Introduction Embryo to Adult Larvae Matching Game The Life of a Larva Can You Survive?  

Welcome to Surfing to Settlement!

See what it's like to be a larva in the open ocean finding its way back home to the shoreline!


Along the way, you will learn about:

  • life cycles in the ocean
  • the wonderful diversity of larval forms of different invertebrates
  • and the challenges that every larva faces on the way to its ultimate goal:

    to become a reproductive adult!

Are you ready to help your larva Surf to Settlement?


press the arrow at upper right to begin!

Breaking wave photo by Brocken Inaglory; board photo by Travisthurston.
Licenses: CC BY-SA 3.0