Magic Porthole™ takes you into the fascinating and fragile world of coral reefs with online and offline multimedia and multifaceted experiences. Explore virtual reefs with reef creatures as guides. Enjoy playing games and winning prizes as you make discoveries about the lives of frogfish, cleaning gobies, turtles, seahorses, sharks, and many of the myriad other reef creatures. Join Environment Achievement Contests - Your efforts to help save coral reefs may win you a prize as well as a chance to encourage others through your example. Deepen your knowledge with exciting resources.
This Magic Porthole™ Preview offers samples of some of the online features to come and invites you to share your ideas with us.

What is available in this preview?
• What Is Magic Porthole™?
• Wonders of Coral Reefs
• Episodes & Games
• Ecoknowledge Cards
• News
•  Resources
Exhibit
• Contests
• Shop
• Advisory Board
• Credits

Video clip (Windows Media Player): Peek into a Coral Reef

Video clip (Windows Media Player): Like One Big

2008 is the International Year of the Reef. Video Clip: Corals from Outer to Inner Space
Created for the Science on a Sphere highlights NOAA's activities in coral reef science.

The first Magic Porthole™ offline feature, “First Collector’s Edition” cards, are available for playing your favorite card games. Its 52 cards bearing photographs of coral reef creatures match those of the “Magic Porthole Coral Reef Memory” card game here on the Web site where you can find exciting details of the reef creatures’ lives and video clips.


Collaborations: Museums, aquariums and other entities are collaborating with Horizon’s Magic Porthole™ project including the American Museum of Natural History, Environmental Defense (ED) Oceans Alive project, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Museum of Science-Boston, The National Wildlife Federation (NWF), Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Smithsonian Institution Ocean Hall and Ocean Portal, the Field Museum, Monterey Aquarium, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Ocean Service, and many others.