The Ocean Today

To support all educators and parents navigating a new learning landscape, the World Ocean Observatory is gathering a compendium of home-study tools and resources for teaching and learning about the ocean. These resources can be used by parents, schools, educators and others to address the educational gaps created by Covid-19. This list of resources is a work in progress: please reach out if you have other key elements that we should be sharing with our global community.

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World Ocean Forum

World Ocean Forum is a place for key ocean voices: professionals and Citizens of the Ocean alike, to contribute to an active forum of opinion, ideas, and proposals for change in ocean policy and action worldwide. World Ocean Forum is actively pursuing submissions. To inquire about becoming a contributing writer, please contact us: director@thew2o.net.

World Ocean Explorer: Game-Based Learning to Promote Ocean Literacy Worldwide

Designed for students ages 10 and up, World Ocean Explorer is a cutting edge virtual aquarium gaming concept designed to increase ocean literacy and interest in ocean fields of study. Learn more.

World Ocean Radio

A weekly series of five-minute audio essays on a wide range of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. More than 550 episodes are now available for RSS feed, podcast, and syndicated use at no cost by community and public radio stations worldwide. We are distributed throughout North America, Europe, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa. Broadcasters: please contact us for more information. LEARN MORE.

Ocean & Climate | Programs & Services

WORLD OCEAN EXPLORER
An exploratory, educational virtual aquarium experience, free for use in the classroom and at home by ocean enthusiasts ages 10 and up. JAN 2021: The W2O is pleased to announce an exciting new collaboration with the Schmidt Ocean Institute. We have begun development of a virtual Deep Sea Exhibit to showcase encounters and discoveries during Schmidt's many deep sea expeditions, most specifically their Australia Campaign in 2020.

WORLD OCEAN FORUM
Inviting fresh ideas, new solutions, provocative and imaginative conversations about the future of the ocean, and links unexpected people with unexpected ideas. This is a place for key ocean voices — professionals and Citizens of the Ocean alike — to contribute to an active forum of opinion, ideas, and proposals for change in ocean policy and action worldwide.

WORLD OCEAN PUBLICATIONS
Provocative publications about the ocean, published in association with Leete's Island Books.

new in 2021:
AQUA / TERRA: REFLECTIONS ON THE WORLD OCEAN
by Peter Neill

OCEAN CURRICULUM CATALOG
Looking for activities, lesson plans, science projects or marine species resources for the classroom? Our Curriculum Catalog provides a comprehensive list of links to educational content, lesson plans, and educational activities for kindergarten through secondary programs.

VISUALIZATION THEATER
Modern data visualizations offer innovative and fascinating ways to look at, actively engage in, and interpret data and ocean events. Visualization Theater has the potential to transform the way in which we engage with and learn about scientific facts related to the world ocean.

WORLD OCEAN EXHIBITS
World Ocean Observatory is pleased to offer a variety of original and third party ocean exhibits. Our goal is to connect our audience of more than one million visitors each year with maritime museums and aquariums around the globe. We wish to be a central location for a wide variety of ocean exhibits related to maritime heritage, culture, climate, art, science, and examples of the important role that the ocean plays in our lives.

WORLD OCEAN VIDEO

Visit and subscribe to W2O's YouTube Channel to find a variety of relevant, cutting-edge, beautiful, informative, and thoughtful original and curated content. Our intent is to communicate the full spectrum of today's ocean issues: climate, fresh water, food, energy, trade, transportation, public health, finance, governance, recreation, culture and more. Subscribe today.

WORLD OCEAN EXPLORER 2021

With a game capable of reaching a global audience, WORLD OCEAN EXPLORER can expand interest in ocean issues and habitats, and excite students about the infinite possibilities associated with ocean exploration. LEARN MORE.

OUTLAW OCEAN MUSIC PROJECT:
A CROSSOVER BETWEEN MUSIC & JOURNALISM

All music in this project is based on THE OUTLAW OCEAN, a New York Times best-selling book by Ian Urbina that chronicles lawlessness at sea around the world. The reporting touches on a diversity of abuses ranging from illegal and overfishing, arms trafficking at sea, human slavery, gun-running, intentional dumping, murder of stowaways, thievery of ships, and other topics. The music is an act of solidarity across geography and language, and an attempt at storytelling from written word to music. It is a captivating collection of inspired songs. Take your pick: listen to ambient tracks, classical, electronic or hiphop.

INFORMATION & RESOURCES

DISTANCE LEARNING RESOURCES
To support all educators and parents navigating a change learning landscape, the World Ocean Observatory has gathered a compendium of home-study and remote tools and resources for teaching and learning about the ocean. These resources can be used by parents, schools, educators and others to address the educational gaps created by Covid-19. This list of resources is a work in progress: please reach out if you have other key elements that we should be sharing with our global community.

INCREASING FINANCE FOR
A HEALTHY OCEAN

In April 2020, Friends of Ocean Action, a coalition of committed and influential ocean activists, convened by the World Economic Forum and the World Resources Institute, published The Ocean Finance Handbook with the intent to provide an overview of the investment landscape in the blue economy, by providing a common baseline of understanding of sustainable finance for all stakeholders. Learn more .