List of oceanographic institutions and programs

This is a list of oceanographic institutions and programs.

International

• World Ocean Circulation Experiment
• Undersea Research Center (NATO)
• MAST (Marine Science and Technology) programme, European Commission
• International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO
• European Geophysical Society
• Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research

Bangladesh

• Institute of Marine Sciences and Fisheries, University of Chittagong

Barbados

• Bellairs Research Institute

Belgium

• MARE, University of Liege

Brazil

• Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo (Oceanography Institute, University of São Paulo)

Oceanography Institute of USP has undergraduate and graduate (master and doctoral) courses of oceanography.

• FURG, Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
• Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro State University)
• Universidade Federal da Bahia
• Universidade Federal do Paraná
• Universidade Federal do Pará
• Universidade Vale do Itajaí
• UNIMONTE
• Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
• Universidade Federal do Ceará
• Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
• Universidade Federal do Pernambuco

Canada

• Bedford Institute of Oceanography
• Institute of Ocean Sciences [3]
• Oceanography Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia [4]

China

• Ocean University of China
• Swire Institute of Marine Science, The University of Hong Kong
• Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Colombia

• José Benito Vives de Andréis Marine and Coastal Research Institute (INVEMAR)

Croatia

• Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries

Finland

• Finnish Institute of Marine Research

France

• IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
• Centre d'Oceanologie de Marseille
• Station biologique de Roscoff
• Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche-sur-Mer www.obs-vlfr.fr
• Station marine de Wimereux
• Institut Universitaire Européen des Sciences de la Mer (IUEM), Brest
• Station marine de Banyuls-sur-Mer
• LOCEAN, Paris
• Station marine d'Arcachon
• Station Marine de Concarneau
• SHOM - Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine

Germany

• Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven
• Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM), Bremen
• Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW), Warnemünde
• Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR), Kiel
• Senckenberg by the Sea, Wilhelmshaven
• German Marine Research Consortium
• Centre for Marine Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Bremen

Greece

• Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR). Created in 2003 by merging of the former National Centre for Marine Research (NCMR) and the Institute of Marine Biology of Crete (IMBC).

Iceland

• Marine Research Institute

India

• National Institute of Oceanography, Goa
• Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (CAOS), Indian Institute of Science (IISc)[5]
• Department of Marine biology, microbiology and Biochemistry, Cochin university of science and technology (CUSAT), Kerala
• School of Industrial fisheries, Cochin university of science and technology (CUSAT), Kerala
• Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS)
• Faculty of Marine Sciences, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu. [6]
• Marine Planktonology and Aquaculture Division, Department of Marine Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli-24 [7]
• Department of Marine Science, University of Calcutta ( http://www.caluniv.ac.in/]
• School of Oceanographic Studies,Jadavpur University [8]
• Centre for Ocean and Coastal Studies, University of Madras
• School of Energy Environment & Natural Resources, Madurai Kamaraj University, Tami Nadu [9]

Indonesia

• Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung

Ireland

• The Irish Marine Institute
• Ryan Institute for Environmental, Marine and Energy Research, National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG)
• Coastal and Marine Research Centre, University College Cork (UCC)

Israel

• Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Institute (IOLR)

Italy

• Italian National Research Council

Japan

• Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

Lithuania

• Coastal Research and Planning Institute (CORPI), Klaipėda

Mexico

• Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), Ensenada
• Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City
• Facultad de Ciencias del Mar, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Mazatlán
• Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mazatlán
• Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Puerto Morelos
• Instituto de Investigaciones Oceanológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada
• Universidad del Mar, Huatulco

Netherlands

• Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
• University of Groningen

Norway

• Institute of Marine Research

Pakistan

• National Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Science and Technology

Philippines

• Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines - Diliman Marine Science Institute, UP Diliman

Poland

• Institute of Oceanography PAS

Portugal

• Institute of Oceanography, University of Lisbon

Russia

• P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences

South Korea

• The Department of Ocean System Science, Pusan National University
• School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University

Spain

• Spanish Institute of Oceanology, Madrid
• CASEM (Marine Sciences Studies Andalusian High Center), Cádiz
• ICM, Marine Sciences Institute
• UTM, Marine Technology Unit
• Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands

Sweden

• Stockholm Marine Research Centre

Taiwan (Republic of China)

• Center for Maritime History, Academia Sinica
• Institute of Marine Biology, National Sun Yat-Sen University
• Institute of Marine Biotechnology, National Dong Hwa University
• Institute of Marine Environmental Science and Technology, National Taiwan Normal University
• Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University
• National Taiwan Ocean University

Turkey

• Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University

Ukraine

• Marine Hydrophysical Institute, National Academy of Sciences

United Kingdom

• National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
• Gatty Marine Laboratory, St Andrews, Scotland
• Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth
• Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Liverpool
• British Oceanographic Data Centre [10], Liverpool
• Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Met Office, Exeter
• Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
• Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Oban
• Bangor Marine Laboratory, Bangor

United States of America

• American Geophysical Union
• American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
• Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (Maine)
• Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• University of Rhode Island
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)
• Florida State University
• Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
• Naval Oceanographic Office
• Sea Education Association (SEA)
• Texas A&M University
• University of Alaska Fairbanks
• University of California-Santa Cruz
• University of Connecticut
• University of Colorado (Boulder)
• University of Delaware, College of Earth, Ocean and Environment
• University of Hawaii (Manoa)
• University of South Carolina
• University of Washington (Seattle)
• University of North Carolina at Wilmington
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Naval Postgraduate School
• Hawaii Pacific University
• Virginia Institute of Marine Science
• Oregon State University
• Florida Institute of Technology
• Old Dominion University
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Princeton University
• Nova Southeastern University
• Rutgers University (New Brunswick)

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