World Oceans Day- academic resources

This week World Oceans Day celebrated the contribution of the oceans and the need to maintain their diversity and sustainability

Here are some useful academic resources for finding information about oceans.


"Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission" (IOC) of UNESCO was established in 1961. it has a knowledge exchange with a catalogue of useful websites and data about all aspects of oceans


UNEP has an ocean data viewer

ODV presents global datasets on coastal and marine biodiversity. It includes GIS data.

The Ocean Plus library has data and reports they include Environmental Impact assessments and both regional and global datasets

The UN environment website includes news, programme and data on all aspects of the environment they include a recent report on marine pollution

For the UK there is a British Oceanographic data Centre . It includes marine environment monitoring.