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Map of Alaska with Anchorage displayed. 1964 Epicenter indicated on coastline in bay adjacent to Anchorage. Caption: The epicenter was in Prince William Sound

Scuba diver swimming above a wooden ship submerged in shallow water. Caption: In the Baltic and Arctic, wooden ships are preserved.

Scuba diver swimming above a flat surface covered in ocean detritus. Caption: the oceans are a tremendous place to work.

Split image of bright sunny day and night sky with equal sign in the middle. Caption: because, at those times, the day is exactly equal to the night.

Still image from: All About the Holidays: Summer and Winter Solstice (Spanish)

A tree in the four seasons - spring buds, green summer foliage, orange and yellow autumn leaves, and bare winter branches with snow. Caption: Why do we have seasons?

Still image from: All About the Holidays: The Four Seasons (Spanish)

Man sitting outside looks at us as he talks, gesturing with his hand forward as he speaks.

Still image from: Bite-Size Science With André and Lexi: Wind Energy

People in full-body orange and black clothing with gear standing on ice in pockets of water. Caption: to trace where the black carbon is coming from.

A tree lined river with steep banks on one side. Caption: you have groundwater that flows into the river

Illustration of a smiling green Calcium nutrient with a charge of two. Text reads, “Divalent Cation.”

A diver carries two oxygen cylinders and dives deep into the Floridian aqufier. Caption: It's the primary source of fresh, clean water.

Ominous gray clouds in the sky. Caption: This creates moisture in the air.

Four pictures of beaches, roads and bridges being washed away by stormy water. Caption: It can severely erode beaches and coastal highways.

Platform with large machinery and people on it floating in the water close to shore. Caption: NOAA's sentinels are water-level observing platforms

A large spiral shaped storm on Earth's surface as seen from space. Caption: Tropical cyclones extract heat from the ocean

Map of Earth with Africa, Australia, Europe and Asia in view. The water on the map shows large portions highlighted in orange. Caption: Tsunamis can strike any coastline in the world

Aerial view of the ocean. Caption: This disturbance causes a transfer of energy

Needle on paper resulting in jagged peaks and troughs with a sinuous wave overlaid. Caption: It detects tremors, calculates the epicenter,

Depressions in the sea floor with noticeably different liquid in them. Caption: They're very similar to lakes and rivers on land.

Long, spindly legs protrude from an extremely narrow body and other strange creatures. Caption: It's not like life like we're used to on the surface.

Map of the Pacific Ocean and surrounding landmasses with the coastlines highlighted. Underwater images of craggy rocks and deep fissures. Caption: scientists have nicknamed the area the "Ring of Fire."

Glowing lava and steam spew rocks under the water. Caption: how ocean islands and undersea volcanoes are born.

A sketch of a dinosaur, and a man is seen standing below. Caption: Argentinosaurus, 35 meters approximately equals 114 feet. 70 metric tons approximately equals 154,000 pounds.

Slow moving current passes by a grouping of rocks partially covered with moss.

Two rat like creatures are seen fighting. Caption: Illustration by Velizar Simeonovski, copyright Darin Croft. From horned armadillos and rafting monkeys: The fascinating fossil mammals of South America.

Bright neon green waves crash to shore with text below that reads, "Harmful Algal Blooms."

Computer rendering of a walrus perched on the shore, rearing is head back with mouth open, showing 4 long, thick teeth protruding from its gums on the top and bottom.

Digital graphic of the carbon cycle shows a factory producing fossil fuels that go into the air, and then into the soil, which goes into the water, and into the sediment under the water. Arrows move in a circle to show how the cycle goes on and on. Text reads, “Carbon Cycle.”

Dickinsonia fossil from the Ediacaran that is symmetrical and round with rib-like segments that are radially inclined towards the wide end from a central ridge.

A geographical representation of Mediterranean sea, which is enclosed by land, on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia. Caption: M S C recreation by Aaron Micallef, Daniel Garcia-Castellanos, Angelo Camerlenghi, University of Malta, Medsalt.

A Wooly Rhino is grazing on the slope of a mountain.

Sandy path with differently-shaped footprints in the sand. There's a light tan rock in the middle of the area.

View of a rocky beach and a gray sky over the water.

