Ocean Related Links and Organizations
Oceana
To
achieve real benefits for the oceans, Oceana conducts focused,
strategic campaigns. Each campaign has a specific timeframe and
objective that will make a significant difference to the oceans. Each
campaign combines scientific, legal, policy and advocacy approaches to
reach its goal. Saving the oceans may take decades, but in each of our
campaigns we aim to accomplish an important milestone in that effort
within two to five years.
World
Ocean
Observatory
is
an Internet-based place of exchange for
ocean information, educational services, and public discourse about the
ocean defined as an "integrated, global, social system," thereby
relating the ocean to climate, biodiversity, fresh water,
food, energy,
human health, trade,
transportation, policy, governance, finance, coastal development, and
cultural traditions.
The National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA)
NOAA
is an agency that enriches life through science. Our reach goes from
the surface of the sun to the depths of the ocean floor as we work to
keep citizens informed of the changing environment around them. From
daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings
and climate monitoring to fisheries management, coastal restoration and
supporting marine commerce, NOAA’s products and services support
economic vitality and affect more than one-third of America’s gross
domestic product. NOAA’s dedicated scientists use cutting-edge research
and high-tech instrumentation to provide citizens, planners, emergency
managers and other decision makers with reliable information they need
when they need it.
About
Greenpeace
Seen
from space the Earth is covered in a blue mantle. It is a planet on
which the continents are dwarfed by the oceans surrounding them and the
immensity of the marine realm. Greenpeace exists because this fragile
earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs
action. Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organization
that acts to change attitudes and behavior, to protect and conserve the
environment and to promote peace.
About mongabay.com
With
more than one million unique visitors per month, Mongabay.com is one of
the world's most popular environmental science and conservation news
sites. The news and rainforests sections of the site are widely cited
for information on tropical forests, conservation, and wildlife.
Mongabay.com aims to raise interest in wildlife and wildlands while
promoting awareness of environmental issues. Originally the site was
based around a text on tropical rainforests written by Rhett
A. Butler,
but today the site has expanded to other topics (like Madagascar
[WildMadagasacar.org]) and is available in versions for kids and in
more than two dozen non-English languages. Mongabay.com is also
publisher of Tropical Conservation Science, a peer-reviewed,
open-access academic journal that seeks to provide opportunities for
scientists in developing countries to publish their research in their
native languages. Mongabay.com has been featured in the San Francisco
Chronicle, Time Magazine,
The Wall Street Journal, and other national and international
publications.
Yale
e360
Yale
Environment 360 is a publication of the Yale School of Forestry
& Environmental Studies.
Also
from Yale Environment 360
- With
Temperatures Rising, Here Comes ‘Global Weirding’
- Pursuing
the Elusive Goal Of a Carbon-Neutral Building
- The
Dam Building Boom: Right Path to Clean Energy?
- Michael
Pollan on What's Wrong with Environmentalism
- Environmental
Failure: A Case for a New Green Politics
- How
The Food Industry Follows Big Tobacco's Strategy
- More
e360 Features
The Ocean Alliance
“Ocean Alliance is a research organization that focuses
on whales and marine toxicology.”
Greenpeace
Research Laboratories Report (pdf)
May
1998
The
worlds' oceans comprise the largest habitat on earth. 71% of the
surface of the earth is covered byseawater to an average depth of
3.8km. The total volume of this water is around 1.3 billion
cubic kilometres and comprises around 0.24% of the total mass
of the earth. (Angel 1997). These statistics hide a
considerable diversity of habitat. The abyssal depths of the ocean
between 3 and 6km in depth cover 51% of the surface with
depths over 6km accounting for less than 2%. The continental slopes
between 200m and 3km depth cover 13% of the surface while the
continental shelves underlying water up to 200m deep account
for 5% of the earth's surface. This huge biological system is richer in
major groupings of animals
than the land. Of the thirty four major taxonomic groupings (phyla) of
animals, twenty nine occur in the sea and fourteen are found
exclusively there (Tickell 1997). Coral reefs have long been known to
very species rich (Paulay 1997) but new research methods have
shown the ocean floors also to be extremely rich in
biodiversity (Scheltema 1996; Gage 1997). Quite apart from
the commercially valuable species it
is increasingly being recognised that this diversity of life
has an intrinsic moral as well as monetary value (O'Niell
1997; Oksanen 1997; Moyle & Moyle 1995).
RealClimate
RealClimate is a commentary site on climate science by
working climate
scientists for the interested public and journalists. We aim to provide
a quick response to developing stories and provide the context
sometimes missing in mainstream commentary. The discussion here is
restricted to scientific topics and will not get involved in any
political or economic implications of the science. All posts are signed
by the author(s), except 'group' posts which are collective efforts
from the whole team. This is a moderated forum. Other Ocean-related Links by Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea
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law of the sea-related page within a web site. Entries are listed
in alphabetical order by full name. Links to Ocean Related Organizations and Databases
OPEN SEAS INSTRUMENTATION INC
This
page contains links to some ocean related Organizations and Data Bases.
Also see our Oceanographic Laboratories page and our Commercial Ocean
Industries page. Reef
REEF
was founded in 1990, out of growing concern about the health of the
marine environment, and the desire to provide the SCUBA diving
community a way to contribute to the understanding and protection of
marine populations. REEF achieves this goal primarily through its
volunteer fish monitoring program, the REEF Fish Survey Project.
Participants in the Project not only learn about the environment they
are diving in, but they also produce valuable information. Scientists,
marine park staff, and the general public use the data that are
collected by REEF volunteers. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement
On
October 1, 2011, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and
Enforcement (BOEMRE), formerly the Minerals Management Service (MMS),
was replaced by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the
Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) as part of a
major reorganization. NOAA
NOAA
is an agency that enriches life through science. Our reach goes from
the surface of the sun to the depths of the ocean floor as we work to
keep citizens informed of the changing environment around them.
From
daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings and climate monitoring
to fisheries management, coastal restoration and supporting marine
commerce, NOAA’s products and services support economic vitality and
affect more than one-third of America’s gross domestic product. NOAA’s
dedicated scientists use cutting-edge research and high-tech
instrumentation to provide citizens, planners, emergency managers and
other decision makers with reliable information they need when they
need it. Ocean Vessels and Large Ships
Large
ships such as container ships, tankers, bulk carriers, cruise ships,
and Lakers are significant contributors to air pollution in many of our
nation’s cities and ports. There are two types of diesel engines used
on large ships: main propulsion and auxiliary engines. The main
propulsion engines on most large ships are "Category 3" marine diesel
engines, which can stand over three stories tall and run the length of
two school buses. Auxiliary engines on large ships typically range in
size from small portable generators to locomotive-size engines. |