Encyclopedias & Handbooks Etc

• OCEAN & EARTH SCIENCE ENCYCLOPEDIAS & HANDBOOKS
  • Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences
  • Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences
  • Encyclopedia of Earth
  • Treatise on Geochemistry
  • Treatise on Geophysics
• OTHER SCIENCE ENCYCLOPEDIAS & HANDBOOKS
  • Encyclopedia of Biodiversity
  • AccessScience: McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
  • Wiley Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
  • Knovel Handbooks including Biochemistry, Biology & Biotechnology
  • Core Chemistry & Biochemistry Resources: S&E Library
  • CRC handbooks: environmental, engineering, chemicals, math, statistics etc
• GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS & HANDBOOKS
  • Oxford Reference Online
  • Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 
  • Oxford English Dictionary
  • yourDictionary.com includes foreign language dictionaries
  • Language Dictionaries & Translators
  • Thesaurus: The Oxford Paperback Thesaurus
  • CIA World Factbook
• SPECIES IDENTIFICATION & LISTINGS
  • Catalog of Fishes
  • FishBase
  • FAO Species Identification
  • Mammalian Species 

• ENDANGERED & THREATENED SPECIES
  • NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources: a good place to start

  • Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna & Flora - CITES

  • Endangered Species, US F&WS

  • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

  • Special Status Species, California

  • Traffic, the wildlife trade monitoring network

• CALCULATORS
  • Oceanographic Utilities (M Tomzcak)  
  • Oceanographic Software (Johns Hopkins APL)
  • Currency Calculators: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
  • Unit Conversion Calculators: 1 / 2 / 3
  • Distance Calculator
  • Time: 1 / 2
  • Geological Time: 1  / 2

• LOCAL & GENERAL INTEREST
  • San Diego's Ocean
  • Cal OCEAN
  • Calif Coastal Records Project: coastline aerial photographic survey
  • Calif Fish & Game Laws & Regulations
  • California Shipwrecks
  • Guide to the Artificial Reefs of Southern California
  • International Shark Attack File Statistics of Shark Attacks
  • Freshwater and Marine Image Bank
  • NOAA Photo Library
  • National Sea Grant Library Digital Libraries
  • UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)