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• - An oceans advocacy non-profit organization which focuses on water/beach quality, fisheries and fish habitat, and marine sanctuaries.
  
• - Man-made junk, largely of plastic, accounts for up to four-fifths of the debris in the oceans. All that litter is providing more opportunities for marine organisms to spread. [Required free registration at NYTimes.com to view]
  
• - Information on environmental monitoring, coastal monitoring and assessment, water quality, biodiversity, aeronautical chargting and cartography, nautical charting and cartography, national marine sanctuaries.
  
• - Public information about the MESH (Mapping European Seabed Habitats) project; including background information, metadata database and habitat maps.
  
• - A simple table comparing the data of the oceans on Earth.
  
• - The main goal of CCB is the protection and improvement of the Baltic Sea environment and natural resources. CCB is gathering, producing and distributing information about environmental problems in the Baltic Sea Area.
  
• - Extensive information resource on the world's oceans, including geography, biology, physical dynamics, human uses of marine resources, and issues and concerns.
  
• - Summary tables of marine statistics and maps showing coral reefs and mangroves from a number of countries.
  
• - Resources compiled by Congressional Research Service (U.S.). Web site maintained by Center for the National Institute for the Environment. Topics include marine fisheries, the Law of the Sea, coastal wetlands and estuaries, seabed mineral resources, and d
  
• - An observation program to monitor marine litter on Sable Island, Nova Scotia.
  
• - Provides information on research projects, provides access to publications and lists opportunities for researchers to apply for federal funding.
  
• - Information about the potential adverse impacts of aquaculture, the legal situation of aquaculture in Ireland, and about Lough Swilly, County Donegal, and concerns about aquaculture licenses there.
  
• - Clean Ocean Action's goal is to improve the degraded water quality of the marine waters off the New Jersey/New York coast. Clean Ocean Action will identify the sources of pollution and mount an attack on each source by using research, public education, an
  
• - Chartered to assess the condition of America's oceans and living marine resources, and set national priorities to restore and protect them against unintended fishing impacts, coastal development, pollution, climate change, aquaculture, and invasive sp
  
• - Directory of NOAA Coastal Services Center and other funding sources for coastal resource management, communities, and spatial information technologies.
  
• - In relation to the Integrated Coastal Zone Management the JRG IMPULSE focus on management questions in the coastal range and their coordination by means of modern information technology and mathematic modelling methods.
  
• - Ocean level rise - causes and possible solutions.
  
• - Sewage is a threat to the marine environment because it often contains harmful chemicals, disease-causing bacteria and viruses, and dissolved material and solid matter
  
• - Offers information ocean pollution from seafood, algae, overfishing, and oil spills.
  
• - Seeks to raise public awareness about pollution by showing photographs of shoreline trash.
  
• - A non-profit group working to protect and restore the health of Puget Sound and the Northwest Straits through education and action. Offers news, book resources, and links.
  
• - Monitors international trends in science and technology of interest to NOAA/NMFS to increase the agency's understanding of global fisheries.
  
• - Provides information and education on all aspects of the ocean. Offers facts, history, research and activities.
  
• - OCRM's mission is to make sound decisions, with their partners, to ensure diverse, healthy coastal and ocean resources and resolve conflicts among users.
  
• - An organization that advocates and practices CBCRM, particularly in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. It has a network of various CBCRM practioners, such as government organizations, academic and research institutions.
  
• - The Dauphin Island Sea Lab is Alabama's marine research facility. Site has information about lab's college/university programs, Alabama's SEAS education curriculum, and conferences on marine environmental issues (conference on jellyfish blooms in January
  
• - Describes U.S. patened techonolgy that produces large quantities of fresh water from Ocean water using solar energy. By-products of this solar desalination project is energy in form of electricity.