This website features teaching activities that explore the ways currents are mapped and how they affect us. Includes background information, data, applications, and additional activities. Links to related sites, as well...

A unit that uses functions to connect mathematical concepts to weather and climate. The first section discusses concepts relevant to climate, weather, and the atmosphere. Topics such as the earth’s energy budget, clouds...

The Gulf Stream Voyage is an online multidisciplinary project which utilizes both real time data and primary source materials to help guide students to discover the science and history of the Gulf Stream. Students...

This website provides information and photographs of current laboratory models of turbidity currents. Photographs include pictures of the flume and the movement of turbidity currents in that flume.

Even with the waves lapping at their feet, few people consider ocean currents and their importance to global climate. Although the Gulf Stream cannot be seen flowing by off North America's East Coast, in Western Europe,...