WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.520 - Hi, everyone. 00:00:01.520 --> 00:00:07.720 Welcome. We're pleased to have you join us for the National Marine Sanctuaries webinar series. 00:00:07.720 --> 00:00:12.140 This series is hosted by the NOAA office of National Marine Sanctuaries 00:00:12.140 --> 00:00:15.580 and is a way to connect with educators and other interested parties 00:00:15.580 --> 00:00:21.320 to provide you with the education and scientific expertise as well as resources and training 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:25.560 to support ocean and climate literacy with your audiences. 00:00:25.980 --> 00:00:29.660 During the presentation, all attendees will be in listen-only mode. 00:00:29.660 --> 00:00:33.360 You're welcome to type questions for the presenter into the question box, 00:00:33.360 --> 00:00:38.240 which is located in the bottom of your control panel, on the right side of your screen. 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:43.700 This is the same area you can also let us know about any technical issues you may be having. 00:00:43.700 --> 00:00:47.200 We'll be monitoring the incoming questions and the technical issues 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:49.880 and we'll respond to them, as soon as we can. 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:54.900 We're also recording this session and we'll share the recording, as well as 00:00:54.900 --> 00:01:01.100 the associated materials with the registered participants and on the webinar archive page. 00:01:01.100 --> 00:01:06.180 A URL for this webpage will be provided at the end of this presentation. 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:13.420 Like I said earlier, this is an opportunity to connect you with the National Marine Sanctuary system. 00:01:13.420 --> 00:01:17.220 Today, we are lucky enough to have Claire Fackler joining us. 00:01:17.220 --> 00:01:23.960 She is a staff member of sanctuaries and she is going to give you a little bit deeper of a dive 00:01:23.960 --> 00:01:26.800 into the National Marine Sanctuary system. 00:01:27.300 --> 00:01:31.360 So, I will skip over the normal introduction that I provide 00:01:31.360 --> 00:01:36.300 is she'll be providing a much more detailed graphic tour of our sanctuaries. 00:01:37.720 --> 00:01:42.800 But these are special places. They're managed by the National Marine Sanctuaries Act. 00:01:44.620 --> 00:01:49.300 They are, what we consider, living classrooms and we're talking this the point of this webinar 00:01:49.300 --> 00:01:52.800 is to take these living classrooms and bring them home. 00:01:52.800 --> 00:01:56.900 So, she's going to be giving you an overview of our education resources 00:01:56.900 --> 00:02:00.260 that you can take advantage of during this time. 00:02:01.860 --> 00:02:05.720 I'm the host. My name is Hannah MacDonald. I'm the education specialist 00:02:05.720 --> 00:02:08.260 for NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. 00:02:08.260 --> 00:02:13.800 Normally, the host is Claire Fackler, but, today, she is our presenter. So, that's an exciting switch. 00:02:14.160 --> 00:02:22.260 And Claire Fackler is she's been working for NOAA since 1999. 00:02:22.260 --> 00:02:29.860 For the past 18 years, she has worked as the education liaison for NOAA's Office of National marine sanctuaries 00:02:29.860 --> 00:02:34.320 And she's worked with various partners on national and regional education programs, 00:02:34.320 --> 00:02:39.720 that bring the ocean into America's classrooms, as well as enhances public awareness, 00:02:39.720 --> 00:02:43.320 understanding, and the appreciation of the marine environment. 00:02:45.140 --> 00:02:46.140 With that... 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:52.320 I am going to switch over presenting to Claire. 00:02:52.320 --> 00:02:54.540 - All right. Thank you, Hannah. 00:02:56.040 --> 00:02:59.240 Let me get this into full-screen mode for you. 00:02:59.980 --> 00:03:07.340 So, welcome, everybody. I'm so pleased to be on the other side of the as a presenter, today. 00:03:07.340 --> 00:03:11.320 I've presented a few times on this webinar series, over the course of the last couple of years. 00:03:11.320 --> 00:03:14.860 But, as Hannah mentioned, I generally-- Hannah and I are the hosts 00:03:14.860 --> 00:03:19.180 and we bring in other researchers and scientists and partners and educators 00:03:19.180 --> 00:03:24.040 to provide the content of our series. 00:03:24.040 --> 00:03:30.000 But, today, we thought it would be a great opportunity to bring the ocean to your home, 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:36.360 to you, because many of us are working from home sheltering from home and our lifestyles have changed. 00:03:36.360 --> 00:03:43.380 So, here's a great way you can learn a little bit more about the ocean and our organization 00:03:43.380 --> 00:03:44.860 and what we can bring to you. 00:03:44.860 --> 00:03:51.000 So, before I get too deep, I wanted to just give a little snapshot about who we are. 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:55.840 So, we are the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA. 00:03:55.840 --> 00:04:00.660 And NOAA actually sits under the Department of Commerce, which is kind of strange. 00:04:00.660 --> 00:04:05.980 So, we manage a system of underwater parks, as part of the National Marine Sanctuary. 00:04:05.980 --> 00:04:11.680 And I'd like to tell people that NOAA is kind of comparable to NASA 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:15.980 and most people have heard of NASA, right? It's as Aeronautics and Space. 00:04:15.980 --> 00:04:19.040 and NOAA is ocean and atmosphere. 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:23.800 And so, our part the part, as in Hannah and I working for the National Marine Sanctuaries, 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:27.640 we, actually, sit under the National Ocean Service. 00:04:27.640 --> 00:04:33.880 So, before I dig into more details and give you a visual journey of our National Marine Sanctuaries, 00:04:33.880 --> 00:04:39.020 I thought we would run a quick poll question, to get a sense of how many of you have heard 00:04:39.020 --> 00:04:43.500 about National Marine Sanctuaries, before signing up for today's presentation. 00:04:48.620 --> 00:04:54.580 Yeah, so, go ahead. The poll's up there. So, yes, you've heard of sanctuaries before, no you haven't, 00:04:54.580 --> 00:04:57.740 or you're not entirely sure. You need to learn more. 00:04:58.500 --> 00:05:03.160 - [Hannah] All right. We have about three-quarters, more, actually 80% reporting. 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:06.460 So I'm going to give it a few more seconds and then close the poll. 00:05:07.420 --> 00:05:08.260 - Thanks, Hannah. 00:05:11.060 --> 00:05:16.160 - [Hannah] Oh! Okay, 92% have heard of a National Marine Sanctuary. That's great. 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:21.880 - That's exciting because as Hannah mentioned I worked for NOAA for a little over 20 years 00:05:21.880 --> 00:05:27.760 and we are we still meet audiences that have absolutely never heard about us. 00:05:27.760 --> 00:05:35.080 So, I'm thrilled. So, I'll make sure not to linger on my virtual tour of America's underwater treasures, 00:05:35.080 --> 00:05:38.620 But, there are a lot of great visuals, so I will take you on this tour. 00:05:38.620 --> 00:05:44.780 So, this map here, each of those circle blue dots on the map represent one of these 00:05:44.780 --> 00:05:51.600 special ocean areas that are managed by NOAA and the National Marine Sanctuary program, which is us. 00:05:51.880 --> 00:05:56.540 So, those blue dots are what we like to call underwater parks. 00:05:56.540 --> 00:06:01.800 They these national marine sanctuaries we protect the ocean and the Great Lakes, 00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:04.200 for now, and for future generations. 00:06:04.200 --> 00:06:08.200 And this entire system 00:06:08.200 --> 00:06:15.300 is made up of over 600,000 square miles of protected ocean and Great Lakes waters. 00:06:15.300 --> 00:06:21.420 So, pretty impressive system of special ocean areas or underwater parks 00:06:21.420 --> 00:06:24.200 or National Marine Sanctuaries, we call them. 00:06:24.200 --> 00:06:29.060 So, let's go ahead and take this quick visual journey. I'm going to start up in the Pacific Northwest, 00:06:29.060 --> 00:06:32.700 right there, in Washington State, at the Olympic Coast. 00:06:32.700 --> 00:06:34.480 I'll work my way down California, 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:38.620 which is the only state that has more than one National Marine Sanctuary, at this point. 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:47.440 I'll go to the Pacific area and then I'll swing back around up the coast, along the Atlantic. 00:06:47.440 --> 00:06:49.680 So, let's go ahead and take this tour. 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:54.300 So, Olympic Coast, in the Pacific Northwest, is a wonderful area 00:06:54.300 --> 00:06:59.700 that is also in alignment with the Olympic National Park. 00:06:59.700 --> 00:07:04.240 So, beautiful, rocky reefs and bull kelp. 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:09.880 One of our really nice Pacific Northwest National Marine Sanctuaries. 00:07:10.260 --> 00:07:14.380 Now, right now, there isn't anything in Oregon but if you move down to coast to California, 00:07:14.380 --> 00:07:20.940 we have our greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, which is off the San Francisco Bay Area. 00:07:20.940 --> 00:07:24.460 And these are the islands-- the Farallon Islands-- off the coast. 00:07:24.460 --> 00:07:28.300 This is a important habitat for lots of different species. 00:07:28.300 --> 00:07:32.840 We, actually, have like The Sisterhood of Great White Sharks are found there. 