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Office of Education news and stories

Meet the citizen scientists supporting NOAA’s mission

April 2, 2025

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.

‘Rain Gauge Rally’ recruits new volunteers to measure rain and snow

March 19, 2025

A plastic cylinder with an opening at the top to collect precipitation is mounted upright on a wooden post that stands alone in the sand dunes in front of a beach with crashing waves.

Funding opportunity: Environmental Literacy for Community Resilience in the Gulf

February 26, 2025

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

Making models and predicting salmon growth during my Hollings internship

January 30, 2025

Three people in waders using fisheries equipment in a shallow, flowing stream. One person uses an electrofishing backpack, another has a net, and a third holds a bucket and a measurement device.

New NOAA grant opportunity will support K-12 environmental literacy for the Delaware Bay watershed

January 22, 2025

Approximately $550,000 may be available for projects in watershed counties of Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or New York.

Three kids sit next to a storm drain along a road with a brick building in the background. The storm drain has white paint bordering the drain. The kids have a stencil on top of the white paint, and are painting blue on top of the stencil to create messaging around the storm drain.

Lessons in imagery: A summer learning about coral imagery analysis and NOAA career paths

January 16, 2025

The images are a top-down view of a coral reef on which someone has digitally traced coral area. In the left photo, there is greater coral cover and the reef looks more colorful than in the right photo.

Regional B-WET grants are open

January 6, 2025

A naturalist is on their knee along a river edge with a turbidity tube, wearing a mask. Another naturalist is using a tablet to record the activity. The river bank is made of cobblestones.

An internship bringing together my passion for conservation and science communication

December 20, 2024

Forest vegetation lines a sun-dappled wetland. The water is shallow enough that the forest floor is visible underneath.

Triploids or diploids? An internship creating a decision support tool for oyster farmers in Puget Sound

December 10, 2024

Kiran and Craig are working on a mudflat. Kiran is using a tool to scrape an oyster that she is holding with thick work gloves.

A Hollings internship at the cutting edge of coral research in the Florida Keys

November 19, 2024

Cylindrical corals are lined up in rows in a tank lit by blue light.

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