OCEANOGRAPHIC, MARINE CLIMATE, AND MARINE BIODIVERSITY DATA
NASA and NOAA Products
ETOPO1 - National Geophysical Data Center, 1-minute seafloor topography and land elevations
National Oceanographic Data Center - in situ temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, phosphate, etc.
Ocean Color Web - MODIS Aqua and SeaWiFS satellite data
Ocean Productivity - Oregon State University, NPP calculated from satellite chlorophyll and SST data
POET - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Satellite derived sea surface variables (downloadable as GIS shapefiles)
U.S. Estuarine Bathymetry - Data in USGS DEM format or as Google Earth Visualization Files (very cool!)
Global Climate Databases
Biogeoinformatics of Hexacorals - Kansas Geological Survey, Marine environmental database mashup
Global Precipitation Climatologies - JISAO, University of Washington
WorldClim - Terrestrial Global Climate Layers, 1km resolution
Paleoclimate and Future Climate Scenarios
IPCC Data Distribution Center - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Paleooceanography - NOAA Paleoclimatology Branch, link to many paleo datasets
PMIIP - Paleoclimate Modeling Intecomparison Project, Phase II
Marine Mapping and Oceanographic Modeling Tools
Aquamaps - Marine biodiversity mapping - approach used by FishBase for distribution maps (note - method not validated)
Bluelink - Ocean forecasting Australia - coastal and ocean currents around Australia
Ocean Modeling.org - Office of Naval Research - info on various ocean models and data sources
ROMS - Rutger’s Regional Ocean Modeling System
ROMS - NASA JPL’s Pacific ROMS and other ocean models
SEA-MAT - Matlab tools for the oceanographic community
Distributional Modeling and Other Statistical Tools
Bioclim - Bioclimatic prediction system for biodiversity mapping
GARP - Genetic Algorithm for Rule-Set Prediction
MatLab - Needs no explanation
Maxent - Maximum Entropy software for species habitat modeling (my favorite dist. mod. approach)
R - Free open-sources statistical computing software
WhyWhere - Version 2.0 server
Coral Reef Data
Millennium Coral Reef Mapping Project - Classifying reef geomorphology based on Landsat images
Millennium Coral Reef Landsat Archive - NASA’s Landsat images used by the MCRMP
Reefs at Risk - Evaluates human pressures on coral reefs
ReefBase - Online information system for all things coral reef
ReefGIS - Online mapping and downloadable datasets for coral reefs
UNEP-WCMC - World Atlas of Coral Reefs (charges a fee for processing of data agreement)
Biodiversity Databases
FishBase - A Global Information System on Fishes
GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Global Marine Species Assessment - Global review of the threat of extinction to marine animal and plant species
Hexacorallians of the World - Sea anemones, corals, and their allies
iSpecies - Another mashup of other biodiversity resources
ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System
MarLIN - The Marine Life Information Network for Britain & Ireland
OBIS - Ocean Biogeographic Information System
OBIS SEAMAP - An online database of marine megavertebrate populations
uBio - Universal biological indexer and organizer
World Register of Marine Species - Aims to complete an authorative list of all marine species by 2010
Molecular Databases
NCBI - National Center for Biotechnology Information
***PLEASE NOTE I CAN NOT VOUCH FOR THE VALIDITY OF THE DATA CONTAINED WITHIN THESE WEBSITES***
“Caught in a Downpour” - Bolinao, Philippines 2008