List of oceanographic institutions and programs

This is a list of oceanography, atmospheric science and climate related 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

Australia

• Australian Institute of Marine Science, http://www.aims.gov.au
• Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, CSIRO
• University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia, www.oceanography.unsw.edu.au

Bangladesh

The following institutes of oceanography and related research subjects are based in Bangladesh:

• Institute of Marine Sciences and Fisheries, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh (http://www.cu.ac.bd/) – The country's first marine research institution, inaugurated in 1971.
• National Oceanographic Research Institute (NORI), Ramu, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

A number of universities also have departments which are dedicated to oceanographic or other maritime research:

• Department of Marine Fisheries, Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Dumki-8602, Patuakhali, Bangladesh (http://www.pstu.ac.bd/)
• Department of Coastal and Marine Fisheries, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet-3100, Bangladesh (http://www.sau.ac.bd/)
• Department of Fisheries and Marine Science, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Noakhali-3814, Bangladesh (http://www.nstu.edu.bd/)
• Department of Oceanography, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh (http://oceanographydu.com)

Barbados

• Bellairs Research Institute

Belgium

• MARE, University of Liege

Brazil

• INPOH, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Oceanográficas e Hidroviárias (National Institute for Oceanographic and Waterway Research)
• IEAPM, Instituto de Estudos do Mar Almirante Paulo Moreira (Admiral Paulo Moreira Institute for Marine Studies)[3]

The following universities have Oceanography departments or institutes that do research and teach the subject at undergraduate and/or graduate level:

• Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, FURG [4]
• Universidade de São Paulo, USP [5]
• Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ [6]
• Universidade Federal da Bahia, UFBA [7]
• Universidade Federal de São Paulo, UNIFESP [8]
• Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, UFSC [9]
• Universidade Federal do Ceará, UFC [10]
• Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, UFES [11]
• Universidade Federal do Maranhão, UFMA
• Universidade Federal do Pará, UFPA [12]
• Universidade Federal do Paraná, UFPR [13]
• Universidade Federal do Pernambuco, UFPE [14]
• Universidade Vale do Itajaí, UNIVALI [15]
• Centro Universitário Monte Serrat, UNIMONTE [16]

Bulgaria

• Institute of Oceanology - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Varna

Canada

• Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR) - Institut des Sciences de la mer (ISMER) [17]
• Bedford Institute of Oceanography
• Institute of Ocean Sciences [18]
• Oceanography Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia [19]
• Fisheries and Marine Institute, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador [20]

China

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

Colombia

• Dinámica y Manejo de Ecosistemas Marinos y Costeros. Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano- UJTL.
• Group of Oceanography and Coastal Engineering - OCEANICOS. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Minas, Medellín
• Marine and Coastal Research Institute "José Benito Vives de Andréis" (INVEMAR)
• Centro de Investigaciones Oceanográficas e Hidrográficas del Caribe-CIOHde la Dirección General Marítima
• Centro de Investigaciones Oceanográficas e Hidrográficas del Pacífico-CCCP de la Dirección General Marítima
• Universidad de Antioquia - Pregrado de oceanografía y maestría y doctorado en ciencias del mar.

Croatia

• Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries
• Institute for marine and coastal research, University of Dubrovnik
• Centre for marine research, Ruđer Bošković Institute

Ecuador

• Instituto Oceanográfico de la Armada INOCAR [21]
• Facultad de Ingeniería Marítima, Ciencias Biológicas, Oceánicas y Recursos Naturales FIMCBOR, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral ESPOL [22]

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
• LEGOS - Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales, Toulouse.
• 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
• Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), Hamburg
• Institut für Meereskunde, University Hamburg (IfM-Hamburg), Hamburg
• Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment ICBM, Oldenburg, Wilhelmshaven
• Institute for Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG), Geesthacht, Schleswig-Holstein

