Summary: The Explore the Outdoor kit encourages kids to explore the great outdoors. Perfect for nature walks and backyard exploration with the Seascope and 2-1 Explorer Scope for up-close examination of everything from rocks to bugs. Perfect for STEM learning and exploration on the go.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Penworthy Company, LLC 2020
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1 available in Parent Teacher Kits, Call number: JPT KIT EXPSummary: In part one of this documentary, the Cousteau team explores sea turtles laying their eggs on the shore in the middle of the Georgia night, coral spawning like fireworks among the Florida reefs, and kelp forests as thick and tall as the California redwoods.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: A pioneer in ocean exploration, David Gallo is an enthusiastic ambassador between the sea and those of us on dry land. In this TEDTalk, the oceanographer shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a color-shifting cuttlefish, a perfectly camouflaged octopus, and a Times Square's worth of neon light displays from life forms that live in the blackest depths of the ocean.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In the first episode of Voyage to Kure, Jean-Michel Cousteau and his team of 20 experienced divers and scientists travel for six weeks aboard the Searcher to the farthest edge of the Northwestern Hawaiian islands, to the remote Kure Atoll. Along the way, they stop to explore reefs and islands teeming with life and to meet the researchers and scientists working to protect these fragile ecosystems.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In the second episode of Voyage to Kure, having covered more than 900 miles of the ancient Pacific, exploring the remote tropical paradise of islands and reefs, the Cousteau team continues its unique adventure on tiny Laysan Island. Because of this island's unique history and its exceptional vulnerability to invasive plants and animals, the crew takes radical precautions to avoid accidentally...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Regan, Lisa
Summary: "Takes readers into the lives of amazing glowing organisms - animal and otherwise - and shines a new light on the spectacular natural phenomena of bioluminescence, biofluorescence and ultraviolet light."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 572 REGSummary: In the second part of this documentary, the Cousteau team examines the rusting wreck of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor, lying more than 200 feet below the Carolina coast, and explores a flourishing natural city under the sea, coexisting with a man-made oil rig.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: How long will the biosphere tolerate exploitation of the oceans? Are local fishermen a doomed species? What can be done to reverse the decline of fish stocks around the planet? This program documents the environmental and socioeconomic costs of excessive fishing. The film contrasts ancient maritime practices-like those of Mauritania's Imragen fishermen and Djibouti's pearl divers and lobster...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This Science Screen Report explores the challenges that marine plants and animals face in rocky shoreline areas, and vividly illustrates the diversity of those life forms. Examining crustaceans, gastropods, mollusks, and other shoreline creatures, the program shows how tide pools form a marine sub-habitat, and how rocky shore dwellers have evolved specific abilities to survive powerful waves...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Scottish fishermen have trawled for cod in the North Sea for generations. Under new European Union laws, many families are being forced out of the trade. This Wide Angle documentary poignantly depicts a year in the life of Fraserburgh, a hard-hit community caught between E.U. policies designed to preserve fish stocks and the need to earn a living. Showing how commercial overfishing has...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This Science Screen Report shows how human interests and the needs of aquatic life can be balanced. It describes the efforts of scientists, engineers, farmers, and fishermen to address shoreline habitat problems and support endangered species. Citing ways these cooperative efforts have succeeded-for example, by rehabilitating gray seal populations, redesigning dikes to aid migratory birds, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Called "the rainforests of the sea," the world's coral reefs are home to millions of species. But these underwater ecosystems are in grave danger. This program travels to Chumbe Island Coral Park, Zanzibar; Mafia Island Marine Park, Tanzania; and Ras Mohammed National Park, Egypt, to study the fragile ecology and amazing biodiversity of coral reefs-and the impacts of tourism, pollution,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Canal systems, ballast water from oceangoing ships, and seemingly little things such as fish stocking, bait bucket emptying, and trailering recreational boats all provide ways for non-native invasive species to infest North America's aquatic environments. Using the Great Lakes-unwilling home to the sea lamprey, zebra mussel, round goby, and Eurasian ruffe-as a case study, this program takes a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Once conducted almost entirely on dry land, the hunt for biochemical and pharmaceutical resources is shifting to the world's oceans. This program examines various phases of that research-algae and sponge extraction around the globe, the growing utilization of toxic substances produced by some marine organisms, and the practical application of treatments and cures that are often a dozen years in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Long ago, the oceans were home to all living things. Then some creatures moved ashore. But how? This program outlines the stages of natural selection that enabled water-dwelling animals and plants to survive, and then thrive, on land. Key evolutionary innovations such as exoskeletons and endoskeletons, legs and feet, cold blood and warm blood, lungs, hard-shelled eggs, fur, and live young are...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This Science Screen Report examines different ways marine species confront their environments using elaborate, specialized survival adaptations. Parallels between hunting techniques and defensive methods are described by contrasting aquatic predators with more vulnerable creatures, which rely on camouflage and sophisticated mobility. The program emphasizes that the oceans are not only the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Plenty of fish in the sea may endure as a platitude, but the expression runs afoul of current marine biology. This program examines the dangerous depletion of Pacific Ocean fish stocks, an echo of the overfishing that has ravaged the Atlantic. Contrasting the tuna industries of wealthy countries with the localized fishing many developing nations engage in, the video features case studies of the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: When seasonal rains sweep across South America, the Amazon River and its tributaries overflow their banks to create an ecosystem unlike any other-a place where, for six months out of each year, land-dwellers and water-dwellers mingle. This program joins an expert Amazon biologist in a journey into the flooded forests of the Amazon Basin to film dolphins navigating through treetops, a male...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: In the deep, dark ocean, many sea creatures make their own light for hunting, mating, and self-defense. In this TEDTalk, bioluminescence expert Edith Widder discusses her exploration of this phenomenon and shares pioneering footage of a black dragonfish, a fire-shooter squid, starfish, and a golden coral bush, all of which produce eerie, glowing, underwater light. Widder also discusses the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Ellis, Richard
Summary: Ellis's research has taken him all over the world, from Nantucket to Patagonia, from Newfoundland to New Zealand. Now, with more than 450 of his own illustrations, he takes readers from A to Z (abalone to zooxanthelae) in this one unprecedented volume of the sea. of color paintings. 471 illustrations. From one of the world's leading experts on the sea comes this ocean-sized compendium of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.46 ELIEarle, Sylvia A.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 577.7 EARSummary: Until very recently the vast area under the world's ocean surfaces was virtually unknown and unreachable by humans. However, groundbreaking technologies and cutting edge research have opened the doors to the deepest and most well-kept secrets of the sea. In Beneath the Sea, a part of the PBS Scientific American Frontier series, viewers will take stock in the big unknowns of the sea and see how...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: In this program, George Lauder, of Harvard University, and Terri Williams, of the University of California, Santa Cruz, investigate the anatomical and physiological challenges faced by bluegill sunfish, bottlenose dolphins, sharks, salmon, and sperm whales to reduce drag and control buoyancy. Information on the optimal body shapes for reef-dwellers and open-ocean swimmers, the locomotive...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005