• Earth System Poster (2007) and Associated Activities explore the relationship between different components of the Earth system, including the Ocean Biosphere, Aerosols, and Clouds.
• Additional data and implementation guides for more recent years available online at My NASA DATA — GLOBE Digital Earth System Poster

My NASA Data Activities and Lesson Plans Related to NAAMES Science:

• Global Phytoplankton Distribution Story Map (Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12)
• Mini Lesson: Chlorophyll & Sea Surface Temperature (Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12)
• Mini Lesson: Historic Ocean Chlorophyll Concentrations – Mapped Plot (Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12)
• Mini Lesson: Historic Ocean Chlorophyll Concentrations for Different Regions – Time Series Plots (Grades 6-8, 9-12)
• Mini Lesson: Energy and Matter: North Atlantic Chlorophyll (1997-2006) (Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12)
• Introduction to Plankton (Grades 3-5, 6-8)
• What Color is the Ocean? A Simple Spectrophotometer Activity (Grades 6-8, 9-12)
• Phytopia’s “Light & Color” (Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12)
• Phytopia: Exploration of Marine Ecosystem (Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12)
• Scientifically-Interesting Storyline of Phytoplankton Blooms in the Polar Regions (Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12)
• Earth System Data Explorer Poster Cards – Global Phytoplankton Distribution Poster Cards (Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12)
• Global Phytoplankton Distribution Story Map (Grades 3-12)
• Sea Ice and the Earth System Story Map (Grades 6-12)

NASA Wavelength NAAMES-Specific Resources for Earth and Space Science Education

NASA resources related to the study of ocean ecosystems and how they impact the atmosphere, including

• Studying Ocean Plankton from Space
• In-Water Optics and Ocean Color Remote Sensing using littleBits™
• Carbon Cycle
• Phytoplankton Blooms and Ocean Warming

Resources are linked to AAAS benchmarks.

Bigelow Laboratory Ocean Biology Education Resources
Scientific background information, multiple lesson plan modules, and links
to additional web content related to three topical areas that are relevant for NAAMES:
1) Phytoplankton, 2) Food Chains or Webs?, 3) From Microscopes to Satellites.
All material is linked to Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning Educational Content Standards.

Teachable Optics: Absorption, Scattering, and the Color of the Ocean by E. Boss
Link to a PDF on the IOCCG website of Dr. Emmanuel Boss’s 2005 Optics and Photonics News paper
discussing a series of easy science classroom exercises about how shining light through glasses
of water mixed with different food colorings affects (through absorption and scattering) the colors that we perceive.
During NAAMES, Dr. Boss and his team use instruments to measure how the optical properties of
the ocean change depending on the water composition (for example, the presence or absence of phytoplankton).

Ocean Optics Web Book
A web-based education and reference book introducing ocean optics topics such as: Light and Radiometry,
Optical Oceanography, Absorption, Scattering, Optical Constituents of the Ocean, Radiative Transfer Theory,
Remote Sensing, Monte Carlo Simulations, and Surfaces. There is also a very extensive reference page with
brief definitions of a variety of ocean and optical science terms.

Marine Data Literacy
A thorough examination of various current in situ ocean data sets as well as mapping and visualization tools.
Included are a large number of analysis methods and exercises.

International Ocean-Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG)
A group consisting of the ocean color data providers (space agencies) and the international user communities
(scientists, managers) to coordinate and synthesize the global satellite ocean color radiometric records.

IOCCG Lecture Notes
Powerpoint slides and lecture notes from a number of years of IOCCG-sponsored Summer Lecture Series
and Short Courses focused on a variety of ocean color topics.

+ Visit the Multimedia page for recent news articles and features that provide an introductory-level description of the NAAMES project.