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Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Alfred-Wegener-Institut, AWI) is a German institute in Bremerhaven that coordinates German polar research, founded in 1980.
Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography
The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), formerly the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, is an international scientific society for freshwater and marine researchers.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
The Bedford Institute of Oceanography, established in 1962 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, is Canada's largest center for ocean research, hosting over 600 staff from several federal departments.
Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) is an oceanographic research and education institute in Bermuda, founded in 1903 and affiliated with Arizona State University since 2021.
Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
The Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, also known as CMOS, is Canada's national society advancing atmospheric and oceanic sciences, founded in 1967 and based in Ottawa.
Copernicus Marine Service
The Copernicus Marine Service, also called the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service, is the European Union's operational ocean monitoring and forecasting service, launched in 2014.
Deep Sea Drilling Project
The Deep Sea Drilling Project was a US-led scientific ocean drilling program run from Scripps Institution of Oceanography that used the drillship Glomar Challenger to core the deep seafloor from 1968 to 1983.
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel) is a German marine research institute in Kiel studying the ocean from seafloor to atmosphere.
Ifremer
Ifremer, the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, is a public oceanographic research institute founded in 1984 that operates France's fleet of 17 research vessels.
Institute of Ocean Sciences (Canada)
The Institute of Ocean Sciences is a Fisheries and Oceans Canada research facility in Sidney, British Columbia, a Pacific coast center for ocean science and hydrography since 1979.
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) was an international scientific ocean drilling program, co-led by the United States and Japan, that operated from 2003 to 2013.
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, established in 1960, is the United Nations' lead body for ocean science, coordinating research, ocean observation, and tsunami warning systems.
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (海洋研究開発機構)
The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, known as JAMSTEC, is Japan's national agency for marine and earth sciences, founded in 1971 and headquartered in Yokosuka.
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, founded in 1949 on a Hudson River estate in Palisades, New York, is Columbia University's Earth science research center, known for seafloor mapping that laid the groundwork for plate tectonics.
Marine Research Aquarium
Marine Research Aquarium: name shared by research aquarium facilities, notably ICAR-CMFRI aquaria at Calicut and Sagarika Vizhinjam in Kerala, the Sea Point aquarium in Cape Town, and the Australian Antarctic Division krill aquarium in Tasmania.
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) is a non-profit oceanographic research center in Moss Landing, California, founded by David Packard in 1987 to advance marine science and technology.
National Institute of Oceanography, India
The National Institute of Oceanography, also known as the Indian National Institute of Oceanography, is an autonomous research institute of CSIR in Goa, India, established in 1966.
National Oceanography Centre
The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is the United Kingdom's lead research institution for marine science, based in Southampton and Liverpool and running the research ships Discovery and James Cook.
NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps
The NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps (NOAA Corps) is one of the eight US uniformed services, whose roughly 360 officers operate NOAA's research ships and hurricane hunter aircraft.
Ocean Drilling Program
The Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) was an international scientific partnership, run from 1985 to 2003 aboard the drillship JOIDES Resolution, that cored sediments and crust beneath the ocean basins.
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) is a National Weather Service facility at ʻEwa Beach, Hawaii, established in 1949 to warn of tsunamis across the Pacific and Caribbean.
Palmer Station
Palmer Station is a U.S. year-round Antarctic research station on Anvers Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula, operated by the National Science Foundation and commissioned in 1968.
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) is an independent marine research charity in Plymouth, England, formed in 1988 by NERC, known for ocean acidification research and long-term ocean monitoring since 1903.
Project Mohole
Project Mohole (1957–1966) was an American scientific program led by the American Miscellaneous Society that attempted to drill through the oceanic crust to the Mohorovičić discontinuity.
Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research
The Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1957 by the International Council of Scientific Unions to promote and coordinate international ocean science.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, founded in 1903, is an ocean, earth, and atmospheric science research center at the University of California San Diego in La Jolla, California.
The Oceanography Society
The Oceanography Society is an American nonprofit professional society founded in 1988, which publishes the open-access journal Oceanography and supports meetings like the Ocean Sciences Meeting.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is a non-profit ocean research organization in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, founded in 1930, operating research ships and the deep-sea submersible Alvin.
World Ocean Circulation Experiment
The World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE), the first project of the World Climate Research Programme, was an international program on ocean circulation and climate, with observations from 1990 to 1998.