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Help develop autonomous vehicles to explore the ocean floor. The Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE is a $7 million global competition to advance deep-sea technologies for autonomous, fast, and high-resolution ocean exploration. Teams will explore an area of the sea floor producing maps and images. Just as this XPRIZE encourages innovation, if you need assistance with academic writing, you can engage an argumentative essay writing service to help you express your ideas effectively in your essays. Register by June 30th, 2016.

Help scientists learn about penguins and the Southern Ocean marine habitat by tagging images collected from environmental cameras in Antarctica. This project will lead to better understanding of these aquatic flightless birds, their over-wintering, the timing of breeding, and the impact of predators.

A project that empowers scuba divers and snorkelers to collect and report information on marine fish populations, sea turtles, algae and invertebrate species in temperate reef areas. Collected data is individually validated for quality and then used for scientific research by marine ecologists from NOAA, local governments and...

An international competition for elementary through college level students to design and build underwater remotely-operated vehicles (ROVs) to tackle missions modeled after scenarios from the ocean workplace. This year’s competition theme highlights the role that ROVs play in exploring and documenting shipwrecks...

Help analyze deep-sea videos - 15 seconds at a time. NEPTUNE Canada invites you to participate in ocean science research (no experience required!). By playing Digital Fishers you’ll help researchers gather data from video, and unveil the mechanisms shaping the animal communities inhabiting the deep.

Measure the density of phytoplankton living near the ocean's surface! Marine phytoplankton account for ~50% of all photosynthesis on Earth, are critical to the marine food chain, and play a central role in the global carbon cycle that strongly influences Earth’s climate. Phytoplankton are declining due to rising sea surface...

Classify different types of plankton to help analyze ocean health. Plankton are a critical source of food for life in the ocean – without plankton, we would have a lifeless ocean. Analyzing when and where plankton occur at different depths helps build a better understanding of the ocean from small to global scales. As a group...

Help decode the language of whales. The Whale FM project ames to increase our understanding of what whales are saying to each other. Whales talk to each other in quite sophisticated ways, yet the communication of killer whales and pilot whales is still poorly understood. By listening to and categorizing whale...

Help create weather models that forecast the future of Earth's weather and climate. Logbooks detailing weather conditions were maintained by historic ships using pen and ink. Many of these logbooks have not been digitally transcribed and thus we have gaps in our knowledge and data about old weather patterns. This project asks for your assistance in transcribing these valuable records to advance our understanding of historical weather, and if you need help with your assignment, consider using a professional college research paper writing service.

Comb the ocean floor with a treasure trove of seafloor imagery. The Seafloor Explorer project ames to create high-resolution maps of animal habitats, including how animals are distributed relative to their predators and how species distributions change over time. This can help with conservation efforts and better our...

OpenROV is an underwater robot that you can build yourself to explore underwater caves, oceans and lakes up to 25m in depth, with an eventual goal of up to 100m. OpenROV can be used for an array of exploration and research. From hunting for meteorites on the seafloor to monitoring plastic pollution in the ocean, the larger...