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Noaa: Estuary Education: Building a Salt Marsh
Find out how a salt marsh can be built or rebuilt. This video explains how plants are chosen to restore a salt marsh near New York City. [3:52]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Hurricane Hazards
EstuaryLIVE meteorologists explain how a hurricane forms, how it moves, and how to measure potential damage from these dangerous storms. [10:03]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Lessons of Lightning
EstuaryLIVE meteorologists explain how lightning forms, and how to avoid danger when thunderstorms erupt. [9:39]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Tornado Touchdown
EstuaryLIVE meteorologists explain how a tornado forms, how it moves, and how to measure potential damage from these dangerous storms. [10:16]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Tale of Two Estuaries
A detailed look at the life inside two very different estuaries in Oregon: the South Slough and Tillamook estuaries. [8:04]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Tale of Two Estuaries: Native People
Estuaries have been home to native people for centuries. Meet members of Oregon's Coquille Tribe who used the estuary's riches to flourish for hundreds of years. [5:14]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Eelgrass Excitement
Find out about species, location, habitat, and other ecological factors of vital estuary eelgrass. [9:08]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Estuaries: Defining Our Terms
Students quickly run down the major aspects of what makes an estuary, watershed, habitat, and food web. [1:45]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Tillamook Estuary Overview
A video overview of the amazing Tillamook Estuary in Oregon. Exciting photography highlights this 3-minute look this national treasure. [4:03]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Tillamook Fishes
Student seine the Tillamook estuary and bring back a variety of native species to study. [5:35]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Saving the Tijuana Estuary
The estuary stands as the last barrier between the Pacific Ocean and pollution. Its mix of plants and silt acts as a filter that purifies contaminated inland rain and flood waters before they reach the ocean. [3:47]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Saving Lives
Life on the Edge: Saving Lives looks at the work of the Coast Guard as they patrol the waters around South Slough Estuary. [5:00]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Catching Crabs
Understand why crabbing is important to an estuary region both for recreation and commercial reasons. [7:01]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: All About Waquoit Bay Estuary
A quick overview of the Waquoit Bay Estuary, including what an estuary is and what makes this estuary unique. [3:29]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Researching the Clam
Everything you wanted to know about clams and other related bivalves of Waquoit Bay in Massachusetts. [4:21]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Cool Critters of Peconic Bay
Young students show and describe some of the unique critters in the Peconic estuary in New York. [7:49]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Totally Terrapins
Everything you always wanted to know about the estuary's Diamondback Terrapin and how it is being protected. [6:22]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Tracking Striped Bass
Estuary scientists use sophisticated electronic equipment to study and track the Striped Bass, a resident of the estuary and open ocean. [9:16]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Sampling Seagrass
A look at various types of estuary grasses and the animals that are sheltered in this habitat, plus a look at the methods scientists use to study these grasses. [6:10]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Intertidal Habitat
Join a scientist and several young students as they explore an intertidal pool using a seine net and fish traps. [4:45]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: New Jersey Clamming
A New Jersey clammer teaches all about clams and how they are harvested. [6:09]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: New Jersey Terrapin Close Up
Find out about the importance of the estuary ecosystem, and the terrapins' relationship with these special wetlands. [4:46]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Totally Turtles
Meet scientists and students at the Jug Bay Reserve in Maryland as they study and track the common Box Turtle. [7:25]
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Noaa: Estuary Education: Collecting Creatures in the Charlotte Harbor
Students collect and display some of the most common creatures found in the Charlotte Harbor Estuary. [3:52]