Name

Acronym

Description

URL

UN Atlas of the oceans

The Atlas is an information system designed for use by policy makers who need to become familiar with ocean issues and by scientists, students and resource managers who need access to underlying data bases and approaches to sustainability

http://www.oceansatlas.org/index.jsp

Hellenic National Oceanographic Data Centre

HNODC

http://hnodc.ncmr.ariadne-t.gr/

Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

SMHI

SMHI, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, offers comprehensive competence within the areas of meteorology, hydrology and oceanography

International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange

IODE

A programme of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (UNESCO).  The IODE system forms a worldwide service oriented network consisting of DNAs (Designated National Agencies), NODCs (National Oceanographic Data Centres), RNODCs (Responsible National Oceanographic Data Centres) and WDCs (World Data Centres – Oceanography). During the past 40 years, IOC Member States have established over 60 oceanographic data centres in as many countries.
This network has been able to collect, control the quality of, and archive millions of ocean observations, and makes these available to Member States.

http://www.iode.org/

Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics

GLOBEC

GLOBEC was initiated by SCOR and the IOC of UNESCO in 1991, to understand how global change will affect the abundance, diversity and productivity of marine populations comprising a major component of oceanic ecosystems.

http://www.globec.org/

Climate Variability and Predicability

CLIVAR

Production of multi-model ensemble integrations for the IPCC assessments. Seasonal-to-interannual prediction studies first pioneered under TOGA. To advance the science of climate variability and predictability, but also to ensure that this science benefits society in general.

http://www.clivar.org/index.php

British Oceanographic Data Centre

BODC

BODC is a national facility for looking after and distributing data concerning the marine environment.  They deal with biological, chemical, physical and geophysical data, and our databases contain measurements of nearly 10,000 different variables.

http://www.bodc.ac.uk/

Census of Marine Life

CoML

The Census of Marine Life is a growing global network of researchers in more than 70 nations engaged in a ten-year initiative to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life in the oceans

http://www.coml.org/coml.htm

Ocean Biogeographic Information System

OBIS

OBIS is a web-based provider of global geo-referenced information on marine species. They contain expert species level and habitat level databases and provide a variety of spatial query tools for visualizing relationships among species and their environment.

http://www.iobis.org/

Office of Naval Research

WOOD

The Worldwide Ocean Optics Database is a collection of several hundred ocean optics data sets gathered over time that encompass much of the world's oceans.

http://wood.jhuapl.edu/

Indian Ocean Oceanography and Climatology Virtual Centre

IOCO

Its purpose is to include all the available information relevant to Indian Ocean studies in view to gather common interests.

The ARGO project

Argo is a global array of 3,000 free-drifting profiling floats that measures the temperature and salinity of the upper 2000 m of the ocean.  This allows, for the first time, continuous monitoring of the temperature, salinity, and velocity of the upper ocean, with all data being relayed and made publicly available within hours after collection.

http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/

Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology

JCOMM

The Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM) is an intergovernmental body of experts, which provides the international, intergovernmental coordination, regulation and management mechanism for an operational oceanographic and marine meteorological observing, data management and services system. JCOMM is supported by a joint Secretariat, in WMO by the Marine Meteorology and Oceanography Programme and in IOC through the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) Project Office and the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) Secretariat. Marine Meteorology and Oceanography Programme is under the responsibility of the Ocean Affairs Division of the Applications Programme Department (APP) of WMO.

http://www.wmo.ch/web/aom/marprog/marprog.html

Coriolis

Coriolis

A system for operational oceanography is under development in France to monitor and forecast the ocean behavior. It is composed of three projects:
- Sea-surface observation using satellite sensors,
- In situ measurements from ships, moored or drifting autonomous systems,
- Assimilation of in-situ and satellite data in an ocean circulation model.

http://www.coriolis.eu.org//

Coriolis DATA page

Coriolis

http://www.coriolis.eu.org//cdc/default.htm

Marine Climatological Summaries Scheme

MCSS

The MCSS, established in 1964, has as its primary objective the international exchange, quality control and archival of delayed mode marine climatological data, in support of global climate studies and the provision of a range on marine climatological services.  Eight countries are designated to process the data and regularly publish the climatological summaries. Two Global Data Collecting Centres (GCC) were established in 1993 in Germany and the United Kingdom to facilitate and enhance the flow and quality control of the data.  All data are eventually archived in the appropriate World Data Centres, such as the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC).

