This comprehensive and excellent guide looks at the major threats that we humans are placing on our oceans in 2018.

It explores how they affect the fish and other marine life that are so vital to a healthy planet. In each chapter, they look at what can be done to protect our oceans, with tips and advice that you can personally follow to make a difference.

There is no one simple fix to these problems, but by having a greater understanding, taking small actions, and making small changes, we can all help to keep our oceans healthier and more sustainable for generations to come.

This important site provides up to date information on the
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
It is the third in a series of United Nations efforts to codify the rules by which nations utilize over 70% of the earth's surface. All aspects of the use of the oceans, from the edge of the coast to the bottom of the deepest sea are addressed in this convention. Over three hundred articles in length, this is perhaps the most complex legal agreement ever achieved. Having received its 60th ratification on November 16, 1993, the Law of the Sea Convention came into force one year later - November 16th, 1994.

Australia's Ocean Policy, see below, which was developed in light of the Convention will have an important and direct bearing on the future conservation and protection of Cetacea.

The AODN Portal provides access to all available Australian marine and climate science data

This excellent WebSite provides information about the role and activities of the Australian Antarctic Division.

in Hervey Bay each year to participate in the on-board research and education program.

was founded in 1960 on basis of the recognition that "the oceans, covering some seventy percent of the earth's surface, exert a profound influence on mankind and even on all forms of life on Earth... In order to properly interpret the full value of the oceans to mankind, they must be studied from many points of view. While pioneering research and new ideas usually come from individuals and small groups, many aspects of oceanic investigations present far too formidable a task to be undertaken by any one nation or even a few nations."

Since the oceans are influencing in a very significant way both global environmental changes and sustainable development, it is essential that we understand and are able to predict global and regional ocean conditions and the interaction with the atmosphere, biosphere and land. Our knowledge of the decisive processes is still too limited for us to be able to predict with useful accuracy, the behaviour of a most important part of the global system - the ocean and the related impact on the environment.

It is therefore necessary that we expand our knowledge and improve our capabilities through a renewed commitment to oceanographic research, systematic ocean observations, technology development and transfer, and related education and training. The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission will have to play a pivotal role in meeting these needs.

is a project of the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange Programme(IODE) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC)

Check out Ocean Teacher a repository for knowledge and training materials related to oceanography

Oceana is a new non-profit, international advocacy organization created with the sole purpose of protecting the world's oceans to sustain the circle of life. We bring together dedicated people from around the world, building an international movement to save the oceans through public policy advocacy, science and economics, legal action, grassroots mobilization, and public education.

The Oceanography Society was founded in 1988 to disseminate knowledge of oceanography and its application through research and education, to promote communication among oceanographers, and to provide a constituency for consensus-building across all the disciplines of the field.

Marine debris and pollution consisting mostly of plastic trash is accumulating in oceans around the world. From the surface of the ocean, you might not even realize that a vast garbage patch swirls under the water. With ever-changing content and borders, scientists have difficulty estimating the size of these garbage patches. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch exists in the northern Pacific Ocean, stretching between Japan and the United States.

The garbage that humans leave behind as a by-product of civilization and consumption is becoming an environmental hazard not only to the land, but also to the world's oceans, seas, and waterways. One of the most egregious examples is the millions of tons of disposable plastic that has found its way into our waters.