WWW Resources: Oceanography

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) web site at: http://www.noaa.gov/

NOAA’s Oceanography Resources on the Internet web site at: http://www.esdim.noaa.gov/ocean_page.html

Oceanographic images from the space shuttle courtesy of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are featured at: http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/OCDST/shuttle_oceanography_web/oss_contents.html

The U.S. Geological Survey Coastal and Marine Geology Program’s Home Page at: http://marine.usgs.gov/

The Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command Public Affairs Office supports Neptune’s Web, where questions about the deep can be directed to an oceanographer at: http://www.cnmoc.navy.mil/educate/neptune/neptune.htm

Canada’s OceanLink Marine Science Information and Interaction web page, where you can also direct questions to oceanographers at: http://oceanlink.island.net/

The Discovery Channel publishes a weekly diary of the planet called Earth Alert (formerly called Earthweek) that features natural disasters including oceanographic phenomena at: http://www.discovery.com/news/earthalert/earthalert.html

The U.S. Metric System’s web site has information about the metric system and its incorporation into everyday use in the U.S. at: http://lamar.ColoState.edu/~hillger/

UNESCO’s 1998 International Year of the Ocean Home Page at: http://www.unesco.org/ioc/iyo/iyohome.htm

Smithsonian’s Ocean Planet web site at: http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean_planet.html

The University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Geoscience Information Center at: http://gs.ucsd.edu/

Don Reed at San Jose State University has an interesting web site that includes exercises and activities for oceanography classes at: http://geosun1.sjsu.edu/class/cls_indx.htm

Scientific American’s web site at: http://www.sciam.com/

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) web site at: http://www.noaa.gov/

The U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office web site at: http://www.navo.navy.mil/

The U.S. Office of Naval Research web site at: http://www.onr.navy.mil/

The U.S. Coast Guard web site at: http://www.uscg.mil/

Colombia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Home Page at: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/

The University of California at San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Home Page at: http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Home Page at: http://www.whoi.edu/

Images of the planets and other celestial bodies can be viewed at the Views of the Solar System Home Page at: http://bang.lanl.gov/solarsys/

The Captain James Cook Web Site at: http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/7557/

Smithsonian’s Ocean Planet web site has a feature on deep divers on "How Deep Can They Go?" at: http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/oceanography_how_deep.html

The Aerospace Corporation has a primer about the Global Positioning System at: http://www.aero.org/publications/GPSPRIMER/index.html

An on-line publication about geologic time is available from the U.S. Geological Survey at: http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/

The U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters and the Naval Historical Center have information about the Bermuda Triangle at: http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq8-1.htm

 

Information about current and recent volcanic eruptions throughout the world can be accessed at Volcano World at: http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/

Real-time worldwide earthquake data can be accessed at the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center home page at: http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/

NOAA’s National Geophysical Data Center’s Hazard Page has a photo gallery of earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, and other natural hazards at: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/hazards.shtml

The U.S. Geological Survey’s Hazard Page has reams of great information on earthquakes and volcanoes at: http://www.usgs.gov/themes/hazard.html

Hawaii Center for Volcanology’s Loihi Volcano Page features updates about Loihi’s continuing activity and a virtual tour of the volcano at: http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/HCV/loihi.html

The U.S. Geological Survey has a site that features "Ask a Geologist" where you can ask any Earth science or oceanography related question at: http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/docs/ask-a-ge.html

At the University of Tokyo’s web site, Kensaku Tamaki’s Plate Motion Calculator can be accessed at: http://manbow.ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/tamaki-html/plate_motion.html

NASA’s Observatorium has a tutorial about plate tectonics at: http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/earth/tectonics/Tectonics1.html

Information about recent eruptions in Iceland can be accessed at: http://escher.earth.ruu.nl/~jerfaas/bardar/index.html

The U.S. Geological Survey has a site that displays the on-line edition of their book entitled "This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics" that has excellent graphics about plate tectonic processes at: http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html

Christopher R. Scotese’s PALEOMAP Project web site has paleogeographic maps of the world at: http://www.scotese.com/earth.htm

Deep Flight’s Home Page at: http://www.deepflight.com/

Measured and Estimated Seafloor Topography maps can be accessed at: http://topex.ucsd.edu/marine_topo/mar_topo.html

