Snow Day

Not a bad snowstorm at all here on Long Island.

Just a note about science fair projects...I posted the revised calendar of due dates in the same folder as all of the other science project materials.  If you're not sure when your project is due, check it out.

Check the awesome imagery from NOAA of the blizzard:
NOAA Visualization Lab

The blizzard is hammering the southeast New England coast with 20-30 foot seas and a storm surge that peaked in some areas last evening at 5 feet! Amazing stuff.

The Battle for Coral Reefs

Kwajalein Atoll
Image Credit - Landsat 7

Here's an article in the current edition of WHOI's (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's) Oceanus Magazine on the delicate balance it takes to "maintain" a healthy coral reef and how that balance may/will be distrubed in a changing ocean.

Oceanus - Reefs

Painting the Sea

Earlier this year we learned about various microscopic inhabitants of the world; diatoms and coccolithophores, for example.

A NASA instrument picked up these wild colors in the Bering Sea in the neighborhood of the Pribiliof Islands.

Earth Observatory - Phytoplankton