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Robert Baker
I teach Advanced STEM Topics at Wildwood School in Los Angeles, California. Classes include 9-12 grades. We have a group of students with Saint Monica's High School in Santa Monica, California 3-D printing different clay shapes for the coral to grow onto. Then the students report the growth rates

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Chenein Compton, I teach AP Environmental, Dual Enrollment BIology and general Biology in East Alabama! Looking forward to more opportunities to make real world connections for my students!

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Chenein Compton, I teach AP Environmental, Dual Enrollment BIology and general Biology in East Alabama! Looking forward to more opportunities to make real world connections for my students!

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Hello, I teach High School Marine Biology, physics and (next year) IB Chemistry in Tucson, AZ. I have been teaching for 14 years, and teaching marine biology in the desert is exciting and difficult. Exciting because more than half of my students have never even seen a river or lake, much less an ocean, and they are full of wonder. Difficult because I have no access to live materials (except aquariums). I love getting up to date information about the ocean, and the deep sea coral talk was so neat as I forget how diverse they are and how important they are to biodiversity in the ocean.

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Kim Christensen.
I teach middle and high school science out in Neah Bay, Wa. Since the Makah tribe are major fishers, the students love learning anything about the ocean.

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I teach marine science, biology, anatomy, and sometimes environmental science to high schoolers in Salem, Oregon. It was facinating that deep sea corals lack the symbiotic algae that shallow water corals have and instead exists primarily on the drifting marine snow. I also was impressed that deep sea coral species are so much older than other species found in the ocean.

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Hello everyone. I’m CLAIRE ANN MIL DUGADUGA, a Culture Exchange Teacher from Philippines. I am a Middle School Science Teacher here in Virginia, USA. I’ve been teaching Science for 8 years. Deep Sea Corals really amazed me. Its diversity and ability to adapt such peculiar environment simply shows that living organisms has their own special way of coping and adapting on their environment.

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My name is Dawn Williams, and I teach 6th grade at Franklin in Port Angeles, WA. I have taught in 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 6th grades in my 23 year career. I am new to a coastal environment and am amazed at the diversity found here.

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I teach Biology and Anatomy & Physiology in Chattanooga, TN.  I think it's amazing that deep sea corals exist and that to so many people they are relatively unknown. I find the differences between them and the shallow water corals fascinating.  It's so interesting that many healthy deep sea corals are white, whereas that's a signal of death for shallow water corals.

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I have been teaching science for over 20 years. I formed Green Club in my school this school year. This club has made staff and student realize that our infividual and collective actions can help and /or harm the environment.

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I have been teaching M/S math and science, H/S math, and 4th and 5th grade.  I also have an ROV club. I found it interesting that any organism lives deep in the ocean, much less provides a community of organisms that are able to thrive in the cold dark depths.

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I have been teaching high school science since 2007. I teach Physical Science, Marine Science, and Forensic Science. I found it fascinating that some deep sea coral look dead, when in reality its a vibrate community. I also thought it was very interesting that they are heavily dependent on the surface in terms of marine snow.

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My name is Sherry Oikawa-Kennedy. I teach 6th and 7th grade science at Goodman Middle School in Gig Harbor, WA. I knew deep sea coral existed, but I didn't realize the diversity, abundance, types, colors and importance of the corals. I've learned so much!

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I have been teaching elementary school for 18 years in Altamonte Springs, FL (a few minutes north of Orlando). I currently teach 4th grade math and science gifted. Next school year, I am taking over as the Gifted Resource Teacher for the school. It's amazing how deep sea corals can survive living so deep in the ocean with freezing temperatures.

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I work in K-16 education at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, the marine research and education facility for the state of Alabama, and am joining you tonight as NOAA OE's facilitator. The thing I find most amazing about deep water corals is how long they live, as much as a thousand years!   I am looking forward to learning all about the deep water corals on the west coast.

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I am the Education Specialist with NOAAs Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, which means I get to work with students and teachers from K-12 and beyond.
One of my most favorite things about deep sea corals and sponges is that these beautiful, colorful, vertical organisms provide incredible, and critical habitat for deep sea organisms. In a world of muddy sand and sandy mud these strange ancient organisms (especially sponges, they are just weird) add to the reason so much diversity exists in our deep sea!

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My name is Sarah Schiavi. I teach high school Earth Science in Upstate NY but my undergrad is in marine biology. I have mostly 9th & 10th graders. I didn’t know that there was such diversity with the deep sea corals and that there are so many of them.