Marine Stations on the Pacific Coast of North America
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| Rosario
Marine Station: Anacortes, WA, on Fidalgo Island. Operated
by Walla Walla College. Undergraduate and M.S. level marine classes
and research. Parent site for this survey of invertebrates. |
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| Friday Harbor Laboratories:
In Friday Harbor, WA, on San Juan Island. Operated by the University
of Washington. Marine research by graduate students and faculty,
upper-division classes. |
Bodega Marine Laboratory:
In Bodega Bay, CA north of San Francisco. Operated by the University
of California, Davis |
| Shannon Point Marine
Center: In Anacortes, WA on Fidalgo Island. Operated
by Western Washington University. Undergraduate marine research and
classes. |
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories:
In Monterey Bay, CA. Operated by California State University |
| Blakely Island
Field Station: On Blakely Island, WA, one of the San Juan
Islands. Operated by Seattle Pacific University and Seattle University.
The Mission of the Blakely Island Field Station is to support excellence
in education and research in field-based environmental and physical sciences
while supporting the preservation and wise use of Blakely Island ecosystems. |
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute:
In Monterey Bay, CA. An independent institution affiliated with the
Monterey Bay Aquarium. Established by David Packard of the Hewlett-Packard
Foundation. Studies on biology and engineering in the deep sea. |
| Hatfield Marine Science Center:
On the Yaquina Bay estuary In Newport, Oregon. Operated by Oregon
State University. A research and teaching facility. |
Hopkins Marine Laboratory:
In Pacific Grove, CA. Operated by Stanford University |
| Oregon Institute
of Marine Biology: Charleston, Oregon near Coos Bay.
Operated by the University of Oregon. A research and teaching facility |
Marine Science Institute:
Is on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. |
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USC Wrigley Institute for
Environmental Studies: At Two Harbors on Catalina Island,
off Los Angeles, CA. Operated by the University of Southern California.
Studies marine and environmental topics |
| Race Rocks Ecological Preserve:
A marine preserve near Victoria, BC, Canada, on the grounds of the old
Race Rocks light station. Sponsored by the Lester B. Pearson College,
which offers the International Baccalaureate Program. |
William G. Kerckhoff Laboratory: In Newport Beach, CA.
Operated by California Institute of Technology. Focus mainly on molecular
and developmental studies of marine species. No web page exists but
you can find some info at http://biology.caltech.edu/facilities/ |
| Bamfield Marine Sciences Center:
Bamfield, BC, Canada, on Barkley Sound on the protected side of Vancouver
Island. Operated by the Western Canadian Universities Marine Sciences
Society |
Scripps Institute of Oceanography:
Located in La Jolla, CA. Part of the University of California, San
Diego. One of the west's eminent marine research laboratories. |
Web Sites Focusing on Specific Marine Groups:
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| Seaslug forum: A database
of information on nudibranchs, hosted by Bill Rudman of the Australian
Museum. Includes more than 30,000 images and facts on over 1400 species |
Bryozoa:
Recent and Fossil. Contains drawings, photos, and a glossary
of bryozoan terms, links to bryozoan societies and sites, and on-line publications
regarding bryozoans. This site is maintained by Philip Bock of Deakin
University, Australia. |
| Anthozoa.com: A web site
devoted to Anthozoans--taxonomy, experts in the field, species lists, other
literature. Operated by Vreni Haussermann, from Germany. No
specific information for the Pacific Northwest, but has taxonomic information,
etc. |
Seashells of British
Columbia: Has photos and descriptions of British Columbia seashells.
By Peter Egerton, a shell collector, web designer, and photographer. |
| Hexacorallians
of the world: Anemones, corals, cerianthids, and their allies |
ascidians.com: A web site
based in the Netherlands and maintained by Arjan Gittenberger. Contains
photos and descriptions of a large number of ascidian species worldwide.
