DATA

• Ocean
  • US Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)
    • NorthEast (NERACOOS), Mid-Atlantic (MARACOOS), South Atlantic (SECOORA), Caribbean (CaRA)
    • Gulf of Mexico (GCOOS), Great Lakes (GLOS), Alaska (AOOS)
    • Pacific NW (NANOOS), North/Central CA (CeNCOOS), South CA (SCCOOS), or PacIOOS
  • NOAA's National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), Moored Buoys and C-MAN Stations
  • NOAA's Center for Operational Products, Sealevel, Tides, PORTS
  • NOAA's National Oceanographic Data Center's Coastal Water Temperature Guide
  • UNH Coastal Ocean Observing Center
  • USGS Woods Hole Science Center, Moored Time Series Data
  • Canada's Fisheries and Oceans/Atlantic Zone Monitoring Program, long times series of SST near the Gulf of Maine.

• Weather Information:
  • NOAA's National Weather Service
  • NOAA's National Weather Service: Gray, Maine or Caribou, Maine
  • NOAA's Northeast Regional Climate Center
  • NavCenter Meteorological Monitor
  • NOAA's National Weather Service Marine Weather Program
  • Weather Underground Marine Forecast
  • Maine Surf Reports from surf-reports.com or from Surf Reports from surf-line.com
  • NOAA/NCEP Ocean Prediction Center Forecast Products
  • Maine Harbors: Weather for the New England Mariner

• Tides
  • NOAAs Center for Operation Oceanographic Products and Services
  • NOAA Sealevel/Currents/Tides
  • WWW Tide Predictor
  • Maine Harbors: Tides for the New England Mariner

• Satellite:
  • MODIS Ocean (NASA)
  • SEAWIFS (Canada)
  • Maine Office of GIS
  • Satellite Oceanography Data Lab at the University of Maine
  • Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
  • Goddard Space Flight Center - Remote Sensing Tutorial
  • Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, AVHRR SST Products
  • NOAA/NESDIS SST Contour Charts

• Modelling:
  • U.Maine's Circulation Modeling
  • Gulf of Maine Wave Modeling, Texas A&M

• Marine Life:
  • NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service, NE Regional Office
  • US Fish & Wildlife's Gulf of Maine Coastal Program
  • New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance
  • Robots4Whales - whale detections from autonomous platforms
  • New England Seabirds and Pelagic Birding

• General:
  • Gulf of Maine Watershed Information and Characterization System (GM-WICS)
  • Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment
  • Maine Office of GIS
  • USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program
  • USGS's Water Resources of the United States , River flow
  • Canada's Natural Resources
  • NOAA's National Ocean Data Center (NODC)
  • NOAA/NGDC Marine Geology & Geophysics
  • State of Maine's Department of Marine Resources

Research Institutions and Agencies

• Bedford Institute of Oceanography
• Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
• Gulf of Maine Regional Ocean Science Initiative
• Gulf of Maine Research Institute
• Island Institute
• Lobster Institute
• Maine Maritime Academy
• Maine Sea Grant
• Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, NOAA/NOS
• Stellwagen Bank Sea Floor, USGS, Woods Hole, MA
• University of Maine: School of Marine Sciences
• University of Maine's Darling Marine Center
• University of New England
• University of New Hampshire: Marine Program
• USGS, at Woods Hole
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Research Programs

• 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
• Regional Association for Research on the Gulf of Maine
• State of Maine's Coastal Program
• U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank Program
• MYSound: U.Conn's Marine Environmental Monitoring Network for Long Island Sound
• Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observing Laboratory

Educational Information

• COSEE Ocean Systems
• GoMA Census of Marine Life
• GMRI Online Resources
• Maine Department of Marine Resource: Educational Resources
• NOAA/NEFSC's Ecology of the NE US Continental Shelf
• Gulf of Maine Marine Education Association
• NASA's Site for Kids
• NOAA Education Resources
• NOAA Library's WINDandSEA Teachers' and Students' Corner
• Smithsonian's Ocean Planet
• BRIDGE: Ocean Sciences Education Teacher Resource Center

Resources

• 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
  • 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

• Gulf of Maine Port Information
• Maine Port Authority
• Portland
• Eastport
• Gulf of Maine Vessels
• Fish Research's Vessel Database
• R/V Argo Maine and R/V Rolling Thunder
• Research Vessel Schedules and Information
• Fogler Library's Oceanography Information Resources, University of Maine
• Scientific Tools
• Coastline Extractor,NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC
• Digital Bathymetry for the Gulf of Maine, USGS
• Convert Plus - Online Units Conversstion
• Convert-me.Com Interactive Unit Converter
• MegaConverter
• Nautical Know How, From BoatSafe.com
• World Wide Metric
• The Weather Calculator
• ConvertAuto
• Wind Scales from Maine Harbors
• Moon Information
• Graphing Vector Calculator
• Maps and Charts
  • Canadian Hydrographic Service
  • NOAA's Office of Coast Survey: nautical charts
  • USGS National Mapping Information

• Oceanographic Equipment
• Aanderaa Instruments
• AXYS Technology
• CODAR Ocean Sensors, HF Radar Technology
• Campbell Scientific
• Falmouth Scientific, Inc.
• Gill Instruments
• NORTEK Instruments
• NOBSKA
• RM Young Instruments
• RD Instruments
• Satlantic
• Sea-Bird Electronics, Inc.
• Technocean, Inc.
• Clearwater Oceanographic Instrumentation
• 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.
  • Optical Oceanography glossary from the University of Washington, Mechanical Engineering Department.

OTHER INTERESTING LINKS

• International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange Ocean Portal
• Ocean Information System:Oceanic, University of Delaware
• Spacewatch Space Weather : information on solar activity, auroras, and meteors
• Moon Information
• US Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications , Sun and moon information