Education

Held at NOAA’s Seattle Sand Point facility each July, NOAA Science Camp offers hands-on science-learning opportunities for middle and high school students.

This is a four-week ocean science program in Savannah, Georgia that teaches K-12 students about the ocean through an interactive, hands-on curriculum.

This program offers lessons on marine mammals and NOAA Fisheries science with hands-on activities, presentations, and projects for K-5 classrooms Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

SCUTES participants collaborate to learn about shortnose and Atlantic sturgeons along the east coast of the United States.

As part of Alaska Sea Week, a marine and wetland curriculum provides marine science interpretive programs for K-6 students in the Juneau School District in Juneau, Alaska.

The Southeast Alaska Science Fair, held in Juneau, Alaska, provides high school students in Southeast Alaska the opportunity to compete for scholarships and awards while learning to apply the scientific method to research questions.

Ocean Discovery Institute in San Diego, California, uses ocean science to empower young people from under served urban communities to transform their lives, their community, and our world as scientific and conservation leaders.

A collaborative program between the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center and the Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. This summer program offers professional scientific research experience and formal training opportunities for undergraduate students.

QUEST educates and trains the next generation of ecosystem scientists, stock assessment scientists, and economists. It also provides learning and training opportunities on the science behind fisheries management to the general public.

The Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation is a collaboration among NOAA, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego; and the San Diego Supercomputer Center. The collaboration provides interdisciplinary training linking the natural, social and informatic sciences with the goal of training the next generation of marine science scholars.