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Office of Education news and stories

Collaborative versus independent research: Lessons from my NOAA internship

September 5, 2024

Kennedy wears waders and is standing in water up to her knees. In one hand she holds an oyster and the other rests on a plastic bin holding more oysters that is floating in front of her.

Seeing stars: A day in the life of a Hollings scholar at Kodiak Laboratory

August 22, 2024

A sea star in a plastic weigh dish on a laboratory balance. The balance reads "38.2441 g."

Immerse yourself in Earth and space: Get SOS Explorer

June 5, 2024

Visualize data on a virtual globe using this free software for your PC!

A person sits at a desk looking at a laptop screen and a computer monitor. The screens show a globe displaying a tsunami dataset in SOS Explorer.

Participate in science with NOAA

April 1, 2024

More than 500,000 people volunteer to help us learn more about Earth, and you can too!

Volunteers Eva Lagdamen and Benjamin Sankar are standing in the waters of an estuary, wearing waders, and show the camera a small eel, approximately the length of a finger, that they found in the river.

Gaining professional connections and lab skills: An internship on the impact of 'forever chemicals' on grass shrimp

November 21, 2023

Makayla stands at a lab bench, looking down at a lab tray that looks to contain shallow water. She holds a transfer pipette in one gloved hand and a sampling vial in the other. She wears protective goggles and an apron.

The case of the missing females: Channeling Nancy Drew during my summer internship

November 17, 2023

A top-down view of two pairs of hands. Each hand holds an oyster.

Researching life in the deep scattering layer: A poster from my Hollings internship

November 17, 2023

A digitally illustrated poster that shows a water column represented as visually noisy acoustic data. On top of the water, a NOAA vessel rests in the water. The deep scattering layer is drawn about a third of the way down the water column. Towards the bottom of the poster, the backscattering response implies sea floor bathymetry that varies in depth. An ROV located in the deep scattering layer is connected by a wire to the NOAA vessel. Gelatinous marine organisms are drawn in the ROV's line of sight.

Communication and community: My internship contributing to a new wave of ocean acidification education

November 17, 2023

Isaac stands next to an ocean acidification display in an empty room. He holds his hand over his eyes and shrugs the other hand as if looking around in confusion.

Illustrating internship research findings of trash use by birds

November 17, 2023

One person's trash is another bird's building material

Drawings of the birds nests and eggs of gray catbirds and red-winged blackbirds. The gray catbird nests are cup-like and look to be made with with twiggy materials, leaves, and pieces of plastic or paper trash. Their egg is bright blue. There are two types of red-winged blackbird nests: One is weaved around a bundle of reeds. The other is a cup-like nest made of twiggy material. The egg is off-white with irregular dark squiggly lines marking the lower third of the egg.

Photo essay: Reflecting on interviews with oyster farmers during my internship

November 17, 2023

Grace and the oyster farmer stand on a dock with boats docked on either side. Grace looks at the oyster grower, who is speaking and gesturing towards his boat.

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