M.S.E. Homepage | References | Marine Biology Links

MARINE BIOLOGY

Algae | Bioluminescence | Birds | Coral Reefs | Estuaries
Fish | Invertebrates | Marine Mammals
Plankton | Sea Turtles | Sharks

Algae

Giant Brown Kelp page http://www.mbari.org/~conn/botany/browns/james/default.htm

Harmful Algae page http://www.whoi.edu/redtide/

Kelp Forest & Rocky Subtidal Habitats http://bonita.mbnms.nos.noaa.gov/sitechar/kelp.html

Kelp Forests http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/kelpforest.html

M.A.R.I.N.E. Algae I.D. page http://www.marine.gov/Updated%20webpages/MMS/algae.html

National Museum of Natural History algae page http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/projects/algae/

PISCO Algae Taxonomy page http://www.piscoweb.org/cgi-bin/qml/newalgaequery.qml

Specimen photos from OceanGlobe http://www.msc.ucla.edu/oceanglobe/photos.htm

Toxic & Harmful Algae Blooms http://www.bigelow.org/hab/

Bioluminescence

“Glow-Living Lights”exhibit page http://www.glowexhibit.com/

HBOI’s Bioluminescence Page http://www.biolum.org/

Scripps Bioluminescence page http://siobiolum.ucsd.edu/Biolum_intro.html

UCSB’s The Bioluminescence Webpage http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/~biolum/index.shtml

BIRDS

Annotated list of the seabirds of the world http://www.oceanwanderers.com/Seabird.Home.html

General Seabird info, courtesy Australian Dept. of Environment & Heritage http://www.deh.gov.au/coasts/species/seabirds/

Oceanwanderers Birding home page http://www.oceanwanderers.com

On-line shorebird field trip http://www.efieldtrips.org/Shorebirds/index.htm

Pacific Seabird Group general links http://www.pacificseabirdgroup.org/resources.html

Pacific Seabird Group photo gallery http://www.pacificseabirdgroup.org/gallery.html

Pelagic Seabird image gallery: http://www.seabirding.com/bpiimage.htm

Point Reyes Bird Observatory conservation and education page http://www.prbo.org/cms/index.php?mid=40&module=browse

Save our Seabirds http://www.seabirdrehab.org

Seabirds & Shorebirds of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary http://bonita.mbnms.nos.noaa.gov/sitechar/bird.html

Seabirds in Alaska, courtesy USGS http://www.absc.usgs.gov/research/seabird_foragefish/

SIMoN Seabirds and Shorebirds educational links http://www.mbnms-simon.org/sections/birds/education.php?sec=ss

Sudden death: Seabirds and Longlines report from the American Bird Conservancy http://www.abcbirds.org/policy/seabird_report.pdf

US Fish & Wildlife Service Seabirds page http://www.r7.fws.gov/mbm/seabirds/

Coral Reefs

Coral Realm http://www.coralrealm.com/homepage.html

Coral Reef Alliance http://www.coralreefalliance.org/

Coral Reef Ecology http://www.uvi.edu/coral.reefer/index.html

Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary: Coral Reefs http://floridakeys.noaa.gov/coraleducation.html

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority education page http://www.reefed.edu.au/

Hawaii Coral Reef Network http://www.coralreefnetwork.com/

International Coral Reef Initiative http://www.icriforum.org/

International Coral Reef Information Network http://www.coralreef.org/

NOAA's coral education page http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/corals/welcome.html

NOAA's Coral Reef Information System http://www.coris.noaa.gov/

NOAA’s Coral Reef page http://www.coralreef.noaa.gov/

NOAA's National Ocean Service Coral Reef Conservation page http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/topics/oceans/coralreefs/welcome.html

NOAA Ocean Service Coral Reef Tutorial http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/corals/welcome.html

Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve http://hawaiireef.noaa.gov/education/welcome.html

Reef Education Network http://www.reef.edu.au/default.htm

Reef Life http://www.seasky.org/reeflife/sea2.html

Reef Relief http://www.reefrelief.org/main.html

Reef Watch http://www.bigelow.org/reefwatch2001/

Sea World Corals page http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/info-books/coral/

Estuaries

Chesapeake Bay Foundation http://www.cbf.org/site/PageServer?pagename=cbf_homepage

Estuary Live! http://www.estuarylive.org/

Estuary-Net http://inlet.geol.sc.edu/estnet.html

San Francisco Estuary Insitute http://www.sfei.org/

The San Francisco Estuary Project http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/sfep/programs/

