Join the 2020-2021 Book Club with books of thought-provoking topics. to be discussed at monthly meetings online or via phone. First up in October and November:

• October 19: The Yellow House
• November 16: Plastic Free

Check out the archives with previous discussion questions,  find the entire book schedule here for 2020/2021 and and more information on how to join us. You're always welcome!

NOAA has an incredible library of live and archived webinars, especially for educators and students! With themes like satellite monitoring, hurricane hunters, and deep-sea dives, NOAA webinars have you covered from the surface of the sun to the bottom of the ocean. Bookmark your favorite series because new videos will be added as they are available. Find Education at Home webinar resources here.

The National Marine Sanctuaries Webinar Series provides educators with educational and scientific expertise, resources, and training to support ocean and climate literacy in the classroom. In this series, the NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries is partnering with Ocean Exploration Trust remotely aboard Exploration Vessel Nautilus to seek out new discoveries on little known regions of the deep sea along the North American West Coast. You can visit the archives of the webinar series to catch up on presentations you may have missed here.

Register for the event to receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. The Webinar ID is 281-102-739. 

Also, tune in for live video of dives from the expedition on the Nautilus Live website during the last week of September anytime. There, you will see areas where microbes harness the leaking greenhouse gas, methane, as a source of food!

Join NOAA in commemorating its 29 estuary sites across the U.S. and territories covering over 1.3 million acres and used for long-term research, education, and stewardship!  Check out #EstuaryHeroes on social media, learn what about the estuary reserve nearest you has to offer, and by all means, go visit them! This Roadmap to Resources complements NOAA's Estuary Tutorial by directing you to online resources from NOAA and other sources. 

Announcing the CLEAN Ambassador Program  

Funds are available for teachers to present about the Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network at professional development workshops and teacher conferences - virtually, too! Teachers familiar with CLEAN and interested in helping market the resources are encouraged to fill out an application.

Join the Teach Climate Network’s first of our five-workshop series demonstrating the five best practices of climate change education and featuring the most popular resources, tips, and tools from our Stay-In-stitute for Climate Change Education. Explore the full series and join the Network!

Sign up for Science & Other Ways of Knowing, September 30 |  - Jan. 20, 2021

In September 2019, powerful Hurricane Dorian made landfall over Abaco and Grand Bahama islands as a Category 5 storm. The Bahamian government estimates that more than 200 people lost their lives in the disaster, and the hurricane caused catastrophic damage on land. The storm also affected nearshore marine habitats like coral reefs and seagrass beds.

Join the ANGARI Foundation and South Florida PBS as they chat LIVE with experts from the Perry Institute for Marine Science, the Bahamas Marine Mammal Research Organization and Friends of the Environment about Dorian’s impact on the marine environment and marine life in The Bahamas. Audience questions are encouraged!  Register here.

The CIRES/NOAA Science@Home speaker series is excited to launch again this fall semester after a successful ad-hoc spring series to connect middle and high school students and classrooms that are now in the virtual/remote learning landscape with scientists. Each webinar features a 10-15 minute presentation by a scientists about how they got into science, what they do as a scientist, and what it is that they research, followed by 10-15 minutes of live Q&A.

 For the full schedule and for the exciting addition of monthly presentations in Spanish, visit the CIRES website, Overarching themes each month include:

• September: Natural Hazards and Resilience
• October: Climate (from the atmosphere to the oceans and anything in between)
• November: Polar Science
• December: Science Communication

All webinars will be live streamed and links will be posted to the CIRES website,  Please register if you'd like to be notified by email, here. Questions? Please contact: Amanda Morton.

The 2021 Science Without Borders® Challenge is now open! The theme for this year’s Challenge is “Mangroves Matter.” Participants should use their artistic talents to create a piece of artwork that illustrates how mangroves are important. The Science Without Borders® Challenge is open to all students worldwide who are 11-19 years old and enrolled in primary or secondary school (or the home-school equivalent). College and university students are not eligible for this contest. Work will be judged in two categories based on age, with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes awarded for each: 

• Students 11-14 years old
• Students 15-19 years old

Students can win up to $500 in this international art contest.All entries must be received by Monday, March 1, 2021. Learn About the Theme on this webpage.

STEM Teacher Conference: The Rainforest Connection, Oct. 3, 2020, 9-12:30pm ET

Please join Mercy College for their virtual STEM teacher conference, taking place the morning of Saturday, October 3rd. The keynote speakers, Drs. Willis and Macht will share The Rainforest Connection, an interactive virtual program connecting classrooms with rainforest ecosystems and diverse scientists.

The cost is just $20.

Learn more and  register here.

This three-day virtual event is designed to raise awareness about conservation and responsible resource use, and create understanding about how appropriately managed hunting, fishing, and agricultural activities around the world are critical to further conservation resulting in environmentally protective use of the biosphere. Join us for this live-steamed event! Find more information below:

Day 1: Current State of African Conservation & Wildlife
Day 2: Current State of US Agriculture, Ranching, Forestry, and Land
Day 3: Current State of US Hunting, Fishing, and Wildlife

Data is everywhere and it's only multiplying so dive in with your students, but first, explore and build your own competencies with these two NOAA resources:

• How to use NOAA data: A video guide for educators
• Tiny Tutorials: Get started using Earth science data in
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• Tiny Tutorials - Round Two!

With High Adventure Science, Students consider evidence and earth system models that ask them to think critically about the data they find to “arrive at answers even when 100% certainty isn’t possible.” Consider asking your students what questions they have about the science that impacts them now or in the future and allow them to journey with you into the unknown. Unprecedented challenges face this year, but perhaps this can also be an opportunity to raise some big questions and encourage students to investigate cutting edge science. High Adventure Science provides such an opportunity!