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A compendium of resources that may be of use to seagoing oceanographers.
Suggestions welcomed for additional entries...

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• Business and commercial directories
• Computers
• Electronics
• Internet search engines
• Mailing lists
• Marine operations and seamanship
• Oceanography
• Online software sources
• Shipping companies
• Travel
• Usenet newsgroups and related resources.
• Weather

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Business and commercial directories

• Big Yellow
  16 million Yellow Pages listings for the USA and Canada
• EEM Online
  Electronic Engineering Master. A searchable catalog of electronic components and systems.
• Thomas Register Home Page
  Directory of US manufacturers. The paper version takes up six feet of shelf space and lists products from Abacus to Zoo Equipment. If you can't find it here you can probably get along without it.

Computers

• Dalco Electronics
  Excellent source for hard-to-find PC parts and accessories. Online catalog and ordering.
• PC Connection
  PC and Mac mail order. Online catalog and ordering. Orders placed up until 3:00 AM are delivered to most US addresses the next morning for $9.95 (if you want a whole computer the cutoff is midnight).
• Port Inc.
  Unusual accessories for portable computers.

Electronics

• Digi-Key Corporation
  US mail order electronic components supplier.
• National Semiconductor Home Page
• NMEA Interface Links
  National Marine Electronics Association. This is the data interface used by lots of marine electronics such as autopilots, GPS, etc.

Internet search engines

• Yahoo
• Lycos
• AltaVista

Mailing lists

Internet mailing lists allow members to communicate via email that is "reflected" from a central server to a subscriber list. Mailing lists generally serve a smaller and more restricted clentele that Usenet Newsgroups, and may be restricted in subscribership or moderated (messages have to pass by a moderator before distribution).

• Aquatic-related mailing lists
  Maintained by Mark Rosenstein.

Marine operations and seamanship

• The Cordage Institute
• Lost Instrument Network
  Maintained by Bill Strahle and Marinna Martini, USGS Woods Hole.
• Roper's Knots Page.
• SeaNet
  Project on extending the internet to oceangoing vessels.
• Tide/Current Predictor.
  Online interactive version of XTIDE by David Flater, operated by University of South Carolina.
• UNOLS.
  University National Oceanographic Laboratory System. Oversees operation of the United States National Academic Oceanographic Research Vessel Fleet.
• US Coast Guard Navigation Center.
  Includes information and current status of radionavigation systems (GPS, LORAN, even OMEGA), also local Notices to Mariners.
• West Marine Supply
  

Oceanography

• A Hotlist for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.
  Maintained at Brookhaven National Laboratories by Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Division.
• DiveWeb Home Page
  Maintained by Doyle Publishing, publisher of the trade journal Underwater.
• GISnet.
  Geographic Information Systems resources by Bill Thoen.
• HydroWire.
  An online weekly for aquatic science from University of South Florida.
• Keplerian two line elements.
  Latest TLE's for predicting orbital satellite passes.
• OCEANIC.
  Ocean Information Center at University of Delaware. Information on Research Vessel Cruise Schedules, World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE), and Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere - Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA-COARE).
• The Oceanography Society.
• Omnet/ScienceNet.
  A collaboratory for professionals in the ocean and atmospheric sciences.
• UNESCO IOC
  Intergovernental Oceanographic Commission.
• Yahoo Oceanography.

Online Software Sources

• TUCOWS.
  The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software. An excellent site specializing in internet applications. Sections for Windows 3.x, Windows 95, and Macintosh.

Shipping companies

• Airborne Express
• Federal Express
• United Parcel Service
• United States Postal Service
  

Travel

• Color landform atlas of the United States
  Maintained by Applied Physics Lab of Johns Hopkins University
• Currency conversion calculator (Javascript)
  Maintained by Medical Education Assistance Program.
• Currency conversion calculator (CGI)
  Maintained by CANOE (Canada Online Explorer).
• Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
  Check out injury and fatality rates for different autos before you rent.
• Perdiem travel rates
  A must for everyone filling out those sweet little travel vouchers. Continental US rates by US General Services Administration, Alaska and Hawaii rates by US Department of Defense, foreign rates by US State Department.
• Map Machine
  World physical and political maps from the National Geographic Society.
• Maps on US
  Street maps and routes for the USA.
• Travel health information page - US Centers for Disease Control
  Warnings on health concerns by country.
• Travel health information page - World Health Organization
  Warnings on health concerns by country.
• Travelocity
  Online airline, car, and hotel reservations. Excellent search engine for finding cheap airfares.
• US State Department Bureau of Consular Affairs
  Including non-health travel warnings by country - natural disasters, civil unrest, etc.

Usenet newsgroups and related resources

• DejaNews Research Service - homepage.
  A searchable archive of expired Usenet News articles.
• RTFM Usenet News FAQ archive
  Full list of FAQs at RTFM
  Frequently Asked Questions for Usenet Newsgroups. Maintained at MIT's RTFM site (stands for Read The **** Manual). Like Usenet, these FAQs require a bit of mining and filtering.
• Usenet newsgroups

• sci.geo.fluids
• sci.geo.hydrology
• sci.geo.marine.hydrodynamics
• sci.geo.oceanography
• sci.geo.rivers+lakes
  Limnology
• sci.geo.satellite-nav
  Satellite navigation, especially GPS.

Weather

• Atlantic Hurricane Track map
  From University of Hawaii. GIF file with current track and estimated future course. Trackline is color keyed to wind velocity. Updated every 3 hours at approximately 0030, 0330, 0630 etc. GMT.
• Current Marine Observations
  Generated by Oceanweather, Inc.
• Hurricanes, typhoons, & tropical cyclones
  From University of Hawaii. Lists of current storms, strike probabilities, GIF and Postscript storm track maps, storm track archives. Mirror site at Scripps, mirror site at University of Hawaii.
• Intellicast
  Worldwide weather from MS/NBC.
• US/Canadian National Weather Services Weather Data (includes Marine Forecasts)
  For USA, Canada, and the Caribbean. Site maintained by Ohio State University.
• Offshore buoy network.
  Current weather and sea state conditions from automated buoy network. Covers US coastline except for northern Alaska, western Pacific, and Great Britain. Site maintained by Florida State University and National Weather Service Tallahassee.
• Strike Probabilities for Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Tropical Cyclones
  Give this model a latitude and longitude and you will get a table of strike probabilities and estimated wind velocities for that location. From University of Hawaii.
• US National Hurricane Center
• USA Today Weather
  Weather from USA Today newspaper.
• Weather Channel
  Worldwide weather from The Weather Channel cable TV network.
• Weathernet
  A service of the Weather Underground at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor.

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