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Alabama

Dauphin Island

Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Mobile Alabama

University of South Alabama

Department of Coastel Engineering and Science Research

Alabama Center for Estuarine Studies (ACES)

Alaska

Cordova

Prince William Sound Science Center

Fairbanks

University of Alaska

Institute of Marine Science

School of Fisheries and Ocean Science

Juneau

Alaska Fisheries Science Centers

Seward

Alaska Sea Life Center

California

Arcata

Humboldt State University

Bodega Marine Laboratory

Bodega Bay

University of California, Davis

Oceanography Department

Bodega Marine Reserve

Long Beach

California State University Long Beach

CSULB Shark Lab

Marine Biology Group

Los Angeles

University of Southern California

Sea Grant

Menlo Park

U.S. Geological Survey

Western Region Coastal and Marine Geology

Moss Landing

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

California State University

Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

Biological Oceanography

Chemical Oceanography

Geological Oceanography

Benthic Lab

Ichthyology Lab

Physical Oceanography

Pacific Grove

Stanford University

Hopkins Marine Station

Pasadena

California Institute of Technology

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

JPL Polar Oceanography Group Research

San Diego

University of California

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Center for Coastal Studies

San Diego State University College of Sciences

Coastal and Marine Institute

Santa Barbara

University of California, Santa Barbara

Marine Sciences

ICESS Institute for ComputationalEarth System Science

LTER Palmer Station

Santa Cruz

University of California, Santa Cruz

Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS)

Ocean Sciences Department

Terminal Island

University of Southern California

Southern California Marine Institute

Trinidad

Humboldt State University

Telonicher Marine Laboratory

Westminster

Southern California Coastal Water Research Project

Colorado

Boulder

University of Colorado at Boulder

Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)

Marine Geology and Geophysics Division

Connecticut

Groton

University of Connecticut

Department of Marine Sciences

National Undersea Research Center

Project Oceanology

Delaware

Newark and Lewes

University of of Deleware

Graduate College of Marine Studies

Center for Applied Coastal Research

Ocean Information Center (OCEANIC)

Florida

Boca Raton

Florida Atlantic University

Department of Ocean Engineering

Dania Beach

Nova Southeastern University

Oceanographic Center

Fort Pierce

Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution

Smithsonian Marine Station (SMS)

Key West

Key West Institute

Melbourne

Florida Institute of Technology

Department of Marine and Environmental Systems

Vero Beach Marine Laboratory (VBML)

Miami

University of Miami

Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science

Sarasota

Mote Marine Laboratory

St. Petersburg

University of South Florida

Department of Marine Science

Ocean Modeling and Prediction Laboratory

Center for Ocean Technology

U.S.Geological Survey

Center for Ocean Technology Center for Coastal and Regional Marine Studies

Tallahassee

Florida State University

Marine Laboratory

Center for Ocean-atmospheric prediction (COAPS)

Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility

Department of Oceanography

Georgia

Athens

University of Georgia

Department of Marine Sciences

Savannah

Skidaway Institute of Oceanography

Hawaii

Hilo

University of Hawaii

Kalakaua Marine Education Center

Honolulu

University of Hawaii

School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST)

Oceanography Department

IPRC International Pacific Research Center

Pelagic Fisheries research center

Illinois

Chicago

University of Chicago

Department of Geophysical Sciences

Kansas

Lawrence

The Society for Marine Mammalogy

Louisiana

Baton Rouge

Louisiana State University

School of the coast and environment

Coastal Studies Institute (CSI)

Earth Scan Lab of the Coastal Studies Institute

Center for Coastal, Energy, and Environmental Resources (CCEER)

Coastal Louisiana Digital Library

Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences (DOCS)

Coastal Fisheries Institute (CFI)

Coastal Ecology Institute (CEI)

Chauvin

The Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON)

Maine

Blue Hill

Marine Environmental Research Institute (MERI)

Orono

University of Maine

School of Marine Sciences

Walpole

University of Maine

Darling Marine Center

West Boothbay Harbor

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

Maryland

Baltimore

Johns Hopkins University

Ocean Remote Sensing Group

Cambridge

University of Maryland

Horn Point Laboratory (HPL)

Edgewater

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)

Laurel

Johns Hopkins University

Ocean Remote Sensing Group

Massachusetts

Baltimore

Scientific Comittee on Oceanic Research

Boston

University of Massachusetts Boston

Environmental, Coastal and Ocean Sciences Graduate Department (ECOS)

