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Academic Institutions

• California Maritime Academy
• Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
• Centro de Estudios de Desiertos y Océanos
• Dalhousie Univ. Dept. of Oceanography
• Florida Inst. of Technology Div. of Marine & Environmental Systems
• Florida Sea Grant College Prog. Annoying frames implementation.
• Florida State Univ. Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies
• Florida State Univ. Dept. of Oceanography
• Florida State Univ. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Inst.
• Grumbine's List of Schools with Oceanography and Meteorology Programs
• Humboldt St. Univ.
• Int. Assoc. of Aquatic & Marine Sciences Libraries and Information Centers
• Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. No provision for browsers without frames.
• MIT Center for Meteorology & Physical Oceanography
• Miss. St. Univ. Center for Air Sea Technology
• Moss Landing Marine Lab.
• NCSA Atmospheric & Oceanic Science Group
• Nova Southeastern Univ. Oceanographic Center
• Ohio State Univ.
• Old Dominion Univ. Dept. of Oceanography
• Oregon Graduate Inst. Cntr. for Coastal & Land-Margin Res.
• Oregon St. Univ. Coll. of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences
• Oregon St. Univ. Hatfield Marine Sci. Cntr.
• Rutgers Inst. of Marine & Coastal Sci.
• San Diego St. Univ. Cetacean Behavior Laboratory
• San Diego St. Univ. Coastal & Marine Inst.
• San Diego St. Univ. Pacific Estuarine Res. Lab.
• School of Env. Sciences, Univ. Of E Anglia
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography. My nominee for best overall site.
• Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
• Southern California Marine Inst.
• Stanford Univ. Hopkins Marine Station
• State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, Marine Sciences Research Center
• Texas A&M Ocean/Atmosphere Aerosols Group
• Texas A&M. My alma mater.
• Univ. Tokyo Ocean Res. Inst.
• Univ. of Alaska Inst. of Marine Science
• Univ. of Arizona Marine Discovery Center.
• Univ. of Balearic Is.
• Univ. of Calif., Davis, Bodega Marine Lab
• Univ. of Calif., Davis, Dept. of Wildlife, Fisheries & Conservation Biology
• Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
• Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara, Inst. for Computational Earth System Science
• Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara, Marine Science Inst.
• Univ. of Calif., Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences and its Inst. of Marine Sciences and Long Marine Lab.
• Univ. of Chicago.
• Univ. of Colorado Program in Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
• Univ. of Delaware Applied Ocean Science Program
• Univ. of Delaware Graduate College of Marine Studies
• Univ. of E Anglia, Oceanography
• Univ. of Georgia Marine Science Dept.
• Univ. of Hawaii School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology
• Univ. of Liverpool.
• Univ. of Maine Darling Marine Center
• Univ. of Maine School of Marine Sciences.
• Univ. of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science
• Univ. of Reading.
• Univ. of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography
• Univ. of S Carolina Estuarine & Coastal Oceanography Lab.
• Univ. of S Miss. Marine Sciences
• Univ. of S. Calif. Dept. of Earth Sciences
• Univ. of S. Calif., Marine Biology & Biological Oceanography
• Univ. of S. Carolina, Belle W. Baruch Inst. for Marine. Biology & Coastal Research
• Univ. of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute. (Actually, it's in Port Aransas.)
• Univ. of Virgina, Dept. of Env. Sciences
• Univ. of Wales, Bangor, School of Ocean Sciences.
• Univ. of Washington College of Ocean & Fishery Sciences
• Univ. of Washington Joint Inst. for the Study of Atmos. & Ocean.
• Univ. of Washington School of Oceanography
• Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Dept. of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
• Virgina Coast Reserve Long-Term Ecological Research
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Commercial Sites

• Benthos. Underwater systems, mainly robotic and remote sensing.
• Beta Analytic, Inc., radiocarbon services.
• Datasonics. Underwater acoustics gear.
• METOCEAN. Data buoys.
• OCEANOR - Oceanographic Company of Norway ASA. Many products and services.
• Ocean Scientific International Ltd. Provider of instruments and seawater standards.
• Ocean Sensors, Inc.
• OceanScience Group. Buoys, floats, wave gauges.
• Oceanweather, Inc. A company providing data and forecasting services.
• Odom Hydrographic Systems, Inc.
• RD Instruments
• Reef Ball Development Group Ltd.'s Artificial Reef Index Page
• Remote Sensing Systems. A provider of satellite data products.
• SONTEK. Water velocity measurement instruments.
• Sippican. XBTs, mainly.
• Webb Research. Oceanographic instruments (floats and profilers, mainly),

