MASC 101: Marine Environment  

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Census of Marine Life - Marine Life Discoveries

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Ocean Surface Topography from Space

N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources - Division of Coastal Management

NOAA Fisheries Service

NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science

NOAA's National Ocean Service

Scripps Institution of Oceanography - explorations e-magazine

Tree of Life - may be helpful in researching a specific organism

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) - Science Topics

USGS's Coastal & Marine Geology Program

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Encyclopedia of Coastal Science (online resource)

Stow (2006). Oceans : an illustrated reference.

Denny (2008). How the ocean works : an introduction to oceanography.

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