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- A World We Don't Know - Studying dolphins of all kinds - learning and research by Middle School students.
www.maxpages.com/dolphin27
- Academic Info on Oceanography - A selective, annotated directory of Internet resources geared toward high school and college students as well as professional researchers.
www.academicinfo.net/ocean.html
- Argo Information Center - A broad-scale global array of temperature/salinity profiling floats, known as Argo, is forming a major component of the ocean observing system, with deployments that began in 2000 and are ongoing. For the first time, the physical state of the upper ocean will be systematically measured and assimilated in near real-time.
argo.jcommops.org
- Bibliographic Databases in Oceanography, Earth Science, and Related Areas - Open access bibliographic databases indexing published scientific research in marine sciences, some earth sciences, and related topics.
scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/guide/bibliographies.html
- Careers in Oceanography, Marine Science & Marine Biology - General career guides for oceanography and marine scientists including guides for marine biology, marine mammal work, zoos and aquariums.
scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/guide/career.html
- Coastal Guide to Europe - Offers information to the visitor of coastal areas in Europe. Special attention is given to the history of the landscape, wildlife, nature and recreation areas and cultural heritage (historical cities, buildings and museums).
www.coastalguide.to
- Coastal Plaza - European - The Coastal Plaza is a virtual meeting and market place for key institutions working in marine and coastal zones.
www.coastalplaza.org/index2.html
- Coastlearn - Offers a multimedia distance learning package on Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) in Central & Eastern Europe.
www.coastlearn.org
- Dutch Coastal Net - DCN brings together the users and suppliers of earth observation data related to morphology for the Dutch coast.
dcn.waterland.net/neonet
- Earthworks - World-wide jobs and careers in Oceanography and Marine Sciences.
www.earthworks-jobs.com
- eSeFDee - Marine Sciences Portal - Oceanography and marine sciences portal for the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean.
www.dvz.be/Portal/main.htm
- EU-Seased - Guide to seabed samples from the ocean basins and European continental waters, held at European institutions.
www.eu-seased.net
- EUCC Coastal Guide - An information service of the EUCC and Coastinfo International, aimed at professionals in coastal management, planning, conservation and research in Europe.
www.coastalguide.org
- Geo Coastal Network Explorer - G.COAST - Provides information about the use of geospatial information technology in Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) in the United Kingdom. It also provides links to data, information, hardware and software suppliers, online map servers, journals, and individuals.
www.theukcoastalzone.com
- Hydro 2000 - Aimed at hydrographic surveyors with links to hydrographic information, resources and downloads.
www.home.zonnet.nl/hydro2000/index.html
- Indian Ocean Gateway - Information on oceanographic study, marine sciences, oceanographic databases and research carried out on the indian ocean and the neighbouring ream countries.
www.indian-ocean.org
- Inter-Agency Committee on Marine Science and Technology (IACMST) - Maintains an overview of marine activities across the UK Government. Encourages links between Government and the national marine community, the wider application of marine science and technology, optimum use of major UK marine facilities, training and education and international links.
www.marine.gov.uk
- International Year of the Ocean 1998 - Scientific and popular/educational information and links related to ocean science, technology, commerce, fisheries, coastal living, recreation, and other topics.
www.enn.com/yoto
- Italian Sea Wave Monitoring Network - You can query the Italian Sea Wave Network Database subset using ANSI SQL syntax. At present on line Database contains 37.257 Records starting January 1999.
www.envirtech.org/ron.asp
- Marine and Maritime Studies - Links to National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council online reports and report summaries on ocean-related topics.
www.nap.edu/readingroom/records/MR.html
- Marine Science and Technology.com - Gateway to a variety of marine information, data, products, services, careers and advice.
www.marinescienceandtechnology.com
- Marine Science Teacher Resources from Texas State Aquarium - Educational resource site for teachers of marine science with sample lessons, elementary lesson plans and curriculum development tips from CITGO/TSA.
www.aquariumteacher.com/teachers.html
- Norwegian Marine Fauna - Site contains more than 300 underwater wildlife photos of marine animals taken around the Norwegian coast.
www.kystnett.no/~emil/engindex.htm
- Ocean AdVENTure - virtual journey to hydrothermal vents in the sunless depths of the oceans to learn about their formation, fauna, significance, and unsolved mysteries.
