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Oceanography

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wave1b.gif (233 bytes)NOAA - (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)   Information on the marine sciences, weather and ocean information, the GLOBE Program, satellite imagery and more!

wave1b.gif (233 bytes)NOAA - Ocean - information on tides, waves, seafloor topography, buoys, marine sanctuaries, Aquarius and more!

Lab Data and Information (Plotting buoys, ocean circulation, seafloor topography, tides and other physical oceanography information)

wave1b.gif (233 bytes)"THE BRIDGE" - From Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)    Information about waves, tides, and currents.  This site will lead to to drifter buoy data.

wave1b.gif (233 bytes)NDBC (National Data Buoy Center - NOAA) - Get meteorological and oceanographic information on specific buoys.

wave1b.gif (233 bytes)Project NOPP Drifters - (National Oceanographic Partnership Program) provides data on drifter buoys.  This site offers information on building a drifter buoy.  This site will show the different parts of the drifter buoys and explain the purpose of each part.

wave1b.gif (233 bytes)The Gulf Stream Voyage

wave1b.gif (233 bytes)COAST - Ocean Basin and Coastal Morphology.  Click on this site to download the coastal margin and deep sea floor features using the Cosmos Plug-In.  You need this plug-in if you run the visualizations at home.

wave1b.gif (233 bytes)The Briny Deep - This site will help you with your briny deep lab.  There is information on physical oceanography such as salinity, temperature, light penetration,  density stratification, the SOFAR level and more!

wave1b.gif (233 bytes)Beneath The Sea - View a ship using sonar to determine the depth of the ocean and to map the ocean floor!  Exciting Stuff!!!!!

wave1b.gif (233 bytes)Global Scale Circulation - This site offers additional information on the Coriolis Effect (not force), convection currents, and global air circulation cells.

wave1b.gif (233 bytes)OAR (Office of Atmospheric Research - NOAA) - 2 activities on Ocean Temperature and Ocean Currents.

Satellites and Data

wave1b.gif (233 bytes) SeaWiFS Project - (Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor Project)  provides some quantitative data on the ocean.  Changes in ocean color indicate changes in types and quantities of marine phytoplankton. 

wave1b.gif (233 bytes)SeaWiFS Image Archive - Download images that show sea surface temperature, phytoplankton concentration, Atlantic coastline images and more!

wave1b.gif (233 bytes)SeaWiFS Image Colorscales - Are you trying to determine what the colors mean?  This colorscale will help with ocean chlorophyll and land vegetation.

wave1b.gif (233 bytes)Sea Surface Temperatures - This site downloaded from satellite data from the University of Wisconsin gives real-time satellite data on current sea surface temperatures.

wave1b.gif (233 bytes)The CCAR(Colorado Center for Astrodynamic Research)/TOPEX/Poseidon Home Page.  This site provides archived altimeter data as well as information on altimetry.  Real-time T/P satellite positions,  image processing and remote sensing as well as information on GPS.   There is also information on space and orbital debris.

wave1b.gif (233 bytes)Satellite Oceanography Applications - This site offers information on uses of altimetry data such as hurricane monitoring, commercial fishing, marine mammal locations, sport sailing, ocean circulation, and more!

wave1b.gif (233 bytes)TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason 1- Satellite images and information.  This project is a joint venture between the U.S. and France.  This satellite measures sea level, global ocean circulation, and the connection between the ocean and the atmosphere.

wave1b.gif (233 bytes)Jason 1 - Satellite that will replace the TOPEX.   Launched December 7, 2001.  Data on ocean circulation, sea surface topography and the interaction of the ocean and the atmosphere

wave1b.gif (233 bytes)OSEI - (Operational Significant Event Imagery) The OSEI team produces imagery of natural or anthropogenic environmental events.   Find the Image of the Day!

Marine Animals

wave1b.gif (233 bytes)NOAA Acoustics Monitoring Program - study the effects of man-made noise on marine life as well as the use of underwater acoustic techniques to monitor the movement of whales in the open ocean.

wave1b.gif (233 bytes)Cities Under The Sea: Coral Reefs - This is the Ocean Futures Sites of Jean-Michel Cousteau  (yes - Jacques son!) Find information on Nemo's home - the coral reef

wave1b.gif (233 bytes)FINS (Fish Information Service) Finding Nemo - search this site for information and pictures about your Nemo character

wave1b.gif (233 bytes)Enchanted Learning - More information about Coral Reefs and your Nemo character

wave1b.gif (233 bytes)Starfish - This site comes from professors at the University of Buffalo in New York.  Excellent information on Echinoderms.  This site offers lab tutorials and study aids that help to explain some of the vocabulary.  Click on the Starfish link.  It will take you to a page that contains the starfish Asterias forbesi.  This page gives the taxonomy and 6 clickable thumbnail images.  The images are excellent and labeled.

Horseshoe Crabs - Everything you could possibly want to know about horseshoe crabs.  Many great photos!

Field Trip

Ocean Institute at Sandy Hook

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Monday, September 04, 2006 11:03:51 AM