Visualizations for Teaching About the Ocean System
This collection of visualizations includes photos, animations, videos, maps and interactive imagery that can be integrated into lectures or classes. The collection is part of an extensive collection created for the Teaching Geoscience with Visualizations workshop.
If you have a visualization that would be helpful for teaching undergraduate oceanography, please contribute to our continually expanding collections.
Oceanography Visualizations
Animations and interactive images related to El Nino/La Nina, plant productivity, upwellings, currents and tides.
Tidal Visualizations
Photos, animations, maps and videos that help teach about tides, their distribution in space and time, their role in sedimentary processes, and their use as an energy source.
Coastal Visualizations
Animations and images related to erosional landforms such as cliffs, arches, sea stacks and other morphological features.
Turbidite Visualizations
Photos, videos and images of sediment transport models and events.
Tsunami Visualizations
Animations and photos of recent and historic tsunami episodes.
Longshore Drift and Depositional Landform Visualizations
Animations and images showing a variety of depositional landforms resulting from longshore drift and the impact of river and coastal engineering projects on sediment transport processes.
Sedimentation Model Visualizations
Animations, videos, photos and images representing conceptual models, output from computer simulations, and physical experimental models of clastic and carbonate sedimentation and stratigraphy.
Earth Science Image Archives
Contemporary and historic photographs, data-derived and satellite image collections from agencies such as USGS, AGI, NASA, etc. Collections include oceanography-related images and also span the range of earth science topics.
Sequence Stratigraphy
Images, animations and videos about the processes and products of sequence stratigraphy.
Wave Visualizations
Animations and movies depicting how waves and water molecules behave along the shore and in deep water settings.
El Nino/La Nina
Animations, models, and images related to how El Nino affects sea surface temperature, sea surface level, thermocline depth, weather and more.
Bathymetry Visualizations
Images and animations that show sea floor topography.
Ocean Chemistry and Productivity Visualizations
Visualizations about phytoplankton plankton blooms, nutrient circulation, carbon cycling, chlorophyll concentrations and other ocean productivity topics.
Coral Reefs and Atolls
Images and photographs that show the living organism of a coral reef and its marine inhabitants.
Deltas and Sediment Plumes
Images and animations that illustrate both modern and ancient delta systems. Photos and 3D animations depict the development of deltas on both the temporal and spatial scales.
