Research Links

Octocoral Research Center (http://research.calacademy.org/research/izg/orc_home.html)

• a website created and maintained by Dr. Gary C. Williams, California Academy of Sciences, that includes a wealth of information, including Keys to the Families, the most recent classifications, lists of genera, bibliography, and more.

Octocoral Resource Network (http://www.octocoralresearch.com/)

• a platform for scientists working with or interested in octocoral research to share their ideas, questions and published works. It is designed to encourage communication among this community and act as a support network for students pursuing soft coral studies.

Deep-sea Corals of Atlantic Canada (http://www.marinebiodiversity.ca/CoralWebsite/Homepagecorals.htm)

• updates on deep-sea coral research by the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

HERMIONE: Cold-water coral ecosystems (http://www.eu-hermione.net/science/cold-water-corals)

• HERMIONE (Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man's Impact on European Seas) is a Collaborative Project, funded under the European Commission's Framework 7 programme, designed to make a major advance in our knowledge of the functioning of deep-sea ecosystems and their contribution to the production of goods and services.

Lophelia.org (http://www.lophelia.org/)

• an information resource on the cold-water coral ecosystems of the deep ocean.

Deep-Sea News (http://deepseanews.com/)

• a daily BLOG on all things deep-sea related.

Seamounts Online (http://pacific.sdsc.edu/seamounts/)

• SeamountsOnline has been gathering data on species that have been observed or collected from seamounts and providing these data through a freely-available online portal. It is designed to facilitate research into seamount ecology, and to act as a resource for managers. It is also the database component of the Global Census of Marine Life on Seamounts.

Seamount Catalog (http://earthref.org/databases/SC/)

• a digital archive for bathymetric seamount maps that can be viewed and downloaded in various formats.

Global Census of Marine Life on Seamounts (CenSeam) (http://censeam.niwa.co.nz/)

• a partner of the Census of Marine Life project, the mission of CenSeam is "to determine the role of seamounts in the biogeography, biodiversity, productivity, and evolution of marine organisms, and to evaluate the effects of human exploitation on seamounts."

Adkins Lab at Caltech (Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences)

France Lab at UL Lafayette (Department of Biology)

Shank Lab at WHOI (Biology Department)

Miller Lab at the University of Tasmania (Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies)

Watling Lab at the University of Hawai'i (Department of Zoology)

Williams Lab at the California Academy of Sciences (Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Geology)

NOAA's Ocean Explorer (http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/)

• field updates on expeditions sponsored by NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration.

Classroom@Sea Project (http://www.classroomatsea.net/)

• a UK-based project aiming to bring real marine science into the classroom.

Dive and Discover (http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/)

• an interactive distance learning web site designed to immerse you in the excitement of discovery and exploration of the deep seafloor.

Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) (Department of Invertebrate Zoology)

• search the collections here.

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Paris (Scientific Collections)

• collections requests here.

Yale Peabody Museum (Division of Invertebrate Zoology)

• search the collections here.

MCBI: Deep-Sea Coral Science (http://www.mcbi.org/what/coral_science.htm)

Oceana: Pacific Deep-Sea Corals (http://www.savecorals.com/)

United Nations Environment Programme - Seamounts, deep-sea corals and fisheries (http://www.unep-wcmc.org/)