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New! http://www.psrc.usm.edu/macrog/sea/index.htm Visit the Polyaquarium to learn about Polymer science and Marine Life. Not what you expect. Great format for teachers and students. From Polymer Science school at Southern Mississippi University.
New! http://www.newsday.com/other/special/naturalworld/ Newsdays great page with local and general links to the natural world. Everything from local bird calls to great pictures and articles.
New! http://www.nature.nps.gov/LearningCenters/educators/educators.shtm National Park Service Research Learning Centers Education page. Provides a monthly update for Marine educators in a PDF format
New! http://www.longislandsoundstudy.net/ Great Long Island related links for teachers and students!
New! http://www.starthrower.org/products/video/images.htm Nice underwater stock photos of plants and animals from California
New! http://www.estuary.cog.ny.us/ News on the South Shore Estuary Program
New! http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/BARPLANK/WWW/HTML/allphoto.html Great Plankton pictures
http://hometown.aol.com/newjerseymea/index.html Web page of our neighbors, the New Jersey Marine Education Association. check it out!
http://www.cresli.org/ Great sight giving local events and information about marine mammals, reptiles and much more!
http://www.marine-ed.org/ Our national Organization webpage. Great links and the scuttlebutt listserve!
http://www.madsci.org/libs/areas/sci_ed.html General science links
http://eelink.net/ee-linkintroduction.html Environmental Education Links: jobs, resources, programs, organizations, links to everything related to the environment
http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/mbweb.html Great Site with excellent marine related links!
http://www.oceanology.org The premier teacher and student education program in the Northeast. (Avery Point Conn.) Lots of good links and information.
http://www.mesa.edu.au/ Marine Education Association of Australasia interesting links from downunder.
http://www.epa.gov/enviro/index_java.html Envirofacts from the EPA. Access to all of the EPA's Data linked to maps. Try enviromapper (the next listing.)
http://maps.epa.gov/enviro/html/mod/enviromapper/index.html Enviromapper - find out about pollutants and other data in your local area. Relatively easy to use.
http://www.marinecareers.net/index.htm One place to answer all of those questions about marine careers.
http://marine.rutgers.edu/ Our neighbor, New Jersey's, Rutgers Institute of Marine Sciences Web page
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/lb_images/nurp/graph.htm Fantastic resource of new and antique marine related images. Not to be missed!
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ny/nwis/uv?site_no=01310740 Just one example of a USGS constant sampling data site. Records air and water temp, humidity, wind direction, speed, barometric pressure, precipitation, etc. This one is in Reynolds Channel on the South Shore of Long Island.
http://www.npr.org/ National Public Radio. Great source of short written and audio clips on many marine and environmental topics.
http://www.littoralsociety.org/ Great organization for general public and professionals
http://www.seagrant.sunysb.edu/ New York State Seagrant homepage
http://crusty.er.usgs.gov/mapit/ great map creating program
http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~sustain/bio65/Titlpage.htm Online textbook,"Biodiversity and Conservation," by Peter J Bryant, University of California. Good resource, great chapter 4 on Whaling and fishing.
http://www.oceanspace.co.uk/ Biweekly, science and technology newsletter for the latest news and information.
SCIENCE WEEK ABRIDGED ADDITION. Great way to keep up on the latest happenings in all areas of science. Good to copy for research classes or upper level high school or college classes to spur discussion. If you wish to receive it free by Email each week, transmit "SUBSCRIBE SWX" to request@scienceweek.com