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TED Talks
Jessica Ochoa Hendrix: How virtual reality turns students into scientists
Using low-cost virtual reality, education activist Jessica Ochoa Hendrix helps bring science to life in schools across the US. In this quick talk, she explains how a VR experience she developed invites students to explore underwater...
Curated Video
How Otters Are Saving Earth’s Underwater Forests
Hidden beneath the surface of our coastal seas are towering forests - of kelp. These underwater ecosystems are as crucial to our environment as their land-based counterparts. We explore them alongside conservationists working to restore...
National Geographic Kids
Kelp Forest | NATURE BOOM TIME
In this episode of “Nature Boom Time,” Charlie and his team take their cameras underwater to explore a kelp forest in California. Swim with them to find out how animals and kelp live together in this underwater ecosystem. ➡ Subscribe for...
TED Talks
Melissa Garren: The sea we've hardly seen
An average teaspoon of ocean water contains five million bacteria and fifty million viruses -- and yet we are just starting to discover how these "invisible engineers" control our ocean's chemistry. At TEDxMonterey, Melissa Garren sheds...
SciShow
Weird Places: The Jacuzzi of Despair
There's a lake so deadly that anything that goes for a swim gets pickled. Yet there's a thriving ecosystem literally living on the edge, which might give astrobiologists a hint at how life could thrive on other worlds.
Curated Video
What melting sea ice means for life in the Arctic
Light is flooding into the Arctic. There will be winners and losers. That’s what brought an international group of scientists to the Barents Sea to investigate how plant and animal life will adapt to the new normal. Two key factors that...
Curated Video
Oceans: The Intertidal Zone
Discover how ever-changing tidal ecosystems create opportunities for both predators and prey. Biology - Ecosystems - Learning Points. Tides are a powerful force of nature, created by the Moon's gravitational pull. Tides affect marine...
Curated Video
Exploring the World of Fish: From Kissing Fish to Flower Horns
This video explores the diverse world of sea creatures, focusing on the fascinating variety of fish found in the ocean. From sharks to fluorescent fish and even kissing fish, viewers are taken on a journey through the unique...
Earth Rangers
Frogs and Metamorphosis
Frogs are well adapted to their environment. They absorb water and oxygen through their skin which allows them to eat and breathe underwater. They are powerful jumpers and good hunters. But perhaps their most unusual adaptation is...
Barcroft Media
SNAPPED! Inside The Southern Right Whale Migration
HERMANUS, SOUTH AFRICA - AUGUST 2016: This is the breathtaking moment 80 tonne Southern Right Whales engage with scuba divers during their yearly migration through South Africa. Diving tour operator Rainer Schimpf was fortunate enough to...
SciShow
Weird Places: The Jacuzzi of Despair
There’s a lake so deadly that anything that goes for a swim gets pickled. Yet there’s a thriving ecosystem literally living on the edge, which might give astrobiologists a hint at how life could thrive on other worlds. Hosted by: Olivia...
Curated Video
Discovering What Lies Beneath | SciTech Now
The Atlantic
A Coral Reef Revival | The Atlantic
David Vaughan works on the Florida Reef Tract, the third largest coral reef in the world and a vastly important ecosystem for sustaining underwater life. He and a team of scientists are working to combat the crisis in the world’s coral...
California Academy of Science
Killer Nudibranch
It sounds like the premise of a bad, low-budget horror movie: Cannibalistic sea slugs marching up the coast of California destroying the diversity of other nudibranchs. Truth is stranger than fiction, though. Learn about what is causing...
Curated OER
Hydrothermal Vents
Do aliens exist? They do on the Galapagos Islands' ocean floor! Despite being a mile and a half below the ocean's surface (and far from the sun's reach), bizarre life forms have found a way to thrive there. So, how is this possible?...
TED-Ed
Deep Ocean Mysteries and Wonders
A multi-media lecture by oceanographer, David Gallo, increases intrigue about our amazing oceans. He introduces the audience to underwater geology and biology with actual research footage. Where this is not specific to any one area of...