NOAA’s National Geophysical Data Center’s Home Page, which contains Marine Geology and Geophysics bathymetric data and images at: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/mggd.htm

NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory VENTS Program conducts research on the impacts and consequences of submarine volcanoes and hydrothermal venting on the global ocean at: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/home.html

Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory has an ocean floor database that includes animated fly-bys of various segments of the mid-ocean ridge at: http://imager.ldeo.columbia.edu/

NOVA/PBS Online Adventure: Into the Abyss features a dive to the Juan de Fuca Ridge to study black smokers at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/abyss/

Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution has information about the underwater habitat Aquarius 2000 at: http://www.hboi.edu/general/press/dec1097.html

The University of Washington School of Oceanography Exploraquarium’s Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vents web site features a multidisciplinary interactive exploration of the sea floor at: http://www.ocean.washington.edu/people/grads/scottv/exploraquarium/vent/intro.htm

The University of Washington’s Revel Project investigates recent volcanic and hydrothermal activity along the Magic site on the Gorda Ridge at: http://www.ocean.washington.edu/outreach/revel/revelhome.html

Texas A&M University Ocean Drilling Program’s web site features current information about deep-sea drilling for sediment cores with the drillship JOIDES Resolution at: http://www-odp.tamu.edu/

Indiana University Biology Department’s Diatom Home Page at: http://www.indiana.edu/~diatom/diatom.html

Bowling Green State University’s Center for Algal Microscopy and Image Digitization has SEM images of diatoms at: http://www.bgsu.edu/Departments/biology/algae/

The Emiliania huxleyi Home Page has good SEM images and information about the most famous species of coccolithophore at: http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/SUDO/tt/eh/

Images showing the size of plankton relative to a sewing needle can be found at: http://www.bugware.com/sem_gallery/d_needle.htm

A world map showing total sediment thickness of the world’s oceans and marginal seas can be accessed at: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/sedthick/sedthick.html

The National Museum of Natural History’s Blast from the Past web site, featuring information about the K–T impact at: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/blast/

The Chicxulub Seismic Experiment web site at: http://diamond.ge.ic.ac.uk/jb03/jb03/web/chix.html

NASA’s Observatorium has information about impact craters at: http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/exhibits/craters/impact_home.html

Sandia National Laboratory’s Home Page features images of extraterrestrial impacts at: http://www.sandia.gov/1431/COMETw.html

NOAA’s National Geophysical Data Center’s "What is Marine Sediment Made of?" web site at: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/sedimentimages.HTML

 

Information from a U.S. Geological Survey publication entitled "Why is the Ocean Salty?" can be accessed at: http://www.ci.pacifica.ca.us/~pacifica/NATURAL/SALTY/salty.html

SEM images of snowflakes can be accessed at: http://www.lpsi.barc.usda.gov/emusnow/

The Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate Home Page features updates about the project at: http://atoc.ucsd.edu/

NOAA’s Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program Database has real-time temperature and salinity data at: http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/GTSPP/gtspp-home.html

The Salt Institute’s Home Page has information about solar salt production from seawater at: http://www.saltinstitute.org/

The International Desalination Association is at: http://www.ida.bm/

WaterMakers Inc. has information about how reverse osmosis and desalination works at: http://www.watermakers.com/how.htm

Louis A. Bloomfield from the University of Virginia supports a web site on "How Things Work: Water, Steam, and Ice" at: http://landau1.phys.virginia.edu/Education/Teaching/HowThingsWork/water_steam_ice.html

Classic Scenes from the Coastal Zone Color Scanner contains a tutorial with images and questions about ocean color from SeaWiFS Satellite data at: http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/OCDST/classic_scenes/00_classics_index.html

Information about ocean color can be accessed at: http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/OCDST/what_is_ocean_color.html

NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center’s home page has climate data from a variety of recording stations and orbiting satellites at: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov

NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center has real-time images of sea surface temperature as well as status reports on important factors affecting worldwide climate at: http://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/

The Space Science and Engineering Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has real-time global weather images and movies from geostationary satellites at: http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/

A site that bills itself as "the Internet’s premier source of weather information" is the University of Michigan’s weather site at: http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet

NOAA’s National Hurricane Center’s Home Page, which tracks hurricanes and contains excellent images is at: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.html