Global Digital Sea Ice Data Bank 

GDSIDB 

This project, the GDSIDB, initiated in 1989 in support of global climate monitoring, research and prediction, as well as specialized services, has as its primary objective to implement a consolidated data bank of digital sea-ice information. Several countries are participating, and contribute to the merging of digitized sea-ice data into a single data bank. The two main centres are the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, USA and the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) in St Petersburg, Russian Federation. Comprehensive data sets now exist for the Arctic Ocean and other northern hemisphere sea ice areas, for the period from the 1960s to the present. Some digital data for the Antarctic are also available.

Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Programme 

GTSPP 

A cooperative international programme, the GTSPP maintains a global ocean T-S resource with data that are both up-to-date and of the highest quality possible. Both real-time data transmitted over the (GTS), and delayed-mode data received by contribution countries are acquired and quality controlled by the Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS, Canada) and eventually incorporated into a continuously managed database maintained by the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), USA.  Countries contributing data to the project are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, and the United States. 

http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/GTSPP/gtspp-home.html

Global Observing System Information Center 

GOSIC 

The Global Observing System Information Center (GOSIC) provides information on the observing requirements, the operational data systems, and the access procedures for finding and obtaining data and products of the G3OS. The G3OS consists of the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), and the Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS). GOSIC is supported by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. GOSIC is housed at the University of Delaware, USA.

International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea

GMDSS and SOLAS

The WMO Marine Programme coordinates the dissemination of warnings and weather and sea bulletins according to a broadcast schedule, in conformity with procedures laid down under the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) protocols within SOLAS. For broadcast purposes, the world's oceans are divided into a number of areas of responsibility called Metareas, each the responsibility of a National Meteorological Service (I: United Kingdom; II: France; III: Greece/France; IV, XII and XVI: USA; V: Brazil; VI: Argentina; VII: South Africa; VIII(S): Mauritius/La Réunion; VIII(N):India; IX: Pakistan; X: Australia; XI (Indian Ocean): China; XI (Pacific Ocean): Japan; XIII: Russian Federation; XIV: New Zealand and XV: Chile). A web site providing real-time maritime weather information is run by Meteo France.

http://weather.gmdss.org/gmdss.html

JCOMM Electronic Products Bulletin

J-EPB

This is the first Electronic version of the JCOMM Products Bulletin [J-EPB].  Its continuing evolution is being implemented at the IRI for Climate Prediction at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory [LDEO] of Columbia University, in response to the needs of the oceanographic and earth science communities for real-time oceanography. The format of the global analyses is standardized in such a way that monitoring products can be compared for decision making. In addition, the different data sets are available on line. This will enable users to edit, contour and compute their preferred indices, time series or animations at diverse locations. The internet addresses of the different analysts and national services involved in the making of J-EPB are included (hyperlinked) in order to ease communications between users and servers.

http://iri.ldeo.columbia.edu/climate/monitoring/ipb/index.html

Marine Pollution Emergency Response Support System

MPERSS 

MPERSS's primary objective is to have in place a coordinated, global system for the provision of meteorological and oceanographic information for marine pollution emergency response operations outside waters under national jurisdiction. The areas covered have the same geographical distribution than those for the the GMDSS, and Area Meteorological Coordinators have been identified for all of them.

http://www.maes-mperss.org/

The WMO Wave Programme

The WMO Wave Programme was established in 1984 in support of National Meteorological Services, which were increasingly required to provide sea-wave analysis and forecasts services.

