What's wrong with the oceans? Can photography help?

Science (2005)

Grade 9–12 — Earth/Environmental Science

• Goal 1: The learner will develop abilities necessary to do and understand scientific inquiry in the earth and environmental sciences.
  • Objective 1.06: Identify and evaluate a range of possible solutions to earth and environmental issues at the local, national, and global level including considerations of:
    • Interdependent human and natural systems.
    • Diverse perspectives.
    • Short and long range impacts.
    • Economic development, environmental quality and sustainability.
    • Opportunities for and consequences of personal decisions.
    • Risks and benefits of technological advances.
• Goal 4: The learner will build an understanding of the hydrosphere and its interactions and influences on the lithosphere, the atmosphere, and environmental quality.
  • Objective 4.03: Analyze the mechanisms that produce the various types of shorelines and their resultant landforms:
    • Nature of underlying geology.
    • Long and short term sea-level history.
    • Formation and breaking of waves on adjacent topography.
    • Human impact.
  • Objective 4.04: Evaluate water resources:
    • Storage and movement of groundwater.
    • Ecological services provided by the ocean
    • Environmental impacts of a growing human population.
    • Causes of natural and manmade contamination.