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1 hr/month Beginner nature science outdoors ocean

Learn to read tide charts and plan a tidepool trip

Numbers become living things: surge, retreat, the moon's pull on the Pacific. Then you go see what was hiding.

Tidal literacy is a portal into marine science. Finding a nudibranch you predicted would be there is one of life's small joys.

NOAA Tides & Currents app · Between Pacific Tides (Ricketts & Calvin) · any coastal area near you

Perfect for: beachgoers, scientists-at-heart, patient people

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