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Web Links
- American
Coastal Coalition
- An organization that represents the interests of nation's coastal
communities, with the goal of preserving the role of the federal
government in shore protection. The site includes information on the
economic benefits of beaches.
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- Cape
Hatteras Lighthouse Relocation
- Part of the National Park Service's Cape
Hatteras National Seashore website that deals with the controversy
around the relocation of the Nation's tallest lighthouse from an eroding
shoreline to a safer inland location.
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- Center for
Coastal Geology
- A USGS site that is part of the Marine and Coastal Geology program.
The site includes some excellent information sources on topics such as coastal
erosion following hurricanes or storms associated with El Nino
(includes numerous images).
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- Coastal
Briefs
- An electronic mini-journal, available on the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institute's (WHOI)
website and consisting of a series of short "articles"
synthesizing the results of research concerning coastal oceanography.
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- Coastal
and Marine Geology Program
- A USGS site that links visitors to research findings on coastal
processes. The site includes numerous fact-sheets
on issues such as pollution, sea-floor mapping, beach erosion, and the
impact of hurricanes on coastlines.
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- Coasts
in Crisis
- An online USGS publication by S. J. Williams, K. Dodd, and K. Krafft
Gohn, that includes sections on types
of coasts, processes that result in coastal
change, and descriptions of coastal
conflicts resulting from development.
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- Great Lakes
Information Network
- A source of information on the U.S. North Coast (and Canadian South
Coast), including information on the characteristics of the Great
Lakes and the surrounding region, their ecosystems
and the environment.
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- Interactive
maps for Oceanography
- Housed at the University of Tokyo, this site allows visitors to
generate on-line maps and cross sections of ocean properties such as
salinity and temperature using data from NOAA's World Ocean Atlas.
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- National
Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Perhaps the most complete web resource for information on the oceans.
Sections on the Earth
Sciences and Ocean
Sciences are particularly applicable. A separate site houses the NOAA
Photo Collection, hundreds of images associated with oceans and
coastlines.
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- National
Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)
- The NODC is the U.S. repository and distribution facility for global
ocean data. This site includes the some
common questions about the oceans that link interested visitors to a
variety of other sites or to parts of the NODC site.
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- Ocean Drilling
Program
- The Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) conducts basic research into the
history of the ocean basins and the overall nature of the crust beneath
the ocean floor using the scientific drill ship JOIDES Resolution. A tour
of ODP describes what happens on a drilling project.
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- Ocean
Planet
- An online version of the Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition
on the oceans that includes sections on ocean
science and oceans
in peril (from marine pollution, habitat destruction, overfishing,
and global change).
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- Real-time
Ocean Environments
- Explore current ocean conditions at sites around the
world (including three around the U.S. coast) using satellite data. Real
time altimetry data, includes maps of sea surface height and sea surface
temperature are presented.
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- Seafloor
topography
- A large map of sea floor topography created by H.F.
Smith and D.T. Sandwell from NOAA National Geophysical Data Center's
site on Bathymetry,
Topography & Global Relief. Review an on-
line article, "Exploring the ocean basins with satellite
altimeter data", for a description of how ocean floor topograpy was
determined.
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- State of the
Coast
- An excellent NOAA on-line publication that discusses the consequences
of development along the U.S. coast and methods of managing coastal
resources.
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- TOPEX/Poseidon
- A partnership between the U.S. and France to monitor global ocean
circulation. The TOPEX/Poseidon satellite measures global sea level
every 10 days. An online
tutorial explains how the height of the ocean surface is measured
and discusses factors contributing to changes in sea surface height.
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