Also includes links to other ascidian websites and to an ascidian newsletter. |
| Crustacea.net: The goal of
this web site is to provide taxonomic information, keys, and morphological
descriptions of the crustaceans of the world. Managed by an international
coalition of taxonomists. |
Ascidian Home Page
for United States: Home page for Ascidian news, a newsletter
by Charles and Gretchen Lambert on ascidians. Based in Seattle, WA
and Fullerton, CA |
| World list of Isopods:
This list is maintained by Marilyn Schotte at the Smithsonian Institution
Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology. It includes a downloadable and searchable
list, some photos, and links to other isopod web sites (for both aquatic
and terrestrial isopods). |
Claudia Mills' home
page: Claudia Mills is a specialist in gelatinous zooplankton,
based at University of Washington's Friday Harbor Marine Labs. Her
web site contains a lot of information on gelatinous species, especially
jellyfish. The site includes a list of errata
for Wrobel
and Mills' 1998 book on Gelatinous Marine Zooplankton. |
| Alpheus
Database: Alpheids, especially genus Alpheus, are snapping
shrimp. We have no members of genus Alpheus here in the Pacific
Northwest but we do have another genus in the family, Betaeus.
This database from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and maintained
by Arthur Anker has a general description of family Alpheidae and covers
many species in genus Alpheus. |
The Cephalopod Page:
Created and maintained by James Wood of the Bermuda Biological Station
for Research. Profiles a number of cephalopod species, has a searchable
database on cephalopods, lists meetings on cephalopod biology, has photos
and movies of cephalopods. |
| Decapoda Systematics
Literature: This web site, part of the tree of life project,
is an assemblage of more than 7000 references on the systematics of decapods.
An increasing number, currently over 500, are available directly from the
site as pdf files. The site is maintained by Dean Pentcheff, Regina
Wetzer, and Joel Martin of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County,
CA. For the full site try this link: Decapoda.nhm.org |
CephBase: This database-driven
web site covers all living cephalopods. Created by James B. Wood
and Catriona L. Day of Dalhousie University, it is housed at the University
of Texas. CephBase provides taxonomic data, distribution, images,
videos, predator and prey data, size, references and scientific contact
information for all living species of cephalopods (octopus, squid, cuttlefish
and nautilus) in an easy to access, user-friendly manner. |
| Peracarida Taxa and
Literature: A database of references on some of the lesser-known
Arthropods in Infraorder Peracarida (specifically, the crustacean orders
Tanaidacea, Cumacea, and Mysidacea, and Lophogastrida). Maintained
by Gary Anderson at the University of Southern Mississippi |
Polyplacophora (Chitons)
of the North American Pacific Coast: This web site is maintained
by Roger Clark |
| Guide to the Thalassinideans
of the South Atlantic Bight (USA): This is a guide to mud shrimp
(such as Upogebia)
and their relatives which live off the SE coast of the US. The entire
document is available as a pdf at this link. Includes keys and diagrams.
Peer-reviewed and published by NOAA. |
Pacific Coast Gelatinous
Zooplankton: A web site put together by Dave Wrobel (see Wrobel
and Mills book). |
| Amphipod Newsletter: Published
by the Tromso museum, Norway. |
Pacific Northwest Shell Club:
The web pages of this shell-collecting group contain photos of many local
bivalve and gastropod shells and records of where the group has found them. |
| Chaetognatha
web page. By Erik Thuesen, the author of the Chaetognatha section
of Carlton, 2007
(Light and Smith manual, Intertidal Invertebrates of Central California). |
Glossary of Crustacean
Terms: Compiled by Joel Martin, Crustacean curator, Los Angeles
County Museum. |
| Seastars
of the Pacific Northwest: This site by Neil McDaniel has great
photos and brief descriptions of about 30 seastars found off British Columbia.
Many of the species overlap with those in the Salish Sea, while others
are more northern species. |
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Miscellaneous Web Sites:
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| ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic
Information System): From the USDA. Contains taxonomic information
on a large number of species found in the US, plus links to gene databases,
PubMed articles, etc. A great source for information. |
British
Columbia Marine Life: Photos of species from various marine groups.
This web site is maintained by elasmodiver. |
| iSpecies.org:
This site, produced by systematist Roderick Page at the University of Glasgow,
compiles a profile of what is known about species it is queried about "on
the fly". Information includes taxonomic information from ITIS, molecular
data, online images, and recent articles and abstracts from Google Scholar.
