LibGuides: OCEAN 100 Kirchoff-Stein: Welcome

Websites that offer ideas and information about your topic

Monterey Bay Aquarium: Conservation & Science
This nonprofit's mission is to inspire ocean conservation. The aquarium offers scientific resources and information about the ocean along with animals, daily feedings, exhibits, and tours open to the public.
NOAA: National Oceanic and AtmosphericAdministration
This government website offers weather forecast tools and resources, oceans and coastal tools, charts and images, data reporting and restoration projects, satellite imagery, reports, launch information and climate data and reports.
Our Ocean Portal
NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory's website states its goal is "to enable users to easily access ocean science data, run data assimilation models, and visualize both data and models. The concept of OurOcean is to allow users with minimal resource requirements to access data and interact with models."
Save the Bay
Save The Bay, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, publishes a blog, Notes from the Shoreline, that may offer good ideas for your topic.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Founded in 1930 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, this independent non-profit has six research divisions related to ocean and earth science and marine policy, the coastal ocean, ocean life, ocean exploration, and climate change.

The library offers access to articles in databases about the uses and abuses of oceans. Come to the reference desk in the library (the third floor of Building 9) and ask a librarian to show where to find articles on your topic and how to cite those articles.

Make a reference appointment by filling out this form or call 650-306-3138 and ask for help over the phone. See these pages for: