Tips to reduce your impact on the planet and our oceans Reduce your carbon footprint and energy consumption. Climate change threatens our coral reefs and ocean through extended coral bleaching events and ocean acidification. Make safe, sustainable seafood choices Don’t litter! Trash can entangle, maim, drown wildlife, and smother coral. Grocery bags, pieces of plastic, […]
Slow Life from Daniel Stoupin on Vimeo. This video consists of 150,000 shots of corals and sponges, compressed into less than four minutes. A lot of the motion is intended for desedimentation, shaking off detritus like sand and fish excrement that threaten to bury them. At normal speed, it might take weeks for some of these changes […]
The National Environmental Education Foundation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are partnering to bring middle school students and teachers a climate change video contest. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create a video that is 30-120 seconds long that answers these two questions: Why do you care about climate change? […]
From the Bow Seat’s 2014 Ocean Awareness Student Contest encourages high school students to learn about plastics and how they affect the marine environment and living organisms. The contest allows students to share their newfound knowledge through writing, artwork, or an advocacy video. Three sets of prizes will be awarded, i.e., one for each category […]
January 30, 2014 WASHINGTON –Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released phase II of the National Stormwater Calculator and Climate Assessment Tool package. The updated calculator includes future climate vulnerability scenarios. The calculator, a part of President Obama’s Climate Change Action Plan, is a desktop application that estimates the annual amount of stormwater […]
The Beneath the Waves – Youth Making Ripples Film Competition – is an opportunity for K-12 students (< 18 years of age) to use their creative talents and serve as a voice for our oceans. We encourage elementary, middle and high school students to create their own marine related film on a topic of their […]
Summer 2014 Internships: All positions now filled Fall 2014 Internships Start and end dates are flexible. These are unpaid internships. No housing is provided. Events, marketing, education and marine projects: Interns selected will help to organize and staff events, promote Reef Relief and its programs, present classroom lessons on marine science and work on marine […]
Sigsbee Charter School’s 7th graders made a splash learning how to conduct water studies and survey marine life at the Higgs Beach Marine Park