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- Neptune's Web - Facts of oceanography.
- Water on the Move; Current Events - Good Reference Information about ocean currents
- Currents, Waves & Tides - Easy to understand explanations
- Ocean Currents - Advanced Level Material
- Surface Ocean Circulation - Elements of Oceanography notes from the University of Southern California
- The Gulf Stream - Great basic reference site that includes links to the history of the Gulf Stream
- JHU/APL Ocean Currents Web Site - Web site for students and teachers who want to know more about ocean currents and the role that oceans play in storing heat and influencing global climate.
(Many of these projects can provide good additional reference information about the Gulf Stream)
- Victor the Vector - Follow Victor the Vector on his ocean adventure including a trip in the Gulf Stream.
- Ocean Currents, We All Go with the Flow - Smithsonian's Online Lesson on Ocean Currents
- Classic CZCS Scenes: Chapter 6: The Gulf Stream (Western Boundary Current) - Ocean Color Data & Resources
- Physical Oceanography from Space - Lessons from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Oceanography, Ben Franklin and the Gulf Stream - A lesson from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Exploring Satellite Oceanography - A set of lesson plans for high school science students.
- LEO-15 Ocean Research Station - Activities for 6th through 9th grade to utlilize LEO-15's real-time data.
- YOTO Drifters in the Caribbean Sea and the Birth of the Gulf Stream - Track drifter buoys in the Gulf Stream
- Warm up to the Gulf Stream - A lesson from the Gulf of Maine Aquarium.
- Air Affects Weather - Explore further how the Gulf Stream affects weather using a lesson from Weather Here and There.
- SeaWIFS Project - Learn more about ocean color - look a Teacher's Guide
- Preparing to Race - Example of a math class charting the Gulf Stream to determine a sailor's best route
- CLIMVIS Global Summary of the Day - Query archived NOAA oceanographic data create online graphs.
- Live Access to Climate Data (COADS Monthly Climatology) - Create online maps of various NOAA data.
- NODC Interactive Data Access and Retrieval System - NOAA/NESDIS National Oceanographic Data Center
- NOAAServer - Search the NOAA database for online real time and archive data
- METOC Information Server - Search the Naval Database for Online Information (Meteorology)
- NODC Oceanographic Profile Database - Constrain search by lat/long and particular profile (eg. chlorophyll)
- NODC Coastal Ocean Time Series Database - Search for information from specific time series data stations
- A Primer on Ocean Currents - Measurements and Lingo of Physical Oceanographers (WHOI Coastal Brief: 1994-05 )
- Water Takes a Peculiar Turn in the Gulf Stream - Earth in Space, Vol. 7, No. 3, p.6-7. December, 1994 © 1994 American Geophysical Union