Links of Interest

This section contains links to other Internet sites that provide information and data on the Northern Gulf of Mexico.

NOAA CoastWatch
NOAA's CoastWatch Program (in conjunction with NOAA Line Offices) makes satellite data products and in-situ data from NOAA environmental buoys available to Federal, state, and local marine scientists and coastal resource managers.

University of South Florida, Remote Sensing Laboratory
Activities focus on the analysis of digital data obtained by satellite and airborne sensors, and on the development of applications of these data at local, regional and global scales.

NOAA State of the Coast Bulletin
A description of the causes and effects of oxygen depletion in coastal waters.

NCCOS Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Assessment
Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico: Progress Toward the Completion of an Integrated Assessment

Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
Provides links to selected Web sites on the oceanography, meteorology and other related fields of the earth and environmental sciences in the Gulf of Mexico.

Hydrographic Data Sets (University of Utah)
Mississippi River Hydrologic Data Sets. Dr. Upmanu Lall

West Florida Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System
The University of South Florida is implementing a real-time Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System for West Florida that will provide additional data needed to give more accurate predictions of ocean storms and coastal flooding be storm surge.

USGS Center for Coastal Geology - Eastern Gulf of Mexico Satellite Imagery
As part of the Northeast Gulf of Mexico oceanographic studies of the Minerals Management Service (MMS) Environmental Studies Program, MMS, USGS, and USF are developing quasi-operational products from satellite data for the northeast Gulf of Mexico.

NOAA Coastal Services Center's Coastal Ocean Habitat Project -Hurricane Turbidity Observations
Satellite observations of turbidity due to hurricanes, including Danny (1997), Opal (1995) and Juan (1985).