www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname=18828&url=18828
- Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) - An on-line, open-access, globally-distributed network of systematic, ecological, and environmental information systems. Collectively, these systems operate as a dynamic, global digital atlas to communicate biological information about the worlds oceans.
www.iobis.org
- Ocean Central - General information site with forum for oceanographic discussions.
www.geocities.com/oceancentral/home.htm
- Ocean Color Data, Information, and Resources - Remote sensing of ocean color provides information on abundance of phytoplankton and concentration of dissolved and particulate material in surface ocean waters. Goddard DAAC provides access to data from ocean color sensors.
daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/OCDST/OB_main.html
- Oceanography in Atlantic Region of Canada - Educational resource highlighting some of the vast research that is taking place in the Atlantic Region of Canada, and introduces the careers of the people involved in this research.
www.eoascientific.com/oceanography/index.html
- Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level - The global data bank for long term sea level change information from tide gauges.
www.pol.ac.uk/psmsl
- Reef Base: a global information system on coral reefs. - Reef Base is an online information system on coral reefs designed to provide relevant data and information to reef managers and scientists, as well as the general public.
www.reefbase.org
- SAVAGE SEAS - This companion site to the new PBS series offers a collection of informative pieces and activities centered around the world's oceans. The site is divided into four principal sections, each of which features an article, brief sidebars, video clips, and in some cases, animations.
www.pbs.org/wnet/savageseas
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography News - Scripps Institution of Oceanography today is world renowned for its preeminence in scientific disciplines relating to biology, physics, chemistry, climatology, geosciences, and geophysics
scrippsnews.ucsd.edu
- Sea Friends Oceanography - A complete tutorial about atmosphere, climate, waves, currents, tides, beaches, sediment transport, storms, tsunamis.
www.seafriends.org.nz/oceano
- Sea-Search - Your guide to Oceanographic and Marine Data & Information in Europe.
www.sea-search.net
- Sonia's Oceanographic Lessons - Familiarize yourself with the Antarctic marine ecosystem, hydrothermal vent communities and eelgrass habitats. The site contains lesson information, resource links, a student activity, and a self grading test with detailed answer sheet and remedial links, to help students assess their knowledge.
www.botos.com/marine
- Sounding Out the Ocean's Secrets - About the applications of underwater acoustics in ocean research. Researchers today apply their knowledge of how sound travels through water to carry out a myriad of tasks such as detecting underwater eruptions, measuring ocean temperature, and monitoring marine mammals behavior.
www.beyonddiscovery.org
- Strategic Environmental Assessments (S.E.A) - UK Department of Trade and Industry's strategic environmental assessment consultation site open for public contribution.
www.habitats-directive.org
- The Sea - General information on oceans, hurricanes, tides, currents, waves, oceans map, sea creatures. A well designed introductory site.
www.the-sea.org
- Tides and Tide Prediction - Directory of tide predictors, tide prediction software, tide information, and tide observations.
scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/tide
- U.S. Federal Agencies with Ocean-Related Activities - Links to 21 civilian and military agencies that were involved in the International Year of the Ocean.
www.yoto98.noaa.gov/feds.htm
- United Kingdom Marine Environment Data Network (UKMED) - Marine Environmental Data are widely distributed throughout the UK amongst many government departments, agencies and laboratories, universities and commercial companies. The UKMED Network develops, maintains and makes available inventories of marine data; develops guidelines for oceanographic data management; improves mechanisms to facilitate data exchange and hence increases the availability of UK Marine Environmental Data for research and wealth creation.
www.oceannet.org
- United Nations Atlas of the Oceans - an information system designed for use by policy makers who need to become familiar with ocean issues, and by scientists, students and resource managers who need access to underlying data bases and approaches to sustainability.
www.oceansatlas.com
- webExpeditions.net - Presents a series of web sites featuring oceanography, marine, ocean based and underwater expedition, science and adventure.
www.webexpeditions.net/ocean
- Worldwide Ocean Optics Database - The Worldwide Ocean Optics Database is a collection of several hundred ocean optics data sets gathered over time that encompass much of the world's oceans.
wood.jhuapl.edu
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