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| The Project | |
| Our oceans are of vital importance to the health of the Earth, yet only 1% percent of these magnificent bodies of water has been studied. We have explored space more than our oceans.
Oceans provide us with many resources and activities from the fish we eat, oil drilled from the ocean floor, to extracts from seaweed used to make ice cream.
The oceans provide a wide, navigable highway for the shipping industry, and an underwater playground for activities like scuba diving.
Oceans fuel this planet’s most vital ecological processes, like the water cycle, and the carbon-dioxide cycle. Living oceans absorb carbon dioxide and pump oxygen into our atmosphere, thereby sustaining the planet’s diverse flora and fauna– yet we know very little about how we are impacting this important resource. |
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| Project Overview | |
| Choose an ocean or sea activity or resource and trace its impact on our oceans’ health, biodiversity, and productivity. Learn what the experts and other groups are doing in this area, and identify a challenge they are facing.
Create an innovative solution to help them improve the use of this resource or activity, while minimizing the negative impact on our oceans for present and future generations.
Finally, share what you have learned with others. |
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| Missions to Complete: |
| * deploy the submarine * |
| * release the dolphin * |
| * protect the pump station * |
| * conduct a transect mapping * |
| * decide about an artificial reef * |
| * sample one species from among others * |
| * clean up a cargo shipping accident * |
| * find and recover archaeological artifacts * |
| * service the pipeline * |
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| For more information on our "Ocean Odyssey Challenge", go to www.firstlegoleague.org |