Illustrated tutorial explains estuary ecosystems. Animations and illustrations help students become more familiar with the plant and animal communities which make up this coastal habitat.

Describes the projects that have been undertaken in the Galveston Bay estuary region of Texas to restore and protect shoreline and wetlands habitats.

An article featuring the complexity of estuaries which highlight the value these systems have to human and wild life.

Learn about different species of birds that make the estuary their home, and why the estuary is an important stopover for others. Includes teacher and student materials for download.

In this lesson, find out about the life and vitality of oyster reefs in estuary ecosystems. Includes teacher and student materials for download.

Like a canary in a coal mine, oyster health and oyster abundance can tell us about changing conditions in an estuary.

Watch a series of videos to learn about the importance of phytoplankton in estuary ecosystems. Then test your understanding by identifying different species of plankton.

Turn over this interactive OLogy card to find fast facts, questions and answers, and similar bite-size pieces of information to help you understand the nature of estuaries.

Learn more about estuaries when you visit this informative site. This resource provides locations of and weblinks to estuaries in the United States.

Come along with Bradan the salmon as he shows you why the estuary is a particularly dangerous place for fish.

A collection of multiple intelligences learning activities about the characteristics and functions of an estuary. The site also includes basic information about an estuary along with facts about the Lake Pontchartrain estuary.

Find click-through tours of estuaries in New York and in Louisiana that provide sustained reading on the science of river deltas. Text is supported by illustrations and a glossary of special terms.

Create graphs of marine ecosystems using real-time data.

In this activity, students focus on the relationship between dissolved oxygen, plant growth, chlorophyll-a and temperature using SWMP water quality data from monitoring stations in the Narragansett Bay Estuarine Research Reserve and the...

Learn about the unusual jubiliee phenomenon that occurs regularly in Mobile Bay, Alabama. Includes teacher resources with learning exercises and vocabulary terms.

Students will make a model of a pollution spill that occurred at Bangs Lake, a tidal lake within the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Mississippi, in April 2005, and measure water quality parameters in their model....

Learn about the anatomy and ecological relationships of the horseshoe crab.

This site is an informative article about estuaries. Learn about this interesting water habitat and significance of an estuary.

Become a mangrove expert. Use this module to learn how to identify species of mangroves found in Florida, and find out why these plants are important in the estuary.

Watch this report on the BP oil spill of 2010, one of the most devastating oil spills in the history of the United States. Learn about not only the effects of a point source pollution event like the oil spill, but also about the many...

This site from the Tijuana Estuary Visitor Center has information on the visitor center and the Tijuana Estuary.

Using images of different specimens of sharks, learn how physical adaptations have helped this species survive and thrive throughout generations.

Site from NY DEC gives general information on estuaries and their ecological importance to the NY and NJ coastal areas. Gives more specific information on the Peconic Estuary and the New York/New Jersey Harbor Estuary, with a focus on...

Home page of the Buzzards Bay Project National Estuary Program. Contains links to mission statement, events/updates, bay & basin info, references to documents related to the organization, links to related sites, legislation, and...