00:07:32.840 --> 00:07:38.820 Try to give you just some visuals of the underwater ecosystem in that area, 00:07:38.820 --> 00:07:42.740 but slightly north of San Francisco and the Point Reyes area, 00:07:42.740 --> 00:07:48.260 is an underwater mountain that comes up to about 115 feet of depth. 00:07:48.260 --> 00:07:53.320 So, a lot of technical divers have had the opportunity to explore this place. 00:07:53.320 --> 00:07:58.160 Not in your recreational-- to not too much in your recreational dive limits-- 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:02.140 but it's called the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary. 00:08:02.140 --> 00:08:06.400 And there's just tremendous upwelling that happens in all the California sites, 00:08:06.400 --> 00:08:10.520 but certainly here at this underwater mountain, called Cordell Bank. 00:08:11.280 --> 00:08:17.240 Moving a little further down the coast, we have our Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. 00:08:17.240 --> 00:08:22.300 If any of you on today's webinar have been to Monterey, been to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, 00:08:22.300 --> 00:08:25.940 or walk to Pacific Grove or anywhere along the water's edge. 00:08:25.940 --> 00:08:32.660 you've actually been in our continental United States' largest National Marine Sanctuary. 00:08:32.660 --> 00:08:37.260 So, only in the continental United States is that known to be the largest 00:08:37.260 --> 00:08:38.600 and I'll explain that, in a minute. 00:08:39.300 --> 00:08:44.900 Northern elephant seals, just, you know, so many whales and dolphins that 00:08:44.900 --> 00:08:48.320 and marine mammals in the Monterey Bay Area. 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:52.500 And then moving a little further south, kind of off the coast, where I am in Santa Barbara 00:08:52.500 --> 00:08:57.440 and Ventura counties, is the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. 00:08:57.440 --> 00:09:01.520 So, there's eight Channel Islands, five of which are part of the National Park, 00:09:01.520 --> 00:09:04.840 and the National Marine Sanctuary, they're uninhabited islands. 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:09.260 You can camp out there, snorkel, sea cave, kayak, etc. 00:09:09.260 --> 00:09:15.300 But, you can see these underwater kelp forests, five different species of pinnipeds in the area, 00:09:15.300 --> 00:09:19.560 and just another one of our underwater treasures off the California coast, 00:09:19.560 --> 00:09:25.040 which is a pretty progressive state when it comes to ocean and coastal, marine conservation. 00:09:26.220 --> 00:09:32.260 Now, we're going to go into the Pacific Islands area. So in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands 00:09:32.260 --> 00:09:36.920 is our largest marine protected area that NOAA manages. 00:09:36.920 --> 00:09:41.480 It's one of the largest marine conservation areas in the world. 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:46.140 It's called the Papahanaumokuakea marine National Monument, 00:09:46.140 --> 00:09:48.120 and it's not a National Marine Sanctuary. 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:52.600 It just means that if this site was designated through the Antiquities Act versus 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:57.900 the National Marine Sanctuaries Act. so different legislative process, but same thing. 00:09:57.900 --> 00:10:01.880 It's managed by us within NOAA and National Marine Sanctuaries. 00:10:01.880 --> 00:10:09.700 And is just a near pristine area in the northwest of the main eight Hawaiian Islands. 00:10:10.460 --> 00:10:14.680 Now, staying in the Hawaiian Islands, this is our only site, National Marine Sanctuary, 00:10:14.680 --> 00:10:19.760 that protects a single species, currently, the humpback whale, site. 00:10:19.760 --> 00:10:25.180 And so, we're hoping, at some point down the road, we can expand this National Marine Sanctuary 00:10:25.180 --> 00:10:28.000 to be more inclusive of the entire ecosystem 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:31.160 that supports the humpback whale and Hawaiian monk seals 00:10:31.160 --> 00:10:34.060 and endangered Hawaiian green sea turtles, etc. 00:10:35.220 --> 00:10:41.440 But, there's a beautiful cow-calf pair, a mom and baby humpback whale, known as cow and calf. 00:10:41.920 --> 00:10:48.980 Now, you go into the South Pacific. So, this is our only marine protected area 00:10:48.980 --> 00:10:54.100 or National Marine Sanctuary that we have in the South Pacific, only true tropical coral reef. 00:10:54.100 --> 00:10:56.340 And this is in American Samoa. 00:10:56.340 --> 00:11:02.440 And what's interesting about this site is that it used to be our sanctuary systems smallest little site, 00:11:02.440 --> 00:11:07.500 like a quarter square mile. Like it was Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary 00:11:07.500 --> 00:11:12.320 was this tiny little protected area off of Tutuila Island in American Samoa. 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:17.320 Well, just in the last couple of years, this has become our country's largest 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:23.360 National Marine Sanctuary, and it, actually, encompasses Rose Atoll Marine National Monument 00:11:23.360 --> 00:11:24.960 as part of this sanctuary. 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:29.580 So, pretty tremendous and, looking at these colorful photos of the coral reefs, 00:11:29.580 --> 00:11:33.980 it's in wonderful condition,so far. Big parts of it are. 00:11:34.560 --> 00:11:40.440 Now, we're gonna work our way to Alpena, Michigan, one of our sweet water sanctuaries. 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:45.200 This is in Lake Huron. This is known as our Thunder Bay site. 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:51.900 It is has 100 plus shipwrecks in Thunder Bay. this is Hannah's neck of the woods. 00:11:51.900 --> 00:11:55.100 She can probably tell you a lot more about this particular site. 00:11:55.100 --> 00:12:00.300 But you can see, we have divers and stand up paddleboarders and others recreating 00:12:00.300 --> 00:12:05.820 just near and above these fabulous shipwrecks that are in this area. 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:12.100 And then if you're moving down the coast, off of Boston, Massachusetts, 00:12:12.100 --> 00:12:15.380 is our Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. 00:12:15.380 --> 00:12:19.600 And so, endangered northern right whales are in this area. 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:28.380 It's I think USA Today a year or two ago voted it as one of America's best places to whale watch. 00:12:28.380 --> 00:12:32.940 So, those of us in California are like "Oh we have fabulous places to whale watch off the Channel Islands, 00:12:32.940 --> 00:12:35.360 Santa Barbara Channel, Monterey Bay, etc" 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:41.160 But so does Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, off the coast of Boston. 00:12:41.160 --> 00:12:45.080 And people always get confused and we're always working on broadening awareness 00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:48.760 of these special ocean areas that NOAA manages. 00:12:48.760 --> 00:12:52.300 People, oftentimes, at outreach groups think this is an actual bank, 00:12:52.300 --> 00:12:54.580 like I want to put money into the Stellwagen bank. 00:12:54.580 --> 00:13:00.960 And we have to let them know that no this is, actually, an underwater bank that is being protected, 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:05.960 now and for future generations, as a National Marine Sanctuary. 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:11.780 Ok, this is exciting news because, for almost 20 years, 00:13:11.780 --> 00:13:15.700 we weren't able to work with our communities around the United States 00:13:15.700 --> 00:13:21.920 to have them help us decide if there were new areas to protect, as a National Marine Sanctuary. 00:13:21.920 --> 00:13:27.100 And just a few years ago, this nomination process opened back up to us. 00:13:27.100 --> 00:13:31.980 So, Congress allowed us to reach out to our stakeholders, our communities, 00:13:31.980 --> 00:13:36.780 and say "hey do you have a special ocean area off your coast that you would like to see protected 00:13:36.780 --> 00:13:40.680 by the federal government? We're mandated to do education and outreach, 00:13:40.680 --> 00:13:45.360 research and monitoring, resource protection and management of these areas 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:49.780 to make sure that we are protecting the ocean and the Great Lakes, for now and for the future." 00:13:50.160 --> 00:13:55.920 So, this is our first National Marine Sanctuary after almost 20 years of waiting. 00:13:55.920 --> 00:14:01.320 So, this is our Mallows Bay-Potomac River site. It's in Maryland. 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:08.940 and you it seems like an odd place, but there's, actually, a hundred plus World War one 00:14:08.940 --> 00:14:14.800 and other and World War two shipwrecks, that are were intentionally dumped into Mallows Bay 00:14:14.800 --> 00:14:21.160 in the Potomac River. So it's got this ghost fleet and you can kayak through there, 00:14:21.160 --> 00:14:25.580 and it's a really neat way for urban places, like Washington DC, 00:14:25.580 --> 00:14:28.420 to connect to our National Marine Sanctuary system. 00:14:28.420 --> 00:14:35.740 And all of these trees that you see in those funny shapes, that look like the the sterns 00:14:35.740 --> 00:14:38.600 or the look like ships, those are actual the ship wrecks/ 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:42.200 And they're high enough that the tree and vegetation has grown onto them. 00:14:43.780 --> 00:14:47.540 All right, and then Mallows Bay being our most recent designation, 00:14:47.540 --> 00:14:51.500 our very first ever National Marine Sanctuary to be designated 00:14:51.500 --> 00:14:57.840 after the Act was passed in 1972, is for the USS Monitor shipwreck. 