WORKSHOP 3 RESOURCES

OCEAN CURRENTS AND WINDS:

NOAA's National Ocean Service (a sister agency to the National Weather Service) provides information and data (including current conditions) about currents, tides, and related topics: http://www.nos.noaa.gov/

National Ocean Service provides some interesting on-line examples from their historical chart and map collection at http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/ocs/text/MAP-COLL.htm

The U. S. Navy's Meteorology and Oceanography Center provides many forms of useful information, charts, and other data. You can find information from several regional web sites.

• For the Atlantic: http://www.nlmoc.navy.mil/
• For the eastern Pacific: http://www.npmoc.navy.mil/
• For the western Pacific and Indian: http://www.yoko.npmoc.navy.mil/

LDEO's Physical Oceanography group has information about some of their research into the circulation and mixing of ocean water, air-sea energy and water exchanges, and other areas: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/physocean/ours.html

More about Ocean Circulation and the "Ocean Conveyor Belt" :
http://seis.natsci.csulb.edu/rbehl/ConvBelt.gif 
http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/discover/what_oc_circ.html
http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/discover/why_circ_imp.html  

NASA's "Earth Science Enterprise" is a major multi-agency program to observe our planet, expand our scientific understandings, and utilize information for informed decision-making.  The main web page is:
http://www.earth.nasa.gov/ 

Some mission web pages are:
NASA QuikSat   http://winds.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/quikscat/quikindex.html             
TOPEX/Poseidon   http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/ 
Jason-1   http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/jason1/

DEEP-SEA SEDIMENTS AND CORES

Here is the web site for LDEO's Deep-Sea Core Repository, where you can get more information about some of the concepts presented by the Curator, Rusty Lotti Bond, in workshop 3: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/CORE_REPOSITORY/RHP1.html

LDEO's "Borehole Research Group" coordinates much of the Ocean Drilling Project and other research involving coring deep below the surface: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/BRG/

The NOAA National Data Centers provides links to many other sources of marine geological samples: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/curator/curator.html