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American Littoral Society
http://www.americanlittoralsoc.org/index.html
This non-profit, membership based organization, founded in 1961, offers a great collection of field
trips and educational resources related to coastal habitats.Barrier Islands of U.S. Atlantic and Gulf Coasts
http://www.simmons.edu/~madsend/barrier/index.html
This site, developed by a non-scientist for a graduate class in library science, gives a nice layperson's
overview of barrier island processes and issues.Beaches and Coastal Systems, Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), State of Florida
http://www2.dep.state.fl.us/water/beaches
The DEP is the primary regulatory agency responsible for Florida's environmental health. The Beaches
and Coastal Systems website is informative, and offers a data download service on-line for many Florida
counties.For example, available for Dade County are beach and offshore profile data, historic shoreline
data, and Florida coastal GIS data.Biscayne National Park Home Page - National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/bisc/
Learn about the natural wonders of Miami-Dade County, Florida's, mostly underwater National Park in
Biscayne Bay.Coastal America - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
http://www.coastalamerica.gov/
http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/coastam/
The Coastal America program is described as a "partnership for action" by federal, state, local, and
private alliances to jointly address environmental problems along the nation's coasts. This site is hosted by
the EPA's Office of Water, Ocean and Coastal Protection.Coastal and Marine Geology Program at the USGS
http://marine.usgs.gov
This site offers overviews of current research programs at this branch of the USGS and links to scientists
working on nearshore and offshore geological problems. The synopses may be too technical for K-8,
but the Surveyhas done a good job of addressing a layperson audience. Two examples of research are
"Louisiana's Barrier Islands: A Vanishing Resource" and "Hurricane Impacts on the Coastal Environment".Coastal Services Center - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/
A resource directory hosted by NOAA's Coastal Services Center in Charleston, S.C. The tools are links to
sites on technology or information, management and policy, and training and outreach. Eight categories
include Barrier Islands & Beaches and Coastal Hazards.Coasts in Crisis - Center for Coastal Geology, USGS
http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/learninglab/crisis
This USGS educational resources site is hosted by the Center for Coastal Geology in St. Petersburg,
Florida. Information on coral reefs, wetlands, and hurricanes is available, as well as the opportunity to
"Ask a Geologist".Florida Bay Dude!
http://www.firn.edu/flbaydude
Florida Bay DUDE! is a "video and educator's guide to the South Florida ecosystem" put together by
the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.Florida Coastal Management Program, Department of Community Affairs, State of Florida
http: //www.dca.state.fl.us/ffcm
Learn how our state government manages and regulates development along Florida's coasts.
Interesting sections include construction regulations, habitat monitoring programs, beach renourishment, and
hurricane safety.Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
http://www.fknms.nos.noaa.gov/
The unique beauty and history of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is nicely presented at this
site. Learn about several edicational and outreach programs like Florida Bay Dude!, The Great American
Fish Count, and Tortugas 2000.Florida Sea Grant College Program
http://flseagrant.org/
A user-friendly site maintained at the University of Florida with much information about living with and
maintaining the Florida coast and its resources. For example, the "invpubs.htm" page lists all recent
publications (some free, some not), with a link to archived publications that still are available.
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National Sea Grant College Program - Media Center
http://mdsg.umd.edu/seagrantmediacenter/
This guide to marine research resources available through the federally funded Sea Grant program also
has links to the 29 regional and state programs in the United States. The "expert.html" page is a
convenient guide to coastal science experts, and can be searched by category of expertise, Sea Grant
program, keyword, or name [See separate listing for Florida Sea Grant].Save the Beaches 2000
http://beaches.hartford.edu/
Described as an international project for global awareness, this yearly effort by young environmentalists
worldwide centers around spring beach cleanups and analyses of the recovered trash. Students and
teachers then prepare a database of their findings and share it with the other participants, and everyone,
via theInternet. The founder of the program is a computer education teacher in Connecticut.Seagrass Habitat Information
http://www.ifas.ufl.edu/~veroweb/
The campus of the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory (FMEL) is located in a nature preserve along
the Indian River Lagoon south of Vero Beach. The website has a very nice overview of the terrestrial
and marine components of the preserve under the "Habitats at FMEL" option on the home page.