SEA ICE SERVICES

Navigation in ice-frequented waters for the purpose of trade and commerce, fishing, exploration or research has always been a rather hazardous operation. For this reason, national sea-ice information services have been established in many countries to provide support for such operations, through the provision of both climatological and real-time ice analyses and forecasts.

Data Buoy Cooperation Panel

DBCP

The Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP) is a official joint body of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) which was formally established in 1985. It consists of the data buoy component of the Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM).

http://www.dbcp.noaa.gov/dbcp/index.html

Global Climate Observing System

GCOS

The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) was established in 1992 to ensure that the observations and information needed to address climate-related issues are obtained and made available to all potential users.

http://www.wmo.ch/web/gcos/gcoshome.html

Global Digital Sea Ice Data Bank

GDSIDB

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Commission on Marine Meteorology (now the Joint WMO/ Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology, or JCOMM) established a Global Sea Ice Data Bank of digital sea ice chart information from the operational ice forecasting centers of participating nations in November 1986

http://nsidc.org/noaa/gdsidb/

The Global Sea Level Observing System

GLOSS

http://www.pol.ac.uk/psmsl/programmes/gloss.info.html

British Oceanographic Data Centre

BODC 

a national facility for preserving and distributing marine data 

http://www.bodc.ac.uk/

British Oceanographic Data Centre

BODC 

BODC DATA

http://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/where_to_find_data/

Global Maritime Distress and Safety System

GMDSS

Ship distress and safety communications entered a new era on 1 February 1999 with the full implementation of the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) - an integrated communications system

http://weather.gmdss.org/gmdss.html

JCOMM in situ Observing Platform Support Centre

JCOMMOPS

JCOMMOPS provides coordination at the international level for oceanographic and marine observations from drifting buoys, moored buoys in the high seas, ships of opportunity, and sub-surface profiling floats. JCOMMOPS operates under the auspices of the Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM).

http://wo.jcommops.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/JCOMMOPS

Ship Of Opportunity Programme

SOOP

The primary goal of the Ship-of-Opportunity Programme (SOOP) is to fulfill upper ocean data requirements which have been established by GOOS and GCOS, and which can be met at present by measurements from ships of opportunity (SOO).

http://www.brest.ird.fr/soopip/

Ship Observations Team (JCOMM)

SOT

The work of the SOT consists of a collection of very successful and enduring data collection programmes, involving voluntary observing ships and ships of opportunity operated through the following programmes which have supported a number of research and operational applications over many years.

http://www.jcommops.org/sot/

Voluntary Observing Ship Scheme

VOS

A component of the Ship Observations Team within the Observations Programme Area of JCOMM
(Joint WMO/IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology)

http://www.bom.gov.au/jcomm/vos/

Transmap

Transmap

The goal of this project is to develop a scientific basis for the creation of transboundary networks of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) along the coast of East Africa.

http://www.transmap.fc.ul.pt/index.asp?03pu

NASA Data

NASA

NASA earth science satellite data has also been pre-packaged into easy-to-use data sets that contain appropriate content for K-12 classroom education or citizen scientist use.

http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/data.html

Archiving, Validation and Interpretation of Satellite Oceanographic data

AVISO

http://las.aviso.oceanobs.com/las/servlets/dataset

Ocean Data View

ODV

http://las.aviso.oceanobs.com/las/servlets/dataset

SeaDataNet

SeaDataNet

SeaDataNet project aims to develop a Pan-European marine archive and data management infrastructure which will allow and facilitate a long-term integrated access to oceanographic and marine data, through a unique internet web portal.

http://www.cls.fr/html/oceano/general/applications/seadatanet_en.html

International Council for Science : Committee on Data for Science and Technology

http://www.codata.org/

Earth System Science Partnership

ESSP

The Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) brings together researchers from diverse fields, and from across the globe, to undertake an integrated study of the Earth System: its structure and functioning; the changes occurring to the System; and, the implications of those changes for global sustainability.

