Related Links


Plymouth Marine Sciences Partnership (PMSP) organisations

Plymouth MP

Plymouth Marine Laboratory
University of Plymouth Marine Institute
 National Marine Aquarium
Marine Biological Association
SAHFOS
Diving Diseases Research Centre

Marine Publications/Societies web sites

 National Marine Biological Library - NMBL
Challenger Society for Marine Science
 IUCN - The World Conservation Union
 NERC - Planet Earth Contact requests@nerc.ac.uk for a free subscription.
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission - Ocean Portal

Copepod Taxonomy

Online, scanned version of the classic 1892 Giesbrecht book entitled "Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der Angrenzenden Meeres-Abshnitte". 
2 volumes: text and plates.  It is freely available for download.

http://www.archive.org/details/systematikundfau19textgies (Text)

http://www.archive.org/details/systematikundfau19plategies (Plates)

Diversity and Geographic Distribution of Marine Planktonic Copepods
(http://copepodes.obs-banyuls.fr/en/index.php)

Plankton Taxonomy links

http://www.planktonnet.eu/en/home/
http://www.hib.no/avd_al/naturfag/plankton/english/about/index.html
http://www.cmarz.org/index.html
http://www.e-taxonomy.net/
http://www.eti.uva.nl/
http://www.biology.duke.edu/hydrodb/index.html
http://invertebrates.si.edu/copepod/
http://www.obs-vlfr.fr/~gaspari/copepods_guide/
http://copepodes.obs-banyuls.fr/index.php
http://www.liv.ac.uk/ciliate/intro.htm
http://ocean.iopan.gda.pl/ostracoda/index.php
http://planktonweb.ifas.ufl.edu/
http://www.copepoda.uconn.edu/
http://www.luciopesce.net/copepods/
http://www.marinespecies.org/index.php
http://www.marbef.org/data/erms.php
http://www.marinebarcoding.org/
http://www.itis.gov/
http://www.radiolaria.org/

 

World general index and taxonomy spelling error detection

http://www.tdwg.org/biodiv-projects/projects-database/view-project/1527/

http://www.tdwg.org/biodiv-projects/projects-database/view-project/1528/


Marine Monitoring links

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
 Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory (POL)
 Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS)
 National Oceanographic Centre, Southampton
 GLOBEC (Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics)
 Met. Office for Weather Information
 MarLIN
Scientific Committee on Ocean Research - (SCOR)
SCOR WG115 - Standards for the Survey and Analysis of Plankton SAHFOS Member: Chris Reid
SCOR WG125 - Global Comparisons of Zooplankton Time Series SAHFOS Member: Martin Edwards
SCOR WG130 - Automatic Visual Plankton Identification SAHFOS Member: Priscilla Licandro
IMBER - Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council
 North Pacific Marine Science Organisation - PICES
 The Global Ocean Observing System - GOOS
 UK GOOS
 British Oceanographic Data Centre - BODC
 Marine Pollution Monitoring Management Group
Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning - MARBEF - EU Network of Excellence
MarineBio.org
Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO)

Climate Change links

World Meteorological Organisation - Global Climate Observing System
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
RealClimate
Global Warming - Early Warning Signals
Wikipedia - Climate change
Defra - Climate change
BBC Weather Centre - Climate change
WWF - Climate change
Kyoto Protocol

Diatom links

Biology Department, Indiana University
Information for calculating biovolumes for diatoms
 California Academy of Sciences
Jan Rines Home Page

Education links

Shoals of Capricorn
Project Aware Foundation

University links

The University of Plymouth Marine Institute

General Plankton links

The Plankton Net
 The Virtual Copepod Page
Database on amphipod literature

Image Libraries

Image Quest 3D
 Great Lakes Plankton images
 Department of Marine Botany, Göteborg University, Sweden
 Marine Natural History Photography
 SUNY Marine Bio-Plankton Images
Biomedia Ciliates Gallery
Slawek Kwasniewski - Zooplankton Atlas

Instrumentation links

Chelsea Technologies Group

Marine data sets

L4 dataset off Plymouth
Marine Environmental Change Network (MECN)
National Oceanographic Data Center
 US Naval Oceanographic Office

Protists links

Planktonic Ciliate Project
The World of Protozoa
BioMedia Teacher Ciliate Links

Pipefish links

European Commission's Joint Research Centre - web site for snake pipe fish information

Red Tide links

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute - red tide information

Fish links

The Atlantic Salmon Conservation Foundation

Other links

The UK Charity Commission
http://www.pesce.info/ (fish information)