Related Links: Corresponding to Textbook Chapters

All internet links are related to corresponding chapters in the Oceanography textbook written by Tom Garrison.

Chapter 1 - An Ocean World

Colombia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Home Page:
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
   -oceanographic images from the space shuttle:
http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/OCDST/shuttle_oceanography_web/oss_contents.html

Smithsonian's Ocean Planet:
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean_planet.html

U.S. Coast Guard:
http://www.uscg.mil/

UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission:
http://ioc.unesco.org/iocweb/

Chapter 2 - A History of Marine Science

Aerospace Corporation has a primer about the Global Positioning System:
http://www.aero.org/publications/GPSPRIMER/index.html

Canada's OceanLink Marine Science Information and Interaction:
http://oceanlink.island.net/

Captain James Cook Web Site:
http://www.oocities.org/TheTropics/7557/

Don Reed's web site at San Jose State University
   -includes exercises and activities for oceanography classes:
http://geosun1.sjsu.edu/class/cls_indx.htm

Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command Public Affairs Office:
http://www.cnmoc.navy.mil/educate/neptune/neptune.htm

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA):
http://www.noaa.gov/

NOAA's Oceanography Resources on the Internet:
http://www.esdim.noaa.gov/ocean_page.html

U.S. Geological Survey
   -features "Ask a Geologist", where you can ask any Earth science or
    oceanography related question:
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/docs/ask-a-ge.html

U.S. Metric System:
http://lamar.ColoState.edu/~hillger/

U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office:
http://www.navo.navy.mil/

U.S. Office of Naval Research:
http://www.onr.navy.mil/

Scientific American:
http://www.sciam.com/

UCSD Scripps Institution of Oceanography:
http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution:
http://www.whoi.edu/

Chapter 3 - Earth Structure and Plate Tectonics

Earth Geology

NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center
   -contains Marine Geology and Geophysics bathymetric data and images:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/mggd.htm

U.S. Geological Survey
   -an on-line publication about geologic time:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/

U.S. Geological Survey Coastal and Marine Geology Program:
http://marine.usgs.gov/

Plate Tectonics

NASA's Observatorium
   -tutorial about plate tectonics:
http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/earth/tectonics/Tectonics1.html

U.S. Geological Survey's Book "This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics"
   -on-line edition with graphics about plate tectonic processes:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html

Volcanoes and Earthquakes

Hawaii Center for Volcanology's Loihi Volcano Page
   -features updates about Loihi's continuing activity and a virtual tour
    of the volcano:
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/HCV/loihi.html

NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center's Hazard Page
   -photo gallery of earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, and other natural
    hazards:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/hazards.shtml

U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center
   -real-time worldwide earthquake data:
http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/

U.S. Geological Survey's Hazard Page
   -information on earthquakes and volcanoes:
http://www.usgs.gov/themes/hazard.html

Volcano World
   -information about current and recent volcanic eruptions throughout the
    world:
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/

Chapter 4 - Continental Margins and Ocean Basins

Seafloor Topography

Christopher R. Scotese's PALEOMAP Project
   -paleogeographic maps of the world:
http://www.scotese.com/earth.htm

Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
   -ocean floor database that includes animated fly-bys of various segments
    of the mid-ocean ridge:
http://imager.ldeo.columbia.edu/

Measured and Estimated Seafloor Topography Maps:
http://topex.ucsd.edu/marine_topo/mar_topo.html

NASA's Observatorium
   -information about impact craters:
http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/exhibits/craters/impact_home.html

Hydrothermal Vents

NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory VENTS Program
   -conducts research on the impacts and consequences of submarine
    volcanoes and hydrothermal venting on the global ocean:
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/home.html

NOVA/PBS Online Adventure: Into the Abyss
   -dive to the Juan de Fuca Ridge to study black smokers:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/abyss/

University of Washington School of Oceanography Exploraquarium's Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vents:
http://www.ocean.washington.edu/people/grads/scottv/exploraquarium/vent/intro.htm

University of Washington's Revel Project
   -recent volcanic and hydrothermal activity along the Magic site on
    the Gorda Ridge:
http://www.ocean.washington.edu/outreach/revel/revelhome.html

