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.
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