http://www.essp.org/

Diversitas

Diversitas

Integrating biodiversity science for human well-being
By linking biology, ecology and social sciences, DIVERSITAS produces socially relevant new knowledge to support sustainable use of biodiversity.

http://www.diversitas-international.org/

ALL Species Foundation

The ALL Species Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the complete inventory of all species of life on Earth within the next 25 years - a human generation.

http://www.all-species.org/

International Council for Science

ICSU

http://www.icsu.org/index.php

International Council for Science - South Africa

http://www.nrf.ac.za/services/icsu/

International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme

IGBP

http://www.igbp.kva.se/cgi-bin/php/frameset.php

International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change

IHDP

The International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change is an international, interdisciplinary, non-governmental science programme dedicated to promoting, catalyzing and coordinating research on the human dimensions of global environmental change.

http://www.ihdp.uni-bonn.de/

World Climate Research Programme

WCRP

The WCRP was established in 1980, under the joint sponsorship of International Council for Science (ICSU) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and has also been sponsored by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO since 1993

http://www.wmo.ch/web/wcrp/wcrp-home.html

Aquamarine Fukushima

http://www.marine.fks.ed.jp/english/frame_e.html

Dinofish News

http://www.dinofish.com/news.html

Dinofish home

http://www.dinofish.com/

Dinofish coel expeditions

http://www.dinofish.com/exped.htm

Oceanportal - IOC

http://www.oceanportal.org/

UNEP Division of Early Warning

DEWA

http://www.unep.org/dewa/

UNEP Eastern African Website

http://www.unep.org/easternafrica

UNEP Network

UNEP NET

Welcome to UNEP.Net, the United Nations Environment Network:
a global portal to authoritative environmental information based on themes and regions

http://www.unep.net/

Global coral disease database

http://quin.unep-wcmc.org/GIS/coraldis/about.cfm

International Coral Reef Action Network

ICRAN

http://www.icran.org/

A global information resource on coral reefs

Reefbase

http://www.reefbase.org/

UNEP - WCMC Publications page

http://sea.unep-wcmc.org/reception/publications.htm

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

FAO

http://www.fao.org/

Coral Reef Degradation in the Indian Ocean

CORDIO

http://www.cordio.org/

International bathymetric chart of the western indian ocean

IBCWIO

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/ibcwio/ibcwio.html

Google Ocean

http://www.justmagic.com/GM-GE.html

ESRI OCEAN

http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/1099/oceangis.html

Ocean Teacher table of contents

http://ioc.unesco.org/oceanteacher/oceanteacher2/toc.htm

The Sea Around Us - LMEs

http://www.seaaroundus.org/

Seamounts online

http://seamounts.sdsc.edu/

Tsunami Viewer

http://seamounts.sdsc.edu/

UNEP Asian Disaster Task Force

http://ctf.unep.ch/east_asia_tsunami/frames.html

VLIZ - Ostend

http://www.vliz.be/EN/INTRO

East African Marine Ecoregion

http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildplaces/eam/index.cfm

Russian Federal Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography

http://www.vniro.ru/en/index.html

Wrecks

http://users.pandora.be/tree/wreck/wreck-archive/wreck-archive.html

Manifold

http://www.manifold.net/

GRASS

WMS

Website Mapping Service

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/download

TNTMips

www.microimages.com

MapServer

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/

ArcExplorer

http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/index.html

DIVA GIS (free)

http://www.diva-gis.org/

Geocap

Geocap, which is a modern 2d/3d mapping and modeling program in 3d space. It can also be used for rapid application development (RAD) of user solutions and general visualization.

http://www.geocap.no/index.shtml

ArcGIS 3D analyst

http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/extensions/3danalyst/index.html