00:14:57.840 --> 00:15:01.520 So, it's a Civil War ironclad shipwreck, the Monitor, 00:15:01.520 --> 00:15:06.080 and you can see pictures of technical divers, down there, off of North Carolina. 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:11.080 And so coming out of the gate, back in gosh, the act was 72, 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:13.600 and a couple years later, the Monitor was designated. 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:17.860 And so the maritime archaeology or the maritime heritage was the important thing 00:15:17.860 --> 00:15:20.260 that needed to be protected at that time. 00:15:20.260 --> 00:15:25.600 And we still are. Our sanctuaries protect shipwrecks and cultural heritage and such. 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:31.120 And a lot of our maritime archaeologists call this like bio clutter. 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:35.960 Look at all that bio clutter that's on top of the shipwreck and all those fish and things swimming by 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:37.160 that are in their way. 00:15:37.160 --> 00:15:42.780 And those of us that like the natural part of the sanctuaries really appreciate the bio clutter and the fish. 00:15:43.560 --> 00:15:46.920 Now, coming off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, 00:15:46.920 --> 00:15:50.380 We have Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary. 00:15:50.380 --> 00:15:55.500 It's a live bottom reef right off the coast there of Savannah. Little people-- few people know about it, 00:15:55.500 --> 00:16:00.380 So, we're always broadening awareness about all of our sanctuaries, including Gray's reef, here, 00:16:00.380 --> 00:16:01.840 with that beautiful photo. 00:16:03.580 --> 00:16:05.920 A lot of people are familiar with the Florida Keys, 00:16:05.920 --> 00:16:08.920 and it is one of our National Marine Sanctuaries. 00:16:08.920 --> 00:16:13.780 It's the largest barrier reef in the continental United States 00:16:13.780 --> 00:16:20.640 and a fabulous place that, unfortunately, a lot of the new photos don't look like that bottom right 00:16:20.640 --> 00:16:26.700 because there's a massive coral tissue loss disease occurring in the Florida Keys. 00:16:26.700 --> 00:16:32.760 So there's some really bold conservation actions being taken 00:16:32.760 --> 00:16:38.000 to try to bring back the health of the coral reef ecosystem, down in the Florida Keys. 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:42.860 And, actually, some of our virtual reality videos that we'll be launching soon and content 00:16:42.860 --> 00:16:47.980 shows you some of those bold actions, like coral nurseries and out plantings. 00:16:48.740 --> 00:16:53.560 All right. Flower Garden Banks. This is off the coast of the Texas-Louisiana border 00:16:53.560 --> 00:16:57.480 It's about 110 miles off the coast in the Gulf of Mexico. 00:16:57.480 --> 00:17:01.340 I've had the chance to be out here. It's amazing! There's these coral reefs 00:17:01.340 --> 00:17:04.620 The northern most coral reefs in the United States 00:17:04.620 --> 00:17:08.320 that are on these salt domes on the edge of the continental shelf. 00:17:08.320 --> 00:17:12.300 And the the reefs are about 90 to 70 feet deep, 00:17:12.300 --> 00:17:17.220 and they've got hammerheads that come through and whale sharks and it's a manta nursery. 00:17:17.220 --> 00:17:22.760 And just, I mean, look at this beautiful coral with all these colorful brittle stars and Christmas tree worms. 00:17:23.200 --> 00:17:27.980 So, a really cool site. But then, you do have to get out there. 00:17:27.980 --> 00:17:32.460 It takes, I don't know, a day and a half or something, overnight, to get out to the site. 00:17:33.260 --> 00:17:40.040 So, that's your your quick visual tour-- oh -[Hannah] Actually, I think we have a poll question. 00:17:40.040 --> 00:17:41.060 - Yeah, thank you. 00:17:43.280 --> 00:17:48.900 - [Hannah] So, National Marine Sanctuaries protect the ocean and Great Lakes, true or false? 00:17:52.380 --> 00:17:57.040 - We always like to just do a little pop quiz, right? How close were you paying attention. 00:17:58.680 --> 00:18:02.220 And maybe we should have done a contest like how many times do I say the words 00:18:02.220 --> 00:18:06.920 National Marine Sanctuary because, boy, we are trained. We say that a lot. 00:18:08.040 --> 00:18:13.860 - [Hannah] We are at about three quarters have voted. So, I'm gonna go ahead and close the poll. 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:19.020 And it looks like 94% of people are correct 00:18:19.020 --> 00:18:22.980 that National Marine Sanctuaries protect the ocean and Great Lakes. 00:18:24.020 --> 00:18:30.720 - Excellent. All right, well, now we just have to convince the 6% that isn't aware of that, yet. 00:18:31.120 --> 00:18:35.940 But, here you go. Here's that map. Again, those blue dots are those National Marine Sanctuaries. 00:18:35.940 --> 00:18:39.860 I did not clarify earlier, but the triangles in the Pacific, 00:18:39.860 --> 00:18:44.360 at the Papahanaumokuakea and the Rose Atoll, those are the Marine National Monuments. 00:18:44.360 --> 00:18:47.180 That's why they're triangles and not the circles. 00:18:47.180 --> 00:18:54.140 And then the yellow boxes, those represent sites that are potentially going to be designated 00:18:54.140 --> 00:18:55.640 National Marine Sanctuaries. 00:18:55.640 --> 00:18:59.980 So, the communities in Lake Ontario and at Wisconsin, Lake Michigan 00:18:59.980 --> 00:19:04.120 have put together nomination packages for NOAA and the federal government 00:19:04.120 --> 00:19:06.500 to consider for sanctuary designation. 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:12.160 So, it's exciting to think that we might be expanding our National Marine Sanctuary system. 00:19:13.140 --> 00:19:17.700 So, yeah. These are areas that protect the ocean and the Great Lakes. 00:19:17.700 --> 00:19:25.760 And as I mentioned, this system of underwater parks is actually 600,000 square miles. 00:19:25.760 --> 00:19:31.800 Like, to put that in perspective, I thought I would just highlight one of the areas that we manage. 00:19:31.800 --> 00:19:35.520 This is the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. 00:19:36.080 --> 00:19:43.460 Look at that. It is bigger that area is the main Hawaiian Islands there start in New Orleans 00:19:43.460 --> 00:19:47.920 and then the northwestern Hawaiian Islands all the way to cure at Kure Atoll end in Las Vegas. 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:52.720 So, that's kind of the swath of this northwestern Hawaiian island 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:54.440 or Hawaiian island archipelago. 00:19:54.440 --> 00:20:00.540 And this area, itself, is larger than the entire national park system. 00:20:00.540 --> 00:20:04.560 So, and this is just one of our sites that we manage. It is the largest one that we manage. 00:20:04.560 --> 00:20:05.860 But, isn't that crazy? 00:20:05.860 --> 00:20:10.080 So, the waters around these islands are bigger than the entire national park system. 00:20:10.080 --> 00:20:16.200 And to also put it in perspective, the mass of it is, basically, if you put Florida and Georgia together. 00:20:17.240 --> 00:20:20.780 then all of that landmass is equivalent to the water, here, that we're protecting 00:20:20.780 --> 00:20:22.660 in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands. 00:20:22.660 --> 00:20:26.980 So, over 600,000 square miles of protected areas. 00:20:26.980 --> 00:20:31.760 Okay, that's your tour. And now, I'm going to, actually, get into some of the resources 00:20:31.760 --> 00:20:34.360 about that we offer. 00:20:34.360 --> 00:20:38.140 These are going to be a quick snapshot and then I'm actually going to go live on to our web site 00:20:38.140 --> 00:20:39.640 and walk you through things. 00:20:39.640 --> 00:20:42.240 I'm going to be covering our earth is blue campaign. 00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:49.260 So, this is a social media campaign. We're on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr. 00:20:49.260 --> 00:20:52.180 I'm like, oh I got to remember what these little logos are. 00:20:52.180 --> 00:20:58.360 Tumblr and YouTube, we have a video of the week that gets published, as well as a photo of the day. 00:20:58.360 --> 00:21:00.920 And you can see there's some really compelling stuff, here. 00:21:01.700 --> 00:21:08.340 I'm also going to introduce you to some of our 360-degree virtual reality photos 00:21:08.340 --> 00:21:10.740 and one particular video. 00:21:10.740 --> 00:21:17.620 So, we have these dive galleries, where on your laptop or your smartphone or in goggles, 00:21:17.620 --> 00:21:22.600 you can take these photos that are 360 and have a virtual dive experience. 00:21:23.060 --> 00:21:28.020 I'll introduce you to our first ever virtual reality video. 00:21:28.020 --> 00:21:32.700 So, this one's super cool. It's at the Channel Islands diving with a sea lion. 00:21:32.700 --> 00:21:36.200 And so, these are materials that you can use anywhere. 00:21:36.200 --> 00:21:41.280 I already mentioned, you can use it on a flat screen like your laptop or your home desktop machine. 00:21:41.280 --> 00:21:45.400 You can go to the link on your smartphone or a tablet 00:21:45.400 --> 00:21:50.700 or you can use you know Google cardboard or oculus goggles, whatever you might have, 00:21:50.700 --> 00:21:55.580 to view these virtual reality things that I'm going to share with you. 00:21:55.580 --> 00:22:00.960 So, it is definitely more immersive if you have the goggles than if you're looking at a flat screen, 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:02.640 but still exciting. 