Links to Oceanography Sites
Includes anything to do with the oceans and the geology that underlies them.
Also includes environmental issues related to marine and coastal areas.
Long Island Sound: Sedimentary Environments in Long Island Sound: A Guide to Sea-Floor Management in a Large Urbanized Estuary. USGS Fact Sheet FS 041-98, April 1998. A short but interesting page from the U.S. Geological Survey for the professional geologist or anyone seriously interested in the subject.
Ocean Drilling Program
Ocean Fact Sheet Earth Observatory's Ocean and Climate page
Ocean Planet: Fact-sheet Click on the map or list and find info on the Artic, Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. You can also visit the Ocean Planet Exhibition as it was presented at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.
Oceanographer of the Navy The Office of the Oceanographer of the US Navy is a world-wide research and operational agency on the Chief of Naval Operations staff, whose mission is to collect, analyze, database, and then distribute the oceanographic and meteorological information needed by every ship and aircraft in the United States Navy in order to operate safely and efficiently on, under, and over the world's oceans. I did a seaerch for info on the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean. Click the link to discover what I found (good general information for the student looking for basic information).
Oceanography, a NASA website
National Marine and Coastal Geology Program (USGS): consists of the (1) the Western Region Coastal and Marine Geology Center (see their Table of Contents, too) and (2) the Atlantic Marine Center and (3) the Coastal These are USGS sites covering environental issues, resources, natural hazards and more.
School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology (SOEST) is a multi-disciplinary school within the University of Hawaii, consisting of a variety of institutes, departments, and other units conducting research and teaching about Earth and the other planets.
The Story of Plate Tectonics A USGS web site. See also the USGS National Earthquake Information Center for information on Plate Tectonics.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
