Explorers, Poets and Pioneers

      Conventions, Treaties, Declarations and Directives

      Projects and Programmes

      Ecology Links

      Evolution, Taxonomy, Phylogeny Links

      Pollution Links

      Nuclear Links

      International Organisations

      Online Journals

      Online Glossaries and Bibliographies

      Other Sites of Interest

      Newsgroups




      Explorers, Poets and Pioneers


      Christopher Columbus
      http://www.miller.edu/~columbus
      Sir Francis Drake
      http://www.mcn.org/2/oseeler/drake.htm
      Captain James Cook
      http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/7557/
      Jacques Cousteau
      http://www.cousteau.org/AN/welcomeh.html
      Aristotle
      http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/aristotle.html
      The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
      http://www.literature.org/works/Charles-Darwin/origin
      The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Coleridge)
      http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Frank/Coleridg/mariner.html


      Conventions, Treaties, Declarations and Directives


      UNCLOS - United Nations Convention on the Law of the sea
      http://www.isa.org.jm/unclos/unclos.htm

      Chapter 17 of Agenda 21: Protection of the Oceans
      http://www.igc.apc.org/habitat/agenda21/ch-17.html

      Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
      http://http://www.igc.apc.org/habitat/agenda21/rio-dec.html

      Alternative NGO (Non-Governmental Organisation) Treaties
      Fisheries:
      http://www.igc.apc.org/habitat/treaties/fisher.htm

      Marine and Coastal Issues:
      http://www.igc.apc.org/habitat/treaties/mar-poll.html

      Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators Service
      http://sedac.ciesin.org/pidb/pidb-home.html

      Menu of treaty summaries (UNEP): full text of all conventions and treaties
      http://sedac.ciesin.org/pidb/summaries-menu.html

      Convention on Biological Diversity
      http://www.biodiv.org

      EU Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC
      http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/dg11/nature/habdir.htm

      EU Birds Directive 79/409/EEC (conservation of wild birds)
      http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/dg11/nature/bird-dir.htm

      EU Regulations of wildlife trade and the implementation of CITES
      http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/dg11/cites/citeshome.htm

      Environmental Atlas (tool for researching environment policy worldwise)
      http://www.rri.org/envatlas

      Protocol for Monitoring Phytoplankton
      http://www.cciw.ca/eman-temp/research/protocols/phyto/intro.html

      CITES - Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
      http://www.wcmc.org.uk/CITES/


      Projects and Programmes


      SeaWIFS Project - Nimbus 7
      http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS/IMAGES/CZCS_DATA.html

      NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre: Primary Productivity Research
      http://opp.gsfc.nasa.gov

      International Satellite Cloud Climatology Poject (roe of clouds in climate and effects on radiation balance)
      http://isccp.giss.nasa.gov

      GEWEX - Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
      http://www.cais.com/gewex/gewex.html
      Global Positioning System
      http://sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov/mbh/series.html

      Ocean Colour fromSpace- ocean colour data and resources
      http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/OCDST/OB_main.html


      Ecology Links


      Southeast Bering Sea Carrying Capacity
      http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/sebscc/index.html

      Complexity
      http://www.maritimes.dfo.ca/science/mesd/he/staff/silvert/complex/complex.html

      Conservation Ecology: Sustainability, Stability and Resilience
      http://www.consecol.org/Journal/vol1/iss1/art7/inline.html

      The Biosphere and Concepts of Ecology
      http://www.nor.com.au/users/gaiaguys/biodiv.htm

      The Plankton Net
      http://www.uoguelph.ca/zoology/ocean/frame.htm

      Benthos, Plankton and Nekton
      http://madmonster.williams.edu/geos.104/L.28.html

      Internet Information on Shorebirds
      http://www.utm.edu/~phertzel/shbird.htm


      Evolution, Taxonomy, Phylogeny Links


      Tree of Life (phylogeny/ biodiversity)
      http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html

      Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification
      http://www.eti.bio.uva.nl/database/urmo/default.shtml

      On the Parts of Animals (Aristotle)
      http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/parts_animals.html

      Evolution: Theory and History
      http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/evolution.html

      Journey into Phylogenetic Systematics
      http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibit/phlogeny.html


      Pollution Links


      Oil Pollution - International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Ltd
      http://www.itopf.com

