Links to Gulf of Maine Data and Information

Links to Gulf of Maine Data and Information
Physical Oceanography Group
School of Marine Sciences
University of Maine

Data
- Canada's Fisheries and Oceans/MEDS Atlantic Zone Monitoring Program, long times series of SST near the Gulf of Maine.
- Gulf of Maine Land-Based Pollution Sources Inventory
- Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, AVHRR SST Products
- Maine Office of GIS
- NOAA's National Oceanographic Data Center's Coastal Water Temperature Guide
- NOAA's National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) NE Regional Map, Moored Buoys and C-MAN Stations
- NOAA's Center for Operational Products, Sealevel, Tides, PORTS
- NOAA/NESDIS Experimental SST Contour Charts
- USGS Woods Hole Science Center, Moored Time Series Data
- USGS's Water Resources of the United States , River flow
Satellite Data:
Modelling Data:
- U.Maine's Circulation Modeling
- Texas A&M Gulf of Maine Operational Wave Predictions
Weather Information:
- NOAA's National Weather Service
- NOAA's National Weather Service, Gray, Maine
- NOAA's Northeast Regional Climate Center
- NavCenter Meteorological Monitor
- U.S. Navy's NAS Brunswick
- NOAA's National Weather Service Marine Weather Program
- Weather Underground Marine Forecast
- Gulf of Maine Wave Modeling, Texas A&M
- NorthEast Wave Heights, from Surfinfo.com
- NOAA/NCEP Ocean Prediction Center Forecast Products
- Maine Harbors: Weather for the New England Mariner
Gulf of Maine Port Information

Research Institutions and Agencies
Cooperative Programs and Research Projects
- ACZISC: A Guide to Coastal Information in Atlantic Canada
- EcOHAB's Gulf of Maine Program
- FishResearch, Collaborative Fishery Research in New England
- Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment
- Gulf of Maine Research Information System
- Island Institute, Rockland, ME
- Lobster Institute
- Regional Association for Research on the Gulf of Maine
- State of Maine's Coastal Program
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Gulf of Maine Coastal Program
- U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank Program
Government Agencies:
Aquariums and Museums:
- Gulf of Maine Aquarium, Portland, Maine
- New England Aquarium, Boston, Massachusetts
- Maine Maritime Museum, Bath, Maine
- New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts
- Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport, Maine
- Portland Harbor Museum, Portland, Maine
- USS Constitution Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
- Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
- Kendall Whaling Museum, Sharon, Massachusetts
- Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
News Articles:
- Portland Press Herald's Article on GoMOOS, by Dennis Hoey (30 December 1999)
- CNN's Article of the Gulf of Maine (4 August 2000)

Alliance for Coastal Technologies (ACT)
European Component of GOOS (EuroGOOS)
Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment: GODAE
Global Ocean Observing System: GOOS
Global Observing System Information Center: GOSIC
Lake Access, Real-time water quality information from Minneapolis metropolitan lakes
MYSound: U.Conn's Marine Environmental Monitoring Network for Long Island Sound
Monterey Bay Ocean Observing System
NOAA Coastal Services Center: links to coastal and ocean U.S. monitoring and observing system homepages and reports
PORTS, NOAA Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services
Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observing Laboratory
USF/COMPS West Florida Shelf Observing Stations Program
SEACOOS
TAO, NOAA/PMEL's Tropical Atmosphere Ocean Array of moored buoys in the tropical Pacific
Texas A&M University's Texas Automated Buoy System (TABS): real-time oceanographic data supporting oil spill prevention and response

Maps and Charts
Tides
- NOAAs Center for Operation Oceanographic Products and Services
- NOAA Sealevel/Currents/Tides
- WWW Tide Predictor
- Maine Harbors: Tides for the New England Mariner
Educational Information
- NASA's Site for Kids
- Naval Postgraduate School's "What's Satellite Oceanography all about?
- NOAA Education Resources
- NOAA Library's WINDandSEA Teachers' and Students' Corner
- Smithsonian's Ocean Planet
- BRIDGE: Ocean Sciences Education Teacher Resource Center
Oceanographic Equipment

Analysis Tools
- MathWorks, Matlab and other products
- USGS Sea-Mat Matlab Tools for Oceanographic Analysis
- CSIRO's Seawater Tool Kit, Toolsfor computing properties of seawater
- M_Map, A mapping package for Matlab
- STAPLOT, analysis of hydrographic data in Matlab
- MySQL, Open Source Database
- PHP, Web Scripting Language
- Unidata NetCDF
Glossaries of Scientific Terms
- Glossary of Oceanography and the Related Geosciences with Reference by Steven K. Baum, Texas A&M University, January 20, 1997. Referenced by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Committee of UNESCO.
- Marine biology glossary from State University of New York at Stony Brook.
- Fish terms glossary from StreamNet, a consortium of Northwest wildlife agencies and tribal governments.
- Marine ecology glossary from Rice University, An addenda to the Galveston Bay characterization.
- Ocean Physics Glossary, from the Applied Physics Laboratory of the University of Washington.
- Optical Oceanography glossary from the University of Washington, Mechanical Engineering Department.
- Tide glossary developed by National Ocean Service of NOAA.
- Coastal Engineering Terms Glossary developed by the Corps of Engineers for use with its Coastal Engineering Manual.