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School Administrator Influences on Classroom Ocean-Based Curricula: Lessons from a Professional Development Program in Hawaii

open access: yesCurrent: The Journal of Marine Education, 2020
This article discusses a dissertation study of teachers’ inclusion of ocean literacy content in their classrooms following a grant-funded experience in Hawaii called Project ISLE: Integrated Science Learning Experiences.
Lindsay Linsky
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Advancing Public Ocean Perceptions Research: a guiding approach to strengthen collaboration for ocean health

open access: yesFACETS
The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) emphasizes advancing our understanding of the ocean and promoting sustainable practices to ensure ocean health and interconnected well-being.
Jen McRuer, Diz L. Glithero
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Coast to ocean: a Fife-eye view: ocean literacy in Fife, Scotland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
[Extract from Executive Summary] Ocean Literacy (OL), or Ocean Citizenship, is the basis of a movement to sway positive, lasting change in communities that will benefit the sea, coast and climate. An ocean literate person is understanding of the ocean’s influence on their own lives, as well as the way that their behaviours influence the ocean and is ...
F. Spoors, C.D.B. Leakey, M.A. James
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Who cares about polar regions? Results from a survey of U.S. public opinion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
What do members of the general public know about polar regions, and how much do they care? Who knows or cares? This paper explores data from the General Social Survey (GSS), which in 2006 questioned a representative sample of more than 1800 U.S.
Hamilton, Lawrence C.
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Ocean literacy research community: co-identifying gaps and priorities to advance the UN Ocean Decade

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science
IntroductionThe overarching goal of the UN Ocean Decade is to “change humanity's relationship with the ocean.” While this may be a challenge, it is, at the same time, a once in a generation opportunity. How can 8 billion people, including those who don't
Jen McRuer   +3 more
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Feasible Options for Behavior Change Toward More Effective Ocean Literacy: A Systematic Review

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2019
Effective ocean literacy requires appropriate individual behavior, but achieving this—based on behavior change—is extremely difficult. Social-psychological research shows that even generating knowledge and awareness toward protecting the environment ...
Susanne Stoll-Kleemann
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Water education, ocean literacy and arts integration

open access: yesNordic Journal of Art and Research, 2023
Life below water, as well as at waters, is threatened due to human activity that has caused global warming. As UNESCO stresses, “the time to learn and act for our planet is now”. This article reports on a literature review of existing action research on
Tone Pernille Østern   +6 more
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Enhancing Ocean Literacy Using Real-Time Data [PDF]

open access: yesOceanography, 2009
Ocean literacy is the understanding of our relationship with the ocean and the crucial services that the ocean provides to society and other living organisms (Cava et al., 2005).
Lisa G. Adams, George Matsumoto
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How does learning about the future of the ocean impact children's emotional wellbeing? Insights from ocean literacy educators in Aotearoa New Zealand

open access: yesPeople and Nature, 2023
Four decades of research on the health effects of ‘connection to nature’ identifies many wellbeing advantages for young people. Yet this literature has developed largely without reference to biophysical evidence about mass biodiversity loss, the ...
Linda Murray   +7 more
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Addressing data gaps in marine litter distribution: Citizen science observation of plastics in coastal ecosystems by high-school students

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2023
The Citizen Observation of Local Litter in coastal ECosysTems (COLLECT) project (2021-2022) is a citizen science initiative, supported by the Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO), which aimed to acquire distribution and abundance data ...
Ana I. Catarino   +28 more
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