Interactive & Multimedia
OA Seafood Buffet
NOAA CRCP and Hawaii Sierra Club
Interactive “OA Seafood Buffet,” summarizing how OA might affect several commercially or ecologically important marine species: crabs, lobster, oyster, fish, seagrass, urchin, corals, plankton, jellyfish. Click on each of the 12 species to find out each might be affected by OA.
Virtual Sea Urchin
Stanford University (with funding from NSF)
An interactive tool that provides an overview of how Air, Ocean and pH are connected, and how these can affect the cycle of marine life. Includes pH of liquids guessing annotated OA chemistry equation, and separating calcifying/non-calcifying marine life activities (Adobe Flash file).
OA Virtual Lab
Stanford University (with funding from NSF)
An engaging "virtual experiment" on sea urchin larvae, using real experiment microscope photography. Students measure the upper arm of 6-day old sea urchin lava from in two samples gown at different pH, aggregate data and make inferences on the effect of OA and ocean pH on sea urchin larva survivorship (Adobe Flash file).
OA Impacts on Coral Reefs
NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory
A short (16-sec) animation of past, present and future Aragonite Saturation Levels as it relates to coral reef habitats. This can be used as supplement to OA classroom presentations.
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OA and Calcification Simulation
NOAA CRCP and NODE
Simulation with inputs for time, water temperature increase and CO2 increase, linked to changes in calcification response in corals, and showing resulting levels of aragonite saturation level, dissolved CO2, and carbonate concentrations. Online simulation part of OA Data-in-the-Classroom module: http://www.dataintheclassroom.org/content/oa/simulation.html
CO2 Lab Preparation
Stanford University (with funding from NSF)
Simulation is an option set up preparation for OA Virtual Lab experiment. Students set up the experiment for sea urchin larval growth under different pH conditions. Starts by preparing equipment and replicates many of the steps needed to set up the real experiment.
To access this Flash simulation download the content of the zip to your computer and double click the co2labbench.exe
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