National Oceanographic Data Centres
(NODC) Argentina: CEADO (Centro Argentino de Datos Oceanográficos) web site
Australia: AODC (Australian Ocean Data Centre) Web site
Belgium: BMDC (Belgian Marine Data Centre) Web site
Canada: ISDM (Integrated Science Data Management) Web site
China: COI (China Oceanic Information Network) Web site
Denmark: Royal Danish Administration of Navigation and Hydrography, Oceanographic Department Web site
France: SISMER (Système d'Informations Scientifiques pour la MER) Web site
Germany: DOD (German Oceanographic Data Centre) Web site
Greece: HNODC (Hellenic National Oceanographic Data Centre Website) Web site
Iceland: MRI (Marine Research Institute, Hydrographic Department) Web site
Japan: JODC (Japan Oceanographic Data Center) Web site
Korea: KODC (Korea Oceanographic Data Centre) Web site
The Netherlands: NODC (National Oceanographic Data Committee of the Netherlands) Web site
Norway: IMR (Institute of Marine Research) Department: NOD Web site
Portugal: Instituto Hidrografico Web site
South Africa: SADCO (Southern African Data Centre for Oceanography) Web site
Spain: IEODC Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia Web site
Sweden: SODC (Swedish Oceanographic Data Centre) Web site
UK: BODC (British Oceanographic Data Centre) Web site
USA: US NODC (U.S. National Oceanographic Data Centre) Web site
More countries HERE
World Data Centres (WDC)
World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (WDC MARE; Germany) Web site
WDC for Oceanography in Silver Spring (USA) Web site
World Data Centre Obninsk (Russie) Web site
WDC for Oceanography, Tianjin ( People's Republic of China) Web site
Specialized Data Centres
BCO-DMO: Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (marine biogeochemical, ecological and oceanographic data and information) Web site
CCHDO: CLIVAR aand Carbon Hydrographic Data Office (CTD and Hydrographic data sets) Web site
CDIAC: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center Web site
COPEPOD: a global plankton database of zooplankton data and phytoplankton data sampled from around the world Web site
OBIS Ocean Biogeographic Information System Web site
Other links
World list of oceanographic data bases. Further info GCMD: NASA's Global Change Master Directory. Further info
IODE: International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange. Further info
POGO: Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans. Further info
SeaDataNet: a Pan-European infrastructure for Ocean and Marine Data Management. SeaDataNet (2006-2011) is a standardized distributed system for managing the large and diverse data sets collected by the oceanographic fleets and the new automatic observation systems. Further info
Useful to read
A series of articles about authorship in science - Document kindly loaned by Dr. Dennis Conlon, Lund University (Sweden).
Hunt, R. 1991 Trying an authorship index. nature 352:187
Galindo-Leal, C. 1996 Explicit authorship Bull. ecol. Soc. America 18:34-35
Lawrence, PA. 2002 Rank injustice Nature 415:835
Opinion. 2002 Thoughts on (dis) credit nature 415:819
Verhagen, JV, KJ Wallace, SC Collins and TR Scott. 2003 QUAD system offers fair shares to all authors Nature 426:602
Weltzin, JF, RT Belote, LT Williams, JK Keller and EC Engel. 2006 Authorship in ecology: attribution, accountability, and responsibility. Front. Ecol. Environ 4:435-441
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