Advice from the Ocean for Coral Week:
"Be shore of yourself. Come out of your shell.
Take time to relax and coast. Avoid pier pressure.
Sea life's beauty. Don't get tide down.
Make waves!" ― Unknown Planet Stewards Education Program Links Did a colleague or friend share this copy of The Watch with you? Thank them, then sign up to receive it. - See above!  Readers' Survey: Help Us Help You!  Your answers will help us determine content and resources that best address your needs as a subscriber to NOAA Planet Stewards' "The Watch" e-newsletter. Our goal is to provide you with timely STEM and educational resources, opportunities, and information that is most valuable to you. We appreciate you taking a few minutes to help us help you. Find and complete the survey here. Thanks to all who've responded thus far! | Join Us for Planet Stewards Bookclub in December!  Join us on Monday December 21 at 8pm ET to discuss Supernavigators: Exploring the Wonders of How Animals Find Their Way by David Barrie Animals plainly know where they're going, but how they know has remained a stubborn mystery—until now. David Barrie consults animal behaviorists and Nobel Prize–winning scientists to catch us up on the cutting edge of animal intelligence—revealing these wonders in a whole new light. In January, we'll read Blackfish City, a young adult fiction book and have the author join us! This might be a great opportunity for students to read and join in the discussion as well! Find the entire book schedule for 2020/2021 and information on how to join each meeting. Check out our Book Club Archives with book selections and discussion questions from previous Book Clubs. Everyone is always welcome! A special thanks for all our frequent bookclub participants who've sparked many great conversations and also have been a lot of fun! Hope to see you in December. |  FIVE: NOAA launches Mission: Iconic Reefs to save Florida Keys Coral FOUR: Diverse Scientists and Unusual Coral at Flower Garden Banks  Read about a new species of black coral discovered at NOAA's Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. The unusual black coral was discovered in 2016, collected in 2017, and verified as a new species in a journal article in October. The discovery team included a group of undergraduate minority student researchers and their professor from City University of New York. The team contributed to the collection and genetic characterization of the species. Check out information on Coral Spawning from NOAA's Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary as well. Every August, the reef-building corals there put on a fantastic spawning display! | THREE: Ocean Today: Every Full Moon – Coral Comeback! Videos  Corals are amazing. But we have lost 50% of the world's coral reefs. Can corals make a comeback? Watch this inspiring video series from NOAA to find out how here. | TWO: NOAA Ocean Podcast, From Diving to Data: Close-up with Coral Research  | | NOAA's National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) is a massive, collaborative effort that was developed to collect scientifically sound, geographically comprehensive biological, climate, and socioeconomic data in U.S. coral reef areas. In this episode of NOAA Ocean Podcast, hear from Shay Viehman, a Research Ecologist with NOAA's National Ocean Service in the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science to learn how NOAA divers turn the data they collect from underwater missions into usable summaries that help scientists study and protect U.S. coral reef ecosystems. Listen to the podcast here. | ONE: 20th Anniversary of NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program  | | The Coral Reef Conservation Act was signed into law on December 23, 2000, establishing NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program. For 20 years, it has brought together expertise from across NOAA and its partners to protect, conserve, and restore the nation's coral reef ecosystems. Learn more about Coral Reef Conservation Program in this video from NOAA and at the program's website here. | Love to learn about NOAA, its science, and programs? Check out these upcoming webinars from the OneNOAA Seminar Series - the most complete and integrated summary of NOAA science and climate seminars across the nation. The OneNOAA Science Seminar Calendar can be viewed here. All seminars are posted in Eastern Time and subject to change without notice; Seminars are open to the public via remote access. Register for the weekly list of upcoming NOAA science webinars here. Future seminars include, but are not limited to: - Taking Action on Climate, from Long Island to Pennsylvania, 12/2/2020 from 4pm - 6pm ET - Learn how the Shinnecock Indian Nation has been preparing for climate change by evaluating their environmental risks and conducting a climate vulnerability assessment in partnership with the Peconic Estuary Program. More info and register here. (This webinar will be recorded.)