Near real-time global images of water vapor and wind speed can be accessed through the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Topex satellite web site at: http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov

NASA’s Observatorium has a tutorial about the seasons at: http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/earth/seasons/seasons1.html

The National Snow and Ice Data Center Home Page contains recent images of global sea ice coverage and other information at: http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/NSIDC/

The U.S. Coast Guard International Ice Patrol’s Home Page at: http://www.rdc.uscg.mil/iippages/home.htm

The United Nations Environmental Program’s web site contains information and a series of facts sheets about climate change at: http://www.unep.ch/iuc/index.html

The U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) Home Page, which has information about global climate change at: http://www1.whoi.edu/jgofs.html

NOVA/PBS Online Adventure: Titanic’s Lost Sister features information about the Titanic disaster at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/titanic/

A history of OTEC and details about Hawaii’s OTEC system can be accessed at The Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii’s Home Page at: http://bigisland.com/nelha/otec.html

The Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean (SHEBA) Home Page, which features reports and results of the year-long on-site monitoring project at: http://sheba.apl.washington.edu/default.html

 

Information about the 1997-1998 El Niño event as well as near real-time images of global wave height can be accessed through the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Topex satellite web site at: http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov

NOAA’s El Niño Home Page focuses on research, forecasts, and observations at: http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/

NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Lab El Niño Theme Page contains a variety of information about the ENSO phenomenon, including sections on "The Basics, "What’s Happening Now" and "Where to Find El Niño Related Data" at: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino/

NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Lab Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) Array web site features real-time oceanographic data from the tropical Pacific at: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/home.html

NOAA’s Office of Global Programs has current information about El Niño, La Niña, and the Southern Oscillation at: http://www.ogp.noaa.gov/enso/

NOAA’s CoastWatch Program offers coastal information through regional nodes at: http://sgiot2.wwb.noaa.gov/COASTWATCH/

NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center’s El Niño/Southern Oscillation Main Page at: http://www.nnic.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/ensostuff/

NASA’s Observatorium has information about El Niño at: http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/earth/el_nino/elnino.html

NOVA/PBS Online Adventure: Tracking El Niño at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elnino/

A variety of images from the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite (including several dynamic topography images) can be accessed at: http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/discover/images/topo_arrows.gif and http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/discover/dyn_topo.html

The Gulf Stream: A Global Investigation is a cross-curriculum study of the current via the Internet at: http://k12.rutgers.edu/curriculum/oceans/gulfstream.html

Eddies of the Gulf Stream as well as warm- and cold-core rings are displayed at: http://rs.gso.uri.edu/amy/avhrr.html

Information about deep water thermohaline circulation can be accessed at: http://www.glacier.rice.edu/chapters/oceans/4_densitydriven.html

 

The U.S. Navy's Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center provides atmospheric and oceanographic data, including real-time forecasts of wave height for all oceans of the world at: http://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/

The University of Washington’s tsunami web site has a comprehensive site on tsunamis, including a section on the physics of tsunamis, at: http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/welcome.html

NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory has a site devoted to PMEL’s tsunami-related computer simulations and modeling efforts at: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami/

The U.S. Geological Survey’s Western Region Coastal and Marine Geology publishes a site entitled Local Tsunamis and Earthquakes along the Cascadia Subduction Zone at: http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/docs/projects/cascadia/tsunami/tsunami.html

Costas Synolakis of the University of Southern California maintains an archive of digital tsunami images from 1992-96 tsunami field surveys and includes video footage of post-tsunami damage at: http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/home.html

Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Coastal Data Information Program offers swell predictions for southern California at: http://cdip.ucsd.edu/models/wave.model.html

NASA’s Observatorium has information about the causes and destructive forces of tsunamis (including many examples) at: http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/exhibits/tsunami/tsun_start.html

The Pacific Tsunami Warning System issues tsunami warnings and has links to other tsunami forecast centers at: http://lumahai.soest.hawaii.edu/tsunami.html

NOAA’s National Data Buoy Center answers the question "What causes ocean surface waves?" at: http://seaboard.ndbc.noaa.gov/educate/pacwave.shtml

Surfer Magazine has some great pictures of big waves at: http://www.surfermag.com/headlines/bigwed1.htm

 

