Web-based Resources for Teaching the Ocean System

Subject: Geoscience
Subject: Oceanography
Ocean Environments
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Stratigraphic Cross Section of Northeast Texas part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Cretaceous sedimentary rocks of Northeast Texas provide important clues about paleogeography, paleotectonics, and sea level fluctuation. This website describes several of these rock units and the ...
Realtime equatorial Pacific Tao buoy data part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website provides realtime buoy data from an interactive map of NOAA TAO buoy locations. The TAO array is a major component of the El NiÃo/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Observing System, the ...
NGCD Web Image Slide Trays part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website hosts a Web Image Slide Tray (WIST) designed by NGDC. A WIST is fundamentally an HTML table where the contents of each cell depend upon variables that are set in the row and column ...
Turbidity Current Movies part of SERC Web Resource Collection
These turbidity, or density, current movies from Wesleyan University's Learning Objects website show turbidity current experiments conducted in a 1 meter long tank. In the lab, the tank angle and ...
Indian Ocean Tsunami Quicktime Animation part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Quicktime animation, by Dr. Steven Ward at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California - Santa Cruz, shows the tsunami's progress across the Indian Ocean. ...
NOAA East African Coast Tsunami Animation part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This NOAA visualization tracks the tsunami waves until they reach the East African coast of Somalia. This Quicktime animation can be paused, rewound and advanced.
The Physics of Tsunamis part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site from the University of Washington includes a Quicktime movie that shows the propagation of the earthquake-generated 1960 Chilean tsunami across the Pacific Ocean. The page also describes ...
SEACOOS part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The Southeastern Coastal Ocean Observing System (SEACOOS) is a collaborative university partnership that collects, manages, and disseminates integrated regional ocean observations and modeled ...
Naval Research Laboratory Real-Time Global Ocean Analysis and Modeling part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site contains visualizations of real-time data from the 1/16Â and 1/32Â global Naval Research Lab Layered Ocean Model. The site features snapshots of real-time or recent conditions, ...
Ocean Circulation and Climate Advanced Modeling Project part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The Ocean Circulation and Climate Advanced Modeling Project (OCCAM) uses a primitive equation numerical model to develop several high resolution visualizations of the world's oceans, including the ...