$Computer rendering of how earth might have looked billions of years ago. It's mostly white and light gray with a fracture of blue down the middle along the horizontal axis.$

An illustration depicts the earth of 50 million years ago, with a supercontinent Laurasia. Caption, Paleographic animation by C R Scotese.

Computer rendering of a dinosaur skeleton depicting a creature with short front arms and a long tail that walks on its hind legs.

Herd of reindeer passes through a snowy clearing with tall trees in the distant background. Some reindeer lean down, pushing their snouts into the snow.

A giant deer roams a grassland.

A pair of Ichthyosaurs hunting prey in the sea.

A painting of a flooded forest, and insects are seen crawling on the tree surface.

A group of Hippos and Giraffes are grazing in a forest.

A group of four legged terrestrial creatures. Caption: Synapsids.

Under the label “Beta-Glucose,” we see a beta-glucose chemical formula with a face looking towards another beta-glucose formula as it tumbles.

Person talking with an inset picture of a laboratory. Caption: People usually think science happens in the lab.

Woman with shoulder-length brown hair and lips parted mid-speech. Title card reads, "How Wildfires Become Wildflowers."

Still image from: I Can Be Anything I Want to Be A to Z: Petroleum Engineer

A cartoon shows Benjamin Franklin sleeping on a bed. Sunlight pours into the room through an open window.

A group of animals, a gorilla, a rhino, a lemur cat, and a scaled lizard.

The sample particles enter the mass spectrometer, which is accelerated, and then separated according to their individual mass of the particles by a magnet.

View of Earth from space with arrows showing the ocean currents.

Man in glasses and cardigan holds palms together with lips parted in mid-speech. He stands before a green background with white scratches.

Man lifts his sunglasses in shock and shows how red and sunburnt his face is. Next to him is an albino man under a glass dome. There are yellow squiggly rays behind them to represent sunrays.

Building on the banks of a river. A sensor is connected to machinery in the house and measures the river, sending information to a satellite. Caption: The stream gauges record the vertical rise or drop

Sand dunes with sparse grass. Caption: Maritime forests are important for coastal resilience.

Photograph of Charles Richter. Caption: who was the first to make measurements of ground motion

3D computer model showing structures with elevation information. Range is from 3 to -3km Caption: We also use physics to study deep inside the earth.

Ship with industrial equipment and a crane lowering something into the water. Caption: There are two seismometers named after me

Aerial view of a wide canyon cut through reddish-brown rock. Caption: When you live there, when you're from there,

Still image from: NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center: Wildfires 101

Illustration of Antarctica with a current moving in an oval along one coast with branches moving out towards the rest of the ocean. Caption: Did you know there's a massive Southern Ocean current

Aerial view of a large airplane in flight. Sensors dot the outside of the plane. Caption: (male narrator) Hurricane hunting is not for the faint at heart.

Lightning branching across the sky. Caption: (female narrator) Lightning is a rapid discharge of electrical energy

Person at a bank of computer screen showing maps shaded in various colors. Caption: the development of El Niño and La Niña.

Wide view of the side of a mountain almost entirely covered with snow with a few rocky areas emerging. Disappearing text reads, "Chapelco Resort, Argentina, 2012."

Close-up of a section of sandstone rock from the Red River Gorge. The tan-colored rock is built up by thin layers of sediment, creating a rough, striated texture.

Overhead view of a tall, icy, snow-covered cliff, which a climber is rappelling down with a rope.

Still image from: Overview: What Makes These Dunes Sing?

Still image from: Overview: Why Earth's Newest Glacier Is Inside an Active Volcano?

Still image from: Overview: Why the Fastest Place on Earth Is Disappearing

The wing of an airplane in the clouds. Caption: (narrator) The best way to study the atmosphere is to be there.

Sedimentary rock (erosion) is turned into metamorphic rock (heat and pressure); metamorphic rock changes to igneous rock; igneous (magma) rock can go back to metamorphic rock or can change to sedimentary rock. Caption: They can be broken down again and become sedimentary.

Person working on a large vertical sheet of ice. Caption: For them, time on the ice is part of the job.

Helicopter hovering over a rocky, snow covered landscape. Caption: Traveling by helicopter, plane, and snowmobile,

Bolt of lightning arcing from cloud to ground. Caption: we all want up-to-the-minute information.