Data Archives

• British Oceanographic Data Centre, Proudman Oceanogr. Lab.
• CEOS IDN Datasets List. Holy cow, Batman! This is big. Takes forever to load and render, but worth it.
• Defense Meteorological Satellite Program archive
• Digital Geospatial Data Source Directory
• ENSO Advisory
• EOS Data Resources
• East Coast [of US] Surf Information Center
• Florida State buoy page. Plenty of near-realtime observations.
• GEOS-1 Multiyear Assimilation (Reanalysis).
• Global Observing Systems Information Center
• Global Ocean Surface Temperature Atlas (GOSTA) CD-ROM data.
• IHO Data Center for Digital Bathymetry
• Index to Marine Geological Samples Database.
• JPL El Nino pictures.
• JPL SSM/I wind data set.
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center.
• Lamont-Doherty Seafloor Databases
• NASA Goddard Data Assimilation Office.
• NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Datasets, Images and Software
• NASA JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center
• NESDIS ERS-2 Scatterometer Surface Winds. Current and yesterday.
• NESDIS SSM/I Microwave Radiometer Surface Winds. Current and yesterday.
• NOAA Data Set Catalog
• NOAA Environmental Information Service. Data products from NOAA.
• NOAA NCEP Global Wave Forecast Model Page
• NOAA NCEP Northern Hemisphere Fog Model
• NOAA NCEP Regional Wave Forecast Models Page
• NOAA NGDC Marine Geology & Geophysics
• NOAA Superstructure Icing Model Guidance
• National Data Buoy Center's seaboard. Oceanographic buoy data.
• National Oceanographic Data Center
• OSUMSS95 1/16deg mean sea surface
• Ocean Drilling Program JANUS Web. JOIDES Resolution data.
• Peter Lyster's Earth and Space Science Data Page. Look here for satellite data sets in particular.
• Scripps Inst. library's data services directory.
• Sea-Level record sites. (French)
• Steve Baum's List of Oceanographic Data Sites
• TOGA-TAO data. Plots only, unfortunately.
• The Australian Oceanographic Data Centre
• The Delphi Project. Marine sediment cores.
• The Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL).
• US Navy Master Environmental Library (MEL)
• World Data Center-A for Marine Geology & Geophysics
• World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) data sources

Experiment or Project

• ARGO. Profiling float program.Information Center.
• AVHRR Archive. Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer images from Univ. of Rhode Island.
• Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate. No. It doesn't deafen whales.
• Australian GCOS, GOOS Participation
• California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CALCOFI)
• Cloud & Remote Sensing around Africa (CORSA)
• Earth Observing System (EOS) Project Science Office
• Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)
• INDOEX - The Indian Ocean Experiment
• International Arctic Buoy Program
• JGOFS International Projecy Office
• JPL Topex/Poseidon satellite page
• Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
• MESH, Marine aspects of Earth System History
• NASA NSCAT (Scatterometer) and Sea Winds
• NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT)
• Ocean Colour European Archive Network (OCEAN)
• Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M
• POLES (Polar Exchange at the Sea Surface)
• Plankton Reactivity in the Marine Environment
• Russian National GOOS
• SeaWIFS ocean color project
• Ship of Opportunity Programme (SOOP).
• TOGA COARE Int. Proj. Off.
• Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) Array
• US World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) Home Page

Governments outside the US

• Alfred Wegener Institute
• Canada Centre for Inland Waters
• Finnish Ice Service. English page.
• Fisheries Res. Service, Aberdeen.
• Great Lakes Information Management Resource
• IFREMER, Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
• James Rennell Centre for Ocean Circulation, Southhampton, UK
• Marine Environment Unit, Space Applications Inst., Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy
• Netherlands Inst. for Sea Research (Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee)
• New Zealand, Nat. Inst. Water & Atmos. Res., Ltd.
• Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
• The CSIRO (Australia) Division of Oceanography
• UK Southhampton Oceanography Centre

International Organizations

• IPCC Working Group I: The Science of Climate Change.
• Int. Assoc. for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO).
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• The Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL).

Museums

• Aquarium of the Pacific.
• Tennessee Aquarium

Non-governmental Organizations

• Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Inc.
• CIESIN gateway system conducts searches of databases from one site.
• Lost Instrument Network. Helps to find missing oceanographic instruments.
• Marine Conservation Biology Inst.

