This edited volume is the premier book dedicated exclusively to marine science education and improving ocean literacy, aiming to showcase exemplary practices in marine science education and educational research in this field on a global scale. It informs, inspires, and provides an intellectual forum for practitioners and researchers in this particular context. Subject areas include sections on marine science education in formal, informal and community settings. This book will be useful to marine science education practitioners (e.g. formal and informal educators) and researchers (both education and science).

1. Ocean Literacy in the 21^st Century

2. An Exemplar Model for Expanding Development Reach
Part I Research
3. ¡Youth & the Ocean! (¡YO!): Partnering High School and Graduate Students for Youth-Driven Research Experiences
4. Leveraging Parent Chaperones to Support Youths' Learning During an Out-of-School Field Trip to a Marine Science Field Station
5. Systematic and Longitudinal Research to Support and Improve the National Ocean Sciences Bowl: Finding from Seventeen Years of Study
6. Leveraging Ocean Identity in Education to Impact Students' Conservation Practices
7. Evaluating Differences in Outcomes and Participant Perspectives in Marine Science Professional Development Conducted by Informal Educators Compared to Specialized University Faculty
8. Implementing Ocean Literacy through the Bond of Informal and Formal Education
9. Evaluating Ocean Learning - The Principles and Practicalities of Evaluating Formal Education Audiences in an Informal Education Environment
10. Effective Practices for Fostering Empathy towards Marine Life
Part II Practitioner
11. Creating Marine Outreach Programmes that Work - The Marine Institute Explorers Education Programme(TM)
12. Marine Education through Cooperation: A Case Study of Opportunity in a Remote School in Taiwan
13. Educating with Data
14. Using International School Partnerships to Promote Ocean Literacy
15. Out of the Tower and into the Classroom: Marine Science Graduate Students as K-12 Classroom Contributors
16. The VIRTUE Project and the Biofilms and Biodiversity Project: An International Collaboration in Marine Science Education
17. Integrating Ocean Literacy in UK Curriculum-Led Field Courses
18. Building Capacity for Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences
19. Going with/against the Flow: The Challenges of an Authentic Marine Science Education
20. Bring the Ocean to the Classroom - Introducing Experimental Studies to Teachers with Fair or no Science Knowledge
21. Closer to Blue
22. The Two Bays Project: A Model for Providing Multidisciplinary Approaches to Monitoring, Education, Engagement and Partnership Building
23. Citizen Science to Engage and Empower Youth in Marine Science
24. Empowering Young Ocean Conservationists.