Marine Biodiversity and Conservation
The page is designed to respond to the inquires of undergraduate students, teachers and children of all ages. You will find links for:
Career guides
Undergraduate research and education opportunities
Resources for teachers and conservation action
Ocean Communications Outreach
Educational and fun for children of all ages
Sustainable Seafood Guide (from Blue Ocean Institute - pdf download)
Marine Professional Societies and membership organizations
Photo Galleries and ocean webcams
Recommended Reading
Sites of interest
Just the facts
Oceanography, Marine Science & Marine Biology: Links to Career Guides
SeaGrant Marine Careers
Society for Environmental Journalists
Society for Marine Mammalogy's Careers Information
Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University listing of career guides.
The Chronicle of Higher Education "Catalyst" column
provides guidance for early-career academics
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Undergraduate research and education opportunities
Research Experiences for Undergraduates
Summer Training Academy for Research in Sciences (STARS)
UCSD summer research programs
NOAA Environmental Partnership Program-Undergraduate Program
CMBC's list of undergraduate programs in marine science around the world.
Masters Scholarship for student in developing nations attending specific participating universities: World Bank/Joint Japan Scholarship
Undergraduate and graduate degrees in marine fields: Links by country
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Resources for Teachers
5th Grade Curriculum: Weather and Water
Grades 5-12 - NOAA's Ocean Explorer: Hands-on lesson plans
Grades K-8 - Interdisciplinary curriculum: Marine activities, resources and education
Grades K-12 - NOAA's Oceans for Life: Lesson Plans and Videos
Grades 5 -12 - 10 minute movie on our connection to the Ocean: Once Upon a Tide
Climate Change Education & lesson plans: ClimateChangeEducation.org
EPA Teaching Center
Estuary Live: videos and lesson plans
E-Field Trips: Virtual visits
Ocean Link: marine biology, ocean education
PBS Evolution Library for teachers and students
Ocean Conservation, problems and action:
Ocean Conservancy
Oceana
Natural Resources Defense Council - Oceans Program
The Nature Conservancy - Marine Initiative
World Wildlife Foundation (WWF)- Marine Program
Marine professional and membership organizations
Pollution
Heavy metals in harbors and marinas
Mercury
EPA Fish advice
PBS Mercury in Fish
National Geographic News
Nutrients
EPA Ocean Fact Sheet 4
USGS Eutrophication
World Wildlife
MSNBC- dead zones
How to help conserve the ocean and stop pollution:
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Boaters alternative to copper paints
MORE.......
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Ocean Communication & Outreach
California Ocean Communicator's Alliance
COMPASS/SeaWeb
Ocean Conservation Research (noise pollution)
Wildcoast
Shifting Baselines
Communicating Science: A Primer for Working with the Media
Ciencia y Conservaci n - From Pronatura Noroeste A.C., a Spanish language publication for conservation of biodiversity in Mexico
Educational and fun for children of all ages
Scripps Explorations e-magazine stories and activities: Voyager for Kids
Just for kids, from Lawrence Hall of Science (MARE Program): Interactive activities
What you can do - from NOAA sanctuaries
Biodiversity and the web of life, from Harvard Medical Schools' Center for Health and the Global Environment: Short video
PBS Ocean Adventures: Interactive games
Short films made by Scripps Students: Shifting Baselines
U.S. EPA Environmental Kids Club (Pre K-4th grade - ages 4 - 10)
US. EPA Student Center (Grades 5- 8)
US. EPA High School Environmental Center (Grades 9 - 12)
BLUE OCEAN INSTITUTE FISHPHONE Sustainable seafood choices on your phone
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Photo Galleries
ARKive: Images of Life on Earth
Noah's Ark for the Internet - ARKive is creating a unique record of the world's biodiversity
NOAA PHOTO LIBRARY
Historic photos
Foto Search Royal Free Image Library
Michael Miller Opisthobranch Molluscs
Gary McCarthy's Underwater Images
Clinton Bauder's Underwater Photo Gallery
Coral Reef Photobank
Florida Museum of Natural History, Ichthyology Department
(A searchable gallery of underwater images)
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
(Florida's regulated fish and their look-alikes)
Southern California Creature ID features images of fish and marine creatures found around San Diego, California, USA
Underwater Photography English & French (Online course in underwater photography)
Ocean webcams
Bonaire Reef Cam
Monterey Bay Aquarium's Outer Bay Cam
Live Coral Cam - St. Croix
Fish Eye View Cam - Coral Gables, Florida
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Recommended reading
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Consilence by E.O. Wilson
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About it by Al Gore
Blue Frontier: Dispatches from America's Ocean Wilderness by David Helvarg
The Ocean and Coastal Conservation Guide 2005 -2006 by David Helvarg
Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Sea by Carl Safina
Eye of the Albatross: Views of the Endangered Sea by Carl Safina
Our Biosphere by Ramon Margalef
In a Perfect Ocean: The State of Fisheries and Ecosystems in the North Atlantic Ocean by Daniel Pauly and Jay Maclean
A World of Wounds: Ecologists and the Human Dilemma by Paul Ehrlich
Empty Ocean by Richard Ell
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Just the facts
We post "just the facts" to respond to common inquiries from students.
- Ocean acidification: CO2 dissolves in seawater to make carbonic
acid, carbonic acid is corrosive to shells and skeletons of many
marine organisms
- There are more types of plants and animals in the ocean than in
tropical rainforests.
- Algae in the ocean produce more of the earth's vital oxygen than
all of the forests and land plants combined.
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