The seagrass and mangrovepages have sketches and photos that are useful identification tools.Southeast Region - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)
http://www.fws.gov/r4eao/
The home page for the Southeast region, including Puerto Rico, gives an overview of agency's work.
http://www.fws.gov/coastweb.html
Nationwide coastal habitat programs overseen by the USFWS are discussed here.State of Florida Statutes for 1999: Section 161
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/citizen/documents/statutes/1999/ch0161/titl0161.htm
OK, all you lawyer/lobbyist wannabes...here’s your chance to delve into the regulatory maze of Section
161 of the Florida Statutes. The "citizen" page provides a link to a Statutes and Constitution page, from
which you can access the 1999 Beach and Shore preservation regulations in Chapter 161 and decipher what
we can and cannot do in the coastal zone. The legal jargon is dense at times, but but you can zero in on
specific issues and choose highlights of the statutes if the whole text is too much.UNEP-CEP Kids Only Page
http://www.cep.unep.org/kids/kids_only.html
Learn about manatees/dugongs and whales on this page from the UNEP's Caribbean Environment
Programme
Ocean, Earth & Space Science / Ciencias Marinas, Terrestres y Espaciales
Caribbean Infonet - Science
http://www.caribe.hn/science.htm
Science links from the Caribbean Information Network
Earth and Environmental Science -USGS
http://info.er.usgs.gov/network/science/earth
World Wide Web resources are listed by topic at this site, hosted by the U.S. Geological Survey. Relevant
topics include Climate, Earth Science, Environmental GIS, and Oceanography.
Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/eros-home.html
Satellite images, aerial photographs, maps and digital products can be obtained here through the U.S.
Geological Survey.
El Niño and La Niña Theme Pages - NOAA
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino/nino-home-low.html
This site, maintained by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine
Environmental Lab, have everything you want to know about El Niños and La Niñas. The "Impacts"
pages are particularly interesting in their overviews of the worldwide effects of the recent El Niño/La Niña.
GeoIndicator Checklist - U.S. Global Change Research Information Office (GCRIO)
http://www.gcrio.org/geo/intro.html
GeoIndicators, tools for assessing rapid environmental changes, are being refined by academics
affiliated with the International Union of Geoscientists. Specifically they are geological indicators liable to
change inmagnitude, direction or rate in less than 100 years.
Global Warming - EPA
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/
The EPA's primer on global warming is nicely divided into sections that ask, and attempt to answer,
common questions about global warming. The three sections are (1) Climate system (What is the problem?
What do we know?); (2) Impact (How serious is it? Now? In the future?); and (3) Actions (What's
being done?What can I do?)
MegaCosmos - Tu Guía al Universo
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/1526/index.html
Guía de Internet para los Aficionados a la Exploración Espacial y la Ciencia Astronómica.
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
http://www.nasa.gov/
Sections of interest at this website are Educational Resources, Education Materials and Services, and
Satellite Sensing. The next URL is more K-12 teacher specific.
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/educate/edu.htm
The Educator Resource Center for Florida is located at the NASA Kennedy Space (http://www.ksc.nasa.
gov); the contact person is Ms. Janet O'Sullivan. This URL is for the Student & Teachers' Homepage
address.
http://www.quest.arc.nasa.gov
NASA Quest aims to bring the Internet into the classroom with online chats, events, and interactive
projects and learning modules
NOAA (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration)
http://www.noaa.gov/
The home page has information about this governmental agency and links to daughter organizations
such as the National Environmental Satellite, Data and, Information Service (NESDIS), National Weather
Service (NWS),National Ocean Service (NOS), and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS).
http://www-orca.nos.noaa.gov/
This is the website of the Special Projects Office of the National Ocean Service that deals with protection
and management of coastal areas. Look at a Year 2000 initiative entitled "Sustain Healthy Coasts - A
NOAA Strategic Goal".
http://www.education.noaa.gov/
NOAA's Education Resources site is divided into three sections: for teachers, for students, and cool sites
for everyone.
OCEAN PLANET and other Smithsonian Institution Initiatives
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET.html
Smithsonian's online exhibition on ocean conservation is sponsored by NASA.
Reed's Almanac Tide Predictions
http://www.reedsalmanac.com/resources/tides/index.html"
Online tide prediction for eastern Central America, Northern South America, Florida, and U.S. Gulf Coast
Science Links
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~chip/links.htm
This Australian site has, on separate pages, links to many science sites in different categories.
Vistas Del Sistema Solar
http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/solar/span/homepage.htm
Por tener tantas fotografias toma tiempo ver esta página
The Weather Calculator
http://nwselp.epcc.edu/elp/wxcalc.html
If you have a weather variable and need to convert it, this is the place.
Year of the Ocean 1998 Home Page
http://www.yoto.com
1998 was the International Year of the Ocean. The official YOTO site, created and managed by the
Environmental News Network, Inc., has links to everything going on in celebration and understanding of
the Blue Planet.
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