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	Ocean and Water Celebrate the Ocean and Water Meet the Scientists Explore the Ocean and Water Visit the Fun Zone Connecting the Ocean and Water to Society Get Involved in the Ocean and Water!

	Aquatic Invader!
	Put your dukes up and get ready to fight back! Here is one of our suspects on the Pacific top ten list: Potamopyrgus antipodarum. Put your gloves on and learn more about him and the other nine. Image Credit: National Sea Grant

	Science Videos
	Dance Your Ph.D. Many biological oceanographers struggle to understand why, when, and how toxic algae will bloom in the ocean. Watch Clarissa Anderson dance her Ph.D. while explaining this!

Visit the Fun Zone

Image Credit: Museum of New Zealand
Te Papa Tongarewa.

Build your own Squid: Build your own squid - fat, thin or funky. Play with it then set it free. You can even come back and find your squid again.

Put some sunscreen on and jump on in! Get ready for some cool games!

Image Credit: National Geographic Kids.

Fossil Fun The game of Tetris will never seem to be the same!

Predator Protector Sharks are under seige! Help save sharks like the great white in "Predator Protector."

JR Pardy: Have fun with JR Pardy, modeled after the popular game show, Jeopardy.

Quiz: Into the Deep :Take the challenge--can you identify these ten denizens of the deep?

Great Turtle Race: Enter the Great Turtle Race and see how you place in each week's race.

Zipper's Great Barrier Grrr-eef: Navigate Australia's Great Barrier Reef with Zipper.

Are you puzzled? Not sure what to do next? Try doing some of these cool puzzles we made of activities involving water!

Image Credit:
Marijke Wilhelmus.

Image credit:
Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory,
Creative Commons.

Ready for a puzzle featuring our Bonaire Banded Box Jellyfish.

Help the scientist onboard by solving this puzzle!

Check out this scientist doing a little housekeeping!

Kids Zone!

Here are some fun games for children, or the inner child in yourself!

Image Credit: EPA.

Lets Go Swimming: Online storybook

Little kids will take to this like ducks to water! This activity will introduce preschoolers to the most basic concepts of water.

Thirstin's Wacky Water Adventure Activity Book - A collection of activities and coloring book pages.

Matching Game:Can you match the cards up?

Voices in the Sea

Have you ever wondered what marine mammals sound like in the sea? You can listen to them and you can even play a game to see if you can match up the mammal with the voice! Visit Voices in the Sea to learn more about these mammals.

Zine

Ocean "Acid Influx"?
Life has evolved on a ever-changing earth, this much is true. The effects that the massive amounts of carbon dioxide we continue to release through fossil fuel use has naturally focused on the atmosphere into which all that gas first goes. But of course land to air, air to ocean. Text and Image Credit: Zine

The Life Aquatic (of Nitrogen)
There is of course a lot in the news about carbon dioxide and the carbon cycle given the current and pressing concerns over greenhouse gases and the phenomenon of climate change. Text and Image Credit: Zine

Zines rock. Make your own. Win prizes!

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