Marine Biology Web Links

General Marine Biology Sites

NOAA’s National Ocean Service: Education
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education
--looks at the scientific research, technology, and activities conducted by the National Ocean Service in the areas of oceans, coasts, charting, and navigation and provides on-line tutorials for high school students and teachers through the use of articles, images, audio and video clips, and animations.

MarineBio.org
http://www.marinebio.com
---provides an in-depth look at the oceans of the world and studies the animals, plants, and other organisms that live in or near the oceans and other saltwater environments.

MEER Homepage
http://www.meer.org/meerhome.htm
---provides a history of marine biology and oceanography and includes detailed articles, images and diagrams on the sizes, depths, currents, temperatures, and salinity of ocean basins; marine fishes, mammals, birds, invertebrates, and plants; wildlife conservation; and maps showing coral reef locations for various parts of the world.

Marine Life

Wonders of the Seas
http://www.oceanicresearch.org/lesson.html
---provides information, color photographs, and diagrams of sponges, cnidarians, mollusks, echinoderms, arthropods, sperm whales, manatees, and sharks.

Marine Flatworms of the World - Introduction
http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~bu6/flatintr.htm
---examines the anatomy, regeneration, food and feeding, mimicry, species variation, defense mechanisms, and reproduction of polyclad flatworms, a group of large, free-living marine flatworms found mainly in tropical coral reefs, and includes hundreds of color photographs of different species found in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans and the Red and Mediterranean Seas.