Sites Related to the Local Area

Information about Mississippi: "Discover the one-of-a-kind places that make Mississippi The South's Warmest Welcome."

The Mississippi Gulf Coast: Information regarding the fun that is to be had on the Gulf Coast.

The Sun Herald, south Mississipi's daily newspaper with valuable information about life on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

NOLA-LIVE: New Orleans is only an hour away: news and entertainment courtesy of the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

Oceanographic Meta-Sites

Oceanic: Ocean Information Center at the University of Delaware (includes schedules for research ships).

Marine Research Institutions Worldwide: list maintained by the University of Oldenburg Physics Department.

Libraries

USM Libraries including Anna (on-line catalog)

Maury Library (The US Navy Library at Stennis Space Center -- may be down after hours.)

Tulane University Library

UCSD/Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library

Data & Scientific Information Sources

Arsenic Crisis Information Center (for West Bengal and Bangladesh)

Australian Institute of Marine Science (an interesting oceanographic resource down under)

CDIAC (Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

CenGOOS (Central Gulf Ocean Observing System)

Global Change Master Directory (A comprehensive directory of earth science data put together by the folks at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.)

Gulf of Mexico Program (An EPA partnership program)

The Hydrographic Society of America (for those who are interested in surveying afloat)

IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library (contains a wide variety of earth science data, primarily oceanographic and atmospheric datasets)

JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center

Marine Geology & Geophysics Images from the National Geophysical Data Center

National Agricultural Statistics Service (Facts on US agriculture from USDA)

NIST Physics Laboratory -- an excellent source of information on various physical constants

NOAA-PMEL Ferret Site: Live access to climate data

NODC (National Oceanographic Data Center)

Northern Gulf of Mexico Littoral Initiative (NGLI), A modeling system of the Mississippi Sound and adjoining rivers, bays, and shelf waters.

Ocean Data View (Oceanographic data visualization software by R. Schlitzer of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany)

On-line map creation (from Geomar in Germany) using GMT (from U. Hawaii)

Water Resources of the United States (US Geological Survey)

Career Development Sites

The Student Oceanographic Society (SOS) provides marine science students with a forum for their views as well as the companionship of individuals with common interests and mutual goals.

WWW Starting Points for Information about Research Grants (from Scripps Research Institute)

Next Wave's Career Development Center -- advice and guidance for young scientists pursuing academic research careers

Careers in Oceanography, Marine Science and Marine Biology -- valuable information for young scientists pursuing careers in various fields of Marine Science.

Earthworks---career opportunities in earth sciences as well as various earth/ocean links

Other Useful Sites

Stennis Space Center

The University of Southern Mississippi

USM College of Science & Technology

Center of Higher Learning (Stennis Space Center)

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