ArcGIS Marine Data Model

C:\Documents and Settings\UNESCO\My Documents\Lucy\SST_GIS_proposal\Arc Marine Tutorial.htm

Open geospatial consortium

http://www.opengeospatial.org/

Products Compliant to or Implementing OGC Specs or Interfaces

http://www.opengeospatial.org/resources/?page=products

GDAL

Comminity that is developing interoperable software

ArcView Scripts

http://arcscripts.esri.com/

A9 maps

A9.com, Inc. researches and builds innovative technologies to improve search experience for e-commerce applications. A separately branded and operated subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., A9.com opened its Palo Alto, California, doors in October 2003. A9.com’s technology will power search on Amazon.com and other web sites.

http://maps.a9.com/?ypLoc=oregon

InfoRain

We compile GIS data to create regional and community databases based on watershed boundaries. Data layers are available for download and interactive mapping applications provide functionality similar to that of sophisticated GIS software.

http://www.inforain.org/

Oregon Coastal Atlas

http://www.coastalatlas.net/

GLOBAL SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATION

The GSDI Association is an inclusive organization of organizations, agencies, firms, and individuals from around the world. The purpose of the organization is to promote international cooperation and collaboration in support of local, national and international spatial data infrastructure developments that will allow nations to better address social, economic, and environmental issues of pressing importance.

http://www.gsdi.org/

Western Washington University GIS resources

http://www.acadweb.wwu.edu/GIS/data/allgis.htm#raster

Google earth forums

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php/Cat/0

Oceanportal

http://www.oceanportal.org/

The Global Invasive Species Programme

The Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP) was founded in 1997 as a small, mainly voluntary partnership programme, by three international organizations: IUCN - The World Conservation Union, CAB International, and the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE).

http://www.gisp.org/

Division of Early Warning and Assessment -
Global Resource Information Database (GRID-Nairobi)

http://gridnairobi.unep.org/

DEWA Landsat 2000 Online Viewer

http://dewaweb0/wwwroot/mapclip.htm

African geology and energy resources

The Central Energy Team, in the USGS Energy Resources Program, provides the best-available assessments of Energy Resources (coal, oil, natural gas). These assessments are critical to the Nation's welfare. http://energy.cr.usgs.gov/oilgas/wep/products/products.htm

http://certmapper.cr.usgs.gov/website/worldmaps/viewer.htm?Service=WorldAfrica&OVMap=WorldAfrica_overview&extent=auto

Dynamic Atlas of the Coast of Maine

Welcome to the Gulf of Maine Dynamic Atlas, the data and mapping portal for the Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS). At this site, you can explore, download and map biological and biogeographical data from multiple sources - many of whom are members of the Gulf of Maine Ocean Data Partnership.

http://gmbis.iris.usm.maine.edu/

Maps for Africa

http://library.stanford.edu/africa/map.html

clipping an ocean polygon

http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/gis/manual/ocean/index.htm

Reliefweb Map Centre

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/doc114?OpenForm

Rungwa GIS

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~biommm/gisrgw.htm

Pathfinder SST time series

http://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/archive/sst_series_24reefspath.html

WWU GIS resources (Washington?)

http://www.acadweb.wwu.edu/GIS/data/allgis.htm

All about metadata

http://www.coastalatlas.net/learn/tech/metadata.asp

Foreign Data Library (grey lit from NASA) GCMD

Ocean data products and synthesis course

Oceanteacher

http://ioc.unesco.org/oceanteacher/oceanteacher2/DM103_DatPrdsSnth/DtaPrds&SnthtCrs.htm

CODATA Data Science Journal

The Data Science Journal is a peer-reviewed electronic journal publishing papers on the management of data and databases in Science and Technology. The journal publishes papers about data and data systems; it does not publish data or data compilations. However it may publish papers about methods of data compilation or analysis.

http://www.datasciencejournal.org/

Ocean teacher (home)