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:07.500 I'm gonna walk you through materials we have for teachers, materials we have for students, 00:22:07.500 --> 00:22:13.920 we have our Ocean Guardian program that has some fun things that kids can be doing at home 00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:18.740 to occupy time, there's games and activities, puzzles, coloring pages 00:22:18.740 --> 00:22:21.520 that are available for download and playing online. 00:22:22.340 --> 00:22:27.140 I will also introduce you to the National Ocean Service education material, 00:22:27.140 --> 00:22:32.220 where the sanctuaries fit within the ocean service part of NOAA. 00:22:33.180 --> 00:22:36.160 And then, actually, right now, at the exact same time, 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:40.500 our NOAA colleagues are doing an ocean today webinar. 00:22:40.500 --> 00:22:45.820 And, unfortunately, it ended up being same date and time, but they've got these great videos 00:22:45.820 --> 00:22:52.200 that are in these ocean today kiosks all around the country and aquariums and science centers, 00:22:52.200 --> 00:22:55.920 and there's these fabulous videos available online, that will bring the ocean to you. 00:22:55.920 --> 00:22:59.020 Such as learning more about the ocean that we love. 00:23:00.660 --> 00:23:06.780 And then, I'll also just touch a little bit on larger NOAA, so not just the ocean service 00:23:06.780 --> 00:23:08.780 and the ocean and coasts stuff. 00:23:08.780 --> 00:23:15.440 But, we have some great resource collections for educators and students to dig into. 00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:19.620 So, it's topical and I'll go through that a little bit more like if you want to learn more about 00:23:19.620 --> 00:23:22.540 ocean acidification, you can dive into those materials. 00:23:22.540 --> 00:23:27.760 Or if you want to learn more about tides and currents there's lots of information and real time data 00:23:27.760 --> 00:23:28.580 that can be used. 00:23:29.500 --> 00:23:37.180 And then, at the end of my session today, I will actually take you on a live virtual dive 00:23:37.180 --> 00:23:41.460 of Channel Islands, right now, through our explorer.org friends. 00:23:42.220 --> 00:23:48.260 So, with that, you can write down my information if you want. We'll put it in the chat box, as well. 00:23:48.260 --> 00:23:55.540 But, I'm going to move on to going to the live web sites that I have ready for you guys. 00:23:57.080 --> 00:23:59.420 All right, Hannah. Everything going well on your end, so far? 00:24:00.440 --> 00:24:04.340 -[Hannah] Yeah. I've included some of the links that she mentioned in the chat early on 00:24:04.340 --> 00:24:06.420 and then as she's clicking through, 00:24:06.420 --> 00:24:10.940 you can find the links if you want to interact at the same time in the chat, as well. 00:24:12.260 --> 00:24:17.180 - Excellent. And I should point out that I did not add the web links into the slides. 00:24:17.180 --> 00:24:19.620 Just it didn't make it as visually compelling. 00:24:19.620 --> 00:24:26.840 So, I have uploaded a handout with the NOAA web links in the GoToWebinar control panel. 00:24:26.840 --> 00:24:30.580 So, you can go ahead and download that PDF, right now, if you want. 00:24:30.580 --> 00:24:35.880 And most of the links are included on that PDF. 00:24:35.880 --> 00:24:41.460 And then, all of these materials will be in our webinar archive, including that one pager PDF 00:24:41.460 --> 00:24:42.840 that gives you the web links. 00:24:43.660 --> 00:24:48.900 But, here we go. So, basically our main website sanctuaries.noaa.gov, 00:24:50.880 --> 00:24:57.500 if you click on multimedia, you get several choices, including this earth is blue section, here. 00:24:58.180 --> 00:25:03.500 So, earth is blue like I mentioned is the social media campaign we've been doing for several years. 00:25:03.500 --> 00:25:06.960 You know, our planet is an ocean planet. Earth is blue. 00:25:06.960 --> 00:25:11.340 And, actually, our former NOAA administrator, Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, 00:25:11.340 --> 00:25:14.560 she was a former astronaut, as well. 00:25:14.560 --> 00:25:18.700 And she recalled an experience of being up in space 00:25:18.700 --> 00:25:22.460 and looking back at what many people call the Blue Marble. 00:25:22.460 --> 00:25:26.820 like an actual-- and there's wonderful pictures, I should have maybe brought one up. 00:25:26.820 --> 00:25:32.500 But, you can google it at home as like a little assignment, if there's any kids watching, the Blue Marble. 00:25:32.500 --> 00:25:38.620 So Dr. Katherine Sullivan was looking back and when you see that so much of our Earth, 00:25:38.620 --> 00:25:42.020 over 70% of our planet is blue, right? It's covered in the ocean 00:25:42.020 --> 00:25:45.520 and there's only one, large, interconnected, global ocean, right? 00:25:45.520 --> 00:25:51.700 We say Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, but those are just ocean basins, right? 00:25:51.700 --> 00:25:55.560 And all of them are interconnected. So whatever is happening at the Atlantic Ocean 00:25:55.560 --> 00:26:00.460 ultimately influences the Pacific and the Indian and all the other ocean basins. 00:26:00.460 --> 00:26:05.640 So, just keep in mind, no matter where we live, we're connected to the one, global ocean. 00:26:05.640 --> 00:26:10.860 And the Earth is really blue. When you look at the planet, so much of it's covered in in water. 00:26:10.860 --> 00:26:13.360 So, earth is blue is this campaign. 00:26:13.360 --> 00:26:20.060 We hope that these photos inspire people to learn about the ocean, 00:26:20.060 --> 00:26:24.600 help care for the ocean and spread the word that Earth isn't green, it's blue, right? 00:26:24.600 --> 00:26:30.100 So, each of these photos, for example, has a caption and the photographer. 00:26:30.100 --> 00:26:34.640 A lot of these are in our Flickr account. If you just go into flicker.com 00:26:34.640 --> 00:26:40.420 It's a photo public photo access pay website and you can search for these materials. 00:26:40.420 --> 00:26:44.280 Most of these are public domain-- not all-- but a lot of them are public domain 00:26:44.280 --> 00:26:48.780 and can be used for science fair projects, art projects, etc. 00:26:48.780 --> 00:26:54.200 So, there's a photo a day and if you're not already following us on these different platforms, 00:26:54.200 --> 00:26:56.800 Instagram, Facebook, etc. 00:26:56.800 --> 00:27:02.640 and you want to get inspired and bring the ocean directly into your social media, every day, 00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:07.780 then join us! Link up to those accounts and become part of our broader family 00:27:07.780 --> 00:27:12.200 because I'll just scroll through some of these great images. Like what is this cool thing? 00:27:12.200 --> 00:27:18.160 Let's learn a little bit about it. And all of our captions are great educational snapshots. 00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:24.060 So, this is a baby squid. This little squidlet was seen on a past research expedition 00:27:24.060 --> 00:27:28.280 in our greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary off of the San Francisco Bay Area. 00:27:28.780 --> 00:27:35.500 So, you can get lots of great little tidbits of information about marine life and ecosystems 00:27:35.500 --> 00:27:37.940 through our earth is blue photo of the day. 00:27:37.940 --> 00:27:43.320 So, we also produce an earth is blue video of the week! 00:27:43.900 --> 00:27:49.360 At one point, a few years ago, it seemed impossible that our team would be able to produce a video a week 00:27:49.360 --> 00:27:56.040 that would be digestible for the American public and any other interested audience members. 00:27:56.040 --> 00:28:01.820 But, we have now been doing this for several years and there's just fun videos. 00:28:01.820 --> 00:28:08.020 I'm gonna this it might be herky-jerky let me turn off we don't even need the music, 00:28:08.020 --> 00:28:12.560 but here's meeting the Hawaiian green sea turtle that's found in the humpback whale and the 00:28:12.560 --> 00:28:15.440 the Papahanaumokuakea Monument. 00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:20.840 So, little educational videos that are available for anybody to learn more about 00:28:20.840 --> 00:28:25.680 these wonderful marine reptiles or marine mammals ecosystems, etc. 00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:29.720 So, that's sort of a snapshot of our earth is blue. 00:28:30.140 --> 00:28:36.200 We also have this more-- this section called stories from the blue, 00:28:36.200 --> 00:28:39.060 and so what does the sanctuary system mean to you? 00:28:39.060 --> 00:28:45.340 And we have these great videos with different topics and different in people being interviewed, 00:28:45.340 --> 00:28:55.500 for example, this million waves project is recycling plastic to make parts for those that don't have limbs. 00:28:55.500 --> 00:28:56.960 Artificial limbs. 00:28:56.960 --> 00:29:01.320 So, I mean, really cool topics that you can see in these videos. 00:29:01.320 --> 00:29:08.420 Here, the Chumash people go across the Santa Barbara Channel like their relatives did 00:29:08.420 --> 00:29:13.160 thousands of years ago in their Tamil canoe and you can learn about that experience. 00:29:13.160 --> 00:29:18.220 So, these are longer videos. Look at this! We even have our very own webinar host, Hannah McDonald, 00:29:18.220 --> 00:29:25.980 to kind of came to NOAA as a high school student through our shipwreck alley high school curriculum 00:29:25.980 --> 00:29:29.960 and then through our ocean for life program and a Hollings scholar 00:29:29.960 --> 00:29:32.380 and now is actually one of our employees with a NOAA. 00:29:32.380 --> 00:29:34.420 So, you can learn a little bit about her if you want. 00:29:34.420 --> 00:29:40.240 So, these stories from the blue are fascinating videos that just dig a little bit deeper than 00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:43.420 those typical once a week earth is blue videos. 