SciShow
Wolves Have Taken Over a Marine Ecosystem
Wolves are amazing hunters, so they tend to be apex predators wherever you find them...including one region in Alaska where these land-based predators sit atop a marine food web.
Curated Video
Is Earth's Largest Heat Transfer Really Shutting Down?
With unprecedented heat waves and record-breaking global temperatures, it’s hard to believe that there might be a place on earth that has actually COOLED since the industrial revolution.
Red Rock Films
Ecosystem Activator: Marine Coasts. Age 10 - 14.
Life on the rocky and sandy shore of the ocean coast. How the marine coast supports life on land and sea. Threats to the ocean and how to help.
Red Rock Films
Ecosystem Activator: Marine Coasts. Age 7 - 10.
Life on the rocky and sandy shore of the ocean coast. How the marine coast supports life on land and sea. Threats to the ocean and how to help.
Next Animation Studio
Climate change: Marine life threatened as ocean oxygen levels drop
Research predicts that within 15 to 20 years, human-caused deoxygenation will be felt across the world's oceans.
A new study published in the American Geophysical Union's journal found that oxygen levels in the world's oceans are...
Let's Tute
Introduction to Ecosystems and their Classification
This video explains what an ecosystem is and how living and nonliving components interact with each other. It also covers the different types of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and their classifications. The next session will discuss...
EarthEcho International
Regenerating Marine Ecosystems: Agricultural Runoff and its Impact on the Everglades and Coral Reefs
Regenerating Marine Ecosystems part 1 of 2:
The video explores how agricultural runoff in the Florida Everglades is affecting downstream coral reefs and marine life. It highlights the importance of restoring the natural Everglades...
Curated Video
Moves to protect penguins in South Africa
Boulders Beach, South Africa, 13 March 2009
1. Medium shot of male tourist taking photograph at Boulders Beach
2. Medium shot of a group of children climbing on the railing at Boulders Beach
3. Wide shot of Boulders Beach and penguins...
Curated Video
About 600,000 people per year now visit Boulders Beach which boasts that it is the only place in the world where people can swim with penguins.
HEADLINE: Can man-made homes save Africa's penguins?
CAPTION: Africa's penguin population has plummeted from around 3 million in the 1930s to just 120,000 because of excessive, heat overfishing and pollution. Now park rangers are trying...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Build a Fish
In this interactive activity from Shedd Aquarium, students will build a fish and then release it into the reef to search for food and evade predators. Students will try different combinations and observe how each kind of fish has unique...
NOAA
Noaa: Living Ocean Gallery
This resource provides photographs or video clips of fish, sharks, eels or rays. Quick Time is required.
Crash Course
Crash Course Kids 30.2: The Life Hydrologic
Head down into the ocean to see what habitats await there. The ocean has layers and the types of things we encounter there change the deeper we go. [4:41]
NOAA
Noaa: Estuary Education: Research Vessel Tour
Take a tour of the research vessel, the RV Palmetto, and find out about life and work aboard a scientific research boat. [10:12]
Other
Chesapeake Bay Program: Ecosystem
Learn how the Bay, its habitats, and the plants and animals they support form a productive and complex ecosystem.
California Academy of Sciences
Ca Academy of Sciences: Science Heroes: John Mc Cosker, Sharks
Go on a journey with John McCosker, Chair of the Department of Aquatic Biology, and learn how the oceans' top predator preys upon its victims. [1:40]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Kelp Forest
This video from Jean Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures, describes the unique, interdependent characteristics of an underwater kelp forest ecosystem and explores the delicate balance of life between sea otters, urchins, and the kelp...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Plumbing the Depths of Aquarium Science
Learn how to properly make a coral reef aquarium. Joseph Yaiullo, co-founder of Atlantis Marine World in Riverhead, N.Y. and the curator of the aquarium's 20,000-gallon tank, shares salt water tank tips.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Kelp Forest
Learn about kelp forests and observe animals that live in these forests. Watch two kids use the scientific method to find out if larger animals live at the top of the kelp forest or at the bottom.
California Academy of Sciences
Ca Academy of Sciences: Farallones: Chat With an Academy Scientist
Researchers from Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and California Academy of Sciences chat, answer questions and discuss the Farallones and many species of marine plants and animals that make these areas their home. [33:30]
NOAA
Noaa: Estuary Education: More About the Marsh
A quick overview of the salt marsh and why this environment is an important ecosystem to a variety of marine life. [1:39]
NOAA
Noaa: Estuary Education: What Lives in the Bay?
A quick, simple look at some of the typical animals found in the estuary ecosystem of Waquoit Bay. [3:22]