The objective of Ocean Teacher* is to provide training tools for Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange. These tools are used during IODE Training Courses but can also be used for self training and continuous professional development.

http://ioc.unesco.org/oceanteacher/OceanTeacher2/index.htm

IODE training schedule

http://ioc.unesco.org/oceanteacher/dmtraining/schedule2006.htm

UNESCO world heritage sites

http://whc.unesco.org/

European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

http://www.ecmwf.int/

Ocean Data Viewer (ODV) on IODE

http://iodeweb2.vliz.be/tsunami/odv/web/default.htm

USGS Hydrosheds

http://hydrosheds.cr.usgs.gov/

IOC marine internet resources

http://ioc.unesco.org/oceanteacher/oceanteacher2/02_InfTchSciCmm/01_CmpTch/06_Internet/Internet.html

UNEP Grid Arendal Maps and Atlas section

http://maps.grida.no/

Gulf of Maine Dynamic Atlas

http://gmbis.iris.usm.maine.edu/

Global Change Master directory

GCMD

http://gcmd.nasa.gov/

Physical Oceanography DAAC Ocean ESIP Tool (POET)

NASA's Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) is responsible
for archiving and distributing data relevant to the physical state of the ocean

http://poet.jpl.nasa.gov/

Oregon Coastal Atlas

http://www.coastalatlas.net/index.asp

UNEP shelf programme online data atlas

they have an email link to request actual data files

http://maps.continentalshelf.org/viewer.htm

National Virtual Ocean Data System

http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/NVODS/servlets/constrain?var=6546

Thematic Realtime Environmental Distributed Data Services

THREDDS

The mission of THREDDS is for students, educators and researchers to publish, contribute, find, and interact with data relating to the Earth system in a convenient, effective, and integrated fashion.

UNIDATA

Unidata provides a broad array of data and software tools for use in geoscience education and research.

Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol

OpenDAP

OPeNDAP is a framework that simplifies all aspects of scientific data networking. OPeNDAP provides software which makes local data accessible to remote locations regardless of local storage format. OPeNDAP also provides tools for transforming existing applications into OPeNDAP clients (i.e., enabling them to remotely access OPeNDAP served data).

http://www.opendap.org/index.html

Opendap list of accessible data sets

OpenDAP

http://www.opendap.org/data/datasets.cgi?xmlfilename=datasets.xml&parentexpand=+1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15+16+17+18+19+20+21+22+23+24+25+26+27+28+29+30+31+32+33+34+35+36+37+38+39+40+41+42+43+44+45+46+47+48+49+50+51&subparentexpand=+1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15+16+17+18+19+20+21+22+23+24+25+26+27+28+29+30+31+32+33+34+35+36+37+38+39+40+41+42+43+44+45+46+47+48+49+50+51+52+53+54+55+56+57+58+59+60+61+62+63+64+65+66+67+68+69+70+71+72+73+74+75+76+77+78+79+80+81+82+83+84+85+86+87+88+89+90+91+92&exfunction=#parent51

Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment

GODAE

The Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) is a practical demonstration of near-real-time, global ocean data assimilation that provides, regular, complete descriptions of the temperature, salinity and velocity structures of the ocean in support of operational oceanography, seasonal-to-decadal climate forecasts and analyses, and oceanographic research.

http://www.usgodae.org/

GODAE actual data sets

GODAE

http://www.usgodae.org/cgi-bin/datalist.pl?generate=summary

GODAE High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature Project

GHRSST-PP

The Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) high-resolution sea surface temperature pilot project provides a new generation of global high-resolution (<10km) SST data products to the operational oceanographic, meteorological, climate and general scientific community, in real time and delayed mode.

http://www.ghrsst-pp.org/

USGODAE

The USGODAE server is one of two Argo Global Data Assembly Centers (GDAC).