- My Observations of 3 Years of World Class Science and Engineering, 12/8/2020 from 2pm - 3:15pm ET - Tim Gallaudet, PhD, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Deputy NOAA Administrator and USN (Retired) - In NOAA'S Environmental Leadership Seminar Series, NOAA leaders, subject matter experts, and NOAA partners speak on topics relevant to NOAA's mission. Register here and download Adobe Connect before the webinar.
- Disaster Recovery and Coral Reef Restoration. 12/10/2020 from 4pm - 5pm ET. - Coral reefs are susceptible to many natural hazards such as hurricanes, and restoring the damage is an important part of recovery for coastal communities. Join Eileen Alicea of NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program, Michael Nemeth of NOAA's Restoration Center, and Autumn Lotze of NOAA's Disaster Preparedness Program to learn how NOAA works with communities to support natural resource recovery after a disaster. Highlights and lessons learned from ongoing coral reef restoration planning work in Puerto Rico will be presented. Click here to join the webinar.
See all OneNOAA Seminars here. Seminar recordings, and sometimes PDFs of the PowerPoints are available thru the point of contact listed for each seminar.  Thursday, December 3, 2020, 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET  Deep-sea corals live in some of the least studied ecosystems on the planet yet provide crucial support for fisheries and a number of other ecosystem services. Dr. Heather Coleman, Coordinator of NOAA's Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program, will discuss little-known deep-sea coral facts and teaching tools. Policies the US has created to protect deep-sea coral habitats from damage will also be discussed. Upon registering you will receive an e-mail confirmation including additional information about the web seminar. Register and obtain more info Here! | Announcing Into the Blue Book Club from REEF Thursday, December 10th, 8pm ET Have you heard? The Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) has a new book club! Into the Blue brings together readers who love the ocean and conservation. The REEF book club will meet virtually on Thursday, December 10, 2020, at 8 PM EST to discuss What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins by Jonathan Balcombe. The author will join the meeting for a Q&A, so make sure to read all about the secret lives of fish before then and join Into the Blue! Register to join here. | |  | Webinar: An Evening With Rita Colwell – Science, Sexism, and the Fight against the Status Quo Wednesday, December 2, 5-6 pm ET  "If you think sexism only thrives in Hollywood, you haven't visited a a science department..." says scientist Rita Colwell, a pioneering microbiologist and the first woman to lead the National Science Foundation. Dr. Colwell will discuss her new book, A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science, from her start as a graduate student at Purdue University through leading thousands of scientists investigating the impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This program is presented in partnership with the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) and will be presented as a Zoom video webinar. A link will be emailed to all registrants. Register Here… | Join December En-ROADS Update Webinar Thursday, December 3, 7-8 am ET or 2-3 pm ET  Climate Interactive Co-Director Andrew Jones will walk through all of the newest features and updates to the climate model used in the climate roleplaying game that creates accessible, scientifically rigorous tools that help people see connections, play out scenarios, and address the biggest challenge humanity faces. .En-ROADS will be launching an updated version in December. This will mark the biggest update to En-ROADS since it was release last year — please join to hear all about it. Sign up for the webinar. | Webinar and Virtual Workshop from Junior Sea Doctors: Learn to implement Explore the Salish Sea Curriculum Thursday, December 3, 2020 3:30-5:30pm via Zoom  Antarctica Week Webinars for students! Monday, November 30 to Friday, December 4  | | Antarctica Week Festival 2020 is an exciting opportunity to bring Antarctica to students! Listen to multiple people from those working on the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration