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Let this researcher explain how studying fossils and isotopes can help us understand ancient climate conditions!
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Mangrove restoration efforts are rooted in hard work by many volunteers. Learn more now!
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Sometimes scientists conduct a census, too! Learn how population sampling can help monitor the progress of an ecological restoration project.
Want to reinforce your students' understanding of seafloor spreading? This idea is a piece of cake!
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Using beads to model radiometric dating.
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Water quality is extremely important to the aquatic ecosystem, and human activities all over the country can impact the water around the Florida Keys. Dive in and learn more!
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Coleman Mackie discusses the process of how he salvages pre-cut timbers from the bottom of river beds, the importance of ring density, buoyancy and the uses of the recovered logs.
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How long does it take to form speleothems in the caves at Florida Caverns State Parks?
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Dean Grubbs explains the ways in which humans can impact the ocean.
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Dean Grubbs explains how different types of trash, like plastics, ends up in the ocean and how they become a detriment to marine life.
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Dean Grubbs of Florida State Universisty, discusses the impact bycatch has on ocean life.
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Geologist Harley Means discusses the characteristics of karst geology.
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Ecologist, Rebecca Means, describes the process of determining remote locations in the USA and developing quantitative questions that are appropriate.
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How much food do you need to cross the Pacific in a kayak? Get a calculator and a bag of almonds before you watch this.
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KROS Pacific Ocean Kayak Journey: GPS Data Set[.XLSX]
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Calorie-dense foods can power the human body across the ocean? Feel the burn.
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KROS Pacific Ocean Kayak Journey: Path Visualization for Google Earth[.KML]
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Good food and exercise lead to great health!
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When your classroom is the open ocean, which is the longest period? The one from the tsunami.
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KROS Pacific Ocean Kayak Journey: GPS Data Set[.XLSX]
KROS Pacific Ocean Kayak Journey: Path Visualization for Google Earth[.KML]
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Hear how mathematics helped shape Dr. James O'Brien's groundbreaking research in ocean modeling of El Niño.
COAPS oceanographer Dmitry Dukhovskoy describes the process used to mathematically model eddy shedding in the Gulf of Mexico.
Listen to a discussion about how moist atmospheric rivers are influencing increased monsoonal events.
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This FSU professor discusses the limitations and need for improvement to models used to forecast hurricanes.
In the Earth's systems, everything is connected! This meteorologist explains the relationship between monsoonal heat columns and polar ice-melt.
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A discussion focusing on the predictions that underestimated the storm surge from Hurricane Dennis on the Florida panhandle.
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To understand atmospheric and oceanic currents, one needs a well-rounded understanding of geometry and the shape of the Earth.
Dissolved oxygen is important to all life in and out of the water! Learn more in this video!
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A climatologist rains down information about how physical factors form regional climates.
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Listen up as a meteorologist explains how weather balloons work and how they collect data for models they can use to make forecasts.
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A discussion describing ocean currents studied by a physical oceanographer and how math is involved.Â
What happens when math models go wrong in forecasting hurricanes?
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COAPS oceanographer Steve Morey describes how math is used to help research hurricanes and strong deep ocean currents that could effect deep water oil rigs.
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Description needed. Light Reflection, Refraction, & Absorption
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A climatologist raises the bar with this classroom-ready 3D fluid dynamics weather demonstration.
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Learn how the ocean pressures the climate into changing.
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In a fog about weather patterns? This climatologist will demystify the topic for you.
Major Paul Homan describes the needs and capabilities of the United States Air Force with regard to global weather prediction and modeling.Â
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Glass artist Russel Scaturro explains how fine control of gas flow aids efforts to minimize his carbon footprint toward a larger goal of environmentally-conscious fabrication methodology.Â
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In this video, Eugene Domack explains how past Antarctic ice sheet movement rates allow us to understand sea level changes. Video funded by NSF grant #: OCE-1502753.
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Eugene Domack, a geological oceanographer, describes how sediment cores are collected and used to estimate rates of ice sheet movement in Antarctica. Video funded by NSF grant #: OCE-1502753.
In this video, Brad Rosenheim describes how Louisiana sediment cores are used to estimate sea level changes over the last 10,000 years. Video funded by NSF grant #: OCE-1502753.
Watch as Brad Rosenheim, a geological oceanographer, explains how modern technology and sampling methods are used for sea level research. Video funded by NSF grant #: OCE-1502753.
