Explore the beauty and mystery of the ocean! Nicole LeBoeuf and guests unpack how NOAA scientists are leading efforts to understand, explore and preserve Earth’s oceans for future generations.
SYMONE BARKLEY : Welcome back to Planet NOAA. I’m your host, Symone Barkley, and I’m the National Ocean Service Exhibits Manager and an Education Specialist at NOAA. Y’all, June is National Ocean Month. I couldn’t be more excited today to take a deep dive into what makes the ocean so special. We’ll chat with our marine experts about some of the mysteries behind ocean organisms and ecosystems – and how you can join us in serving as stewards of our nation’s beautiful oceans and coasts.
HOST: Calling all ocean trivia nerds. Let’s welcome back Tara Garwood, the communications and multimedia lead for the NOAA Heritage Program. NIZINSKI: Well, a couple of things that I would like to point out is, and this is, you know, also a good way to look at change is we have so much better access to the ocean than we did back in the early days of exploration. And now we have so many more tools that allow us to go deeper and stay longer and really get a better idea of what animals are there, where they live.
CORSON: You know, one of the great things about working at NOAA is often that we're able to collaborate with one another.
HOST: You know, as someone who comes from an aquarium background, the power and the importance of informal learning, institutions like museums and aquariums is understated. And I really appreciate you talking about, you know, the partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and, you know, valuing the space that you all have with them.
WESTLEY: Dr. Nizinski, your response really made me want to go snorkeling this weekend. So I'll say that from the perspective of the Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services, or CO-OPS, we're really watching water levels, and we understand tides and tidal forces pretty well. But there's a lot we're seeing in the sea level record that's surprising or unknown to us.
CORSON: Well, thanks, Symone. You know, NCCOS provides applied science for coastal ocean management. And so in order for that science to be relevant, we really have to engage coastal communities.
WESTLEY: I love both those answers. I spend a lot of time picking up trash myself, and I really do believe anything that is left on land is going to wind up in the ocean. And to have that perspective, I'd like to encourage people to spend time in the ocean, at the beach, near the ocean, and when you go there to use our safety products and services that we provide, and the weather service provides to make sure that you have a safe and fulfilling ocean experience.
LEBOEUF: Oh, gosh. I can remember being on the beach and in the marsh from a very, very early age. I grew up on the Gulf Coast of Texas, and of course, as a small child, I felt the Gulf of Mexico was the ocean. It was my ocean. And, we spent a lot of time there, and I collected shells, and I played in the water, and made sandcastles and all the things kids do. But I also was fascinated with the birds and the little critters that were burying in the sand like mole crabs.
LEBOEUF: That’s a great question. So we have multiple programs throughout our different offices that are working to increase youth engagement generally, including ocean and climate literacy, through various educational programs, as well as through internships and fellowship programs. We're also a real leader across NOAA in developing web content.
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