Marine Biology Organizations & Institutions

Arranged in alphabetical order with geographic groups

Monterey Bay Area:

• American Cetacean Society - Monterey Bay Chapter
• American Red Cross, Monterey Chapter - class schedule for CPR and First Aid
• Ano Nuevo State Natural Reserve
• California Native Plant Society - Monterey Bay Chapter
• Camp SEA Lab Monterey Bay
• Center for Ocean Solutions
• Competitive Clusters - Monterey County, Higher Education & Research Cluster
• CSU Monterey Bay
  • Seafloor Mapping Lab
• Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve
• Fleet Numerical Meteorology & Oceanography Center
• Granite Canyon Laboratory
• Hastings Natural History Reservation
• Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University
• LandWatch - Monterey County
• Long Marine Lab of UC Santa Cruz & Seymour Marine Discovery Center
• Marine Mammal & Sea Turtle Stranding Network
• Maritime Museum of Monterey
• MATE - Marine Advanced Technology Education
• MIRA - Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy
• Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary
• Monterey - City Government
• Monterey Academy of Oceanographic Science (MAOS)
• Monterey Bay Aquarium
• Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
• Monterey Bay Crescent Ocean Research Consortium (MBCORC)
• Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
• Monterey County - County Government
• Monterey County Bird Page - Don Roberson
• Monterey County Herald
• Monterey County Weekly
• Monterey Institute for International Studies
• Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy - MIRA
• Monterey Peninsula College
• Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District
• Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
• Naval Postgraduate School
• NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Santa Cruz Lab
• Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory
• Pacific Grove - City Government
• Pacific Grove - Sustainable PG
• Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History
• Pacific Grove Portal - 93950.com is a good source for all things PG
• Pacific Grove Recreational Department
• Pacific Shark Research Center - MLML
• Pelagic Shark Research Foundation
• Pinnacles National Monument
• Point Lobos State Reserve
• Point Pinos Lighthouse
• Point Sur Lighthouse
• Sea Studios
• SIMoN - Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network (MBNMS)
• Steinbeck Center - Salinas
• Surfrider Foundation - Monterey Bay Chapter
• UC Santa Cruz - Institute of Marine Sciences
• UC Santa Cruz - Ocean Science Department

California:

• Bodega Marine Laboratory
• California Academy of Sciences
• California Coastal Commission
• California Department of Fish and Game
• California Resources Agency
  • California's Ocean Resources: an agenda for the future
• California Sea Grant includes California Fisheries Information
• Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
• Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary
• Friday Harbor Laboratories - University of Washington
• Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
• Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography (good source of oceanographic data sets)
• Southwest Fisheries Science Center - NOAA, NMFS, La Jolla
• US Fish & Wildlife Pacific Region
• Western Society of Naturalists
• Woods Institute for the Enviroment - Stanford University
• Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies - Catalina Island

United States:

• American Fisheries Society
• American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS)
• Coastal Imaging Lab - Oregon State Univ.
• Divers Alert Network (DAN)
• Hatfield Marine Science Center
• Marine Biological Laboratory of Woods Hole
• Marine Conservation Biology Institute
• National Academy of Sciences
• National Association of Marine Laboratories (NAML) links to other U.S. marine labs
• National Institutes of Health
• National Resource Center for Cephalopods
• National Sea Grant Library
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• NOAA
• Oregon Institute of Marine Biology
• Organization of Biological Field Stations
• Shoals Marine Laboratory
• U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife
• U.S.G.S. National Marine Coastal & Geology Program

Other Countries:

• Alfred Wegener Institute of Polar & Marine Research
• Australian Institute of Marine Science
• Australian Oceanographic Data Centre

International:

• FAO Fisheries Department - lots of fisheries statistics here
• IAMSLIC - International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers
• International Collective in Support of Fishworkers - ICSF
• International Council for the Exploration of the Sea - ICES
• International Whaling Commission