The Web links below are provided for informational purposes only. Links outside of Ocean Explorer have been checked at the time of this page's publication, but the linking sites may become outdated or non-operational over time.
Web page for the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer Education Materials Collection.
A free printable book for home and school use introduced in 2004 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of NOAA; nearly 200 pages of lessons focusing on the exploration, understanding, and protection of Earth as a whole system.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Dive and Discover Web site about hydrothermal vents includes details about vent formation, education resources, and the story of the discovery of the first hydrothermal vent in 1977.
Bird, P. (2003). An updated digital model of plate boundaries Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 4 (3): 1027.
NOAA Fact Sheet about coral reefs (pdf, 704 KB).
NOAA Fact Sheet about The NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer (pdf, 34.5 MB).
