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 may find helpful for exploring these issues further. Please email us if you know of a link we should add!

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)
• The Maritime Executive (links to current events in shipping)
• Fishery Market News (maintained by NOAA)
• Whaling.com (an environmental news service maintained by worldnews.com)
• Professional Mariner (news of the shipping industry maintained by Professional Mariner magazine)

Marine Sciences
• Science Daily Oceanography News (the latest research findings summarized)
• Earth Observatory (a global view of what’s happening on our planet from NASA)
• Hurricane Forecasts (maintained by the National Hurricane Center)
• Tides (maintained by NOAA)
• Marine Weather Forecasts
• El Niño
• Tsunami Bulletins
• Image of the day (from NASA)
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Erupting Volcanoes
• Harmful Algal Bloom Forecast (maintained by NOAA)
• Fishbase
• Long Island Sound Study

Literature of the Sea
• Searchable Sea Literature
• The Walt Whitman Archive
• Representative Poetry Online, University of Toronto
• Melville Society
• Melville’s Marginalia 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

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

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