A good source of oceanographic data sets is found on Scripps Institution of Oceanography web page. Selected other resources are listed alphabetically below. When it comes time to cite an electronic resource in your bibliography, you may want to use the APA style, the MLA style, or the CSE style citation formats. You might also try here or here.

Stanford Links:

• Axess - Stanford Faculty & Students Only
• Benefits at Stanford
• CourseWork - Stanford only
• Emergency Information
• HelpSU - online form for requesting computer help
• Map - seachable map of main campus
• RefWorks - web-based Stanford licensed software for managing bibliographic databases
• SALLIE - Stanford All-Image Exchange
• Software at Stanford - to purchase discounted software
• Stanford Answers - knowledge base for Stanford computing questions
• Stanford Common Data Set - statistics on enrollment, tuition, financial aid, etc.
• Stanford Dissertations - full-text pdfs 1997-Present
• Stanford Essential Software - PC Leland, MacLeland, Eudora, etc.
• Stanford Network Resources - check the status of Stanford servers (email, web, etc.)
• Stanford on iTunes - free podcasts of lectures, sports, etc.
• Stanford Logos - Stanford only
• Stanford.You - Stanford users can change their vacation message, their directory entry, etc.
• SUNet ID - Stanford users can request or change their ID
• Tech Briefings - video streams of selected IT Tech Briefings
• Travel Rates & Per Diem
• W-4 tax withholding - Stanford only
• WebMail - access your Stanford email when away from your computer
• Whois - Stanford Directory
• Wireless Access for Stanford Visitors - use this for short term visitors to your lab
• Woods Institute for the Environment

Marine Links:      Back to top

• American Nautical Services - place to order nautical charts
• Annotated List of Seabirds of the World
• Antarctica - Underwater Field Guide to Ross Island & McMurdo Sound
• Atlas of Tuna and Billfish Catches
• Australian Museum Larval Fishes
• Beached Marine Critters - citizen science, reporting unusual beached animals
• California Coastal Records Project - aerial photos of most of the California coastline
• California Commercial Landings Database - PFEG compiled from CA Fish & Game data
• California's Living Marine Resources
• California Ocean Fishing Regulations - find out what fish are in-season for sport fishing
• Career Information and Job Opportunities in marine biology & oceanography
• Catalog of Fishes - California Academy of Sciences
• Census of Marine Life
• Center for Ocean Solutions
• CephBase - Cephalopod Database of species, researchers, etc.
• Cnidaria Home Page
• CnidBase - Cnidarian Evolutionary Genomics Database
• Consortium for Ocean Leadership
• Corals of the World
• Deep Sea News
• Dictionary of Marine Natural Products
• Echinoid Directory - includes taxonomic key
• Effects of Temperature on Invertebrates and Fishes - a selected bibliography
• El Nino NOAA
• FAO Fisheries - includes lots of fisheries statistics
• FAO Terminology - polyglot dictionary of fishery terms
• Fisheries Reports - AFS Fisheries Reports Database
• FishBase
• Fishery Conversion Factors - FAO landing weights to live weight equivalents
• FishNet
• FishNet - three dimensional database of zebrafish development
• Freshwater and Marine Image Bank - University of Washington (older images)
• Fully Protected Marine Reserves - downloadable document from WWF (pdf file)
• Hands-On Oceanography - The Oceanography Society
• Herbarium - MBL/WHOI, Woods Hole
• Hexacorallians of the World
• History of Oceanography and Earth Sciences
• Ichthyoplankton Information System - Alaska Fisheries Research Center
• International Shark Attack File
• International Whaling Commission
• Internet Guide to International Fisheries Law
• Jelly Watch - place to report jelly beach strandings, but also includes squid, mammals, plastics, etc.
• Listservers in Marine Science - very old (1996)
• MareNet - Marine Research Institutions and Documents Worldwide
• Marine Algae of California updated species list - name changes since 1976 publication
• Marine Biology Web - Jeff Levinton, SUNY Stony Brook
• Marine Invertebrate Larvae - images from the University of Saskatchewan archives
• Marine Mammals of the World
• Marine Protected Areas - Central California Coast
• Marine Protected Areas of the United States
• Marine Science Resources - ACRL/CARL
• Marine Science Resources - California Sea Grant
• Marine Stocks at Risk of Extinction - American Fisheries Society
• MarineBio.org
• MarineMap - Marine Life Protection Act mapping tool for MPA process in southern California
• Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Site Characterization
• Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Shelf Characterization and Image Display
• Muti-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network - MARINe
• National Oceanographic Data Center - NOAA
• OBIS - Ocean Biogeographic Information System
• Ocean Expert - Global Directory of Marine and Freshwater Professionals - IOC/UNESCO
• Ocean Portal - IOC /IODE
• Oceana
• Oceanic Fisheries Programme (formerly the Tuna and Billfish Assessment Programme)
• OceanSpaces - has MPA monitoring data for California
• Pacific Shark Research Center - MLML
• Pelagic Fisheries Research Program
• PEW Oceans Commission
• PISCO - Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans
• Polyclad Marine Flatworms
• Reef Check California - Nearshore Ecosystem Database
• Reef Check California - data for Hopkins site in Nearshore Ecosystem Database
• ReefQuest Centre for Shark Research
• Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia - FDA (images, IEF gels, RFLP)
• Ronald H. McPeak, Underwater and Coastal California Photographs, 1965-1999
• Sea Slug Forum
• Sea Urchin Embryology
• Seafloor Mapping Lab - CSUMB
• SeaNet - common marine organisms of Monterey Bay, California
• Shifting Baselines: the truth about ocean decline
• SIMoN - Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network (MBNMS)
• SIMoN Photo Database - Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network (MBNMS)
• Slug Site - Opisthobranch molluscs
• Taxonomic key for Pacific Coast Nudibranchs - DEAD LINK from UC Santa Cruz 2005 Bio 161L class
• Tuna Fishery Yearbook
• Tuna Fishery Data Catalogue
• UN Atlas of the Oceans
• U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy
• Upwelling Indices - Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory
• Virtual Urchin
• Weather & Sea Conditions - Monterey Bay Area
• World Register of Marine Specied (WoRM)

