Marine Science
Getting Started
If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:
Catalog of fishes (3 vols plus web site)
NB: Why there may be discrepancies between Catalog of Fishes and Fishbase
Handbook of marine science (2 vols)
Seas at the millennium : an environmental evaluation
Oceans Eleven, a critique of the implementation of Australia's Oceans Policy - ACF (online)
Australia, state of the environment 2011 - Marine Environment -- online
Journal Articles
For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
ASFA 1, Biological sciences and living resources
ASFA 3, Aquatic pollution and environmental quality
ASFA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts
ASFA 2, Ocean technology, policy and non-living resources
REEF - Great Barrier Reef database
Oceanic Abstracts (online 1981- ; print 1972 -)
AVANO - marine and aquatic Open Access harvester
Australian heritage bibliography (AHB, formerly HERA)
Provides global access to over 15,000 full-text digital documents through the 40,000-record, searchable publications database of over 30 US government Sea Grant-funded programs and projects in oceanography, marine education, aquaculture, fisheries, aquatic nuisance species, coastal hazards, seafood safety, limnology, coastal zone management, marine recreation, and law.
Like Google Scholar but specific to science. As in Google Scholar, you can go to Preferences to enable full text connections to University of Queensland Library subscribed resources. (Note: Not all UQL full text will be available from Scirus results displays. Some will require access via the library network.)
Similar to Google Scholar but, unlike GS and Scirus (above), based on multilateral partnerships to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals, with approaching 100 participants. In Advanced Search you can turn on or off databases. In search results you can choose format tabs (papers, data, multimedia), or topic and other options to refine results. Not all results are open access resources and UQ Library subscriptions are not recognised, as they may be in Google Scholar and Scirus, and as they will be in Web of Knowledge, ASFA and other databases listed above.
Maps
Redmap, a new and interactive website, invites the Australian community to spot, log and map marine species that are uncommon in Australia, or along particular parts of our coast.
PILOT - Atlas of Australian Marine Fishing and Coastal Communities
Maritime Gazetteer of Australia
Millennium Coral Reef Mapping Project
Data from remote sensing of ocean colour from space made available for search, browse and download for many parameters and time periods - ocean color, sea surface temperature and sea surface salinity data sets in PNG images or digital data in HDF format. (NB: Reference color bars)
NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center - Giovanni Ocean Portals
Giovanni is a web-based application developed by the GES DISC that provides a simple and intuitive way to visualize, analyze, and access vast amounts of earth science remote sensing data without having to download the data.
Provides information relevant to the sustainable development of the oceans. It is designed for policy-makers who need to become familiar with ocean issues.
Specialised Resources
Integrated Marine Observing System (CSIRO)
IMOS is designed to be a fully integrated national array of observing equipment to monitor the open oceans and coastal marine environment around Australia, covering physical, chemical and biological variables. All IMOS data is freely and openly available through the IMOS Ocean Portal (see AODN below) for the benefit of Australian marine and climate science as a whole. Covers multi-decadal ocean change, climate variability and weather extremes, major boundary currents and interbasin flows, continental shelf processes and ecosystem responses.
MarLIN - CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Laboratories Information Network
MarLIN is designed to hold descriptions of datasets collected by, or currently held within, the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research plus its predecessors (Divisions of Marine Research, Atmospheric Research, Fisheries, Oceanography, and Fisheries & Oceanography).
Pacific Ocean Library - Center for Ocean Solutions
The Pacific Ocean Library houses scientific articles, reports, government publications and gray literature on the Pacific Ocean's greatest threats, environmental and socioeconomic impacts, and potential solutions for the region.
TrawlBase : sustainable management of coastal fish stocks in Asia.
FishBase : a global information system on fishes
NB: Why there may be discrepancies between Fishbase and the Catalog of Fishes
State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA)
Reef and Rainforest Research Centre (RRRC)
RRRC was established in 2006 to implement the Australian Government's Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility (MTSRF), a major component of the four-year $100 million Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities (CERF) programme. RRRC now manages the National Environmental Research Program - Tropical Ecosystems Hub (NERP TE Hub) which is examining emerging biodiversity and environmental issues across the Great Barrier Reef, Wet Tropics and the Torres Strait. RRRC also coordinates the Reef Rescue Water Quality Research and Development Program. NERP is the successor to CERF and oversees four other Hubs across Australia including the Marine Biodiversity Hub.
NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) - Ocean
Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program
EHMP is a freshwater, estuarine and marine monitoring programme for South East Queensland.
CoralWatch is a non-profit organization, built on a research project at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. It aims to provide hands-on monitoring and education tools to increase awareness of reef threats.
A global network of volunteer teams that regularly monitors and reports on reef health and takes local community action to protect remaining pristine reefs and rehabilitate damaged reefs worldwide.
Uses remote sensing and in situ tools for near-real-time and long term monitoring, modeling and reporting of physical environmental conditions of world coral reef ecosystems, include coral bleaching risks.
NOAA's Coral Health and Monitoring Program
Background on all whale and dolphin species.
US National Marine Mammal Laboratory
A database of information on terrestrial, marine and freshwater algae.
FAO Database on Introductions of Aquatic Species (DIAS)
A compilation of publications concerning taxonomy, nomenclature, and geographic distribution of extant hexacorallians - members of cnidarian orders Actiniaria (sea anemones in the strict sense), Antipatharia (black corals), Ceriantharia (tube anemones), Corallimorpharia (sea anemones in the loose sense), Ptychodactiaria (sea anemones in the loose sense), Scleractinia (hard or stony corals), and Zoanthidea (sea anemones in the loose sense).
MarLIN - Marine Life Information Centre
North East Atlantic. From the Marine Biological Association of the UK.
World Biodiversity Database projects
Includes taxonomic data on marine mammals, turtles, Indo-Malayan corals, Chaetognatha, lobsters, and North Sea marine groups, plus a search interface across all projects (including freshwater and terrestrial species).
Statistics
Web Sites
AUSTRALIA
e-atlas - Australian Institute of Marine Science
The e-Atlas is a partnership between many research providers in order to develop a portal to information about Australia's tropical terrestrial and marine environments featuring maps, reports, scientific papers, data, and interactive maps of environmental conditions, biodiversity, risks and hotspots of environmental concern. E-atlas provides high capacity storage, custom-developed open-source software for data processing and display and data access to the public and/or registered users.
Australian Ocean Data Network Portal
Australia's digital ocean commons: an interoperable, online network of marine and coastal data resources, including data from the six Australian Ocean Data Centre Joint Facility partner agencies.
OzCoasts - Australian online coastal information
Australian Institute for Marine Science
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry - Fisheries
GENERAL
International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) - UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission see also OBIS Australia (above):
OBIS (Ocean Biogeographic Information System)
A thematic digital repository covering the natural marine, estuarine /brackish and fresh water environments from International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC). It includes all aspects of the science, technology, management and conservation of these environments, their organisms and resources, and the economic, sociological and legal aspects. It is complementary to OceanDocs (see above).
MarineBio - marine conservation
International Coral Reef Initiative
Coral Reef Targeted Research & Capacity Building for Management Program
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