Outreach and Education
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Instructive tutorial, produced by NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) that introduces users to coral reefs, coral bleaching, satellite remote sensing of the
marine environment, and NOAA CRW's daily global and regional 5km-resolution satellite coral bleaching heat stress monitoring products.
These 5km satellite products now form the core of CRW's decision support system for coral reef management. They are highly used by the U.S. and international coral reef communities
to pinpoint and monitor areas around the world, where corals are at risk for heat stress-driven bleaching and other associated climate change impacts.
Audience: educators, students (predominantly middle-school and beyond) |
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Instructive tutorial, produced by NOAA's National Ocean Service that provides an overview of the biology of corals and coral reefs; threats to their health,
especially from "bleaching"; and
NOAA efforts to help conserve and protect coral reefs worldwide.
Audience: general public |
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Story map about the 2014-2017 global bleaching event and NOAA Coral Reef Watch's work to predict, remotely monitor in near real-time, document, and
communicate with stakeholders about this devastating event.
Audience: general public |
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Winner of Outstanding Nature Documentary at the
39th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards, and the US Documentary Audience Award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival,
this film follows divers, scientists, and photographers around the world as they mount an epic underwater campaign to document the disappearance of coral reefs. Featuring
NOAA Coral Reef Watch satellite and modeled products and the former Coral Reef Watch coordinator, C. Mark Eakin,
as one of the two chief scientific advisers on the film.
Audience: general public |
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Short video to explain the importance of an early-warning system
in coral reef management. Audience: coral reef ecosystem managers |
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Links to several globally recognized protocols for measuring the extent and
severity of coral bleaching in the field. Audience: coral reef ecosystem managers |
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Online video describing coral bleaching, what
NOAA is doing to monitor and prevent bleaching, and what you can do to help.
Audience: elementary- to high-school students, general public **Click here to access NOAA's Science on a Sphere Coral Bleaching Datasets.** |
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NOAA website providing teaching resources to help students analyze NOAA satellite data and investigate a major consequence of rising sea surface
temperature on coral reefs -- coral bleaching.
Audience: elementary- to high-school students |
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Video series highlighting the importance of coral reef ecosystems, the threats they face, and what we can and are doing to help them make a comeback.
Audience: elementary- to high-school students, general public |
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Lesson plans focused on satellite technology, coral biology, and coral reef
conservation. Fun, hands-on science activities engage students in learning.
Audience: 4th-6th grade students |
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Hands-on exercise (using the original, heritage twice-weekly global 50km coral bleaching heat stress products),
based on the record-breaking 2005 coral bleaching event in the Caribbean region.
Audience: middle- and high-school students English: Exercise (PDF, 400KB) Answers (PDF, 25KB) Español: Ejercico (PDF, 400KB) Respuestas (PDF, 29KB) |
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Resources from an international series of workshops on helping
coral reefs adapt to climate change.
Audience: coral reef ecosystem managers and scientists |
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2006 comic strip about climate change, coral bleaching, and the NOAA Coral Reef Watch satellite monitoring program. |
This page hosts some of the education products that Coral Reef Watch designed or contributed to. If you'd like to learn more about
other NOAA coral reef education and outreach activities, please visit the
Coral Reef Conservation Program's education page.
