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Estuarine Science

All About Estuaries

General Estuary Web Sites
- Explore Estuaries- EPA site
  http://www.epa.gov/owow/estuaries/kids/
- Useful information on estuaries
  http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/habitats/estuaries1.htm
- Estuary-Net Project
  http://inlet.geol.sc.edu/estnet.html
- Estuary Live
  http://www.estuarylive.org/
- Restore America's Estuaries
  http://www.estuaries.org/
- National Estuary Project
  http://www.epa.gov/nep/nep.htm
- National Estuarine Research Reserve System
  http://inlet.geol.sc.edu/nerrsintro/nerrsintro.html
- Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation
  http://www.riedc.com/startframe.html
Narragansett Bay
- Discovery of Coastal Environments
  http://omp.gso.uri.edu/doce2.htm
- EPA's Narragansett Bay site
  http://www.epa.gov/owow/estuaries/nb.htm
- GEMSNET RI Ecosystems Lesson: From Your Backyard to Narragansett Bay
  http://bobbyorr.gso.uri.edu/~gemsnet/misc/ecosystems/teacher.pdf
- Greenwich Bay (RI Sea Grant's Site)
  http://seagrant.gso.uri.edu/G_Bay/index.html
- Monitoring Network for Narragansett Bay Waters
  http://www.gso.uri.edu/~dkester/nbay/index.htm
- Narragansett Bay: A Friend's Perspective
  http://www.providenceri.com/NarragansettBay/
- Narragansett Bay Commission
  http://www.narrabay.com/
- Narragansett Bay Estuary Program
  http://www.nbep.org
- Narrbay
  http://www.narrbay.org/
- National Estuary Research Reserve, Narragansett Bay
  http://inlet.geol.sc.edu/NAR/
- Remote Sensing of Narragansett Bay
  http://www.planetary.brown.edu/~mustard/apurva/
- Rhode Island Sea Grant
  http://seagrant.gso.uri.edu
- Save The Bay - Narragansett Bay
  http://www.savebay.org/
Watersheds
- The complete Field Guide to over 4,800 North American plants and animals
  http://www.enature.com/
- River of Words - An International Children's Art and Poetry Contest
  http://www.riverofwords.org/
- A good source for local information/links
  http://www.ri.net/RIGeo/rigea/home.html
- Good comprehensive watershed site
  http://www.ctic.purdue.edu/KYW/glossary/whatisaws.html
- EPA watershed site, watersheds of the US
  http://www.epa.gov/surf/
- Water in the US, many links
  http://water.usgs.gov
- National Geographic site, lots of pictures and links
  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geographyaction/ga17.html
- Ohio on-line watershed tour
  http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~waternet/vtour
- The Massachusetts Watershed Initiative
  http://www.state.ma.us/envir/mwi/watersheds.htm
- Pawtuxet River Authority
  http://www.pawtuxet.org/

Water Properties

Water Chemistry
- Stacking Water- Chemical Oceanography Activity
  http://www.sea.edu/k12lessonplans/k12StackingWater.htm
- Good site on water and its properties
  http://www.sbu.ac.uk/water/index.html
Water Circulation
- Count Marsili and The Mediterranean Current- Activity
  http://www.sea.edu/k12lessonplans/k12CountMarsili.htm
- Water Level, Tides and Currents
  http://www.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/about2.html

Biological Communities

Planktonic
- Plankton Ecology, Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography
  http://www.geocities.com/planktonguy/
- Plankton Theater
  http://thalassa.gso.uri.edu/plankton/theater/ciliates/mesodinium.htm
Pelagic
- Great site on striped bass
  http://home.earthlink.net/~fishplumi/surfcasting.html
- Marine ecosystems
  http://mbgnet.mobot.org/salt/oceans/
Benthic
- The North American Benthological Society
  http://www.benthos.org/
- Marine Photo Gallery
  http://www.imagequest3d.com/stock/index.htm
- Site on Blue Crabs
  http://www.blue-crab.org/crab_identification.htm
Intertidal
- All about tides and the tidal zones
  http://www.poulsbomsc.org/tutorial4.htm
- Australian seashores
  http://www.mesa.edu.au/friends/seashores/tidal_zone.html
- Tour of the tidal zones, biology, endangered species
  http://www.needham.mec.edu/NPS_Web_docs/High_School/
  cur/N/n4/title.html
- Tidal areas of the Galapagos Islands
  http://www.terraquest.com/galapagos/wildlife/coastal/intertidal.html
- Nova Scotia's rocky seashores
  http://museum.gov.ns.ca/infos/rocky/