NOAA’s National Ocean Service Oceanic Products and Services Division contains Information Pages about tides (including the publication "Our Restless Tides"), real-time Tide Data, and Tide Predictions at: http://www1.pactide.noaa.gov/

NOAA’s National Ocean Service Oceanic Products and Services Division also contains a tide predictor that allows tide predictions to be calculated at more than 3000 stations in the U.S. at: http://www.opsd.nos.noaa.gov/tp4days.html

The WWW Tide and Current Predictor contains good graphs of tides at: http://tbone.biol.sc.edu/tide/sitesel.html

Daily tide and current predictions can be accessed at: http://www.tides.com/tcpred.htm

Basic information about tides can be accessed through the Canadian National Atlas Information Service at: http://www-nais.ccm.emr.ca/defacto/english/tides.html

NOAA’s National Data Buoy Center answers the question "What are tides?" at: http://seaboard.ndbc.noaa.gov/educate/tides.shtml

Information about tides from can be accessed at: http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/~wormuth/tides.html

Photos of tidal bores and tidal bore rafting can be seen at: http://www.nsis.com/~webmagic/truro/bore.html

The U.S. Army’s web site on groins and other types of hard stabilization is at: http://sparky.nce.usace.army.mil/shore.protection/groins.html

The creation of California’s beaches is discussed at: http://ceres.ca.gov/ceres/calweb/coastal/beaches.html

Barrier islands along the U.S. eastern coastline are shown at: http://www.skipjack.net/le_shore/heritage/barrier.html

The Louisiana Barrier Island Erosion Project Home Page is at: http://chumley.er.usgs.gov/louisiana/louisiana.html

NOAA’s Coastal Services Center Coastal Change Analysis Program studies coastal change and publishes "before" and "after" images at: http://www.csc.noaa.gov/ccap/

The U.S. Geological Survey Marine and Coastal Geology Group’s fact sheet on Hurricane Impacts on the Coastal Environment is at: http://marine.usgs.gov/fact-sheets/hurricane/hurricane-txt.html

New Jersey’s Shoreline Future is the topic of a web page at: http://marine.rutgers.edu/pt/shoreline.html

Types of low cost shoreline protection are discussed at: http://sparky.nce.usace.army.mil/shore.protection/lcsphmpg.html

Scripps Institution of Oceanography Center for Coastal Studies Home Page at: http://ccs.ucsd.edu/

Chris Metzler of MiraCosta College has a web site that features a coastal erosion virtual field trip at: http://www.miracosta.cc.ca.us/home/cmetzler/field_trip/top.html

 

Near real-time oil spill detection for California’s Santa Barbara Channel – Santa Maria Basin is provided by the Center for Coastal Studies at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at: http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/oilspill/

The Oil Spill Public Information Center focuses on monitoring the effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill at: http://www.alaska.net/~ospic/

The State of Alaska’s Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Restoration web site provides information about the impact of the oil spill, the status of recovery of injured resources and services, and information about ongoing restoration and research activities at: http://www.oilspill.state.ak.us/

The International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Limited web site has information about past spills, the fate and effects of oil spills, and oil spill cleanup at: http://www.itopf.com/

The U.S. Geological Survey’s Pollution and Waste Disposal on the Los Angeles Shelf web site at: http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/docs/projects/socal/lashelf.html

Smithsonian’s Ocean Planet: Oceans in Peril page covers all types of marine pollution at: http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/ocean_planet_oceans_in_peril.html

The Restore America’s Estuaries Home Page at: http://www.estuaries.org/

The Estuary-Net Project’s web site on estuarine ecology at: http://inlet.geol.scarolina.edu/estecohp.html

The Salt Marsh web site at: http://www.tip.net.au/~sef/amanda/saltmars.htm

The Mangrove web site at: http://www.tip.net.au/~sef/amanda/mangrove.htm

The Mangrove Replenishment Initiative Home Page at: http://mangrove.org/

Information about plastics can be found at the Plastic Resources web site at: http://www.plasticsresource.com/

The University of Arizona’s Tree of Life Home Page is at: http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html

The Charles Darwin and Darwinian Web Site at: http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/nathist/darwin/darwin.html

The Marine Biological Laboratory has a Live Marine Specimens web site at: http://www.mbl.edu/html/MRC/specimens.html

Microsoft’s Encarta web page of Life in the Ocean at: http://www.encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse/oceans/oceans.asp