      Effects of Marine Oil Spills
      http://www.itopf.com/effects.html

      PCBŐs Bioaccummulation
      http://bordeaux/uwaterloo/ca/bio1447/assignment1/pcbs.html

      Bioaccummulation and Biomagnification
      http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/102/2bioma95.html

      Anoxia/ Hypoxia
      http://www.clis.com/amcbride/ah.html


      Nuclear links


      S.A.N.D - Scotland Against Nuclear Dumping
      http://www.glen.co.uk/sand/


      International Organisations


      International Seabed Authority
      http://www.helcom.fi/

      Intergovernmental Oceanic Commission
      http://www.unesco.org/ioc

      World Health Organisation
      http://www.who.int

      World Bank
      http://www.worldbank.org

      International Monetary Fund
      http://www.imf.org

      Species 2000
      http://www.sp2000.org

      WWF Global Network - Endangered Seas Campaign
      http://www.panda.org/endangeredseas/endangeredseas.htm

      FAO - Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations
      http://www.fao.org

      Greenpeace International
      http://www.greenpeace.org/home

      Friends of the Earth
      http://www.foe.org

      ACME - ICES Advisory Committee on the Marine Environment
      http://www.ices.dk/env/acme/acme96.htm


      Online Journals


      Marine Ecology Progress Series
      http://www.int-res.com/journals/meps

      Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
      http://www.nrc.ca/cisti/journals/cjfas.html

      Marine Pollution Bulletin
      http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/4/0/0/index.htt

      ICES Journal of Marine Science
      http://www.apnet.com/

      SARSIA - A Nordic Journal of Marine Biology
      http://129.177.71.45.sarsia/sarsia/sarsia.htm

      Journal of Marine Biotechnology
      http://link.springer-ny.com/link/servies/journals/00524

      Journal of Marine Research
      http://stormy.geology.yale.edu/kgl/Dept_Information/Journals/jmr.html

      Journal of Benthos Research
      http://wwwsoc.nacsis.ac.jp/jab/BR_E.html

      Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
      http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/journals/

      Russian Journal of Marine Biology
      http://www.maik.rssi.ru/journals/marbio.htm

      Coastal Management Journal
      http://www.sma.washington.edu/cmj/call98.html"> http://www.sma.washington.edu/cmj/call98.html

      Aquatic Microbial Ecology
      http://www.int-re.com/journals/ame/index.html

      American Fisheries Society Publications (includes J. Fisheries Management, Transactions of the American Fisheries Siociety, and Fisheries)
      http://www.fisheries.org/publications/journals/index.html


      Online Glossaries and Bibliographies


      Glossary of Marine Definitions and Terms
      http://sunsite.nus.sg/apcel/datab/global/glossary.html

      Glossary of Oceanography and Related GeoSciences
      http://www.opsd.nos.noaa.gov/tideglos.html

      Definition of Fisheries Technical Terms
      http://www.wh.whoi.edu/homepage/tech_terms.html

      Glossary of Oceanographic Terms
      http://www.ouc.bc.ca/geog/physgeoglos/glossary.html


      Other sites of Interest


      Albedo
      http://www.nws.fsu.edu/buoy

      Sea Surface Temperature Satellite Images
      http://dcz.gso.uri.edu/avhrr-archive/archive.html

      Center for Earth Observation
      http://www.ceo.org

      Sea Surface Temperatures
      http://ww.ssec.wisc.edu/data/sst.html

      SeaWeb (articles on ocean issues)
      http://www.seaweb.org

      Environmental Defense Fund Worldwide
      http://www.edf.org

      Exploring Satellite Oceanography (classroom lesson)
      http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/OCDST/ocdst_primary_productivity.html

      WWW Tide and Current Predictor
      http://www.clark.net/pub/thubin/aocs/

      Water Microbiology
      http://www.imsa.edu/team/bio/micro/watermicro

      Microbes
      http://www.pfizer.com/rd/microbes

      Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology
      http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/zoo


      Newsgroups and Mailing Lists


      BIOSCI/ Bionet Electronic Newsgroup Network for Biology
      http://www.bio.net

      SEABIRD Mailing List- The International Ornithologists Network
      http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1996/104(4)/focus.html