Global Environmental Changes

US Global Change Research Program
http://www.usgcrp.gov
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
http://www.ipcc.ch
U.S. Global Change Research Program, University of New Hampshire
http://www.necci.sr.unh.edu/

Policy and Management

Navigation and Shipping

Point Judith Lighthouse
http://www.lighthouse.cc/pointjudith/history.html
NOAA Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System (PORTS)- Narragansett Bay
http://www.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/nbports/nbports.html
Dredging DAMOS (Disposal Area MOnitoring System)
http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/environm/damos1.htm
Dredging Operations and Environmental Research (DOER)
http://www.wes.army.mil/el/dots/doer/doer.html

Fisheries and Aquaculture

Shellfish closures, fishing limits, etc.
http://www.state.ri.us/dem/topics/outdoor.htm#marine
Recreational fishing links, Marine fisheries issues
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/
Recreational fishermen in Rhode Island socioeconomics
http://www.st.nmfs.gov/st1/econ/fact_sheets/94rhode_island.pdf
Shellfish numbers, 1998
http://www.st.nmfs.gov/st1/commercial/landings/gc_runc.html
Aquaculture in Rhode Island
http://www.providence.edu/polisci/projects/aquaculture/OverviewAquaculture.html
About the Bay
http://www.savebay.org/
Sustainable seas & virtual kelp forest dive
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/seas/index.html
Commercial fishing
http://www.fishingnj.org/artsmolowitz.htm
New England Aquaculture Educators Network (AQUA)
http://www.nebhe.org/netep/aquapg.html
The Aquaculture Network Information Center
http://aquanic.org/

Invasive Species

General
- Biodiversity, Invasive Species, Mass Extinctions
  http://ethomas.web.wesleyan.edu/ees123/invasive_species.htm
- Invasive Species Glossary of Terms
  http://www.invasivespecies.org/resources/Glossary.html
- Marine Bioinvasives of New England shores, good pictures
  http://www.gso.uri.edu/maritimes/Back_Issues/99Winter/Text%20(htm)/carlton.htm
- Invasive Research, patterns, links to lessons
  http://invasions.si.edu/
- Profile on Drew Lohrer, a scientist who studies invasive species
  http://inlet.geol.sc.edu/baruch/DrewLohrer.html
- Explains marine bioinvaders
  http://massbay.mit.edu/exoticspecies/
- Massachusetts MIT Sea Grant site
  http://massbay.mit.edu
- Good article on ballast water from Gulf of Maine Times
  http://www.gulfofmaine.org/times/summer98/1a.htm
- National Ballast Water Information Clearinghouse
  http://invasions.si.edu/ballast.htm
Specific Species
- Good facts about green crab
  http://www.wa.gov/wdfw/fish/ans/greencrab.htm
- Facts and photos about green crabs
  http://ag.ansc.purdue.edu/EXOTICSP/green_crab.htm
- Facts and a drawing of the Asian shore crab
  http://www.savebay.org/aboutus/winter_01/html/creature_feature.htm
- Good newspaper article on Asian shore crab
  http://www.s-t.com/daily/05-01/05-25-01/a04lo023.htm
- Links on invasive marine species and in particular the Asian shore crab
  http://www.atlantisforce.org/gominvasion.html
- Article on the Asian shore crab
  http://www.mi.nmfs.gov/recentpub1.html
- Biology and great pictures of the Orange Striped Sea Anemone
  http://www.itsligo.ie/biomar/anthozoa/HALLIN.HTM
- Biology and pictures, links to Zebra mussel sites
  http://www.wes.army.mil/el/zebra/
- Biology and photo of the Opossum Shrimp
  http://www.vattenkikaren.gu.se/fakta/arter/crustace/
  mysidaci/mysidae/mysie.html
- Biology and photo of the boring sponge
  http://teachertech.rice.edu/Participants/jholzapf/Gulf/sboring.html
- Biology and photo of the European Oyster
  http://www.soton.ac.uk/~merg/oyster.htm
- Biology and Photo of the Kelp Moss Animal
  http://www.serc.si.edu/sms/IRLSpec/Membra_savart.htm
- Nodding Head
  http://nas.er.usgs.gov/bryozoans/bryozoanslist.htm
- Photo of the Asian Stalked Seasquirt
  http://faculty.washington.edu/bjswalla/Urochordata/