A variety of marine habitats from the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary are catalogued and described at: http://color.mlml.calstate.edu/www/mbnms/docs92/bio.htm

The Monterey Bay’s E-quarium web site at: http://www.mbayaq.org/

 

The SeaWiFS Satellite Home Page features images and information about the SeaWiFS Project (which maps ocean color from space) at: http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS.html

Classic Scenes from the Coastal Zone Color Scanner contains a tutorial with images and questions about ocean color from SeaWiFS Satellite data at: http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/OCDST/classic_scenes/00_classics_index.html

Information about ocean color can be accessed at: http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/OCDST/what_is_ocean_color.html

The Athena Project’s Ocean Color Viewed from Space web site at: http://athena.wednet.edu/curric/oceans/ocolor/index.html

Martin Ryan Marine Science Institute’s Seaweed Home Page at: http://seaweed.ucg.ie/seaweed.html

The University of Western Cape South Africa Botany Department’s Welcome to the World of Algae Home Page at: http://www.botany.uwc.ac.za/algae/

Wood Hole’s Oceanographic Institution’s Harmful Algae Page at: http://www.redtide.whoi.edu/hab/

Information about red tides can be accessed at: http://www.marinelab.sarasota.fl.us/~mhenry/WREDTIDE.phtml

The University of California’s Museum of Paleontology has information and images about many types of microscopic marine organisms at: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/collections/micro.html

NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service Home Page is at: http://www.nmfs.gov

The National Museum of Natural History’s Economic Uses of Algae web site at: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/projects/algae/Alg-Econ.htm

The National Resources Defense Council has information about fisheries management and the crisis in marine fisheries at: http://www.nrdc.org/nrdcpro/reports/hlsexsum.html

The Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) International Home Page has information about the measurement and role of CO₂ in the ocean at: http://ads.smr.uib.no/jgofs/jgofs.htm

 

The University of California’s Museum of Paleontology has information about many types of marine organisms at: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/

Odyssey Expeditions has a comprehensive web site about ichthyology and fish behavior at: http://www.odysseyexpeditions.org/indexfish.htm

NOAA's National Marine Mammal Laboratory and Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory have collaborated on a joint study to assess the potential of long-range acoustic monitoring of free-ranging populations of large cetaceans and include information about whales at: http://newport.pmel.noaa.gov/whales/

The on-line edition of Ocean News by Canada’s Bamfield Marine Station Public Education Program focuses on marine mammals and is located at: http://oceanlink.island.net/marmammals.html

Hear vocalizations of various whales and dolphins at the Office of Naval Research’s Northern Right Whale Monitoring Project at: http://www.onr.navy.mil/sci_tech/ocean/Info/NRtWhale/

Seaworld’s Education Department features a web site about the hydrodynamics of sharks at: http://www.seaworld.org/Sharks/hydro.html

NOVA/PBS Online Adventure: Shark Attack! has information about sharks at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sharks/

Mote Marine Laboratory’s Center for Shark Research Home Page at: http://www.marinelab.sarasota.fl.us/~rhueter/sharks/shark.phtml

 

The University of California’s Museum of Paleontology has information about many types of marine organisms at: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/

The intertidal zonation of a sandy beach at the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary is discussed at: http://bonita.mbnms.nos.noaa.gov/sitechar/sandy3.html

The Biological Sciences Department of the State University of New York at Stony Brook has a web site that focuses on the rocky shore environment and is located at: http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/rockyshore.html

Paul Yancey’s Deep Sea Pages focuses on life in the deep at: http://www.bmi.net/yancey/

The Coral Reef Resources Page at: http://www.indiana.edu/~reefpage/index.html

NOAA’s Coral Health and Monitoring Program Home Page at: http://coral.aoml.noaa.gov/

NOAA's Coral Reef Beaching Hot Spot Chart at: http://psbsgi1.nesdis.noaa.gov:8080/PSB/EPS/SST/climohot.html

The University of Virgin Islands’ Introduction to Coral Reefs at: http://www.uvi.edu/coral.reefer/

The University of Washington School of Oceanography Exploraquarium’s Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vents web site features a multidisciplinary interactive exploration of the sea floor at: http://www.ocean.washington.edu/people/grads/scottv/exploraquarium/vent/intro.htm