USFSP: Marine Science: Web Resources

Resources on the Web

Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
Dispatches from the Gulf
Dispatches is a multimedia initiative featuring documentaries, short videos, and podcasts that examine science, innovation, community, and recovery in the Gulf of Mexico in the years after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.

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Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative

Major funding for Journey to Planet Earth was provided by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative – scientists working together to understand and restore the health of marine and coastal ecosystems. Additional funding provided by the Wallace Genetic Foundation and the Farvue Foundation.
Guide to the Identification of Harmful Microalgae in the Gulf of Mexico: Published August 2018
This Guide to the Identification of Harmful Microalgae in the Gulf of Mexico was developed for analysts and managers world-wide involved in marine HAB monitoring, assessment and forecasting.

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Most of these programs are tied to public health or marine resource health and assessment, e.g., shellfish harvesting, shellfish and fish aquaculture and finfish or marine mammal population assessments. The Guide is the result of two initial grants from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Gulf of Mexico Program and with cooperation from the University of South Florida, Florida Institute of Oceanography, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa Ciudad de México and private funds.
Gulf of Mexico Creatures of the Deep
One of several interactive resources about organisms and habitats vital to Gulf fisheries available via the Coral Portal through the Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Management Council.
Inventory of Marine and Aquatic Repositories
Inventory is searchable alphabetically, by subject, or by country.
Journey to Planet Earth
This award-winning documentary series is designed to help viewers understand and cope with the most important environmental issues of the 21st century. Through an interdisciplinary approach, these programs reach beyond the physical sciences and draw connections to politics, economics, sociology, and history.