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To help fulfill NOAA’s mission of science, service, and stewardship and its vision of supporting biological resilience in an environment of continual change, the links below are provided to help increase awareness of OSD; help you understand how you might become more involved; and help you explore more of our little known, mostly unseen ocean world.
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Watch “The Ocean Sampling Day 2014 – A Global Scientific Effort to Study Our Ocean,” a short film documenting 2014 sampling activities.
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The official European homepage of Ocean Sampling Day 2015.
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Learn how to become a citizen scientist and get out on a field trip all by yourself or with family and friends and collect samples and environmental data for OSD!
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Become a citizen scientist and get out on a field trip with family and friends and collect environmental data for OSD. You can help scientist to unravel the mysteries of the marine microbial world with a few simple steps, which are shown in this video tutorial. Produced by mediomix GmbH.
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The OSD App provides the opportunity to enter environmental parameters plus an illustrative photo in an electronic “log sheet” which are send to the OSD server. It is available for Android and iPhone.
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2015 Ocean Sampling Day (OSD) and My Ocean Sampling Day (MyOSD) & Transatlantic Ocean Science and Ocean Literacy Online Workshop
This workshop took place online May 4 – 22, 2015 and Phase 2 will take place June 17-26, extend the conversation to document the actions of citizen scientists participating in MyOSD and to continue to develop the network. Visit this page to register.
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This map illustrates sites where sampling will take place on June 21.
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View a collection of photos of marine microbes in association with Ocean Sampling Day.
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This overview of microbes was produced by the NOAA Marine Microbes Working Group. For more information, contact Nathalie Valette-Silver.
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Dr. Anna Klindworth, OSD Coordinator, MicroB3, addresses an international audience about OSD, March, 2014.
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A classroom activity for students in Grades 6-12 focusing on OSD. Students will be able to explain how OSD will contribute to building the largest dataset on microbial diversity and function by collecting marine microbial samples at one point in time over multiple years on a global scale. Ways that students and school groups may become involved with OSD are included.
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Coloring sheet featuring various marine microbes that can be printed out and filled in.
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Information and games about marine microbes.
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Scientific Poster, Valette-Silver, N. et al., 2014 Ocean Sciences Meeting.