Science Links (non-marine):      Back to top

• American Men & Women of Science
• ARKive - photos and film clips of endangered and recently extinct species
• BiologyBrowser - free biology web resources compiled by BIOSIS
• BioSupplyNet - searchable database of laboratory supplies and suppliers
• Carolina Biological Supply Company
• CERES - California Environmental Resources Evaluation System
• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics Stanford only
• Cytographics - films and footage of cytology including algae
• Darwin - The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online - Cambridge University
• DigiMorph - University of Texas, x-ray tomography of species
• Digital Database for Teaching Biology - BIODIDAC
• Earthscope - seismic array, including one site at Hopkins
• Ethics in Science
• Genbank National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Global Change - U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
• GrantsNet - for grad students, postdocs, and junior faculty, sponsored by AAAS and HHMI
• InterActive Terminology for Europe IATE - word translator including science terms in 12 languages
• International Field Guides - database verson of Guide to Field Guides by Diane Schmidt
• ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• IUCN Red List of Threatened Species - database search
• Journal Abbreviation Sourses - All that JAS
• Khan Academy - thousands of educational videos on math, science, business
• Life Sciences Dictionary
• Molecules To Go User Friendly access to the Protein Data Bank
• National Center for Coral Reef Research - NCORE
• National Environmental Directory - includes the Harbinger File
• Natural History Reference Sources - University of Washington
• Natural History Reference Sources - University of Washington
• OneZoom - Tree of Life explorer
• OpenWetWare - Wikipedia style site for lab protocols
• SciFinder - software for searching Chemical Abstracts Stanford Only
• SciQuest - search 200+ laboratory supply catalogs at once, also used lab equipment for sale
• SRS Network Browser for Databanks in Molecular Biology
• Tree of Life
• Understanding Evolution - UC Berkeley
• Voyage of the Beagle - podcasts about the science of ecology and conservation
• World Biodiversity Database

General Links:      Back to top

• Abbreviations.com
• Academic Ranking of World Universities
• Acronym Finder
• Animated Knots - learn how to tie a bowline, etc.
• AnyWho - put in a phone number and get a name, address, map
• Biography and Geneology Master Index
• BookFinder - Great source to locate used and out-of-print books
• Calculators, conversion tables, estimators, etc.
• California Coastal Records Project - aerial photos of most of the California coastline
• California Highway Information - check for current road conditions
• Conversion Factors
• Copyright and Fair Use
• Culturomics - n-gram database from GoogleBooks
• Currency Converter or Currency Converter
• Dictionaries - Onelook, multi-dictionary search
• Digital Object Identifier- enter DOI number to get citation
• Encyclopedia of Associations Stanford Only (part of Gale's Ready Reference
  Shelf)
• Grants.gov - covers all U.S. Federal grant-making agencies.
• Household Products Database - health hazard information from NIH and NLM
• IVR Cheat Sheet - shortcuts for bypassing phone menu systems to get to a human
• Jobs - meta index for finding jobs via the web
• National Doctoral Program Survey
• Oxford English Dictionary
• PhD Comics
• Preparing Future Faculty - Association of American Colleges and Universities
• Research Centers Directory Stanford Only (part of Gale's Ready Reference Shelf)
• ReverseIt - put in a phone number and get a name and address
• Reverse Directory - put in an address or phone number and get a name
• San Francisco Bay Area Transit Information - Caltrain, buses, BART, airports, etc.
• Seat Guru - detailed airplane seating information
• What is my IP? - go here to get the IP address of the computer you are using
• Where to Publish - for conservation/ecology journals
• Who's Who
• World Clock - Time Zones
• World of Learning
• WorldMapper - size based on statistics (import, export, birth, age, etc.)
• Zip Code Lookup - USPS