Encyclopedias & Handbooks Etc

• OCEAN & EARTH SCIENCE ENCYCLOPEDIAS & HANDBOOKS
  • Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences
  • Comprehensive Ocean Dictionary: Japanese-English-Spanish-French
  • Definitions of Fisheries Technical Terms
  • Glossary of Marine Biology
  • Glossary of Coral Morphologic Terms
  • Optical Oceanography Glossary
  • Glossary of Physical Oceanography & Related Disciplines
  • Glossary of Scientific Terms (Physical Oceanography)
  • Glossary of Terms (Underwater Sound & Oceanography)
  • Tide & Current Glossary
  • Glossary of Coastal Terminology
  • IOC/UNESCO List of Ocean Related Titles & Acronyms
  • Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences
  • Encyclopedia of Earth
  • Treatise on Geochemistry
  • Treatise on Geophysics
  • Glossary of Meteorological Terms: English, Russian
  • Glossary of Climatology/Climate Data Terms
  • Glossary of Selected Meteorological Terms & Definitions
  • Weather Glossary
  • Dictionary of Geologic Terms
• 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 Resources: S&E Library
  • CRC handbooks: environmental, engineering, chemicals, math, statistics etc
  • Periodic Table of Elements: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
  • Landbolt-Bornstein Group V Geophysics: meteorology, oceanography, geophysics, physical properties of rocks
  • Constants & Equations Pages
• GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS & HANDBOOKS
  • Oxford Reference Online
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica / Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary / Collegiate Thesaurus
  • Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
  • Oxford English Dictionary
  • yourDictionary.com includes foreign language dictionaries
  • Language Dictionaries & Translators
  • Thesaurus: 1 / 2 / 3
  • Encarta Encyclopedia, Dictionary, & Atlas
  • CIA World Factbook
  • Online Directory of Translation and Interpreting Services
• ZOOLOGICAL HANDBOOKS / WEBSITES
  • Taxonomicon
  • uBio Taxonomic Name Server
  • Neave's Nomenclator Zoologicus of genera
  • International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
  • International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
  • Biodiversity & Biological Collections: biocollections.org
  • Integrated Taxonomic Information System: North America biota
  • Species 2000
  • Zoological Record Taxonomic Hierarchy
  • Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names
  • Directories of Taxonomists
  • Systematics, Taxonomy, & Nomenclature
  • Classification Schemes
  • Vernacular / Common Names
  • Cnidarians
    • Actiniaria.com
    • Hexacorallians of the World
    • Octocoral Research Center
    • Tool for identifying zooxanthellate coral genera
    • Phylum Ctenophora: List of All Valid Species Names
    • Stauromedusae: List Of All Valid Species Names
  • Crustaceans
    • Crustacea.net, an information system for crustaceans of the world
    • Copepod Web Portal
    • World List of Marine & Freshwater Crustacea Isopoda
    • Guide to the Coastal Isopods of California
  • Molluscs
    • CephBase
    • California Abalone
    • Regional Species Lists, Molluscs
    • Taxonomic Key for Pacific Coast nudibranchs
    • Sea Slug Forum
  • Fish
    • Amazing Grunion
    • Annotated Checklists of Fishes
    • Catalog of Fishes
    • Classification of the Recent Elasmobranchii
    • Fish Identification Guides [Calif Dept Fish Game]
    • Fish List: Checklist of Marine & Estuarine Fishes of the Northeast Pacific, from Alaska to Baja California
    • Fish Pics Database -- Pacific Coast Fishes
    • FishBase
    • LarvalBase
    • Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia
    • Seafood List
    • FAO Species Identification
  • Mammals
    • Mammal Species of the World
    • Marine Mammals of California
    • Mammalian Species
    • Marine Mammals of the World
  • OTHER: phyla / groups / kingdoms / regionals
    
    • AlgaeBase
    • Ascidiacea.com
    • CalPhotos: Animals
    • CalPhotos: Plants
    • California Living Marine Resources: a Status Report
    • Diatom Genus Project
    • Divebums (San Diego): click on Field ID
    • Echinoid Directory
    • FAO Species Identification
    • Field Guides, North America (very thin coverage)
    • Guide to the Animal Kingdom for Students & Educators
    • Haeckel: Kunstformen der Natur
    • Marine Flatworms of the World
    • Pacific Coast Gelatinous Zooplankton
    • The Procaryotes
    • Southern California Assn of Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists
      • SCAMIT Taxonomic Tool Box
      • SCAMIT Links Related to Benthic Taxonomy
    • Species Profiles: Life Histories & Environmental Requirements of Coastal Fishes and Invertebrates
    • Tree of Life
    • World Species List - Animals Plants Microbes
• 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
  • Threatened Animals of the World
  • Traffic, the wildlife trade monitoring network
• CALCULATORS
  • Oceanographic Utilities (M Tomzcak)  
  • Oceanographic Software (Johns Hopkins APL)
  • Marine Navigation Calculator
  • Currency Calculators: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
  • Unit Conversion Calculators: 1 / 2 / 3
  • Distance Calculator
  • Latitude Longitude Conversion
  • Time: 1 / 2
  • Geological Time: 1  / 2 /  3
• ET CETERA
  • 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
  • Automated Wreck & Obstruction Information System, NOAA
  • International Shark Attack File Statistics of Shark Attacks
  • Freshwater and Marine Image Bank
  • NOAA Photo Library
  • National Sea Grant Library Digital Libraries