Publications

• AMS Newsletter, American Meteorological Society
• Coral Reefs.
• Earth Interactions. Strange helper application required.
• Geo-Marine Letters.
• SeaWeb
• Tellus, Series A: Dynamic meteorology and oceanography.
• Tellus, Series B: Chemical and physical meteorology.
• Aquatic Ecology.
• Aquatic Geochemistry.
• Biogeochemistry.
• Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Contents, abstracts, and (Acrobat format only) articles.
• Climatic Change.
• Hydrowire, an online weekly for the aquatic sciences.
• Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. Contents, abstracts, and (by subscription, only) papers.
• Journal of Climate. Contents, abstracts, and (by subscription, only) papers.
• Journal of Physical Oceanography. Contents, abstracts, and (by subscription, only) papers.
• Paleoceanography.
• UCAR Quarterly.
• Weather and Forecasting. Contents, abstracts, and (by subscription, only) papers.
• AGU publications. Recent issues contents and abstracts.
• Am. Met. Soc. publications page
• David Archer's papers. Mainly oceanic carbon cycle.
• Elsevier earth & planetary science publications.
• ICES Journal of Marine Science.
• Ocean Drilling Program publications.
• Oceanography electronic publications.
• WOCE Newsletter Frames only! Yuck!

Societies

• American Geophysical Union
• American Meteorological Society
• American Soc. of Limnology & Oceanography
• Estuarine Research Foundation
• Marine Biological Assoc. of the UK
• The Oceanography Society

Software

• CalPal. Cologne Radiocarbon Calibration & Paleoclimate Research Package.
• Generic Mapping Tools. A FREE set of very good mapping and graphics tools. Especially suitable for meteorology and oceanography.
• NCSA Hierarchical Data Format.
• NetCDF format. The NetCDF format is widely used for geoscience data, including Unidata data.
• OCCAM Ocean Circulation Model.
• Ocean Model Adjoint Compiler
• SWAN Wave Model

Tutorials and FAQs

• Isogeochem page. Stable isotope geochemistry.
• Late Quaternary Stratigraphy, Microfossils and Paleoceanography of Gulf of St. Lawrence.
• NOAA Climate Diagnostics Center ENSO page
• NOAA PMEL El Nino page

US Government Institutions

• Brookhaven National Laboratory
• NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
• NOAA Climate Diagnostics Center
• NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
• NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
• NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry.
• NOAA NCEP Ocean Modeling Branch Home Page
• NOAA NCEP Sea Ice Home Page
• NOAA NESDIS Ocean Physical Processes Team. Lots of good satellite data displays.
• NOAA Office of Oceanic & Atmospheric Research
• NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Lab
• NOAA West Coast National Undersea Research Center
• National Oceanographic Data Center (NOAA)
• Naval Postgraduate School
• Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean & Atmospheric Science & Technology Directorate
• Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center
• Oceanographer of the Navy (US)
• Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History exhibition Ocean Planet
• US Coast Guard R&D Center
• US Dept. Interior Geological Survey Pacific Marine Geology
• US Naval Oceanographic Office
• US Navy Fleet Numerical Oceanography & Meteorology Center
• US Navy Geosat Follow-On (GFO).
• US Navy
• USGS Marine & Coastal Geology Program

Web Indexes

• Dalhousie Oceanographic Sites List
• Delaware Ocean Information Center. Includes WOCE page, and a good ship and cruise information page.
• Earth Science Resources: Geology, Oceanography, Astronomy & Ecology. A very eclectic collection of links.
• FRS, Aberdeen, fisheries science site list.
• Grumbine's Home page. Contains lots of links to other sites.
• Gulf of Mexico Internet Resource Page, Texas a&M.
• Ocean and Earth Science Websites, Southampton Oceanography Ctr.
• Remko Scharroo's bookmarks. Good on satellite altimetry.
• Scripps Inst. library's Oceanography on the Net. Perhaps the best site for finding oceanographic information.
• USGS Oceanography Index
• WINDandSEA, The Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Internet Locator, NOAA
• WWW Virtual Library - Oceanography
• Yahoo Oceanography Index

Usenet News Groups

• sci.bio.fisheries
• sci.geo.fluids
• sci.geo.oceanography

Paul D. Farrar

Last updated 17 Jul 03