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To help fulfill NOAA’s mission of science, service, and stewardship and its vision of supporting biological resilience in an environment of continual change, the links below are provided to help increase awareness of OSD; help you understand how you might become more involved; and help you explore more of our little known, mostly unseen ocean world.

• The Ocean Sampling Day 2014 - a global scientific effort to study our ocean 

  Watch “The Ocean Sampling Day 2014 – A Global Scientific Effort to Study Our Ocean,” a short film documenting 2014 sampling activities.

• OSD MicroB3 Official Site for 2015 

  The official European homepage of Ocean Sampling Day 2015.

• How to join MyOSD 

  Learn how to become a citizen scientist and get out on a field trip all by yourself or with family and friends and collect samples and environmental data for OSD!

• MyOSD Tutorial 2015 

  Become a citizen scientist and get out on a field trip with family and friends and collect environmental data for OSD. You can help scientist to unravel the mysteries of the marine microbial world with a few simple steps, which are shown in this video tutorial. Produced by mediomix GmbH.

• OSD Citizen Science App 

  The OSD App provides the opportunity to enter environmental parameters plus an illustrative photo in an electronic “log sheet” which are send to the OSD server. It is available for Android and iPhone.
• 2015 Ocean Sampling Day (OSD) and My Ocean Sampling Day (MyOSD) & Transatlantic Ocean Science and Ocean Literacy Online Workshop

  2015 Ocean Sampling Day and My Ocean Sampling Day & Transatlantic Ocean Science and Ocean Literacy Online Workshop 

  This workshop took place online May 4 – 22, 2015 and Phase 2 will take place June 17-26, extend the conversation to document the actions of citizen scientists participating in MyOSD and to continue to develop the network. Visit this page to register.

• Ocean Sampling Day Sites as of May 2015

  This map illustrates sites where sampling will take place on June 21.

• Ocean Sampling Day Photo Gallery

  View a collection of photos of marine microbes in association with Ocean Sampling Day.

• NOAA Microbes Fact Sheet (pdf, 289 KB).

  This overview of microbes was produced by the NOAA Marine Microbes Working Group. For more information, contact Nathalie Valette-Silver.

• Dr. Anna Klindworth's Ocean Sampling Day Video Keynote Address 

  Dr. Anna Klindworth, OSD Coordinator, MicroB3, addresses an international audience about OSD, March, 2014.

• What a Day for the Ocean Microbes! Classroom Activity (pdf, 385 KB).

  A classroom activity for students in Grades 6-12 focusing on OSD. Students will be able to explain how OSD will contribute to building the largest dataset on microbial diversity and function by collecting marine microbial samples at one point in time over multiple years on a global scale. Ways that students and school groups may become involved with OSD are included.

• We are microbes from the ocean - please color us in! (pdf, 259 KB).

  Coloring sheet featuring various marine microbes that can be printed out and filled in.

• Center for Microbial Ecology: Research and Education’s Education and Outreach Webpage 

  Information and games about marine microbes.

• NOAA’s Participation in the International Ocean Sampling Day (pdf, 167 KB).

  Scientific Poster, Valette-Silver, N. et al., 2014 Ocean Sciences Meeting.