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An alligator rests on a log in a swampy area surrounded by trees and lush aquatic vegetation.

Funding opportunity: Environmental Literacy for Community Resilience in the Gulf

Environmental Literacy for Community Resilience in the Gulf

citizen science month

Three photos of citizen science volunteers. From left to right, the first photo is of Shelby wearing a raincoat and hat, standing on a cliff near a foggy coastline. Second, Esther and Jerry stand together on a sandy beach holding turtle monitoring equipment. Third, Craig Wollam holds a large fish while standing on a boat with the coastline in the background.

Meet the citizen scientists supporting NOAA’s mission

Meet the citizen scientists supporting NOAA’s mission

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My summer research experience with NOAA Fisheries

September 20, 2022

Alison Novara learned about experimental design and execution and the breadth of NOAA Fisheries' work during her summer at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center

Alison sits at a lab bench, holding a scallop in one gloved hand and examining it with a pair of forceps in the other. A tray with weighing tins and a laptop with a data sheet open are on the lab bench.

Scholars diving for research and outreach

September 13, 2022

Hard at work above and below water at Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Gracia SCUBA diving. She holds onto a large camera on a tripod that is placed on the ocean floor. The camera's flash is going off.

Preparing to apply for the EPP and Hollings undergraduate scholarships

September 1, 2022

Get a head start on your application!

A group photo of over 100 college-aged NOAA scholars taken outside of the NOAA headquarters office.

My summer internship at a National Weather Service forecast office

August 30, 2022

Gabby Brown learned about National Weather Service operations both in the office and out in the field during her summer internship with the Weather Forecast Office in Columbia, South Carolina.

Three women and a large steel pool of water the size of a kiddie pool in front of them surrounded by a flat rural landscape. Gabby is holding a pickaxe, the woman in the center holds a hose that is filling the pool, and the other holds a shovel. All three smile at the camera.

A day in the life of a Hollings scholar

August 22, 2022

Join Carlee Dunn and Ana Olsen in the muddy marshes of the San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.

A landscape with lush marsh vegetation, mudflats, and calm water. Low hills are visible behind a light fog in the distance

Looking to the future: Advice for scholars

August 10, 2022

Sara Vanaki shares advice for future scholars and describes her project using computer vision to identify creatures in sea floor photos.

Two images are side-by-side. Each image of the sea floor looks like sand with shell fragments and some darker circles that are identifiable as sand dollars if you zoom in. In the first photo, there are squares around some of the dark circles, but many were not "seen" and identified by the computer. The confidence numbers are almost all under .10. In the right photo, all of the dark circles are identified as sand dollars and the confidence values are much higher.

Climate Resilience in Your Community Activity Book

July 14, 2022

Illustration of the NOAA ELP Vision of A Resilient Community depicting a city along a coast and river with the following depicted: trees being planted as urban heat island abatement; an aquarium with people restoring a nearby coastal wetland to mitigate flooding; sustainable design with green infrastructure; a healthy community with people biking and exercising outside; a city hall with youth and adults presenting their ideas to officials; a shoreline that is protected with restored oyster reefs; students

NOAA ships and planes trading cards: Collect them all!

May 20, 2022

An assortment of trading cards featuring NOAA ships and airplanes.

Infographic: What's happening in the ocean during springtime?

April 22, 2022

Diagram of the ocean that shows upwelling, a plankton bloom, sea ice, humpback whale migration. Read the narrative at www.noaa.gov/education/infographic/what-happens-in-ocean-in-springtime.

It's officially meteorological spring: What exactly does that mean?

March 3, 2022

A graphic of the Earth’s orbit around the sun. Meteorological seasons: Winter starts on Dec. 1, spring on Mar. 1, summer on June 1, and fall on Sept. 1. Astronomical seasons: Winter begins on the winter solstice (Dec. 21) when the North Pole is tilted to the max extent away from the sun, spring begins on the spring equinox (Mar. 20), summer begins on the summer solstice (June 21), when the North Pole is tilted to the max extent toward the sun, and fall begins on the autumnal equinox (Sept.21).