Academic Links

When you’re studying the world’s oceans at Williams-Mystic, you’ll begin to see the connection between what you’re studying and how it influences everything around us. Below is a list of interesting links you’ll find helpful in wanting to explore these issues further. Please email us if you know of a link we should add!

Mystic Seaport Museum
• G.W. Blunt White Library
• Mystic Seaport Museum Home Page

Maritime History
• Historical and Educational Maritime Groups
• Index to Ships in Books (created and maintained by WM alum Peter McCracken)
• Maritime History Resources, A Collection
• Ships and their Freight Cargo

Literature of the Sea
• Searchable Sea Literature
• The Walt Whitman Archive
• Representative Poetry Online, University of Toronto
• Melville Society
• Melville’s Marginalla Online
• Association for Study of Literature and the Environment
• The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson
• The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens
• The Catch: Writings from Downeast Maine 

Marine Policy
• National Marine Fisheries Service
• New England Fisheries Management Council
• National Sea Grant
• Rhode Island Sea Grant maintained by University of Rhode Island
• National Marine Sanctuaries maintained by NOAA
• Maritime Global Net - Links to current events in shipping
• Fishery Market News maintained by NOAA
• Whaling.Com, an Environmental News Service maintained by WorldNews.Com
• Professional Mariner On-Line, News of the Shipping Industry maintained by Professional Mariner magazine

Marine Sciences
• 
News
• Climate News
• Marine Weather Forecasts
• El Nino
• Tsunami Bulletins
• Earthquake Hazards
• 
Erupting Volcanoes
• Harmful Algal Bloom Forecast
• Fishbase
• AMNH Climate Change
• Long Island Sound Study