talk about what it's like to live and work in Antarctica.There are two talks daily (ten talks in total!) that span across different interests and age groups. All of the talks require pre-registration which, along with full information, can be found here: All talks will be recorded and posted on thwaitesglacier.org afterwards. | Webinar Series: CIRES/NOAA Science@Home Speaker Series Tuesdays at 3 PM ET  The CIRES/NOAA Science@Home speaker series connects middle and high school students and classrooms that are now in the virtual/remote learning landscape with scientists. Science@Home: Environmental Economics in a Polarized World w/ Matt Burgess will take place this Tuesday at 3 pm ET. Burgess is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies, with a courtesy appointment in Economics. His research focuses on natural resource management, endangered species conservation, and issues in global sustainability. He uses a combination of mathematical and computer modeling, data synthesis, and collaboration with stakeholders, in order to make conceptual advances and link them to practice. Join the livestream. For the full schedule, also in Spanish, go to the CIRES website, | Webinar: NOAA Live! Dive In and Explore Coral Reef Ecosystems  Coral reefs are the rainforests of the ocean. They are beautiful, diverse, and extremely important for healthy ocean ecosystems and strong communities. Engage your elementary students (Grades 2-6 but all ages will enjoy) as they learn all about coral reef ecosystems, why they matter, and what you can do to help them. This webinar is brought to you by NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program in West Palm Beach, FL, Sea Grant, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution! Access it here at any time! | Webinar: NOAALive! on Wednesday, December 2nd, 4 pm - 4:45 pm MST This Wednesday join NOAA Live! for Saving Corals: A Day in the Life of a Coral Reef Scientist with Derek Manzello, NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory. Register here Also available: NOAA Live! Alaska webinars on Tuesdays at 11 am AKT for grades 2nd - 8th. Join NOAA Live! Alaska! here. Webinar: Black in Marine Science Empowerment Panel Thursday, December 3, 2020 12:00 pm — 1:00 pm  Join Mote Marine Laboratory for an online event to learn more about what it means to be Black in Marine Sciences from panelists Jasmin Graham - Shark Science; Amanda Hodo - Aquarium Science; Alex Troutman - Wetland Ecology; and Jeanette Davis - Marine Microbiologist Educators and students can register for direct access to the panel. Contact MarSci-LACE for details. The public can watch this event streamed live on YouTube: youtu.be/ALcJ04yHONQ Format: Zoom webinar and YouTube Livestream. Find More Details here… | Video for Students: Mapping Urban Heat Islands w/ Tom DiLiberto | TEDxYouth  Tom Di Liberto is a climate scientist and science communicator at NOAA's Climate Program Office, and the consulting climatologist for NOAA's Climate.gov website. He works on communication strategy, writes articles about climate events and climate research done at NOAA, and he is also a member of NOAA's Climate Prediction Center's El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) team. Dr. Di Liberto's talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. It's available here on YouYube. SOURCE: TEDxTalks See "Urban Heat Island Campaign" below under "Grants, Contests, Campaigns" |  The blend of the Hawaiian and Samoan tapa design in this coloring book illustrates its underlying theme: that the vast distances between islands in the Pacific are bridged by the cultures of the people and the natural resources of the coral reef. The Polynesian culture evolved in the world of the coral reef. Their appreciation of the life found in the reef ecosystem comes from millennia of dependence on the reef for their livelihood. Download it for students' use here. | See the Bow Seat 2020 Ocean Awareness Contest Winners  The 2020 Ocean Awareness Contest, "Climate Hope: Transforming Crisis," invited middle and high school students from around the world to learn about climate change and solutions, and create work that explores hope in action. More than 5,300 students from 92 countries and 49 U.S. states responded with paintings, poems, songs, documentaries, dances, animations, apps, stories & more.
