Resources on the internet
Listed below are different categories of links to other sites that might be useful.
General Links
These are links to sites that are of general interest.
- The National Science Foundation funds a great deal of scientific research and provides information on up-to-date research findings.
- The US Antarctic Program is the main portal for information about science being done by the US in Antarctica.
Marine Science Links
This list includes some links to other research programs, data portals and some educational sites. Please note that this list is by no means exhaustive and is more a reflection of our interests. Links to other labs we have connections with can be found here.
- The U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study was a component of the U.S. Global Change Research Program and was part of the larger International JGOFS program. It was designed to increase our understanding of the processes affecting carbon and elemental fluxes in the ocean, as well as improve our ability to predict the effects that human-induced changes will have on biogeochemical processes in the ocean.
- The Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry group focuses on the role that the ocean plays in global biogeochemical cycles.
- The VERTIGO study (VERtical Transport In the Global Ocean) is a large-scale study exploring the factors affecting the vertical transport of material in the ocean.
- MedFlux is another particle flux study, this one being in the Mediterranean Sea. One interesting aspect of this program is the novel use of sediment traps to obtain different fractions of the particle flux differentiated by the particle settling speed.
- Cafe Thorium is the site of Ken Buesseler's lab at Woods Hole. Ken is one of the foremost researchers using thorium as a tracer in the ocean (he also consumes copious amounts of good coffee).
- Visible Earth is NASA's catalogue of images and movies of planet Earth. This include the iconic Blue Marble images.
- Ocean Explorer is NOAA's site that follows oceanographic exploration around the world.
- NOAA's Earth Systems Research Laboratory Global Monitoring Division. Here there are oodles of data concerning planet Earth.
Computing Links
Here are some links to relevant software and computational techniques.
- Matlab is a high-end computing and visualization environment that is increasingly being used in oceanography.
- High Performance Computing on Mac OSX provides pointers to software that can be used for high performance scientific computing using Apple computers running the OSX operating system.
- R is a free software package for statistical computation and graphics.
- TeX and LaTeX are type-setting systems. TeX was developed by Donald Knuth and is freely available for just about any computer operating system one cares to think about. Producing technical documents using LaTeX is easier than with Word, and the output is of a far higher quality. Many scientific journals accept manuscripts produced using LaTeX.
Miscellaneous Links
Here we list links to sites that we enjoy, but that don't readily fall into any of the above categories.
- Real Climate is a web log devoted to climate research. Contributors include Michael Mann and David Archer.
- Piled Higher and Deeper for a glimpse of what graduate school and research is really like.