00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:47.500 Alright, so that's a snapshot of Earth is blue. 00:29:48.660 --> 00:29:55.299 Now, I want to take you to our virtual dives, so, sanctuaries.NOAA.gov/vr 00:29:55.299 --> 00:29:58.780 And I think Hannah's putting these into the chat box like she mentioned. 00:29:58.780 --> 00:30:02.280 So, you can directly click on them, open them up, and bookmark them. 00:30:02.280 --> 00:30:06.980 Or, again, you can download that one pager and all the descriptions and links are there. 00:30:06.980 --> 00:30:12.140 But a couple of years ago, our science team and our education team started working with 00:30:12.140 --> 00:30:19.300 Caitlin Seaview Catlin Seaview and doing these 360 degree photos 00:30:19.300 --> 00:30:21.700 of some of our National Marine Sanctuaries. 00:30:21.700 --> 00:30:26.880 So, should I wish people could unmute and be like "take us there!" I'm for fun because 00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:31.440 it seems so far away, Let's go to--let's dive American Samoa. 00:30:32.740 --> 00:30:42.060 And let's actually go to Big Momma. So this this may not be as compelling on a flat screen, like this, 00:30:42.060 --> 00:30:46.260 but as you're probably familiar with 360 means you can move things around. 00:30:46.260 --> 00:30:51.400 So you're looking at a diver here with a camera and a relatively healthy coral reef 00:30:51.400 --> 00:30:53.200 and then check this thing out. 00:30:53.700 --> 00:30:56.860 This coral mound is called Big Momma. 00:30:56.860 --> 00:31:02.100 It is one of the largest documented coral mounds that we are aware of anywhere in the world. 00:31:02.100 --> 00:31:06.660 I mean there may be other ones, but as far as I understand, this is one of the few that we know about 00:31:06.660 --> 00:31:07.600 that's this big. 00:31:07.600 --> 00:31:13.520 So, look at that. You can take a 360 degree of Big Momma in American Samoa. 00:31:14.460 --> 00:31:16.040 Where else can we go? 00:31:17.280 --> 00:31:19.480 Now, let's try a different one. We'll go back... 00:31:21.680 --> 00:31:24.220 following the little cookie trail there. 00:31:24.220 --> 00:31:29.960 Let's dive-- oh you know there's some fun ones in Gray's reef. 00:31:29.960 --> 00:31:34.580 This is the one off of Savannah, Georgia. Look at these schooling Atlantic Spadefish! 00:31:34.580 --> 00:31:39.360 It takes a minute to get clear it's still rendering... okay! There we go. 00:31:39.360 --> 00:31:44.340 Look at that! It almost feels like you're a diver, underwater, with these Atlantic Spadefish. 00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:51.200 This is that live bottom reef, called Gray's reef, off of Savannah, Georgia. 00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:58.080 Okay, so, lots of great resources available in our virtual reality gallery. 00:31:58.080 --> 00:32:03.820 And this is going to be expanding because we have launched our very first 00:32:03.820 --> 00:32:07.980 underwater virtual reality dive. 00:32:07.980 --> 00:32:11.060 This one's in Channel Islands and I'll give you a sneak peak of that. 00:32:11.060 --> 00:32:15.240 But we will be launching three more virtual reality dives: Florida Keys, 00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:20.540 Hawaiian Island humpback whale and Thunder Bay, I believe. 00:32:20.540 --> 00:32:22.620 Yes, Thunder Bay. So, 00:32:22.620 --> 00:32:25.560 in addition to the Channel Islands sea lion video, here. 00:32:25.560 --> 00:32:31.940 So, that'll be super exciting because not only will we launch three additional virtual reality videos, 00:32:31.940 --> 00:32:38.460 but they will be complemented by NGSS, so, next generation science standards lesson materials 00:32:38.460 --> 00:32:40.980 for middle school or grades 6 through 8. 00:32:40.980 --> 00:32:44.240 That'll be available and that can be scaled down or scaled up 00:32:44.240 --> 00:32:46.580 for different teachers that might be listening in. 00:32:46.580 --> 00:32:52.280 But, let's take a little sneak peek at this virtual dive again. I'm going to turn-- well 00:32:52.280 --> 00:32:59.360 maybe it's probably herky-jerky for you guys, so I'll leave the audio on just for a snapshot. 00:32:59.360 --> 00:33:04.840 But Hannah's, actually, the narrator of this particular live virtual dive. 00:33:34.080 --> 00:33:37.040 Yeah, so you can see this diver here, 00:33:37.040 --> 00:33:40.900 actually, Hannah, can you let me know-- is this is kind of a good test for us for other webinars-- 00:33:40.900 --> 00:33:44.440 is it kind of okay the video or should I really have uploaded it? 00:33:45.560 --> 00:33:50.260 - [Hannah] Yeah it is working as well as it probably could, right now. 00:33:50.260 --> 00:33:54.980 You would need a 360 Media Player to upload it so the best way to view it is, actually, 00:33:54.980 --> 00:33:58.580 from YouTube or Facebook, something that has a built-in player. 00:33:59.640 --> 00:34:01.320 - Awesome. Thank you for that feedback. 00:34:01.320 --> 00:34:04.820 And what's kind of fun, both Hannah and I are connected to this particular video 00:34:04.820 --> 00:34:08.560 because I was on the dive team that found this underwater submerged arch 00:34:08.560 --> 00:34:11.580 off of Santa Barbara Island, in the Santa Barbara Channel, 00:34:11.580 --> 00:34:14.100 part of our Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. 00:34:14.100 --> 00:34:18.780 And then we had the dive team with the cameras go in and collect this footage, 00:34:18.780 --> 00:34:22.220 and then, of course, I mentioned that Hannah was the narrator for this video. 00:34:23.020 --> 00:34:28.380 So, kind of fun that this was the first one out of the gate to introduce people to 00:34:28.380 --> 00:34:32.200 going underwater, virtually, with your national marine sanctuaries. 00:34:32.200 --> 00:34:38.560 So, I will point out that if you do have goggles and you are able to download this. 00:34:38.560 --> 00:34:40.860 So, let's see. 00:34:41.480 --> 00:34:45.740 Oh, first, before I talk about downloading, you can change the quality in some cases 00:34:45.740 --> 00:34:49.560 if your computer set at auto, it might come in as really low quality. 00:34:49.560 --> 00:34:53.820 And you're like, well gosh that's not very clear or HD. Like I'm not going to enjoy that. 00:34:53.820 --> 00:34:55.720 You can change the quality. 00:34:55.720 --> 00:34:58.300 And then, you can also download this. 00:34:58.300 --> 00:35:03.200 Let's see how I can figure out how to download. Well that's copying it. 00:35:03.200 --> 00:35:06.500 There is a way and I've done it before, but somehow... 00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:10.120 You can download this-- oh right there! Download video. 00:35:10.120 --> 00:35:17.960 And then you can upload it into your, if you want it on the hard drive on your say your Oculus Go goggles 00:35:17.960 --> 00:35:23.600 or you can just pull up this web link on your goggles or cardboard, Google cardboard, whatever, 00:35:23.600 --> 00:35:28.560 And I tell you what, if you even as a scuba diver, this is the closest thing to scuba diving 00:35:28.560 --> 00:35:29.780 without actually getting wet. 00:35:29.780 --> 00:35:33.880 So, it's a great opportunity to, actually,, take a virtual dive. 00:35:34.380 --> 00:35:38.920 and I know I've had my daughter do it and she seems to enjoy being on the ground, 00:35:38.920 --> 00:35:42.640 kicking as if she's the scuba diver with her little headset on. 00:35:42.640 --> 00:35:46.940 So, it's pretty fun. Kids seem to love it. Adults are just blown away by the technology. 00:35:46.940 --> 00:35:47.980 So, give it a try. 00:35:48.480 --> 00:35:51.720 So, that's an introduction to our virtual reality content. 00:35:51.720 --> 00:35:55.000 And like I mentioned, there's going to be more coming down the pipe. 00:35:55.920 --> 00:36:00.700 Now, we do have games and activities and other materials available for quick download 00:36:00.700 --> 00:36:02.120 or just plain online. 00:36:03.460 --> 00:36:10.160 So, for example, there's coloring pages here if you wanted to color sea turtles 00:36:10.160 --> 00:36:15.460 or learn some more about American Samoa-- oh, this might take a while. 00:36:15.460 --> 00:36:21.380 Anyway, so, you can see some of this content here that can be downloaded for your younger students 00:36:21.380 --> 00:36:25.980 that might be interested in in coloring and learning more. 00:36:25.980 --> 00:36:32.400 There's this great games at NOAA so the link is here. It's a portal of two all the games 00:36:32.400 --> 00:36:37.940 that NOAA-- bigger NOAA-- has. You can see rivers meet the seas. 00:36:37.940 --> 00:36:43.360 So, there's one called water life, there's a humpback whale migration game, 00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:51.960 Alaska rockfish matching jigsaw puzzles, etc. So, games at NOAA-- games.noaa.gov 00:36:51.960 --> 00:36:58.120 is your place to go to bring the ocean through games to your younger audiences. 00:36:59.020 --> 00:37:04.540 Okay, now, I shall go to our education pages. 00:37:04.540 --> 00:37:08.980 Oh, that's right I got to go back here... okay. 00:37:08.980 --> 00:37:12.220 So, let's talk little bit for those that are teachers, on here. 00:37:12.220 --> 00:37:16.720 We have a four teacher section. So, again. just on our homepage, under learn, 00:37:16.720 --> 00:37:19.280 there's education tab that brings you here. 00:37:19.620 --> 00:37:23.680 So, in the for teachers, there's lots of great materials. 00:37:23.680 --> 00:37:28.960 I mentioned ocean acidification earlier, as a scientific topic that might be of interest, 00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:31.020 especially to high school and college students. 