A great resource! |
Khoyatan Marine
Laboratory: Sidney, BC. A consulting laboratory specializing
especially on marine sponges. For over 30 years Khoyatan Marine Laboratory
(KML) has been providing specialized consulting services on a wide range
of marine topics. These include: Environmental Impact Assessment,
including oil spills. Fishery Feasibility Studies, Species Identification,
Biota Surveys,
Assessments of rare, threatened, and endangered species |
| Species 2000: This extensive
database is also supported by ITIS. It is an attempt to catalogue
all species (animals, plants, fungi, and microbes). The database
is based at the University of Reading, UK. Besides its own list of
species the site has links to many other "federated" databases. As
of May 2005, does not yet catalog invertebrates but it does include fish. |
British
Columbia Creature Page: Contains photos and brief descriptions
of many marine species in British Columbia. Many of the species listed
can be found only by diving. |
| Online
Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: A detailed, downloadable
and searchable dictionary in pdf format. Primary editor is Armand
R. Maggenti from University of California, Davis. |
Biodiversity
of Prince William Sound: This University of Alaska (Fairbanks)
web site is an annotated species list of species which can be found in
Prince William Sound. |
| Tree of Life: This web-based
project is an attempt to catalog the relationships among all living groups.
Contains contributions from biologists from around the world, and currently
is composed of more than 3000 web pages. |
Underwater Photos.com:
This site, by diver and photographer Gary McCarthy, contains many photos
of underwater species, mainly from the warmer waters of southern California,
Hawaii, and the Caribbean. |
| Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer:
(http://www.ubio.org) A digitized, online, searchable index of all described
animal genera from Linnaeus down to the year 2004. Includes searches
of the complete version of the journal Nomenclator Zoologicus, published
for the Zoological Society of London. This online version was developed
by David P. Remsen, Catherine Norton, and David J. Patterson, Biol
Bull 2006 (210) 18-24 |
Undersea Visions:
This web site is the creation of undersea photographer Katrina Kruse.
The site shows a number of her beautiful undersea photographs, most of
which are closeups of animals from the Northwest. You can order screen
savers, etc. Take a look--the photos are very good! |
| A Snail's Odyssey:
This educational web site by Thomas Carefoot of the University of British
Columbia contains descriptions of the basic biology, photographs, and synopses
of important scientific studies of a multitude of intertidal invertebrates
found on the west coast of North America. The purpose is to provide
summaries of what is known about the invertebrates in order to stimulate
further undergraduate and graduate studies. The site's rich content
currently includes thousands of photos and summaries of over 4000 scientific
papers. The organizing theme is a journey of a littorinid snail from
subtidal water up to the upper intertidal. |
International Code of
Zoological Nomenclature: Specifies the rules for naming species
such as these marine invertebrates. |
| OBIS:
The Ocean Biogeographic Information System: A cooperative venture
of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, U.S. Office of Naval Resarch, National
Science Foundation, and National Oceans Partnership Program, Australia's
CSIRO, Rutgers University, and the Kansas Geological Survey. Provides
biogeographic information from around the world. Can be searched
by taxon or region. Part of the 10-year Census
of Marine Life initiative. |
Lophelia.org: This web
site focuses on deep coldwater reefs from several regions of the world,
including the Aleutian Islands here in the NE Pacific. Contains maps,
photos, and descriptions of deep reefs. |
| H.M.S. Challenger
Library: The British H.M.S. Challenger expedition from 1873-1876
was one of the greatest oceanographic expeditions of all time and set off
a surge of oceanographic studies around the world. It resulted in
80 volumes and over 30,000 pages of reports. A huge number of new
marine species were discovered and described. This link to the Library
of 19th Century Science, which is operated by volunteers, provides access
to all the Challenger volumes. One may view individual pages or purchase
volumes on CD or DVD. |
SCIRUS: This web search engine
focuses on scientific topics. It claims to index about 300 million
science-related web pages, and to return results from some pages in databases
other search engines do not have access to. Sources include BioMed
Central, arXIV.org, Elsevier Science Direct, and NDLTD (archive of theses).
