LibGuides: Oceanography: Welcome

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Websites

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.
NASA sea level change
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."
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.
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.

Books in the Cañada College Library

The Blue Planet by Alastair Fothergill; Martha Holmes; Andrew Byatt; David Attenborough; Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
Call Number: QH91.B39 2001
Endangered Oceans by Louise I. Gerdes (Editor)
Call Number: GC1018.E53
Publication Date: 2004
Fathoming the Ocean: the discovery and exploration of the deep sea by Helen M. Rozwadowski
Call Number: GC65.R695 2005
Hidden Depths by Theberge, Albert E. Lautenbacher, Conrad Charles, NOAA
Call Number: G2800.H53 2007
How the Ocean Works: An Introduction to Oceanography by Mark Denny
Call Number: GC21.D398 2008
50 Ways to Save the Ocean by David Helvarg; Philippe Cousteau (Foreword by); Jim Toomey (Illustrator)
Call Number: GC1020.H448
Publication Date: 2006
Oceanography by R. Gordon Pirie (Editor)
Call Number: GC26.O275 1996

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