00:37:31.020 --> 00:37:37.300 We have this fabulous Dungeness crab case study on how ocean acidification 00:37:37.300 --> 00:37:42.380 will likely impact this commercially important species, Dungeness crab. 00:37:42.380 --> 00:37:48.660 So, there's a fact sheet, there's an infographic, a PowerPoint slide show that has a script, 00:37:48.660 --> 00:37:53.020 there's a resource list, a reference list, videos, photos, etc. 00:37:53.020 --> 00:37:57.280 So, in this case, we just put a toolkit together 00:37:57.280 --> 00:38:05.100 so that educators or people that work for other ocean conservation nonprofits and organizations, 00:38:05.100 --> 00:38:10.000 that they can get more of the NOAA science from NOAA Fisheries 00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:17.060 on how this commercially important species, Dungeness crab, will be impacted by ocean acidification. 00:38:17.720 --> 00:38:21.860 If you want to learn more, you like love learning through webinar series, 00:38:21.860 --> 00:38:25.240 we have our National Marine Sanctuary webinar series, 00:38:25.240 --> 00:38:29.480 which is primarily targeting formal and informal educators. 00:38:29.480 --> 00:38:34.600 But, for today, for example, we thought we could present materials that's not only for educators, 00:38:34.600 --> 00:38:38.720 but for students and for families, parents kids, etc. 00:38:38.720 --> 00:38:45.480 But, there's lots of things in our lineup, like I mentioned earlier the bold conservation efforts 00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:50.680 to help protect and restore the Florida Keys coral reef ecosystems. 00:38:50.680 --> 00:38:56.720 So, Dr. Katie Laura will be presenting on how do you Garden corals for reef restoration, 00:38:56.720 --> 00:38:59.420 marine heatwaves in the Pacific Northwest, 00:38:59.420 --> 00:39:05.720 Hannah will actually be doing one on telepresence which is kind of bringing live feed from the deep ocean 00:39:05.720 --> 00:39:09.380 to the public through the internet and through these live ship-to-shore interactions. 00:39:09.380 --> 00:39:15.560 We have chef Allen, who's going to be talking about sustainable seafood with lionfish 00:39:15.560 --> 00:39:17.960 and other things that he's got great recipes for. 00:39:17.960 --> 00:39:22.400 So, there's always the option to plug in to our webinar series. 00:39:23.780 --> 00:39:28.280 Just gonna give you a few more highlights-- deep-sea coral community is super cool stuff. 00:39:28.280 --> 00:39:34.240 We have underwater robot footage. So, ROV, actually. stands for remotely operated vehicle, 00:39:34.240 --> 00:39:38.240 but, oftentimes, with general audiences, I just call it an underwater robot. 00:39:38.240 --> 00:39:43.900 So, we have all these great videos of transects, underwater. 00:39:43.900 --> 00:39:48.760 So, like following an actual transect line, like a latitude and longitude line, 00:39:49.820 --> 00:39:53.360 to-- with the ROV, the underwater robot. 00:39:53.360 --> 00:39:58.900 And then there's ways to have the species guide to determine what you're seeing 00:39:58.900 --> 00:40:03.080 and all these different videos. So, you can learn and there's a lesson plan, of course, right there, 00:40:03.080 --> 00:40:08.000 and an introductory video that goes into more detail about deep-sea coral communities. 00:40:11.040 --> 00:40:16.920 If you just wanted to have your child kind of find out more about these underwater parks, 00:40:17.460 --> 00:40:23.340 we have this great, sort of exploratory, lesson. It's really for grades 7 through 8, 00:40:23.340 --> 00:40:26.220 but it can be, you know, scaled up or down. 00:40:26.220 --> 00:40:29.640 This lesson plan just walk students through 00:40:30.200 --> 00:40:32.580 learning more about our different National Marine Sanctuaries, 00:40:32.580 --> 00:40:40.120 not much unlike what I did in my opening, visual summary that I provided all of you. 00:40:42.040 --> 00:40:45.940 So, and there's lots of other lesson plans, here. I won't go into many more. 00:40:46.540 --> 00:40:50.400 Now, I'll jump to the for students section. 00:40:50.400 --> 00:40:53.560 So, I'm just going to go back here to education. 00:40:54.300 --> 00:41:01.200 A lot of our for students section, right now, is featuring those earth is blue creature future videos. 00:41:01.200 --> 00:41:05.220 I showed you that snapshot of the Hawaiian green sea turtles. 00:41:05.220 --> 00:41:10.940 This is the same kind of thing. Let's talk about mantas versus mobula rays. 00:41:12.920 --> 00:41:16.600 So, again, it's in one of our National Marine Sanctuaries, 00:41:16.600 --> 00:41:21.380 you can learn some interesting facts about these two different types of rays, 00:41:21.380 --> 00:41:24.900 you know, what's the difference between a manta ray and a mobula ray, 00:41:25.800 --> 00:41:31.040 and you can learn these are, yeah, generally, one to two minute videos. So, short and sweet. 00:41:32.220 --> 00:41:40.700 And a lot of interesting topics: sharks, sea lions, Barracuda, nudibranchs, sea turtle cleaning station, etc. 00:41:41.700 --> 00:41:47.380 We do have information about marine careers, mostly linking out to different partner groups 00:41:47.380 --> 00:41:53.660 and such and student opportunities, which, right now, aren't really readily available. 00:41:53.660 --> 00:41:55.700 So, I won't dive too deep into those. 00:41:58.160 --> 00:42:03.140 Ocean Guardian programs. So, we have this umbrella program, called ocean Guardian programs. 00:42:03.140 --> 00:42:09.900 And the two things most relevant to this audience are that there's a grades K through 3 activity book. 00:42:09.900 --> 00:42:14.260 So, you can learn about the ocean and why it's important to you, 00:42:14.260 --> 00:42:19.400 we worked with our partners at the NOAA Marine Debris program. 00:42:19.400 --> 00:42:29.060 And so, there's informational facts, there's a crossword puzzle, this is litoris litter list lunches 00:42:29.060 --> 00:42:32.260 where you kind of what's different between these six pictures. 00:42:32.260 --> 00:42:39.060 So, again, get grades K through third. So, if you have a younger audience, you can print this out. 00:42:39.060 --> 00:42:40.940 It works really well in black and white. 00:42:40.940 --> 00:42:44.380 They can do some coloring, they can learn how to draw a monk seal, 00:42:44.380 --> 00:42:46.980 they can take our ocean Guardian pledge. 00:42:48.680 --> 00:42:53.340 And then, also for grades kindergarten through eighth, they can become members 00:42:53.340 --> 00:42:55.620 of our ocean Guardian Kids Club. 00:42:55.620 --> 00:43:00.740 So, basically, it encourages children to explore their natural surrounding 00:43:00.740 --> 00:43:05.900 and to form that personal connection to the ocean and/or the watersheds, right? 00:43:05.900 --> 00:43:09.180 and everyone is connected to the ocean through our our watersheds, 00:43:09.180 --> 00:43:11.520 which are the creeks and the streams and the rivers. 00:43:12.020 --> 00:43:16.600 So, no matter where you live, you even if you're in an inland state, you are connected to the ocean 00:43:16.600 --> 00:43:20.000 and you can find the natural areas that make that connection. 00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:28.780 And so, these students K through 8 can do poetry of what the natural environment means to them, 00:43:28.780 --> 00:43:33.960 the ocean or just outdoor environment, poetry, artwork, short stories, etc. 00:43:33.960 --> 00:43:40.560 They can mail it. There's membership guidelines and a membership form, here. 00:43:40.560 --> 00:43:45.260 It, actually, does come to me in Santa Barbara to my office, and since we're all working from home 00:43:45.260 --> 00:43:49.700 'I wouldn't be able to respond with the ocean Guardian kids club kit, right away, 00:43:49.700 --> 00:43:53.140 but certainly when I'm back in the office at some point in the near future 00:43:53.140 --> 00:43:56.360 I would then be mailing out these kits for students. 00:43:57.340 --> 00:44:02.420 Okay, so I have a few more things before we go to a quick Q&A. 00:44:03.240 --> 00:44:07.320 I talked about games. Okay, ocean service. So, we're part of the Ocean Service. 00:44:07.320 --> 00:44:11.520 oceanservice.noaa.gov and then you can go to the education page. 00:44:11.520 --> 00:44:16.240 And, again, Hannah's putting all these web URLs into the chat box for your access. 00:44:16.920 --> 00:44:21.800 There's lots of great things. You can do tutorials on sea level rise or tides and currents. 00:44:21.800 --> 00:44:27.620 So, I just wanted to point it out there's a lot of great information as part of the Ocean Service, 00:44:27.620 --> 00:44:31.500 which the National Marine Sanctuary system fits within. 00:44:32.560 --> 00:44:36.440 And I mentioned these ocean today videos. 00:44:36.440 --> 00:44:40.880 So, they have this thing called every full moon, which basically means once a month, 00:44:40.880 --> 00:44:43.940 they're launching a collection of videos. 00:44:43.940 --> 00:44:47.980 So, like this featured collection is the ocean we love, 00:44:48.620 --> 00:44:53.840 but look, there's some remarkable horseshoe crabs, endangered ocean, trash talk, 00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:58.900 and marine debris, hurricane, wave safe, creep into the deep-- 00:44:58.900 --> 00:45:01.100 well let's look at that one. That one looks cool. 00:45:01.760 --> 00:45:04.900 So, there's these short videos-- whoa! 00:45:05.940 --> 00:45:10.940 Mute that. These short videos, they're, generally, somewhere between two and three 00:45:10.940 --> 00:45:14.040 or two and four minutes and they're in these different segments. 00:45:14.040 --> 00:45:19.380 So, a great informational series to plug into, if you're not already familiar with them. 00:45:21.260 --> 00:45:22.720 And then bigger NOAA, right? 00:45:22.720 --> 00:45:27.040 We're all kind of nestled under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 00:45:27.040 --> 00:45:33.640 and at NOAA.gov/education is where you can find educator and student opportunities. 00:45:33.640 --> 00:45:36.800 But, I wanted to point out these resource collections. 00:45:36.800 --> 00:45:42.440 So, these are the topical areas that if you decide like "Hey, I'm really interested in tsunamis. 00:45:42.440 --> 00:45:45.460 I want to learn a lot more about tsunamis." 00:45:45.460 --> 00:45:47.680 you come to this resource collection 00:45:47.680 --> 00:45:55.820 and it's going to pull all the data, the lesson plans, the multimedia like videos and photos, 00:45:55.820 --> 00:46:00.820 and all the information that all different parts of NOAA into one place. 00:46:00.820 --> 00:46:04.580 So, oh, look at that! there's some cross over. The ocean today videos. 00:46:04.580 --> 00:46:08.100 There's a whole video collection on tsunami science and safety. 00:46:09.360 --> 00:46:15.120 So, this is a great way to approach our NOAA resources from a topical standpoint. 00:46:15.120 --> 00:46:24.020 So, if you know what topic interests you: El Nino, hurricanes, aquatic food webs, marine mammals, 00:46:24.020 --> 00:46:29.340 this is kind of a one-stop shop to get to a good amount of our NOAA resources. 00:46:30.200 --> 00:46:36.880 And lastly, I thought I would go ahead and bring on the live camera. 00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:39.000 I'll turn the sound off, again. 00:46:39.460 --> 00:46:45.760 So this, actually, is live. If you go to explore.org, which is not a part of NOAA, 00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:51.040 but it's the coolest thing because there's web cameras in the natural world and in aquariums 00:46:51.040 --> 00:46:53.620 and other places around the entire globe, 00:46:53.620 --> 00:46:59.280 where you can watch live footage. Like you can watch what the waves look like off top pipeline on Oahu 00:46:59.280 --> 00:47:05.160 and the North Shore. You-- right now, I'm showing you what Anacapa Island, 00:47:06.260 --> 00:47:08.640 which is part of the Channel Islands National Park 00:47:08.640 --> 00:47:10.420 and Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, 00:47:10.420 --> 00:47:14.260 that's exactly the conditions happening, right now, live. 00:47:14.260 --> 00:47:21.180 You can go topside and see bald eagles that are nesting on the Channel Islands. 00:47:21.180 --> 00:47:25.460 So, depending, you know, it doesn't have to only be ocean related, 00:47:25.460 --> 00:47:30.480 but there's so many cool live cameras, here, and different topics that you can explore. 00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:34.900 From Africa, to in the summer you can watch brown bears that are feeding in Alaska, 00:47:34.900 --> 00:47:37.900 and they're actually are catching the salmon and the rivers. 00:47:37.900 --> 00:47:43.600 And it's just cool. Sometimes you'll see a Garibaldi swim by and this Channel Islands footage 00:47:43.600 --> 00:47:47.280 and spiny lobsters and all kinds of exciting things. 00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:51.900 So, explore.org, again, not a part of the federal federal government and NOAA, 00:47:51.900 --> 00:47:57.300 but still pretty cool way to bring the ocean to your home. 00:47:57.780 --> 00:48:02.460 So, with that, Hannah, I'll wrap it up and if there's any questions, let me know. 00:48:05.580 --> 00:48:07.060 - Great. Thank you, Claire. 00:48:07.060 --> 00:48:11.040 I will go and share my screen, as well. 00:48:11.040 --> 00:48:15.220 You want to go ahead and switch me back over to being a presenter? 00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:16.820 - No problem. 00:48:18.360 --> 00:48:21.840 I know there's so many people on here. Let's see. There you are. 00:48:25.660 --> 00:48:26.820 - All right. 00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:35.760 For me, it's showing a white screen. Is that what it's showing for you? 00:48:35.760 --> 00:48:41.760 Yeah let me okay it's working real good awesome 00:48:42.620 --> 00:48:48.060 So, thank you so much, Claire. we're gonna open it up to questions we have been receiving. 00:48:48.060 --> 00:48:54.080 Some that we've been able to answer through lots of your great links and resources, Claire. 00:48:54.080 --> 00:48:58.920 But if I pop open the window, there were a few that I didn't get to answer. 00:48:58.920 --> 00:49:04.320 One of them was quite fun. It was that our baby squids actually called squidlets. 00:49:04.320 --> 00:49:07.420 - Yes, indeed.(laughing) 00:49:07.420 --> 00:49:08.740 I bleieve that's true. 00:49:08.740 --> 00:49:14.100 - Yeah, that's great. And we must have an audience tuning in from Alaska 00:49:14.100 --> 00:49:19.500 because we had quite a few questions about if there was a National Marine Sanctuary in Alaska 00:49:19.500 --> 00:49:22.220 or if there isn't, why isn't there one? 00:49:22.220 --> 00:49:26.020 And are there plans to have a National Marine Sanctuary in Alaska? 00:49:26.720 --> 00:49:33.060 Well, you know, it's a interesting question and there's a lot of wonderful ocean area in Alaska 00:49:33.060 --> 00:49:36.000 that could benefit from protection by the federal government. 00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:42.800 But all I can say at this point is that if you go to nominate.NOAA.gov, 00:49:42.800 --> 00:49:47.260 you can learn more information about how your community in Alaska, 00:49:47.260 --> 00:49:52.500 including the state and local government, the tribal government, nonprofits, 00:49:52.500 --> 00:49:58.940 recreational and commercial users of the ocean and coastal areas. If you can all come together 00:49:58.940 --> 00:50:05.560 and come up with a plan on proposing to set aside some of the Alaskan ocean 00:50:05.560 --> 00:50:09.760 as a National Marine Sanctuary, it would go into our nomination list 00:50:09.760 --> 00:50:14.840 and be reviewed and that's kind of the beginning of the process. 00:50:14.840 --> 00:50:16.700 That's how we're rolling these days. 00:50:17.420 --> 00:50:21.980 - Great. And there is a great information about the nomination process 00:50:21.980 --> 00:50:24.840 on sanctuaries.noaa.gov if you're interested. 00:50:25.440 --> 00:50:31.560 We have a question coming in from Scott, who is asking about what our National Marine Sanctuary 00:50:31.560 --> 00:50:36.760 is doing about microplastics, both with the prevention and in education. 00:50:37.740 --> 00:50:40.420 Yeah, that's a great question, Scott. Thank you. 00:50:41.040 --> 00:50:46.220 Plastic pollution, micro plastics, these are huge threats to the global ocean 00:50:46.220 --> 00:50:49.020 as I'm sure many of you are aware. 00:50:49.020 --> 00:50:54.480 If you aren't aware, then certainly think about, you know, we've been teaching people to recycle 00:50:54.480 --> 00:51:00.000 as the means of helping dispose with plastic, when in fact for the last 20 or 30 years, 00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:07.700 we should have been telling people refuse and then reuse, repurpose, and then worst case, recycle, right? 00:51:07.700 --> 00:51:10.340 But when it comes to micro plastics, 00:51:12.340 --> 00:51:18.000 there is a NOAA marine debris program that is really focused on marine debris and plastic pollution. 00:51:18.000 --> 00:51:23.980 So, they've got protocols set up for monitoring for marine debris and plastic pollution. 00:51:23.980 --> 00:51:29.260 Our part of national marine sanctuaries we do have some volunteer and citizen science programs 00:51:29.260 --> 00:51:34.480 that support these efforts, and we drive all of that over to the marine debris program 00:51:34.480 --> 00:51:40.080 that that's kind of their their mission and our mission is an alignment with theirs. 00:51:40.080 --> 00:51:46.060 But it's not our primary thing that we're focused on. But, certainly, because it's a threat to the ocean 00:51:46.060 --> 00:51:49.800 and to our special ocean areas like National Marine Sanctuaries, 00:51:49.800 --> 00:51:55.260 it is an important topic that we communicate a lot about for education and outreach purposes. 00:51:56.100 --> 00:52:01.780 - Great. We have a question from Beth about who patrols National Marine Sanctuaries. 00:52:02.880 --> 00:52:08.300 - Yeah that's a really good point. You know, I could did some comparisons to national parks, right? 00:52:08.300 --> 00:52:13.620 that, like our Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument 00:52:13.620 --> 00:52:15.700 is bigger than the entire national park system. 00:52:15.700 --> 00:52:21.380 But it's also way out in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. 00:52:21.380 --> 00:52:25.660 So, like patrolling that area is really challenging. 00:52:25.660 --> 00:52:32.520 There are the Coast Guard, like not for the far out sites like the monument I just described, 00:52:32.520 --> 00:52:35.940 but at the Channel Islands, Monterey and other places, 00:52:35.940 --> 00:52:42.320 we've got State National Park people that help with enforcement and monitoring, 00:52:42.320 --> 00:52:46.640 we've got the Coast Guard and Department of Homeland Security that help. 00:52:46.640 --> 00:52:51.380 But when you don't have fences and boundaries like you do in a national park, 00:52:51.380 --> 00:52:55.480 like you go into Yosemite and you go through a gate and then there's boundaries 00:52:55.480 --> 00:52:58.400 and fences and people know they're in a special area. 00:52:58.400 --> 00:53:01.800 It's very different when you're dealing with the wide open ocean. 00:53:01.800 --> 00:53:06.660 We don't have a way to put up fences and boundaries all we can do is put the 00:53:06.660 --> 00:53:11.360 latitude and longitude on maps, and educate people to know that, when you're in this area, 00:53:11.360 --> 00:53:15.940 you're in a no-take marine reserve or if you're in this area you're in a National Marine Sanctuary, 00:53:15.940 --> 00:53:22.620 which does have some regulations, too. You know we promote conservation and stewardship, 00:53:22.660 --> 00:53:27.020 yet we allow commercial and recreational uses of our National Marine Sanctuaries. 