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Ocean Smarts & Whale Farts

Ocean Smarts & Whale Farts is the official YouTube channel of the MCERC. We have educational YouTube videos centered around marine biology and other STEM areas, and we want you to be a part of it! Explore our content by clicking on the boxes below.

Learn about our YouTube playlists!

Ask A Scientist

Ask A Scientist (AAS) consists of interviews between the MCERC team and various expert scientists! AAS shows that every career journey is unique. Viewers can also submit their own questions for experts in any STEM field of interest!

Curiosity Calls

Curiosity Calls was created during the pandemic as a way to share awesome science activities that can be done at home! There are multiple, safe, step-by-step science experiments with follow up lessons on what is happening in each experiment.

Whack-A-Mole

Whack-A-Mole invites STEM experts to an open discussion with the MCERC team on YouTube LIVE about topics that may be more controversial, or that aren't freely discussed. It opens the community to truths in our field, and viewers can engage by commenting their questions in real-time!

Dr. MacKay's Treasures

Dr.MacKay's Treasures is the newest series of MCERC YouTube content. Dr.MacKay shares with her Research Assistants some fun (sometimes crazy!) things in her office, exclusive behind-the-scene images from field research, and more!

You can click each individual box to go to that specific playlist on YouTube!

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