Cambridge

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate

Department of Ocean Engineering

MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography

Lincoln

The Ocean Alliance and The Whale Conservation Institute

Nahant

Northeastern University

Marine Science Center

Woods Hole

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)

Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory

U.S.Geological Survey

U.S.G.S. Woods Hole Field Center

Other Research Institutions and Marine Resources in Massachusetts

Pilot Census of Marine Life

Michigan

Ann Arbor

University of Michigan

Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

Mississippi

Ocean Springs

University of Southern Mississippi

Institute of Marine Sciences

Stennis Space Center

University of Southern Mississippi

Department of Marine Science

New Hampshire

Durham

University of New Hampshire

Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS)

Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory

Ocean Color Remote Sensing and Bio-optical Oceanography

Physical Oceanography

Biological Oceanography

Marine Programme

Center for Marine Biology (CMB)

Jackson Estuarine Laboratory

Center for Ocean Engineering

Center for Ocean Sciences (COS)

Coastal Marine Laboratory

Shoals Marine Laboratory

Jere A Chase Ocean Engineering Laboratory

JAnadromous Fish and Aquatic Invertebrate Research Laboratory (AFAIR)

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (C-COM)/ Joint Hydrographic Center (JHC)

Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology (CICEET)

New Hampshire Sea Grant

New Jersey

Fort Hancock

New Jersey Marine Science Consortium

Hoboken

Stevens Institute of Technology

Davidson Laboratory

New Brunswick

Rutgers University

Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences

Princeton

Princeton University

Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Department of Geo Sciences

New York

Ithaca

Cornell University

Shoals Marine Laboratory

Palisades

Columbia University

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Stony Brook

State University of New York

Marine Sciences Research Center

North Carolina

Beaufort

Duke University

Marine Laboratory

Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina

Department of Marine Sciences

Morehead City

University of North Carolina

Institute of Marine Sciences

Raleigh

North Carolina State University

Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Wilmington

University of North Carolina

Center for Marine Sciences

National Undersea Research Center

Ohio

Columbus

Ohio State University

Byrd Polar Research Center

Oregon

Beaverton

Oregon Health & Science University

Center for Coastal and Land-Margin Research

Charleston

University of Oregon

Oregon Institute of Marine Biology (OIMB)

Corvallis

Oregon State University

College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Study

Biological Oceanography

Chemical Oceanography

Physical Oceanography

Marine Geology

Marine Geophysics

Atmospheric Sciences

Oregon Sea Grant

Newport

Oregon State University

Hatfield Marine Science Center

Pennsylvania

Millersville

Millersville University

Earth Sciences Department

Oceanography

State College

Pennsylvania State University

Applied Research Laboratory

Rhode Island

Narragansett

University of Rhode Island

Graduate School of Oceanography

Geological Oceanography

South Carolina

Charleston

College/University of Charleston

Grice Marine Laboratory

Columbia

University of South Carolina

Marine Science Program

Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research

Conway

Coastal Carolina University

Department of Marine Science

Center for Marine and Wetland Studies

Texas

Austin

University of Texas at Austin

Institute for Geophysics

College Station

Texas A&M University

Department of Oceanography

Port Aransas

University of Texas at Austin

Marine Science Institute

South Padre Island

University of Texas - Pan American

Coastal Studies Laboratory

Waco

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography

The oceanographic society

Virginia

Gloucester Point

College of William and Mary

Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Virginia

Norfolk

Old Dominion University

Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography

Washington

Anacortes

Shannon Point Marine Center

Blakely Island

Seattle Pacific University

Blakely Island Field Station

Friday Harbor

University of Washington

Friday Harbor Laboratories

Seattle

University of Washington

School of Oceanography

NEPTUNE: A Fiber Optic Telescope to Inner Space

Applied Physics Laboratory

Polar Science Center

Washington D.C.

Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education (CORE)

Census of Marine Life (CoML)

Other Research Institutions and Marine Resources in USA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

NOAA - National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)

NOAA - Live Access to Climate Data

NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)

NOAA National Data Buoy Center

Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)

Environmental Research Laboratories (ERL) of NOAA

Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR)

Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL)

NOAA Central Library's Wind and Sea

NOAA National Ocean Service

NOAA's Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services

Phycological Society of America

Gulf of Maine Information System

Consortium for Oceanographic Research & Education (CORE)

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC)

OceanPortal - high-level directory of Ocean Data and Information related web sites

Global Directory of Marine (and Freshwater)Professionals (GLODIR)

Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI)

National Science Foundation - Ocean Sciences Division

Naval Ocean Analysis and Prediction (NOAP) Laboratory

Oceanographer of the Navy

NASA SEA WIFS