The 350+ winning pieces were selected by a team of judges comprising artists, ocean scientists, writers, filmmakers, and educators. Bow Seat awarded over $83,000 in prizes to winning participants. To view, read, watch, and share the 2020 Ocean Awareness Contest winners, visit bowseat.org/winners! 2021 Ocean Awareness Contest is accepting submissions through June 14, 2021. For complete details, including resources for educators, visit the Ocean Awareness Contest Overview > | One Earth Student Competition for Ages 13 and Up  The One Earth Award offers $1,000 scholarships for four students whose art and writing address human-caused climate change. All students in grades 7–12 (ages 13 and up) are eligible to participate. The deadline for art submissions is Jan 7, 2021 and writing submissions is Dec 4, 2020. Learn more> |  Corals 101 Tutorial from NOAA  This corals tutorial is an overview of the biology of and threats to coral reefs, as well as efforts being made to conserve and protect them. It includes images, animations, and videos. The Roadmap to Resources complements the tutorial. It directs you to specific online coral data and information from NOAA. It is also an online resource in NSTA's SciLinks database. SciLinks provide students and teachers access to Web-based, educationally appropriate science content that has been formally evaluated by master teachers. | NOAA Satellite and Information Services Brings Us Coral Reef Watch  Coral Reef Watch (CRW) is a program in NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) Center. It uses satellite observations to monitor and predict coral reef environments to help resource managers, scientists, and other stakeholders observe, study, manage, protect, and restore the world's coral reef ecosystems. This tutorial is designed for students, teachers, and everyone who want to learn more about coral reefs and satellite remote sensing technology. Multiple lessons address the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for use in the classroom. Find the Coral Reef Watch tutorial here. | Sea Level Rise Resources from NASA  NASA measures sea level around the globe using satellites, specifically the Jason-3 satellite using radio waves and other instruments every 10 days, Learn about how this is done and other important sea level facts via these NASA sites: |  This website features science education resources and online courses for grades 2–12. The platform uses a "smart algorithm," to identify an individual's specific learning gaps. As students work through the units in each course, teachers track students' learning progress and can use the resulting data to create differentiated teaching plans and assign relevant homework tasks for individual students or the entire class. All the science courses are exam standard–specific and support the Next Generation Science Standards. Register for a free account to preview the available courses. |  Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE) is a network for STEM education researchers funded by the National Science Foundation. The network connects researchers working on initiatives to improve education in STEM and publishes materials to communicate information on important themes in STEM education. While most projects target middle and high school levels, several projects target data skills at the elementary level. Check out the network and its projects here. | Digital Computational Thinking Curriculum for Middle Schoolers  Designed by Discovery Education and Tata Consultancy Services, Ignite My Future in School is a transdisciplinary digital curriculum to engage students in computational thinking strategies across core subject areas. The curriculum features 40 standards-based, digital activities emphasizing the components of computational thinking, which include processes such as collecting data, analyzing data, finding patterns, and more.Activities can be searched by computational thinking strategy, core subject, or guiding question. Find activities here. |  Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Environmental Solutions Initiative offers an interactive climate change primer written by Kerry Emanuel, a professor in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. The online document aims to answer these questions: How do we know climate change is occurring and that it's caused by humans? How strong is the evidence? What are the expected risks, and what can we do about them? Find it here! Also from MIT: MIT Open Ocean Seminar: Revolutionizing Ocean Data; Dec 7, 2020 1:30 PM ET | NOAA Story Map: Probing the Unknown This year, NOAA expanded partnerships that will accelerate understanding of the deep ocean. Using state of the art technologies, these collaborations offer the promise of shared discoveries that will educate, protect the marine environment, and enrich lives. NOAA's newest story map, Probing the Unknown, shines a light on NOAA's amazing deep sea activities with its partners. Dive in and find the story map here. | |  |   A new report, from the National Center for Science Education and the Texas Freedom Network Education Foundation, examines the treatment of climate change in state science standards across the country. To what extent are public schools helping students understand what is happening and preparing them to responsibly engage in civic deliberation on the problem and possible solutions? The interactive version of the report includes a map you can click on to learn your state's grade. Find the report here. |  Grants, Contests, Campaigns Jobs, Internships and Opportunities - ERT, Inc seeks an education evaluation associate to support NOAA's Office of Education in the monitoring and evaluation of the NOAA B-WET program, to provide capacity building for program managers and grantees, and to assist the NOAA Education community on stewardship education evaluation. The position description can be found here:
- Mission-Aransas NERR has an opening for an Education Coordinator position to oversee our education program in Port Aransas, Texas. Please share and/or apply here.
- Graduate students: apply by December 4 for the Marine and Hydrokinetics (MHK) Fellowship Program with ORISE. Participants submit research plans and conduct research at their school as well as a hosting facility selected by the DOE Water Power Technologies Office, spending at least six months on their projects
- NOAA is pleased to announce the 2021 call for applications for NOAA's Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship (C&GC) program. C&GC fellows are UCAR employees and receive a fixed annual salary. For more information go here or email!
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