Just for fun...

Our lab:
A few of my favorite websites:
  • Undergrads! Here is a complete list of REU programs in Ocean Sciences.
  • All MSU students have free online access to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Detroit Free Press, and Lansing State Journal. Sign up here.
  • The most up-to-date measurements of atmospheric CO2 and plots of its concentration over time.
  • An oceanographers periodic table.
  • The World Ocean Atlas is a simple tool for plotting global compilations of nutrients and related parameters.
  • The Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) stores CTD data from U.S.-funded and other participating research cruises.
  • The eGEOTRACES Electronic Atlas is an interactive map to visualize trace element and isotope data (and similar parameters) collected from the many transects of the GEOTRACES program.
  • Plankton Chronicles provides amazing footage and information on plankton throughout the ocean.
  • NSF's repository for data collected through funding from the Ocean Science program, or BCO-DMO.
  • Explore data from The Ocean Observations Institute to understand marine processes.
  • Ocean Data View is a great tool for storing and plotting ocean data from transects or global compilations. 
  • MSU's museum hosts a “Science on a Sphere”, which is 6-foot diameter sphere with projections of Earth processes created and curated by NOAA. The SOS can project real time data (e.g., cloud cover) or show historical trends in sea surface temperature, hurricane formation, sea level, etc and is a great tool for visualizing large-scale processes. You can also view SOS visualizations on your desktop or smartphone (the smartphone app is excellent).
  • Interactive map of global weather and satellite visualizations.
  • Interactive map of global wind, weather, and ocean conditions.
  • NOAA interactive maps showing how sea level rise will impact US coastlines.