Professor Dave Explains
Volcanoes: Formation, Types, and Activity
It's time to talk about everyone's favorite geological feature, volcanoes! What are these things? Why do they erupt? What are the different types of volcanoes? How do they form? What happens to their lava? Let's learn about all of these...
Professor Dave Explains
Phylum Annelida Part 2: Polychaeta (Segmented Marine Worms)
Now that we are familiar with the characteristics of annelids, let's zoom in on the polychaetes, which are the segmented marine worms. What do these worms do in the sea all day long? How are they different from land worms? Let's get a...
Professor Dave Explains
Weathering Environments Part 1: Fluvial Processes
We now know about physical and chemical weathering, so now it's time to learn about the different weathering environments. These are fluvial, aeolian, and glacial. Let's start with fluvial, which means environments dominated by flowing...
Curated Video
How Volcanic Eruptions Shape Earth
How Volcanic Eruptions Shape Earth explores changes in Earth's surface by explaining that new lands are formed as a result of volcanic eruptions.
Curated Video
Fringe Benefits
Princeton historian of science Michael Gordin describes how being receptive to wacky, unorthodox ideas - up to a point - brings various benefits to our understanding of the world.
Curated Video
Ocean Floor Features
“Ocean Floor Features” will examine the different types of features in the ocean, primarily on the ocean floor.
NASA
Houston We Have a Podcast: DNA Sequencing
Dr. Sarah Wallace talks about her instrumental role in sequencing DNA for the very first time in space. DNA sequencing can be used for things in space from monitoring the crew members' health to identifying microbes, and potentially...
Wonderscape
Science Kids: Plastic and Chemical Pollution in Oceans
This video discusses the significant sources of pollution in our oceans, focusing on the impact of chemical waste and plastic pollution. It highlights the consequences of pollution on marine life, human health, and the environment. The...
Next Animation Studio
Researchers discover greenhouse gas eating ocean bacteria
Scientists have discovered several new types of sea microbes that could eat oil and other pollutants.
Next Animation Studio
Deep-sea ‘gold rush’ led by China could be about to devastate the oceans
A deep-sea ‘gold rush’ led by China could soon have catastrophic consequences for marine ecosystems.
NASA
NASA | Earth Science Week: Keeping Up With Carbon
"Keeping Up With Carbon" is the final episode in the six-part series "Tides of Change", exploring amazing NASA ocean science to celebrate Earth Science Week 2009. Carbon is all around us. This unique atom is the basic building block of...
Visual Learning Systems
Oceanography: Video Quiz
The physical and chemical characteristics of ocean waters are discussed including salinity, temperature, density, and pressure. Footage from Maine, the Canadian Maritimes, and the Pacific coast highlight dynamic characteristics of the...
AllTime 10s
10 Strangest Underwater Discoveries
With so much of the earth's oceans being unmapped, there are certainly some strange things down there. . .
Journey to the Microcosmos
Foraminifera: Hard on The Outside, Squishy on the Inside
We're going fossil hunting for Foraminifera! From beaches, to the ocean floor, to the foundation of the Egyptian pyramids, Forams are everywhere!
Professor Dave Explains
The Layers of the Ocean
Before taking a deep dive into the geology of the ocean's layers, let's review the basics of ocean life. What are the different sections of the ocean? What types of creatures live in each region? Composition of Oceanic Crust introduction
Curated Video
Animals that Live Under the Sea: Science Songs for Kids
The Under the Sea Song for kids is a science song that teaches young children all about the animals that live in the ocean. The Under the Sea song helps children learn interesting information about different fish, mammals, and other sea...
Mazz Media
Benthos
This live-action video program is about the word benthos. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word benthos through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...
Curated Video
I Wonder - Why Are Ocean Plants Important?
This video is answering the question of why are ocean plants important.
Brave Wilderness
MONSTER FROGFISH FOUND!
On this episode of Beyond the Tide, Coyote and Mark find two MONSTER Frogfish while scuba diving in Hawaii! Along with being director Mark’s favorite animal, these angler fish are amazingly bizarre! They can swim like a fish, hop along...
Poetry Foundation
Sarah Kay reads "Titanic"
Sarah Kay reads Laura Lamb Brown-Lavoie's poem, "On This the 100th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Titanic, We Reconsider the Buoyancy of the Human Heart"
Next Animation Studio
How deep sea mining works in 3D
Hydrocarbons such as oil and gas have been harvested from under the sea for decades. But more and more companies are now trying to obtain licenses to mine minerals like copper, cobalt, manganese and gold from the seabed. A project to...
Brave Wilderness
Sting King of the Deep!
On this episode of Blue Wilderness, Mark and the crew are in Stingray City just 35 minutes off the coast of Grand Cayman.. and they’re going diving with Stingrays to find the Sting King of the deep! Lets hope they don’t get stung or...
Professor Dave Explains
Pillow Lava, Dikes, Gabbro, and Peridotite
Magma from the Earth's crust routinely bubbles up, forming various types of volcanic rock on the ocean floor. What types of lava rocks can be found in the ocean? How are the formed and what happens to them over time? Plus, learn where...
Visual Learning Systems
Diverging and Sliding Plates
This video explains the concept of plate tectonics and the movement of Earth's crust. It discusses the three types of plate boundaries - divergent, convergent, and transform. The video also introduces the idea of convection currents...