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Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
www.ioc-unesco.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
The UN sponsored body that deals with international oceanographic programmes, supports ocean science in the developing world and sets international standards, including the definition and protocol for measuring salinity.
Ocean surface currents
http://oceancurrents.rsmas.miami.edu/
A web-based ocean current reference site with interactive maps. Each current has important links, summary text detailing velocity and hydrographic observations, and plots such as, average current speed and locations, drifting buoy positions, sea surface temperature maps, and HYCOM simulations.
Ocean acidification
www.ocean-acidification.net/
A UNESCO IOC sponsored page with links to many scientific and policy sites dealing with the increasing acidification of the sea resulting from CO 2 uptake.
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/
One of the longest established oceanographic laboratories in the world with excellent educational programmes and links to on-going research.
Sea mounts
http://seamounts.sdsc.edu/
Maps, photo libraries and links to projects studying sea mounts are all available from this page.
El Nino
www.elnino.noaa.gov/
The US research programme on the El Nino Southern Oscillation with maps, images and links.
The oceans from space
http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/SeaWiFS/
A vast array of information and images from the the SeaWIFS project, including near real time and composite images of ocean colour and productivity.
The great Southern Ocean iron release experiment
http://tracer.env.uea.ac.uk/soiree/
www.mbari.org/expeditions/SOFeX2002/
Links to projects involved in the large scale experiments to investigate the role of iron as limiting nutrient in the Southern Ocean.