CP Biology links

General Oceanography
Seaweb is a project designed to increase awareness of the world’s oceans.  This site contains links to current newspaper and magazine articles that focus on marine life.

World Wildlife Foundations web page on Endangered Marine life.  This is updated often and contains the most recent threats to marine life.

NASA’s site on Ocean topography.   This site also contains an extensive database on the definition of oceanic terms.

NOAA’s Resource guide for teachers of Marine Science.  Teachers can apply for a free CD-rom that contains lesson plans and movie clips on TOPEX Poseidon and Jason (NASA’s satellites that study the surface of the ocean).

Contains links to 100 educational sites in Marine Science.

Lessons on general oceanography.  My favorite is “Ocean Color” that shows productivity of plankton by satellite imagining.

Oceanlink is a great resource for a beginner trying to find information about a certain species of marine life or if you are looking for the answer to a specific marine question.  They have an “Ask a scientist” link.  Over 600 common questions have been answered, if your question is not there-ask!  There is also a link to information on careers in Marine Biology or Oceanography.

The National Oceanographic Database.  It includes the database of the World’s ocean, made up data from over 17,000 laboratories around the world.  It is in pdf format.

A fun lesson on El Nino.  You analyze the data given by ocean buoys.  From this information you will make a prediction on the upcoming weather.

Click on the phytoplankton to read interesting articles about plankton

 Plankton

Contains the world ocean’s database on plankton.  It includes both biomass and primary species.

 

Seaweed
Housed by the University of Ireland, this is a great site on seaweed.  It contains many links as well as general information about the major types of seaweed.

  Coral Reefs

NOAA’s (National Ocean Atmospheric Association-a division of the US Department of Commerce) Coral reef site.  Contains excellent links to everything you ever would want to know about the world’s coral reefs.

NOAA Photo library of Coral reef life
The Caribbean, Florida, Pacific and Red Sea reefs

The World Research Institutes site on Coral Reefs at risk.  On this site is an excellent database that looks at the environmental and economic pressures on the world’s reefs.  Click on ReefBase: A Global Information System on Coral Reefs at the bottom of this site to get to the database.
www.wri.org/indictrs/reefrisk.htm

Summary of the movie: Coral Reefs: The Rainforest of the Sea, by the Oceanic Research Group.  Interesting information on the global importance of coral reefs.

Green reef environmental institute is based out of Belize, a small South American country that contains some of the world’s most beautiful reefs.  This link takes you to a sub page of the site that provides links to current articles that impact the world’s reef.  Most of the articles are on the conservation of reef species.

Estuaries
EPA’s site on estuaries.  Find out general information on estuaries as well as links to many of the world’s estuary sites.

Marine Invertebrates
Enchanted Learning.com is a superb site for kids of all ages.  Geared toward elementary age, this site is a wonderful introduction to animals for students of any age.  This link takes you to the invertebrate page.  Here you can print out drawings of most invertebrates.  They also include a concise summary of their habitat, life cycle, anatomy and classification.

Great information on Mollusks.  Contains general information on all the classes of Mollusks.

The animal diversity site at the University of Michigan is a fabulous web site to learn about all animals.  This links is their mollusca page.  It contains general information about the Phylum as well as links to the 7 classes of mollusks.

The Cephalopod Web site provides links to 30 other sites on octopus, squid and nautilus.  It’s designed with a unique mouse in the shape of a squid that has a shadow-try it!

This site provides the most comprehensive information on Cephalopods on the web.  It’s a database that provides information on more than you’d ever want to know about octopus, squid, cuttlefish and nautilus.

  Fish

This is a searchable database for the world fish.  Type in your fish and it takes you to a table of possible hits.  From this table you can link to an information page on your fish that includes habitat, importance and general biology.  From this page link to more information on your fish.

Florida Museum of Natural History web page for ichthyology.   One of the best sites for information on Sharks and Shark attacks.

University of California at Berkley site on the Great White.  General information and links

The Pelagic Shark Research Foundation Web-site.  General information on sharks as well as many excellent links to further information on sharks.

     Sea Turtles

Sea turtle restoration project is an activist site for the preservation of sea turtles.  There are links to lesson plans on sea turtles as well as a teacher’s tool kit that can be downloaded with Adobe.

This site contains a great library of pictures.  Type in a keyword for a selection of thumbnail images.  You can download the pictures or send an e-mail image.

This site is based in North Carolina.  They specialize in sea turtle rescue.  You can follow a sea turtle that has been released by satellite as well as view the most recent victims of stranding.

Click on the Humpback whales to learn more about these gentle giants

    Marine Mammals

A great introductory site on marine mammals.  It’s easy to navigate through and you can learn some basic information about marine mammals. This, like several of the sites listed previously this site is sponsored by NOAA.

Marine Animal Lifeline is based out of Biddeford Maine!  From this site you can track a gray seal from her release in May of 2002 to today.  This site has great information on what to do where you find a stranded animal and how you can become involved as a volunteer.

Seaworld’s search engine.  Type in the name of the marine mammal you would like more information on and you’ll get all you need to know within the Seaworld web-site.