Chapter 5 - Sediments

A world map showing total sediment thickness of the world's oceans and marginal seas:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/sedthick/sedthick.html

Bowling Green State University's Center for Algal Microscopy and Image Digitization
   -has SEM images of diatoms:
http://www.bgsu.edu/Departments/biology/algae/

Images showing the size of plankton relative to a sewing needle:
http://www.bugware.com/sem_gallery/d_needle.htm

Indiana University Biology Department's Diatom Home Page:
http://www.indiana.edu/~diatom/diatom.html

NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center's "What is Marine Sediment Made of?":
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/sedimentimages.HTML

Texas A&M University Ocean Drilling Program
   -features current information about deep-sea drilling for sediment cores
    with the drillship JOIDES Resolution
http://www-odp.tamu.edu/

The Emiliania huxleyi Home Page
   -good SEM images and information about the most famous species of
    coccolithophore:
http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/SUDO/tt/eh/

Chapter 6 - Seawater Chemistry

Salt

International Desalination Association:
http://www.ida.bm/

Salt Institute
   -information about solar salt production from seawater:
http://www.saltinstitute.org/

The Salt Marsh:
http://www.tip.net.au/~sef/amanda/saltmars.htm

WaterMakers Inc.
   -information about how reverse osmosis and desalination work:
http://www.watermakers.com/how.htm

Dissolved Gases

Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) International Home Page
   -information about the measurement and role of CO₂ in the ocean:
http://ads.smr.uib.no/jgofs/jgofs.htm

Chapter 7 - Ocean Physics

Water and Heat

Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean (SHEBA)
   -reports and results of the year-long on-site monitoring project:
http://sheba.apl.washington.edu/

Temperature, Salinity, and Density

Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate:
http://atoc.ucsd.edu/

NOAA's Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program Database:
http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/GTSPP/gtspp-home.html

States of Matter

Louis A. Bloomfield from the University of Virginia's "How Things Work: Water, Steam, and Ice":
http://landau1.phys.virginia.edu/Education/Teaching/HowThingsWork/water_steam_ice.html

National Snow and Ice Data Center
   -recent images of global sea ice coverage and other information:
http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/NSIDC/

SEM images of snowflakes:
http://www.lpsi.barc.usda.gov/emusnow/

U.S. Coast Guard International Ice Patrol:
http://www.uscg.mil/lantarea/iip/home.html

Ocean Color

Classic Scenes from the Coastal Zone Color Scanner
   -images and questions about ocean color from SeaWiFS Satellite
    data:
http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/OCDST/classic_scenes/00_classics_index.html

Information about ocean color:
http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/OCDST/what_is_ocean_color.html

SeaWiFS Satellite Home Page
   -images and information about the SeaWiFS Project, which maps ocean
    color from space:
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS.html

Chapter 8 - Atmospheric Circulation and Weather

Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Topex satellite
   -near real-time global images of water vapor and wind speed:
http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov

NOAA's National Climatic Data Center
   -climate data from a variety of recording stations and orbiting satellites:
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html

NOAA's National Hurricane Center
   -tracks hurricanes and contains excellent images:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.html

NASA's Observatorium
   -tutorial about the seasons:
http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/earth/seasons/seasons1.html

Space Science and Engineering Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
   -real-time global weather images and movies from geostationary
    satellites:
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/

U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS)
   -information about global climate change:
http://www1.whoi.edu/jgofs.html

University of Michigan's weather site:
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet

Chapter 9 - Ocean Circulation

Current Circulation

Eddies of the Gulf Stream as well as warm- and cold-core rings:
http://rs.gso.uri.edu/amy/avhrr.html

Information about deep water thermohaline circulation:
http://www.glacier.rice.edu/chapters/oceans/4_densitydriven.html

NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Lab's Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) Array
   -features real-time oceanographic data from the tropical Pacific:
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/

Ocean Planet- Information on Ocean Currents:
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/oceanography_currents_1.html

El Niņo

ENSO Observing System- El Niņo / Southern Oscillation:
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/.noaa/elnino.html

Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Topex Satellite
   -information about the 1997-1998 El Niņo event as well as near
    real-time images of global wave height:
http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov

NASA's Observatorium
   -information about El Niņo:
http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/earth/el_nino/elnino.html

NOAA's Climate Prediction Center's El Niņo/Southern Oscillation Page:
http://www.nnic.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/ensostuff/

NOAA's El Niņo Home Page:
http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/

NOAA's Office of Global Programs
   -current information about El Niņo, La Niņa, and the Southern
    Oscillation:
http://www.ogp.noaa.gov/enso/

NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Lab's El Niņo Page
   -information about the ENSO phenomenon, including sections on
    "The Basics", "What's Happening Now" and "Where to Find El
    Niņo Related Data":
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/nino-home.html

NOVA/PBS Online Adventure: Tracking El Niņo:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elnino/

Chapter 10 - Wave Dynamics and Wind Waves

NOAA's National Data Buoy Center
   -answers the question "What causes ocean surface waves?":
http://seaboard.ndbc.noaa.gov/educate/pacwave.shtml

Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Coastal Data Information Program
   -swell predictions for southern California:
http://cdip.ucsd.edu/models/wave.model.shtml

U.S. Navy's Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center
   -atmospheric and oceanographic data, including real-time forecasts of
    wave height for all oceans of the world:
http://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/

Chapter 11 - Tsunami, Seiches, and Tides

Tsunami and Seiches

Costas Synolakis of the University of Southern California
   -archive of digital tsunami images from 1992-96 tsunami field surveys
    and includes video footage of post-tsunami damage:
http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/

Local Tsunamis in the Pacific Northwest
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/tsunami/cascadia.html

NASA's Observatorium
   -information about the causes and destructive forces of tsunamis:
http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/exhibits/tsunami/tsun_start.html

NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center's Hazard Page
   -photo gallery of earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, and other natural
    hazards:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/hazards.shtml

NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
   -devoted to PMEL's tsunami-related computer simulations and modeling
    efforts:
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami/

Pacific Tsunami Warning System
   -issues tsunami warnings and has links to other tsunami forecast centers:
http://lumahai.soest.hawaii.edu/tsunami.html

University of Washington's tsunami web site:
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/welcome.html

Tides

Daily tide and current predictions:
http://www.tides.com/tcpred.htm

Information about tides:
http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/~wormuth/tides.html

NOAA's National Data Buoy Center
   -answers the question "What are tides?":
http://seaboard.ndbc.noaa.gov/educate/tides.shtml

NOAA's National Ocean Service Oceanic Products and Services Division
   -information about tides, real-time tide data, and tide predictions:
http://www1.pactide.noaa.gov/

NOAA's National Ocean Service Oceanic Products and Services Division
   -contains a tide predictor that allows tide predictions to be
    calculated at more than 3000 stations in the U.S.:
http://www.opsd.nos.noaa.gov/tp4days.html

WWW Tide and Current Predictor
   -good graphs of tides:
http://tbone.biol.sc.edu/tide/sitesel.html

Chapter 12 - Coasts

Chris Metzler of MiraCosta College
   -features a coastal erosion virtual field trip:
http://www.miracosta.cc.ca.us/home/cmetzler/field_trip/top.html

Creation of California's beaches:
http://ceres.ca.gov/ceres/calweb/coastal/beaches.html

Jaques Cousteau National Estuarine Reserve:
http://marine.rutgers.edu/pt/

NOAA's Coastal Services Center Coastal Change Analysis Program
   -studies coastal change and publishes "before" and "after" images:
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/crs/ccap_index.html

NOAA's CoastWatch Program
   -coastal information through regional nodes:
http://sgiot2.wwb.noaa.gov/COASTWATCH/

Restore America's Estuaries:
http://www.estuaries.org/

Scripps Institution of Oceanography Center for Coastal Studies:
http://ccs.ucsd.edu/

U.S. Geological Survey Marine and Coastal Geology Group
   -fact sheet on Hurricane Impacts on the Coastal Environment:
http://marine.usgs.gov/fact-sheets/hurricane/hurricane-txt.html

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