocean

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“Atlantic Octopus” by Alicia Z., Grade 7, is a winner of the Marine Art Contest 2019. Winning art is posted on the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary website.

Photo story: 5 lessons learned during my Knauss Fellowship

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Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship

Genie Bey worked in NOAA’s Office of Education for her 2019 Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship.

Photo story: 5 environmental education projects from the Great Lakes

January 31, 2020

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Teachers collect water quality data from the shoreline of Lake Superior during the Rivers2Lake Summer Institute.

Photo gallery: NOAA Education’s best photos from 2019

January 22, 2020

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At NOAA Kids Day, the NOAA family was invited to bring their kids to work at the Silver Spring, Maryland, campus on April 25, 2019. The National Weather Service brought a Van de Graaff machine, an electrostatic generator which uses a moving belt to accumulate electric charge on a hollow metal globe on the top of an insulated column. This creates very high electric potentials, and is used to teach about electricity, or in this case, lightning strikes.

NOAA Fisheries celebrated International Year of the Salmon with education events

January 17, 2020

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NOAA Fisheries scientist Matt Nesbit talks about salmon at the annual Salmon Summt in Pasco, Washington, in April 2019.

A year in review: 10 intriguing stories from 2019

December 20, 2019

GOES-17 GeoColor view of the Northern Hemisphere, Feb. 9, 2019.

Photo Story: NOAA Education and partner aquariums gather for 3rd collaborative workshop

November 4, 2019

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Coastal Ecosystem Learning Centers

After a two-day collaborative workshop at NOAA headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, aquarium educators pretend to “take a dive” into NOAA’s wave pool! By the end of the meeting, participants went back to their homes with strengthened relationships and new ideas about how to improve their own institutions and also the Coastal Ecosystem Learning Center (CELC) Network.

What surprised you about working in an estuary? 12 scholars share their insights

September 17, 2019

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Hollings Scholarship

National Estuarine Research Reserves

Andrew Tokuda, Global environmental science major at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and 2018 NOAA Hollings scholar, holds a chum salmon while kneeling beside the Tutka Bay estuary. Tokuda interned at the Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Homer, Alaska, in summer 2019.

Photo story: Explore NOAA scholarships as undergraduates #TakeoverTuesday

September 3, 2019

Savannah Miller, a 2018 NOAA Hollings scholar, takes in the scenery while kayaking in the Sitka Sound in Sitka, Alaska, during her summer internship.

Photo story: Explore NOAA resilience community education projects across the nation

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Participants assessing their community vulnerabilities and discussing ways to become more resilient during Week 4 of the USVI Storm Strong Workshop.

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