Ocean Education Resources
Never stop expanding your understanding of the ocean.Check out our favorite lessons and resources to help you and your students learn about the ocean and marine careers. Help your students gain an understanding of and appreciation for the ocean, it’s role in the world, and the technology that is facilitating marine exploration with these helpful […]
Investable Oceans
Our oceans face serious challenges but also anchor a multi-trillion dollar economy that continues to grow — providing the air we breathe, the food we eat, and inspiring our travel and recreation. Our mission is to simplify and accelerate market-based sustainable ocean investing across all asset classes and all sectors of the Blue Economy by centralizing research, commentary, inspiration, […]
H2O: The Molecule That Made Us Explore H2O
H2O:The Molecule That Made Us is a 3-hour series from WGBH Boston, airing three consecutive Wednesdays. The film dramatically reveals how water underpins every aspect of our existence. In the emptiness of outer space, Earth is alive because of water. Humanity’s relationship with this simple molecule is everything. For more information visit: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/molecule-that-made-us/
The Downside of Dams
Dams are a symbol of human ingenuity and engineering prowess—controlling the flow of a wild rushing river is no small feat. But in this day and age of environmental awareness, more and more people are questioning whether generating a little hydroelectric power is worth destroying riparian ecosystems from their headwaters in the mountains to their […]
How Dams Damage Rivers
Over the past 100 years, the United States led the world in dam building. We blocked and harnessed rivers for a variety of purposes. Those purposes include hydropower, irrigation, flood control and water storage. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has catalogued at least 90,000 dams greater than six-feet tall that are blocking our rivers and streams. […]
Hydroelectric Power
Nothing is perfect on Earth, and that includes the production of electricity using flowing water. Hydroelectric-production facilities are indeed not perfect (a dam costs a lot to build and also can have negative effects on the environment and local ecology), but there are a number of advantages of hydroelectric-power production as opposed to fossil-fuel power production. […]
The Importance of Dams
Water plays an exceptional significant role in the economy and in the life of all countries. It is of vital importance for the existence of people, animals and vegetation. The settling of people in different regions of earth has always been closely dependant on the possibilities for water supply parallel to those providing with food, […]
Benefits of Dams and Levees
Read more: https://www.ussdams.org/dam-levee-education/overview/benefits-of-dams-levees/ Visit the Hands-on Investigation Module of the Physics TMA BlueTech Curriculum for curriculum connections.