Development

Quonset Point
- Save the Bay
  http://www.savethebay.org/bayissues/quonset/index.htm
Greenwich Bay
- Rhode Island Sea Grant
  http://risg.gso.uri.edu/G_Bay/

Pollution

Nutrients and Organic Matter
- Cape Cod Bay's project - The Wood's Hole Research Center
  http://www.whrc.org/science/newaters/content.htm
- Eutrophication Issues
  http://www.epa.gov/maia/html/eutroph.html
Bacteria and Viruses
- Combined Sewer Overflow Abatement Project- Narragansett Bay Commission
  http://www.narrabay.com/cso.asp
Water Quality
- Organizations Involved with Water Quality
  http://www.abpa.org/orgnztn.htm
- Water Quality Association
  http://www.wqa.org/sitelogic.cfm?ID=2.
- The Groundwater Foundation
  http://www.groundwater.org
- New England Water Environment Association
  http://www.newea.org
- American Water Works Association Research Foundation
  http://www.awwarf.com
- American Water Works Association
  http://www.awwa.org
- USGS-Water Resources of the United States
  http://water.usgs.gov
- Water and Wastewater Technology
  http://www.waterworld.com
- Rhode Island Department of Health Bathing Beaches Monitoring Program
  http://www.health.state.ri.us/topics/bathing.htm
- Journal Of New England Water Works Association
  http://www.newwa.org
Sewage Treatment
- The Fields and Bucklin Point Wastewater Treatment Facilities in Providence
  http://www.narrabay.com/treatmentProcess.asp
- Sewage Treatment Systems-Educational Information
  http://www.extension.umn.edu/water/materials.html
- Brockton Advanced Water Reclamation Facility
  http://www.mwpca.org/Brockton.htm
- Sewage World
  http://www.sewage.net
- Sewage Treatment
  http://www.dcs.Exeter.ac.uk/water/sewage.htm
- Wastewater Systems and sewage treatment plants for homes
  http://www.appleisland.com/treatment/sewer.htm

Recreation

Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management
Division of Parks & Recreation
http://www.riparks.com
Rhode Island Boatbuilders
http://www.riboats.org
Anyboat.com Online Boating Ezine
http://www.anyboat.com
Newport's Sailing Site
http://www.sailnewport.org
Rhode Island Chapter Surfrider Foundation
http://www.risurfrider.org
Narragansett Mariner
http://www.narmar.com
Narragansett Pier Dive
http://www.pierdive.com
Rhode Island Party & Charter Boat Association
http://www.rifishing.com
South County's Featured Site
http://www.southcounty.com/beaches

History and Culture

Native American

History of wampum
http://web.syr.edu/~cfsmith/talks/cw97html/historicalwampum.html
History of Narragansett Indians
http://www.dickshovel.com/Narra.html
Historical testimonies of early explorers
http://www.providenceri.com/NarragansettBay/indians_and_colonists.html

Colonial America

Historical testimonies of early explorers
http://www.providenceri.com/NarragansettBay/indians_and_colonists.html

Industrial and Victorian

History of maritime commerce
http://www.providenceri.com/NarragansettBay/maritime_commerce.html

Modern

Narragansett Bay Estuary Program
http://www.nbep.org/bay/index.html

Map Links

List of Rhode Island historical maps
http://www.cyndislist.com/ri.htm#Maps
Narragansett Bay Estuary Program maps
http://www.nbep.org/maps/index.html
Historic USGS maps of Rhode Island in quadrangles
http://docs.unh.edu/nhtopos/RhodeIsland.htm

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