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Watch as Don Chambers explains the role of satellites in measuring the mass of ice sheets and the connections between ice sheet mass changes and sea level. Video funded by NSF grant #: OCE-1502753.
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In this video, Don Chambers explains how satellite technology is essential for assessment of sea level changes. Video funded by NSF grant #: OCE-1502753.
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Entrepreneur and meteorologist Mark Powell discusses the need for statistics in his mathematical modeling program to help better understand hurricanes.
Hurricanes can hit at any time! How do insurance companies use math and weather data to help to restore the community?
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Meteorologist, Michael Kozar, discusses the limitations to existing hurricane scales and how he is helping to develop an improved scale.
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Meteorologist from Risk Management discusses the use of probability in predicting hurricane tracks.
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Dean Grubbs discusses biogeochemical cycles in the oceans and their impact.
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Michael Kozar speaks about severe weather and hurricane impacts.
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Michael Kozar talks about the influence land and water have on severe weather.
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Mark Powell discusses the models used for hurricane predictions and the limitations that exist.
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Angela Dial talks about using ocean core proxy data to investigate Earth's climate from the past.
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Angela Dial discusses the geologic and scientific evidence related to climate change in the past.
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Mark Powell discusses the impacts that a hurricane can have.
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Jon Ahlquist discusses the various factors in weather predictions and why they are so important to our lives.
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Jon Ahlquist discusses ensemble forecasting and how technology has allowed us to collect important data for the understanding of weather.
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Kent Koptiuch talks about aquifers and the importance of water quality.
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Kent Koptiuch talks about watersheds and water quality.
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Sandra Brooke, from FSU Marine Lab, talks about undersea canyon ecosystems.
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Carbon can take many forms, including foam! Learn more about how geometry and the Monte Carlo Method is important in understanding it.
Don't overreact when this chemist describes physical and chemical changes that you can observe in your own kitchen!
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Orange. Blue. Wait, orange. No, wait, blue. Chemistry!
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A welder wields a plasma torch to cut solid metal like a hot knife through butter. It's one-stop shopping to see all four states of matter.
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Get sooted up and join a collier as he discusses charcoal production at historic Mission San Luis.
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Do you know everything about protons? Are you positive?
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Learn more about the atomic model and antimatter!
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A National Board Certified Teacher and Presidential Awardee for outstanding math and science teaching demonstrates a hands-on laboratory activity series to see which halogen/halide combinations will result in redox reactions.
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Listen to this chemist describe a simple pH indicator experiment using foods and household chemicals.
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Keep an eye on pH as you learn about what makes acids and bases.
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Learn how molecules have the potential to be polar, but not all are.
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Chemistry is pretty sweet. Also tasty if you understand oxidation and reduction reactions, but it may take a little MacGyvering.
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Harry Kroto, from Florida State University, discusses the amazing element carbon, the compounds it forms, and the uses including carbon nanotubes.
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Glass artist Russel Scaturro explains why graphite tools are required for fabrication with borosilicate glass.Â
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Dig in as Daniel Golik, Owner at Chill-N, describes how liquid nitrogen is used to create smooth ice cream in Miami. This video was created by students at Alonzo And Tracy Mourning Senior High School in Miami as part of the SECME STEM video competition.
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Master candymaker Wes Raley describes the process and science behind making sour fizzy candy.Â
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Watch as chemists make environmentally friendly plastics in the lab!
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A science teacher demonstrates stepwise calculations involving multiple variables for designing robots with desired characteristics.
Brandon Reese, a PhD candidate in the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, discusses the significance of both Bernoulli's equation and statistical analysis for the design of a "smart wing."
Have a need for speed? Get out your spreadsheet! Race car drivers use algebraic formulas and spreadsheets to optimize car performance.
It's important to stay inside the lines of your project constraints to finish in time and under budget. This NASA systems engineer explains how constraints can actually promote creativity and help him solve problems!
Chip Cotton, fishery biologist, discusses his use of mathematical regression modeling and how well the data fits his models based on his deep sea shark research.
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If you are having trouble understanding variables, this video might help you see the light.
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Nick Moore discusses his research behind optimizing wing design using inspiration from animals and how they swim and fly.
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Unlock an effective teaching strategy for teaching solving equations using zero pairs in this Teacher Perspectives video for educators.
Unlock an effective teaching strategy for making connections with absolute values to graphing in this Teacher Perspectives video for educators.
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