00:53:27.020 --> 00:53:29.660 Unless it's some of these no-take marine reserves. 00:53:29.660 --> 00:53:34.320 So, it's complicated question. When we're out there on our own research vessels, 00:53:34.320 --> 00:53:40.380 we're kind of keeping eyes on what's going on. But again, no fences, wide areas, 00:53:40.380 --> 00:53:45.080 certainly hard to to manage the enforcement of these areas. 00:53:46.360 --> 00:53:48.780 - We have another question coming from Beth, too, 00:53:48.780 --> 00:53:51.340 and Claire, I think you'll have a lot of fun answering this one. 00:53:51.340 --> 00:53:54.800 Does the global ocean have a proper name? 00:53:55.880 --> 00:53:56.820 - Oh! 00:53:58.320 --> 00:54:01.160 The Ocean. Capital "O". 00:54:01.160 --> 00:54:04.100 That is a that's a good question. That's kind of thought-provoking. 00:54:04.100 --> 00:54:09.540 Yeah, what is the ocean what's the proper name for the global ocean? I mean, 00:54:09.540 --> 00:54:15.220 - I would say that you are the Patrol officer for the sanctuary system 00:54:15.220 --> 00:54:21.080 on making sure that no one uses the term oceans. That there's only one ocean. 00:54:21.080 --> 00:54:27.140 - I am the, yeah, the sanctuary police on that because there are ocean literacy principles out there. 00:54:27.140 --> 00:54:31.620 If you're not familiar with them and you are interested in this topic and you want to be ocean literate, 00:54:31.620 --> 00:54:36.580 these are the principles that help you understand your influence on the ocean 00:54:36.580 --> 00:54:41.460 and the ocean's influence on you, like the ocean influences weather and climate, 00:54:41.460 --> 00:54:45.780 most of the ocean is largely unexplored, humans in the ocean are interconnected, 00:54:45.780 --> 00:54:50.560 and, ocean literacy principle number one, there's only one large interconnected global ocean! 00:54:50.560 --> 00:54:54.740 And we're all connected to it, no matter if you live on base camp in Mount Everest 00:54:54.740 --> 00:54:57.700 or along the California coastline. 00:54:59.180 --> 00:55:03.560 - And we have a question coming from Courtney that I might be able to address 00:55:03.560 --> 00:55:07.240 with our telepresence and other distance learning opportunities. 00:55:07.240 --> 00:55:14.500 She's asking if it's possible to set up a webinar or virtual visit with the NOAA scientist educator 00:55:14.500 --> 00:55:17.320 for summer programs or students of all ages. 00:55:17.320 --> 00:55:25.700 So, we do have telepresence expeditions. Telepresence expeditions enable deep-sea exploration in real time 00:55:25.700 --> 00:55:28.620 and those are occurring in our sanctuary system. 00:55:28.620 --> 00:55:35.400 For 2020, those expeditions will occur in currently in the late summer/early fall. 00:55:35.400 --> 00:55:41.080 So, check out our sanctuaries live page for opportunities to connect with those scientists 00:55:41.080 --> 00:55:44.520 for the time being and moving forward in the next weeks and months. 00:55:44.520 --> 00:55:47.680 We'll be connecting with exploring by the seat of your pants, 00:55:47.680 --> 00:55:55.200 which is a partner that we have to share our scientists, our resources, with students. 00:55:55.200 --> 00:56:01.180 So, we have a recorded one from Monday March 30th that you can check out, 00:56:01.180 --> 00:56:07.740 and moving forward we'll be sure to keep our schedule posted with when we're tuning in 00:56:07.740 --> 00:56:09.540 with exploring by the seat of your pants. 00:56:09.540 --> 00:56:14.180 So, yes, we have upcoming opportunities to connect students with NOAA scientists. 00:56:15.060 --> 00:56:16.680 - Oh, thank you for that, Hannah. 00:56:17.540 --> 00:56:18.120 - Yeah. 00:56:18.700 --> 00:56:21.440 - Hey, I'm this one's Erin, thanks for pointing this out. 00:56:21.440 --> 00:56:26.320 You said too bad the United Nations didn't know about the single interconnected global ocean 00:56:26.320 --> 00:56:29.420 when they designated World Oceans day. 00:56:29.420 --> 00:56:35.240 I tell you what, that just burns my heart every time because it is designation by the United Nations, 00:56:35.240 --> 00:56:39.440 but I'll let you know that there's enough of us promoting ocean literacy 00:56:39.440 --> 00:56:43.840 that we're getting to the point where we might be able to convince the United Nations 00:56:43.840 --> 00:56:45.400 to make the official change. 00:56:45.400 --> 00:56:50.320 And it's so funny, right? I think it's just psychological that if you think there's many different oceans, 00:56:50.320 --> 00:56:53.940 oh I mine's healthy where I live, like everything's great. 00:56:53.940 --> 00:56:58.040 There's a marine protected area and I see dolphins and sometimes whales breaching. 00:56:58.040 --> 00:56:59.600 It seems healthy and good to me, 00:57:00.240 --> 00:57:02.900 but psychologically, if you know that it's all interconnected, 00:57:02.900 --> 00:57:08.000 then you're more concerned about what's happening in the Philippines or Indonesia or other places. 00:57:08.000 --> 00:57:14.420 So, it is my little-- what do you call this?-- soap box that I get on. 00:57:16.040 --> 00:57:20.540 - All right. Well I think that's about it all the time we have for questions, today. 00:57:20.540 --> 00:57:23.460 If you have entered a question and it's gone unanswered, 00:57:23.460 --> 00:57:26.880 Claire will go back through and we'll try to get you back and answer. 00:57:28.200 --> 00:57:33.600 So, like we mentioned, these this webinar and as well as all of our other webinars 00:57:33.600 --> 00:57:38.080 that we've done have been recorded and will be on our webinar archive page. 00:57:38.080 --> 00:57:43.720 Takes about a week for that to come up, so we'll send out an email when that is live. 00:57:44.280 --> 00:57:48.960 I'd like to thank you for attending the National Marine Sanctuaries webinar series, today. 00:57:48.960 --> 00:57:55.160 We welcome any feedback, further questions or suggestions for topics for this series. 00:57:55.160 --> 00:57:59.140 And you can submit them by replying to the email that's on the screen 00:57:59.140 --> 00:58:02.160 sanctuary.education@NOAA.gov 00:58:02.160 --> 00:58:05.800 or replying in the follow-up email that will send out. 00:58:07.180 --> 00:58:12.740 Following this webinar, you will receive a certificate of attendance 00:58:12.740 --> 00:58:18.560 that counts for one hour of professional development, for today's presentation. 00:58:20.520 --> 00:58:24.380 - I suppose I can count for a student credit if you needed to show a teacher 00:58:24.380 --> 00:58:28.380 that you were doing some independent study of some sort. 00:58:28.380 --> 00:58:32.840 So, if there's students listening, you'll still get one and you can use it how you see fit. 00:58:33.300 --> 00:58:35.720 - Yeah that's a great suggestion. 00:58:35.720 --> 00:58:40.000 I also want to mention that there will be a short evaluation 00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:46.180 that asks you questions about today's presentation following when we're closed, here. 00:58:46.180 --> 00:58:50.900 Please complete this survey as soon as signing off. It'll only take about three minutes to complete 00:58:50.900 --> 00:58:53.760 and we greatly appreciate any feedback that you share. 00:58:54.300 --> 00:59:01.260 Moving forward, we have Katie Lohr presenting on coral reef restoration on April 23rd. 00:59:01.260 --> 00:59:04.880 This is within our National Marine Sanctuaries webinar series 00:59:05.540 --> 00:59:10.800 and just the next day, on April 24th, we have Understanding the Marine Heat Waves 00:59:10.800 --> 00:59:16.360 in the Pacific Northwest, with a professor from the University of Washington. 00:59:16.360 --> 00:59:21.460 So two incredible opportunities to onnect with scientists in National Marine Sanctuaries 00:59:21.460 --> 00:59:22.780 in the coming weeks. 00:59:24.340 --> 00:59:29.460 And I also want to mention that Claire did a great job of talking about how connected 00:59:29.460 --> 00:59:31.140 we are to NOAA education. 00:59:31.140 --> 00:59:36.280 And so, additionally, we have the NOAA multimedia and distance learning survey. 00:59:36.280 --> 00:59:41.380 And this education community recognizes that, today, educators and students 00:59:41.380 --> 00:59:45.580 are using live and on-demand multimedia content to learn about the ocean, 00:59:45.580 --> 00:59:51.660 the climate stem topics and, especially during this time that we're in, right now, 00:59:51.660 --> 00:59:54.680 in developing multimedia and distance learning materials 00:59:54.680 --> 00:59:57.460 that convey NOAA's science service and stewardship. 00:59:57.460 --> 01:00:02.240 We must make sure that we're meeting the needs of the educators and students in the United States. 01:00:02.240 --> 01:00:09.640 To achieve this goal, NOAA's created this survey and we would greatly appreciate your time 01:00:09.640 --> 01:00:11.120 in filling it out, as well. 01:00:11.120 --> 01:00:16.120 It leads to many more distance learning and connections with scientists opportunities. 01:00:18.440 --> 01:00:25.520 So, thank you, again, to Claire for hosting a entirely great webinar about our ocean resources 01:00:25.520 --> 01:00:32.020 in education and thank you all for tuning in. I hope you find that our resources are valuable to you, 01:00:32.020 --> 01:00:35.660 your students, you are a student, I hope you found them fascinating. 01:00:35.660 --> 01:00:39.160 And thank you for taking the time to join us, today. 01:00:39.160 --> 01:00:44.320 - Yeah. Thanks, everyone. We appreciate it. I hope you dive into some of these online materials 01:00:44.320 --> 01:00:51.780 and enjoy yourself. Feel free to reach out to Hannah or myself or sanctuary.education@NOAA.gov 01:00:51.780 --> 01:00:53.180 and we'll be sure to get back to you. 01:00:54.120 --> 01:00:55.260 All right thanks, everyone. 01:00:55.680 --> 01:00:58.580 - Thank you. This concludes today's webinar.