Lava spewing from a crevasse while smoke and ash rises around it. Caption: how long the ash will linger and when the skies will be clear

Dam with no water being released. Caption: (male narrator) Time can take a toll on a dam.

Computer screens with color-shaded images of a spiral shaped storm. Caption: study hurricanes, tornadoes, and blizzards from the inside.

A lattice-work ladder leading to a platform. Instruments and cables are placed on the lattice and platform. Caption: to study an earthquake at ground zero.

Concrete building with open walls. Wiring, cables, and other instruments are attached. Caption: with their shake test plans in mind.

City with closely placed buildings almost entirely destroyed, very few still standing. Caption: new design standards and building codes.

Computer screen showing east coast of United States with color gradient showing a band of storms parallel to the coastline. Caption: almost 200 tornadoes had occurred

Person drawing a straight line down the side of a metal cylinder. Caption: Cores like this are nature's archives.

Platform in a warehouse holding a building suspended by struts. Caption: This shake table is the largest in the world,

Circular turbines stacked two-high. People walk in front of them. Caption: designed this 15-foot-tall wall of wind, nicknamed, "WOW."

Aerial view of ice breaking apart as it flows onto land from an ice shelf. Caption: Ice flows from the land over the fjord,

Volcano billowing smoke and ash. Caption: (male narrator) Mount St. Helen's eruption in 1980 wasn't a surprise.

People walking on a trail among burned trees. Caption: to study the fire's impact on the ecosystem.

Graphic of streets outlined in various colors with letters and numbers assigned to the individual streets. Caption: to construct a street-by-street view of Sandy's devastation.

Cross section of a sheet of ice on a rock shelf. The ice has a pool of melted water that travels from the surface, down to the rock, and then to the ocean. Caption: for 100,000 years are now undergoing dynamic changes.

Model building being pounded by waves. Caption: And when engineers pounded it with a mini-tsunami,

A giant funnel cloud moving toward a house. Caption: You really have to just step back and have great respect

Computer simulation of a fire moving through a forested area. Caption: to really mimic the real spread of the fire.

A rapidly moving river with trees on the bank. Caption: (male narrator) Water, a precious resource for sure.

Color gradients showing the amount of water vapors over a map of the earth. Caption: showing the total amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.

An illustration of hurricane recipe. On screen text, precursor storms + warm water + low wind shear. Iconic representations for all the three are depicted. Caption: Let's start with precursor storms.

Raptors. Diagram of a raptor showing keen eyes, curved beak, talons, and a taste for prey. Caption: Raptors migrate south during the winter months

Small cloud representing an average snowstorm compared to a larger angry cloud representing a thundersnow storm. Caption: separating ordinary snowstorms from thunder snowstorms,

Leaves and branches on a tree. Photosynthesis. Caption: In photosynthesis, trees take in carbon dioxide,

Woman wearing a red New Mexico State T-shirt talks with someone offscreen, sitting at a lab bench, where sample tubes, various containers, and equipment can be seen.

Logarithmic scale shows a horizontal line with equal-sized notched increments labeled 1, 10, 100, and 1,000. Notches between each point are spaced out differently to represent the scale difference. Between 100 and 1,000, the notches representing smaller numbers are labeled "far," while the notches representing the larger numbers are labeled "close."

White-haired woman with her hair in a braid talks while seated in front of many shelves of books.

Landscape with trees and brush, and sharp mountains in the distance under a blue sky. A woman stands in the foreground wearing a protective hat.

Laptop computer showing a split screen of a picture and a computer image. Caption: and build a digital elevation model of the lava dome.

Computer screen showing a dry riverbed with a rushing wall of wet debris. Caption: Debris flows are masses of rock and mud and water

Aerial view of billowing gray clouds of ash and smoke. Caption: One tool of volcano seismology is the seismic network.

Aerial view of a volcano emitting a plume of ash and dust. Caption: Our objective is to keep people safe

Computer screen showing a satellite map with population data. Caption: We can identify the number of people

Close-up shot of a person squatting down and picking up a handful of dry debris of leaves and dirt off the ground, crumbling it in her hand.

Still image from: World Oceans Day