Sponsored by Elsevier? |
| Animalbase.org: This
database, based at the University of Göttingen in Germany, specializes
in digitized versions of early species descriptions. It contains
links to more than 7000 digitized papers from 1500 on, including works
by Carolus Linnaeus. Nearly all the works relative to species descriptions
are complete up to 1770. Some references from later years are already
included and the database continues to be updated. Searches can be made
by original taxonomic name, current taxonomic name, group, author, etc. |
NISBase.org: This web site, based
at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland,
gives you access to a variety of databases which list invasive (exotic)
species. Just enter your criteria and the geographic area of
interest on the front page and the site will retrieve records from a variety
of relevant databases. |
| MarineSpecies.org: Toward
a world register of marine species. This web site is a collaborative
project by a worldwide group of marine taxonomists. It contains searchable
databases of species names for a number of marine groups including
sponges, several crustacean groups, pycnogonids, phoronids, and ophiuroids.
Besides species lists it includes some depth and distribution data. |
Marine Species Identification
Portal: This European site is an initiative of ETI BioInformatics
under MARBEF (an EC funded network of Excellence) and KeyToNature (a project
in the EC e-contentPlus Programme). In 2008 it incluced keys to 9875 species
and 5545 higher taxa, with descriptions and illustrations, synonyms and
vernacular names. It was contributed to by a wide network of scientists
and is continuing to grow. |
| Biodiversity Heritage
Library: This web site is an attempt by a consortium of major
libraries such as the American Museum of Natural History, The Field Museum
(Chicago), Harvard University botany libraries, Marine Biological Laboratory
at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Smithsonian Institution Libraries,
etc. to make classical literature on biological species available online.
Documents include many classic books and journals, as well as a number
of recent works (example: Kensley
and Schotte, 1989. Guide to the Marine Isopod Crustaceans of the
Caribbean, published by the Smithsonian Institution Press. Contains
photos and descriptions of over 225 species, covering all known Caribbean
species except Epicaridea). Most are available as pdf files. |
WoRMS: World Register
of Marine Species: This site is an attempt by a number of universities
and government agencies to make a standard register of taxonomic names
and classification of marine species. Countries involved include
many european countries, as well as South Africa and New Zealand as well
as some participation by US scientists. The site is maintained by
taxonomists. Current "world lists" include groups such as Poriphera,
Pycnogonids, several groups of Crustaceans, and Ophiuroids. The site
has some more comprehensive regional lists as well, but these focus mainly
on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. |
| Smithsonian
Contributions to Zoology: This entire line of zoological volumes
from the Smithsonian, many of which deal with marine species, is available
online. |
Smithsonian
Contributions to the Marine Sciences: This entire line (initiated
in the 1970's) is available online, including a volume on Pacific Northwest
foraminiferans. |
| Bulletin of the
Southern California Academy of Sciences: This journal frequently
carries articles about marine species along the Pacific coast of North
America. Articles since 2000 can be found online. |
Encyclopedia of Life: A joint
project by a variety of scientists and organizations such as the Smithsonian,
Woods Hole Biological Laboratory, Harvard University, the Field Museum
in Chicago, and the Biodiversity heritage library to make a database with
a page for each known species on earth, with many links to different types
of information, taxonomy, ecology, etc. Information is present on
many marine groups. This web site is a content partner to the Encyclopedia
of Life. |
| Morphbank: A web site
hosted by Florida State University which contains photos of thousands of
species, including many marine species. Includes links to ITIS.
The photos are available for "fair use". |
Census of Marine Life: This
international effort is sponsored by many organizations and government
agencies (spearheaded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation). Based in
Washington, D.C., the 80+ nation organization has a 10-year initiative
to census marine species with emphasis on presence, distribution, and abundance
for each species. The first comprehensive census is to be released
in 2010. |
| Global Names Index:
This web site collects scientific names from a large number of other sites,
including barcode of life, NCBI, GBIF, ITIS, etc. Its main sponsors
seem to be GBIF and EOL (Encyclopedia of Life). Any individual may
add names to the index. Its intent is to become a list of all scientific
names, whether correctly used or not. Inclusion in the index does
not verify that the name is correct, but the index may provide links to
other resources that can help clarify the matter. |
GBIF: Global Biodiversity
Information Facility: This site is an international, government-funded
collaboration for making biodiversity and bioinformatics information freely
available online. Its data portal allows one to search for information
by species, by country, or by database. |
| Listentothedeep.com: This web
site links to near real-time listening to a variety of deep-sea hydrophones
distributed around the world. The site is run by the LIDO consortium
(Listening to the Deep Ocean Environment). |
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