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
Climate and Global Change
Conservation Action
Undergraduate research and education opportunities
Resources for teachers
Ocean Communications Outreach
Educational and fun for children of all ages
Marine Professional Societies and membership organizations
Photo Galleries and ocean webcams
Recommended Reading
Sites of interest
Just the facts
SeaGrant Marine Careers
Society for Environmental Journalists
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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Conservation Action
Sustainable Seafood Guide (from Blue Ocean Institute - pdf download)
Sushi Seafood Watch Card (from Monterey Bay Aquarium)
How to help conserve the ocean and stop pollution:
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Green Boating
What you can do (National Marine Sanctuaries)
Ocean Conservation, action groups
Ocean Conservancy
Oceana
Natural Resources Defense Council - Oceans Program
The Nature Conservancy - Marine Initiative
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)- Marine Program
Marine professional and membership organizations
Undergraduate research and education opportunities
Research Experiences for Undergraduates
Summer Training Academy for Research in Sciences (STARS)
UCSD Summer Research Opportunities
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
Ages 8 - 16 - Whyville - Why Reef
Climate Change Education & lesson plans: ClimateChangeEducation.org
EPA Teaching Center
Estuary Live: videos and lesson plans
E Field Trip: Biscayne National Park: An Underwater Ecosystem
E Field Trip: Glacier Bay: A laboratory for Marine Mammals
E-Field Trip: Right Whales: A struggle to Avoid Extinction
E-FieldTrip: Sea Turtles
Ocean Link: marine biology, ocean education
PBS Evolution Library for teachers and students
Pollution
Heavy metals in harbors and marinas
Plastics
Algalita Marine Research Foundation
Plastic Debris - Rivers to Sea
Greenpeace Ocean Campaign
Plastic Debris in the World's Oceans - Greenpeace Report (pdf)
Join the discussion (thanks to CMBC/IGERT student Miriam Goldstein) - at The Oyster's Garter
For teachers and children: Gorilla Greenhouse - Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Mercury
EPA Fish advice
PBS Mercury in Fish
National Geographic News
Nutrients
USGS Eutrophication, Hypoxia
MSNBC- dead zones
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Ocean Communication & Outreach
California Ocean Communicator's Alliance
COMPASS/SeaWeb
Ocean Conservation Research (noise pollution)
Wildcoast
Shifting Baselines
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)
Sea Turtle restoration project - Sea Turtle School
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)
Divebums (photos by Southern California divers)
NOAA PHOTO LIBRARY (Historic photos)
Michael Miller Opisthobranch Molluscs
Gary McCarthy's Underwater Images
(Features Southern California, Mexico, Hawaii and the Caribbean)
Coral Reef Photobank (Coral Reef Alliance)
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)
Ocean webcams
Bonaire Reef Cam
Monterey Bay Aquarium's Outer Bay Cam
Live Coral Cam - St. Croix
Fish Eye View Cam - Coral Gables, Florida
Video
Coral Reef multimedia
Mumby, Peter (Lab)
Palumbi Lab
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Recommended reading
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Consilence by E.O. Wilson
Cod: A biography of the fish that changed the world by Mark Kurlandsky
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
Last Child in the Woods: Saving our children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
Storm World by Chris Mooney
Sustaining Life: How Human health Depends on Biodiversity by Harvard Center for Health and the Global Environment
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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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