Funding Opportunities for Coastal Managers - Directory of NOAA Coastal Services Center & other funding sources for coastal resource management, communities, & spatial information technologies. Go

People for Puget Sound - A non-profit group working to protect & restore the health of Puget Sound & the Northwest Straits through education & action. Offers news, book resources, & links. Go

sealevelcontrol.com - Ocean level rise - causes & possible solutions. Go

National Ocean Service - Information on environmental monitoring, coastal monitoring & assessment, water quality, biodiversity, aeronautical chargting & cartography, nautical charting & cartography, national marine sanctuaries. Go

United Nations Atlas of the Oceans - Extensive information resource on the world's oceans, including geography, biology, physical dynamics, human uses of marine resources, & issues & concerns. Go

Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research - Provides information on research projects, provides access to publications & lists opportunities for researchers to apply for federal funding. Go

Save The Swilly - Information about the potential adverse impacts of aquaculture, the legal situation of aquaculture in Ireland, & about Lough Swilly, County Donegal, & concerns about aquaculture licenses there. Go

Dauphin Island Sea Lab - The Dauphin Island Sea Lab is Alabama's marine research facility. Site has information about lab's college/university programs, Alabama's SEAS education curriculum, & conferences on marine environmental issues (conference on jellyfish blooms in January 2000). Go

Mapping European Seabed Habitats project - Public information about the MESH (Mapping European Seabed Habitats) project; including background information, metadata database & habitat maps. Go

The Oceans of the Earth - A simple table comparing the data of the oceans on Earth. Go

Coalition Clean Baltic - The main goal of CCB is the protection & improvement of the Baltic Sea environment & natural resources. CCB is gathering, producing & distributing information about environmental problems in the Baltic Sea Area. Go

Community Based Coastal Resource Management Resource Center - An organization that advocates & practices CBCRM, particularly in the Philippines & Southeast Asia. It has a network of various CBCRM practioners, such as government organizations, academic & research institutions. Go

American Oceans Campaign - An oceans advocacy non-profit organization which focuses on water/beach quality, fisheries & fish habitat, & marine sanctuaries. Go

Pollution & Oceans - Offers information ocean pollution from seafood, algae, overfishing, & oil spills. Go

Marine Litter on Sable Island - An observation program to monitor marine litter on Sable Island, Nova Scotia. Go

Oceans & Coastal Resources: A Briefing Book - Resources compiled by Congressional Research Service (U.S.). Web site maintained by Center for the National Institute for the Environment. Topics include marine fisheries, the Law of the Sea, coastal wetlands & estuaries, seabed mineral resources, & dolphin protection. Go

NYTimes.com - Litter-Faring Seafarers - Man-made junk, largely of plastic, accounts for up to four-fifths of the debris in the oceans. All that litter is providing more opportunities for marine organisms to spread. [Required free registration at NYTimes.com to view] (April 30, 2002) Go

Pew Oceans Commission - Chartered to assess the condition of America's oceans & living marine resources, & set national priorities to restore & protect them against unintended fishing impacts, coastal development, pollution, climate change, aquaculture, and invasive species. Go

Clean Ocean Action - Clean Ocean Action's goal is to improve the degraded water quality of the marine waters off the New Jersey/New York coast. Clean Ocean Action will identify the sources of pollution & mount an attack on each source by using research, public education, & citizen action to convince our public officials to enact & enforce measures which will clean up & protect our ocean Go

Nachwuchsforschergruppe IMPULSE - In relation to the Integrated Coastal Zone Management the JRG IMPULSE focus on management questions in the coastal range & their coordination by means of modern information technology & mathematic modelling methods. Go