Explore the oceans on the Internet and in books!

Internet

1. URL: http://www.mos.org/oceans/. Learn about our global seas in Oceans ALIVE!
2. URL: http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/default.htm. Office of Naval Research (USA) site. Contains considerable information on oceans and oceanography.
3. URL: http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/challenger.html. Brief history of the pioneering expedition of HMS Challenger, which gave birth to modern oceanography.
4. URL: http://www.epa.gov/owow/estuaries/kids/. Explore the world of estuaries.
5. URL:http://www.mangroveindia.org/. All about the mangroves found along the Indian coast.

Books

1. The ocean basins: Their structure and evolution. Open University, U.K., 1998.
2. Seawater: Its composition, properties and behaviour. Open University, U.K., 2002.
3. Ocean circulation. Open University, U.K., 2001.
4. Waves, tides and shallow-water processes. Open University, U.K., 2002.
5. Ocean chemistry and deep-sea sediments. Open University, U.K., 2001.
6. Biological oceanography: An introduction. C.M. Lalli and T.R. Parsons. Open University, U.K., 1997.
7. Planet Earth: Cosmology, geology and the evolution of life and environment. C. Emiliani. Cambridge University Press, U.K., 1992.
8. Our affair with El Nino. S.G.H. Philander. Princeton University Press, U.S.A., 2004.
9. Indian estuaries. S.Z. Qasim. Allied Publishers, New Delhi, India, 2003.
10. Tsunami: An underrated hazard. E. Bryant. Cambridge University Press, U.K., 2001.
11. The Oceans, their Physics, Chemistry, and General Biology. H.U. Sverdrup, M.W. Johnson, R.H. Fleming. URL: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt167nb66r/. A classic book on oceanography. Technical.

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Books 1-6 are published by Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, U.K. in association with the Open University.