Save the Bay http://www.savesfbay.org/

U.S. EPA Estuary page http://omp.gso.uri.edu/doee/doee.htm

U.S. EPA National Estuary Program http://www.epa.gov/nep/

Fish

The Australian Museum Fish site http://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/

California Academy of Sciences http://www.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/

California Department of Fish and Game http://www.dfg.ca.gov/

Comprehensive Fish Index by common or Latin name http://fishbase.org/search.cfm

Ichthyology at FL Museum of Natural History http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/default.htm

Index of fish information http://www.meer.org/mbtoc2.htm

National Marine Fisheries Service http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/

National Museum of Natural History, Division of Fishes http://www.nmnh.si.edu/vert/fish.html

Net Vet fish site http://netvet.wustl.edu/fish.htm

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service http://www.fws.gov/

Invertebrates

Alaska Sealife Center, "Seashore Survivors" guide to intertidal invertebrates http://www.efieldtrips.org/Invertebrates/index.htm

American Malacological Society http://erato.acnatsci.org/ams/index.html

Blue Crab Archives http://www.blue-crab.org/

Conchologists of America-- http://coa.acnatsci.org/conchnet/educonsr.html

M.A.R.I.N.E. Invert I.D. page http://www.marine.gov/Updated%20webpages/MMS/invertebrates.html

Phylum descriptions http://www.meer.org/mbtoc2.htm

Specimen photos from OceanGlobe (scroll down for inverts) http://www.msc.ucla.edu/oceanglobe/photos.htm

The Cephalopod Page http://is.dal.ca/~ceph/TCP/

Marine Mammals

Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums http://ammpa.org/educate/educate.html

American Cetacean Society http://www.acsonline.org/links.htm

Center for Whale Research http://www.rockisland.com/~orcasurv/

Cetacean Research http://www.cetaceanresearch.com/links.html

International Marine Mammal Association http://www.imma.org/

National Marine Mammal Lab http://nmml.afsc.noaa.gov/education/default.htm

NOAA Marine Mammal Protection Act page http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/prot_res/laws/MMPA/MMPA.html

Pacific Whale Foundation http://www.pacificwhale.org/index.html

The Marine Mammal Center http://www.tmmc.org/learning/education/mammalinfo/mammals.asp

Save the Manatee http://www.savethemanatee.org/

Society for Marine Mammalogy http://www.marinemammalogy.org/

Whale I.D. quiz http://whalekey.moogle.blinkk.com/

Whale Net species and behaviors http://whale.wheelock.edu/whalenet-stuff/classifications.html

Whale Net curriculum resources http://whale.wheelock.edu/whalenet-stuff/curriculum.html

Whale Net main page http://whale.wheelock.edu/Welcome.html

Plankton

Bottom O’ the Food Web http://www.bigelow.org/foodweb/

Hatch to Catch http://www.bigelow.org/hatch_to_catch/

Northwest Fisheries Science Center HABs http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/hab/index.htm

The Harmful Algae page http://www.whoi.edu/redtide/

Copepod page http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/zoomorphology/Biology.html#biotable

SEA TURTLES

Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research http://accstr.ufl.edu/

The Bridge’s sea turtle website index http://www.vims.edu/bridge/seaturtles.html

Loggerhead turtle data http://whale.wheelock.edu/whalenet-stuff/Loggerhead98/

Sea Turtle Preservation Society http://www.seaturtlespacecoast.org/loggerhead-turtles-volunteers.html

Turtle Trax http://www.turtles.org/

Sharks

CSIRO shark tracking http://www.marine.csiro.au/research/tagging/neale/index.htm

Dr. Long’s Great White Shark page http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/Doug/shark.html

Florida Museum of Natural History http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Sharks/sharks.htm

Mote Marine Lab’s Center for Shark Research http://www.mote.org/~rhueter/sharks/shark.phtml

NOAA Fisheries Shark website http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sharks/

Pelagic Shark Research Foundation http://www.pelagic.org/

Shark Education and Awareness program http://www.seaprogram.com/education.htm

South African White Shark Research Institute http://www.whiteshark.co.za/

Tagging Research http://www.marine.csiro.au/research/tagging/neale/index.htm

Wildlife Conservation Society-Great White Shark page http://wcs.org/home/wild/marine/greatwhitesharks/