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www.bigelow.org
The Bigelow Lab for ocean Science in Maine is a private, non-profit
research center. This web site has great information on food
webs and conservation.
www.cleanbeachescoalition.org
The Clean Beaches Coalition is comprised of four Santa Cruz
area non-profits, Ecology Action, Save Our Shores, Pack Your
Trash and the Santa Cruz chapter of the Surfrider Foundation.
The site offers information on local beach cleanup projects
and how one can participate.
www.gmri.org
- Gulf of Maine Research Institute site. Look for lots of kid oriented
links with great information on individual animals. Also includes
a section on learning from satellites.
www.ims.ucsc.edu/seymour
- The Seymour Center in Santa Cruz offers tours of their marine
lab to school groups. If you can’t make it to the lab
in person, this web site is the next best thing.
www.marine-ed.org
- Bridge Ocean Science Education Center site in conjunction
with National Marine Educators Association. This is a great
resource for teachers who are interested in structuring a
marine biology curriculum.
www.mbari.org
- MBARI is the research center for the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
This site contains updated information from deep-sea explorations
and other areas of marine biology research. Teachers will
find valuable seminars and educational opportunities in the
web site calendar.
www.mbayaq.org
- Monterey Bay Aquarium. Visiting this site is a great introduction
to the creatures and habitats of the Monterey Bay.
www.mbnmsf.org
– Monterey Bay Sanctuary Foundation is a nonprofit organization
whose mission is to advance the understanding and protection
of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and other national
marine sanctuaries in California. Of specific interest is
a children’s book called Coralito’s Bay. It is the
story of a young boy’s imaginary underwater adventures
through the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and is written in both English and Spanish.
Click on the Education Products link of the MBNMSF site to find out how you may
acquire your own copy.
www.nationalgeographic.com
- National Geographic has a wonderful kids section focused
on ecology news.
www.nhptv.org
- The New Hampshire public television site has a 16 part natural
science series for grades 3-6.
www.noaa.gov
- The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
web site has information in all oceanographic areas. You can
even check this web site to get a local weather forecast before
attending the O’Neill Sea Odyssey Program.
www.oceanlink.island.net
- The Bamfield Marine Station in British Columbia has set
up their entire web site for kids. Check out the ‘Ask
a Scientist’ section.
www.soest.hawaii.edu/iprc/research/research.php
- The International Pacific Research Center is an international climate research center, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. They seek to understand the climate system and how it may respond to human activity by conducting experiments with computer simulation models and by analyzing the many direct and remote observations related to climate. One current study projects the path of Japan's tsunami debris.
www.westernwx.com/oso
- The Western Weather Group has put together a web page that
displays the historical weather data of the Santa Cruz Harbor
going back through 2007. Take a look at the periodic variations
of our coastal climate.
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