Aquatic Ecology :: Ecology
Oceanography :: Earth Sciences

404 American Oceans Campaign - An oceans advocacy non-profit organization which focuses on water/beach quality, fisheries and fish habitat, and marine sanctuaries.
Meta Description: [ Oceana campaigns to protect and restore the world’s oceans. Our teams of marine scientists, economists, lawyers and advocates win specific and concrete policy changes to reduce pollution and to prevent the irreversible collapse of fish populations, marine mammals and other sea life. Global in sc... ]

Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research - Provides information on research projects, provides access to publications and lists opportunities for researchers to apply for federal funding.
Meta Description: [ Web page for the Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research (CSCOR), formerly known as the Coastal Ocean Program (COP). CSCOR sponsors coastal research programs through grant awards in the United States and abroad. ]

Clean Ocean Action - Clean Ocean Action's goal is to improve the degraded water quality of the marine waters off the New Jersey/New York coast. Clean Ocean Action will identify the sources of pollution and mount an attack on each source by using research, public education, and citizen action to convince our public officials to enact and enforce measures which will clean up and protect our ocean
Meta Description: [ Clean Ocean Action represents a coalition of organizations, businesses, educators, and citizens -- the Ocean Wavemakers -- working to clean up and protect the waters of the New York Bight. The groups came together in 1984 to investigate sources, effects, and solutions of ocean pollution. ]

Coalition Clean Baltic - The main goal of CCB is the protection and improvement of the Baltic Sea environment and natural resources. CCB is gathering, producing and distributing information about environmental problems in the Baltic Sea Area.
Meta Description: [ The main goal of CCB is to promote the protection and improvement of the Baltic Sea environment and natural resources. ]

Dauphin Island Sea Lab - The Dauphin Island Sea Lab is Alabama's marine research facility. Site has information about lab's college/university programs, Alabama's SEAS education curriculum, and conferences on marine environmental issues (conference on jellyfish blooms in January 2000).
Meta Description: [ Dauphin Island Sea Lab,Estuarium, Marine Lab,Marine Laboratory, Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium, Marine Science,Oceanography, Marine Ecology, Marine Science Summer Programs ]

Funding Opportunities for Coastal Managers - Directory of NOAA Coastal Services Center and other funding sources for coastal resource management, communities, and spatial information technologies.
Meta Description: [ Funding Opportunities web site provides coastal managers with information on grant-funding opportunities offered by the NOAA Coastal Services Center and other relevant organizations. Grants are grouped by category and regional location. This site also provides links to many free resources, i... ]

Mapping European Seabed Habitats project - Public information about the MESH (Mapping European Seabed Habitats) project; including background information, metadata database and habitat maps.
Meta Description: [ Development of a Framework for Mapping European Seabed Habitats (MESH) ]

Marine Litter on Sable Island - An observation program to monitor marine litter on Sable Island, Nova Scotia.

Nachwuchsforschergruppe IMPULSE - In relation to the Integrated Coastal Zone Management the JRG IMPULSE focus on management questions in the coastal range and their coordination by means of modern information technology and mathematic modelling methods.
Meta Description: [ m Rahmen des Küstenzonenmanagement arbeitet Impulse an Entscheidungshilfesystemen zur Ölbekämpfung, zu Aquakulturen in Offshore Windparks und der Netzanbindung von Offshore-Windparks an Land. ]

National Ocean Service - Information on environmental monitoring, coastal monitoring and assessment, water quality, biodiversity, aeronautical chargting and cartography, nautical charting and cartography, national marine sanctuaries.
Meta Description: [ NOAA Ocean Service Oceans, Coasts, and Navigational and Operational Oceanography Themes ]

NYTimes.com - Litter-Faring Seafarers - Man-made junk, largely of plastic, accounts for up to four-fifths of the debris in the oceans. All that litter is providing more opportunities for marine organisms to spread. [Required free registration at NYTimes.com to view]

Oceans and Coastal Resources: A Briefing Book - Resources compiled by Congressional Research Service (U.S.). Web site maintained by Center for the National Institute for the Environment. Topics include marine fisheries, the Law of the Sea, coastal wetlands and estuaries, seabed mineral resources, and dolphin protection.

Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management - OCRM's mission is to make sound decisions, with their partners, to ensure diverse, healthy coastal and ocean resources and resolve conflicts among users.
Meta Description: [ NOAA Ocean Service Oceans, Coasts, and Navigational and Operational Oceanography Themes ]

People for Puget Sound - A non-profit group working to protect and restore the health of Puget Sound and the Northwest Straits through education and action. Offers news, book resources, and links.

500 Pew Oceans Commission - Chartered to assess the condition of America's oceans and living marine resources, and set national priorities to restore and protect them against unintended fishing impacts, coastal development, pollution, climate change, aquaculture, and invasive species.
Meta Description: [ The Pew Oceans Commission focuses on threats to living resources in U.S. waters and the measures needed to restore and sustain the health of the marine environment. ]

Pollution and Oceans - Offers information ocean pollution from seafood, algae, overfishing, and oil spills.

Save The Swilly - Information about the potential adverse impacts of aquaculture, the legal situation of aquaculture in Ireland, and about Lough Swilly, County Donegal, and concerns about aquaculture licenses there.

Sea Grant News - Sewage - Sewage is a threat to the marine environment because it often contains harmful chemicals, disease-causing bacteria and viruses, and dissolved material and solid matter
Meta Description: [ Sea Grant is a partnership between government, academia, industry, scientists, and private citizens to help Americans understand and sustainably use our precious Great Lakes and ocean waters for long-term economic growth. ]

sealevelcontrol.com - Ocean level rise - causes and possible solutions.
Meta Description: [ Information about the problem of rising ocean levels including possible solutions. ]

The Oceans of the Earth - A simple table comparing the data of the oceans on Earth.

United Nations Atlas of the Oceans - Extensive information resource on the world's oceans, including geography, biology, physical dynamics, human uses of marine resources, and issues and concerns.

404 World Conservation Monitoring Centre - Marine Information - Summary tables of marine statistics and maps showing coral reefs and mangroves from a number of countries.
Meta Description: [ UNEP-WCMC . ]