Additional links
There is a tremendous amount of available information pertaining to the Gulf of Maine and its surrounding communities. The following list will be updated frequently as we learn about sites that may be of interest, and it is only intended to provide you with a starting place for further explorations.
- Data Sources
- Satellite Data
- Weather Information
- Research Institutions and Agencies
- Cooperative and Research Programs
- Government Agencies
- Aquariums and Museums
- Articles
- Gulf of Maine Land-Based Pollution Sources Inventory
- Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, AVHRR SST Products
- Maine Office of GIS
- NOAA's National Oceanographic Data Center's Coastal Water Temperature Guide
- NOAA's National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) NE Regional Map, Moored Buoys and C-MAN Stations
- NOAA's Center for Operational Products, Sealevel, Tides, PORTS
- NOAA's National Status & Trends Program: Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment
- NOAA/NESDIS Experimental SST Contour Charts
- USGS's Water Resources of the United States, River flow
- MODIS Ocean (NASA)
- SEAWIFS (Canada)
- Maine Office of GIS - Penobscot Bay Project
- Alliance for Marine Remote Sensing
- Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
- Goddard Space Flight Center - Remote Sensing Tutorial
- NOAA's National Weather Service
- NOAA's National Weather Service, Gray, Maine
- NOAA's Northeast Regional Climate Center
- NavCenter Meteorological Monitor
- U.S. Navy's NAS Brunswick
- NOAA's National Weather Service Marine Weather Program
- Northeast Wave Heights, from Surfinfo.com
- NOAA/NCEP Marine Prediction Center Forecast Products
Research Institutions and Agencies
- Bedford Institute of Oceanography
- Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
- Dalhousie University's Faculty of Science
- Maine Maritime Academy
- Research Vessel Schedules and Information
- 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
Cooperative Programs and Research Projects
- ACZISC: A Guide to Coastal Information in Atlantic Canada
- EcOHAB's Gulf of Maine Program
- Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment
- Gulf of Maine Research Information System
- Island Institute, Rockland, ME
- Lobster Institute
- Regional Association for Research on the Gulf of Maine
- State of Maine's Coastal Program
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Gulf of Maine Coastal Program
- U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank Program
- Stellwagen Marine Sanctuary
- Canada's Natural Resources
- NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NOAA: National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
- NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service, NE Regional Office
- NOAA's National Ocean Data Center (NODC)
- NOAA's National Weather Service
- NOAA/NGDC Marine Geology & Geophysics
- State of Maine's Department of Marine Resources
- Gulf of Maine Aquarium
- New England Aquarium, Boston, Massachusetts
- Maine Maritime Museum, Bath, Maine
- Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport, Maine
- Portland Harbor Museum, Portland, 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
- Portland Press Herald's Article on GoMOOS, by Dennis Hoey (30 December 1999)
- CNN's Article of the Gulf of Maine (4 August 2000)
- European Component of GOOS (EuroGOOS)
- Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment: GODAE
- Global Ocean Observing System: GOOS
- Global Observing System Information Center: GOSIC
- Lake Access, Real-time water quality information from Minneapolis metropolitan lakes
- MYSound: U.Conn's Marine Environmental Monitoring Network for Long Island Sound
- Monterey Bay Ocean Observing System
- NOAA Coastal Services Center: links to coastal and ocean U.S. monitoring and observing system homepages and reports
- Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observing Laboratory
- , NOAA/PMEL's Tropical Atmosphere Ocean Array of moored buoys in the tropical Pacific
- TAO, NOAA/PMEL's Tropical Atmosphere Ocean Array of moored buoys in the tropical Pacific
- Texas A&M University's Texas Automated Buoy System (TABS): real-time oceanographic data supporting oil spill prevention and response
- NASA's Site for Kids
- Naval Postgraduate School's "What's Satellite Oceanography all about?"
- NOAA Education Resources
- NOAA Library's WINDandSEA Teachers' and Students' Corner
- Smithsonian's Ocean Planet
- BRIDGE: Ocean Sciences Education Teacher Resource Center
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.
- Ocean Physics Glossary, from the Applied Physics Laboratory of the University of Washington.
- Optical Oceanography glossary from the University of Washington, Mechanical Engineering Department.
- Tide glossary developed by National Ocean Service of NOAA.
- Coastal Engineering Terms Glossary developed by the Corps of Engineers for use with its Coastal Engineering Manual.
- Canadian Hydrographic Service
- NOAA's National Aeronautical Charting Office
- NOAA's Office of Coast Survey: nautical charts
- USGS National Mapping Information
- 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
- US Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications, Sun and moon information
- Maine Harbors: Tides and Weather for the New England Mariner