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Directories & Search Engines

• AquaNic (Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium/Purdue University) a gateway to the world's electronic aquaculture resources.  
  
  
• Aquatic Network  (Seacoast Information Services, Inc.)
  
  
• Bridge  Ocean Sciences Education Teacher Resource Center
  
  
• Information Gateway to Oceanography (University of Washington)
  
  
• Oceanography Hotlist  (Dalhousie University)
  
  
• Oceanography Internet Resources  (Louisiana State University)
  
  
• Reference Shelf for Oceanography & Earth Sciences (Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library)

Associations

• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
  (UNESCO)

Databases

• Database on Introductions of Aquatic Species (International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management)
  
  
• UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms
  
  
• USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species  Provides accounts of nonindigenous aquatic species including amphibians, reptiles, fish, mammals, tunicates, bryozoans, sponges, coelenterates, annelids, molluscs, crustaceans, algae, and plants. Offers distribution maps and fact sheets for each species.
  
  
• World Conservation Monitoring Center: Marine Information provides information services on conservation and sustainable use of the world's living resources, and helps others to develop information systems of their own.

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

• Aquatic Science and Fisheries Thesaurus
   
• Glossary of Marine Biology  (Jefferey Levinton)
   
• Glossary of Physical Oceanography and Related Disciplines
   
• Tide and Current Glossary
  

Journals & Newsletters

• Hydrology, Marine Science, Freshwater Science and Aquaculture Journals  (MedBioWorld)

General Resources

• Rob Fitch's Oceanography Page  (WVC Biology Dept.)
  
  
• Fisheries and Oceanography Library  (University of Washington)
  
  
• NOAA's Coral Reef
  
  
• Oceanic
   
• Oceans and Law of the Sea
  
  
• Pew Oceans Commission The Pew Oceans Commission is an independent group of American leaders conducting a national dialogue on the policies needed to restore and protect living marine resources in U.S. waters.
  
  
• Plankton Net  Plankton Ecology, Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography Homepage
  
  
• Seattle PI Special Report: Our Troubled Sound
  
  
• Tides and Tide Prediction  (University of California)
  
  
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