Using Data to Teach the Ocean System

This collection of web sites contains data-rich resources that can be used for developing teaching materials. This is a subset drawn from our larger collection, Using Data in the Classroom. Please suggest data-rich resources that you think would be useful in teaching oceanography.



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Signals of Spring part of SERC Web Resource Collection

Signals of Spring is a web-based professional development package that provides training for teachers and integrated science curricular materials including data interpretation and applications for ...

Global Multi-Resolution Topography Data Synthesis part of SERC Web Resource Collection

An online database of multibeam images and digital terrain models of the ocean floor. Users preview ridge system data by clicking on a map or by selecting from a drop down list. About 15 ridge ...

Tsunami Data and Information part of SERC Web Resource Collection

The Tsunami Database is a global digital database containing information on more than 2000 tsunamis maintained by the National Geophysical Data Center. This is an interactive site; the user is asked ...

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 Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Observing System, the ...

OSCAR: Ocean Surface Current Analyses part of SERC Web Resource Collection

The OSCAR Java-based program provides near-realtime ocean surface currents derived from satellite altimeter and scatterometer data. From this site, users can download data, and view interactive ...

The Global Drifter Program part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This website is the homepage of NOAA's global drifter program, which tracks the motion of buoys across the world's oceans. The buoys measure temperature and other properties, and have a ...

PSMEM: Puget Sound Marine Environmental Modeling part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This web site contains models, data and images of the Puget Sound area. The project encompasses academic, governmental and private sectors in the creation of tools for environmental research, where ...

Hurricane Visualizations part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This site from NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory presents descriptions, 3-D images and animations of some noteworthy hurricanes in recent history, including Andrew, Opal and Fran. The ...

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 1/16° and 1/32° global Naval Research Lab Layered Ocean Model. The site features snapshots of real-time or recent ...

Tropical Ocean Atmosphere Project part of SERC Web Resource Collection

The Tropical Atmosphere Ocean array (now called the TAO/TRITON array) consists of approximately 70 moorings in the Tropical Pacific Ocean that transmit oceanographic and meteorological data in ...