http://www.usgodae.org/argo/argo.html

Live Access Server

LAS

NOAA sharing climate data over the Internet. The Live Access Server (LAS) is a general purpose Web server for geo-science data sets. LAS consists of a set of modular components in a three tiered architecture which interact to provide user interface, business logic and data access functionality. Because of the modular design, custom geo-science data servers can be built by substituting or adding to the core LAS components.

http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/LAS/

Live Access to the National Virtual Ocean Data System

NVODS

http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/NVODS/servlets/dataset

Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory

PFEL

http://las.pfeg.noaa.gov/las/

Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative

includes clearinghouse mechanism

http://www.ecai.org/

BIOCEAN - IFREMER

BIOCEAN

Biocean project is designed to gather the extremely large volume of data collected from different deep-sea ecosystem studies conducted by Ifremer's department "Environnement Profond

http://www.ifremer.fr/isi/biocean/indexgb.html

Geography network

http://www.geographynetwork.com/

National Library of Australia Rare Maps Digitisation Project.

http://www.nla.gov.au

Digital Chart of the World

DCW

http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/

UNEP Global Environmental Portal (GEO)

GEO

http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/

UNEP maps and images

http://maps.grida.no/

Alexandria digital library gazeteer

http://middleware.alexandria.ucsb.edu/client/gaz/adl/index.jsp

Data for planet earth!

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1658/earth.html

NOAA World Ocean Database and Atlas

WOD

http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/indprod.html

Global plankton online database and atlas

http://www.st.nmfs.gov/plankton/search/index.html

National Geospatial Intelligence agency

NGA

World gazeteer data

ftp://ftp.nga.mil/pub/gns_data/

Global GRASS and GlobalARC CD-ROM Project

http://www.crssa.rutgers.edu/projects/global/

Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis

CRSSA

http://www.crssa.rutgers.edu/

Construction Engineering Research Laboratory

USA-CERL

http://www.cecer.army.mil/td/tips/index.cfm

National Biological Information Infrastructure - USA

NBII

www.nbii.gov

UNEP-WCMC species database

http://sea.unep-wcmc.org/isdb/Taxonomy/

Global Land Cover Facility - AVHRR

GLCF

http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/data/landcover/

USGS terrestrial satellite data

http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/dataproducts.asp

Live Access to the National Virtual Ocean Data System (NVODS)

http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/NVODS/servlets/search

Africover (FAO)

http://www.africover.org/

Freeform file naming conventions and conversions

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/tools/freeform/ffu4.shtml

NOAA's coral reef information system

http://www.coris.noaa.gov/

DATA SOURCES

http://www.grid.unep.ch/data/links_envt_data_sources.php

The SeaDOG project

SeaDog

The SeaDOG project was started in August 1998. It is a metadata database that holds information on Deep Ocean Geophysical data.  The actual data is  stored offline in a large archive facility and copies can be requested by the UK academic community.

http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/CHD/SeaDOG/

Integrated coastal zone management in the southern North Sea

SAIL

http://www.sailcoast.org/index.shtml

National Virtual Ocean Data System

NVODS

http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/NVODS/servlets/dataset?catitem=3498

UNEP shelf programme

http://www.continentalshelf.org/index.cfm?pageID=28

World Data Centre for Human Interactions in the Environment

http://www.gateway.ciesin.org/wdc/

Satellite Geodesy from SCRIPPS

http://topex.ucsd.edu/WWW_html/srtm30_plus.html

Marine gravity data from satellite altimetry

http://topex.ucsd.edu/WWW_html/mar_grav.html

WWF global lakes

http://www.worldwildlife.org/science/data/globallakes.cfm

USGS EROS centre

http://edcintl.cr.usgs.gov/

Southern African Water Information Network

SAWINET

SAWINET is an Information Network on Integrated Water Resources Management. It is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), with the support of the Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC) at the Federal Institute of Hydrology. The content of SAWINET presently focuses on three cross sectoral issues: water policy and legislation, valuation of water in alternative use contexts, and institutional developat. SAWINET is being developed in cooperation with the Southern African Water Partnership.

