Caribbean and Latin America

• Institute of Marine Affairs, Trinidad and Tobago

The mission of the IMA is to conduct fundamental and applied research in marine affairs to ensure the sustainable use of the natural resources of Trinidad and Tobago; to make the results of such research available to the Government for the formulation of coherent and consistent policies in the conservation and management of the country's marine and related resources; and to respond to general needs for information and collaboration with all sectors of Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean.

• Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Inc.

Relevant technical skills for Caribbean conditions. Also look for new site to be developed by the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo (BAMZ), with many on-line information resources.

• Caribbean Marine Research Center

The Caribbean Marine Research Center (CMRC) was created in 1984 by the Perry Institute for Marine Science, Inc. to address the critical issues associated with escalating environmental degradation as well as other problems related to living marine resources and marine geological processes of the Caribbean, Florida and other tropical and subtropical regions of the world. CMRC's main research facility is located at Lee Stocking Island (LSI), a privately owned island in the Exuma Cays, Bahamas.

Asia

• JAMSTEC: Japan Marine Science & Technology Center

Australia/South West Pacific

• Australian Institute of Marine Sciences
• CSIRO Marine Laboratories, Hobart, Tasmania

Europe

• Delft Hydraulics (The Netherlands)
• Danish Hydraulic Institute
• Institute of Marine Biology of Crete
• Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences
• European Commission's Marine Environment Unit
• Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Insular Coastal Dynamics
• Marine-related research institutes in the Baltic region
• Sistema Lagunare Veneziano - Searchable database on literature+links on the Venice Lagoon (in Italian)
• Synthesis and Upscaling of Sea-Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment Studies

  The SURVAS (Synthesis and Upscaling of Sea-Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment Studies) project involves a network of international scientists interested in improving our knowledge of the impacts and adaptation to sea-level rise across Europe and the World. Survas is sponsored by the European Union and is also an IGBP LOICZ Project.

North America

• Center for Coastal Studies (Provincetown, USA)
• Coastal Engineering Research Center, US Army Corps of Engineers

Based in Mississippi, this is the lead US agency in coastal engineering.

• Coastal Ecosystems Research Foundation (Canada)
• Electric Power Research Institute (US).

An international research consortium with membership drawn from electric power producers in the US and elsewhere. The site includes the Global Climate Change page of the Environment Group, the Model Evaluation Consortium for Climate Assessment (MECCA), and the EPRI Journal.

• USA Naval Research Laboratories
• USA Sea Grant Mid-Atlantic Region Information

Many resources on barrier island systems and recreational boating.

• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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