http://www.gwpforum.org/servlet/PSP?iNodeID=1156&iFromNodeID=100

Cute FTP

http://www.cuteftp.com/products/ftp_clients.asp

Joomla

http://www.joomlamagic.com/

TimeMap

TimeMap TMJava is a novel mapping applet which generates complete interactive maps with a few simple lines of html. It provides a way of easily enriching web pages with historical or contemporary information that goes far beyond static jpg map images. It's easy for beginners, yet provides completely customisable power and distributed backend database connectivity for the expert. It's free for personal use.

http://www.timemap.net/

Technical dictionary

Translation of technical scientific terms

http://www.granddictionnaire.com/btml/fra/r_motclef/index1024_1.asp

The R project for statistical computing

http://www.r-project.org/

EU Framework programmes

Based on the Treaty establishing the European Union, the Framework Programme has to serve two main strategic objectives: Strengthening the scientific and technological bases of industry and encourage its international competitiveness while promoting research activities in support of other EU policies.

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp6/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP6HomePage

Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative

http://www.ecai.org/

Format Conversion Software - Oceanteacher

FLT2SUB

http://ioc.unesco.org/oceanteacher/OceanTeacher2/02_InfTchSciCmm/01_CmpTch/05_OcSoft/03_Convert/Converters.htm

Fishbase

http://www.fishbase.org/search.php?lang=English

Integrated Taxonomic Information system (ITIS)

IT IS

http://www.cbif.gc.ca/pls/itisca/taxaget?p_ifx=plglt

Species 2000

http://www.sp2000.org

Belgian Biodiversity Information Facility

http://www.be.gbif.net/

Convention on Migratory species

http://www.cms.int/

National Spatial Biodiversity Assessment

NSBA

http://www.nbi.ac.za/biodiversity/nsba.htm

Journal of Fish Biology - Editorial Manager

http://www.editorialmanager.com/jfb/

Indian Ocean Marine Turtles site

http://www.ioseaturtles.org/

Peace Parks Foundation

http://www.peaceparks.org/new/news.php?pid=161&mid=598

World Database on Protected Areas

http://sea.unep-wcmc.org/wdbpa/

World atlas of seagrasses

http://sea.unep-wcmc.org/marine/seagrassatlas/index.htm

World atlas of biodiversity

http://sea.unep-wcmc.org/resources/publications/biodiversityatlas/presspack/index.htm

World atlas of great apes

http://sea.unep-wcmc.org/resources/publications/WAGAC/launch.htm

World atlas of coral reefs

http://quin.unep-wcmc.org/GIS/coraldis/database.cfm

World atlas of mangroves

http://www.fao.org/forestry/foris/webview/wmatlas/index.jsp?siteId=5321&sitetreeId=20068&langId=1&geoId=0

WWF

http://www.worldwildlife.org

FAO Fisheries Global Information Systems

FIGIS

http://www.fao.org/figis/servlet/static?dom=root&xml=index.xml

Inter-American biodiversity information network

has data for Ethiopia!

http://edcintl.cr.usgs.gov/iabin_datadownload.html#

The Sea Around Us

Sea Around Us, 2006. A global database on marine fisheries and ecosystems. World Wide Web site www.seaaroundus.org. Fisheries Centre, University British Columbia, Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada). [Visited 21 Jun 2006]

http://www.seaaroundus.org/lme/lme.aspx

Distribution data for taxa in the USA

http://nas.er.usgs.gov/graphs/

FAO Fish stats

http://www.fao.org/fi/statist/fisoft/fishplus.asp

UNEP WCMC

http://sea.unep-wcmc.org/index.cfm

NCDC Vegetation for Africa

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/pubs/ray2001/download.html

Non-indigenous Aquatic Species

NAS

http://nas.er.usgs.gov/graphs/