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

• Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology & Oceanography (CASMB), Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu
• Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi [23]
• Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur [24]
• Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (CAOS), Indian Institute of Science (IISc)[25]
• Center for Earth and Space Sciences -UCESS-University Of Hyderabad,Hyderabad
• Centre for Ocean and Coastal Studies, University of Madras
• Centre for Atmospheric and Ocean Studies, University of Allahabad [26]
• Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Kochi, Kerala, India.
• Centre for Marine Science and Technology, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Rajakkamangalam, Kanyakumari Dist, TN. India
• Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, Kerala, India
• Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Kochi, Kerala, India.
• Department of Meteorology and Oceanography, Andhra University [27]
• Department of Marine Sciences, Goa University, Goa [/www.unigoa.ac.in/]
• Department of Post Graduate Studies in Marine Biology, Karnatak University Post Graduate centre, Karwar. Karnataka University. Dharwad
• Department of Marine Sciences, Berhampur University, Odisha
• Department of Marine Science, University of Calcutta [28]
• Faculty of Marine Sciences, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu [29]
• Indian National Center for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), Hyderabad, India.[30]
• Integrated Coastal and Marine area Management Project Directorate (ICMAM PD), Pallikaranai, Chennai [31]
• Institute of Ocean Management (IOM), Anna University, Chennai
• Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS)
• Marine Planktonology and Aquaculture Division, Department of Marine Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli [32]
• National Institute of Oceanography, Goa
• National Atmospheric Research Laboratory [33]
• National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean research (NCAOR), Goa [34]
• National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM), Chennai
• National Institute of Oceanography, Goa (HQ), RC's at Kochi, Mumbai and Vishagapatnam.
• National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), pallikaranai, Chennai [35]
• Nansen Environmental Research Centre (India), Kerala [36]
• School of Energy Environment & Natural Resources, Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu [37]
• School of Marine Sciences, Cochin university of science and technology (CUSAT), Kerala
• School of Industrial fisheries, Cochin university of science and technology (CUSAT), Kerala
• School of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar [38]
• School of Oceanographic Studies, Jadavpur University [39]
• Centre for Coastal Harzards and Disaster Mitigation in AMET University

Indonesia

• [[ [40]. [Research Center For Oceanography LIPI] ]], Jakarta
• [[ Bogor Agricultural University. Marine Science and Technology Department ]], Bogor
• Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung
• Diponegoro University, Semarang

Iran

• Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science
• Khorramshahr marine science and technology university
• Islamic azad university of Tehran

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)
• The Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences - University of Haifa

Italy

• Italian National Research Council
• OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale)
• CoNISMa (National Inter-University Consortium of Marine Sciences)

Japan

• Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
• Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
• Kobe University
• University of the Ryukyus

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, Puerto Ángel, Oaxaca.
• El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, ECOSUR, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Oceanografía ECOSUR
• Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC), Ensenada

Netherlands

• Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
• University of Groningen - Master's degree programmes

New Zealand

• National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research

Norway

• Institute of Marine Research

Pakistan

Lasbela University of Agriculture, Water and Marine Sciences, Balochistan

• 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 Oceanology of Polish Academy of Science;
• Institute of Oceanography of University of Gdańsk;
• Maritime Institute in Gdańsk

Portugal

• CCMAR-Centre of Marine Sciences
• CIMAR -Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research
• Hydrographic Institute
• DOP - department of Oceanography and Fisheries
• Institute of Oceanography, University of Lisbon

Russia

• P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences
• Russian State Hydrometeorological University
• Saint Petersburg State University
• Lomonosov Moscow State University
• Far Eastern Federal University
• Il`ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Vladivostok
• Yelyakov Pacific Institute of Bio-organic Chemistry, FEB RAS, Vladivostok
• Zhirmunsky Institute of the Biology of the Sea, FEB RAS, Vladivostok
• Institute of Marine Technologies Problems, FEB RAS, Vladivostok
• Pacific Research Fisheries Center (TINRO-Center, Vladivostok)

South Korea

• Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST)
• The Department of Ocean System Science, Pusan National University
• School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University

Spain

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

Sweden

• Stockholm Marine Research Centre
• University of Gothenburg

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 [41], 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

• American Geophysical Union
• American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
• Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (Maine)
• Florida Institute of Technology
• Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution HBOI
• Hawaii Pacific University [42]
• Humboldt State University (California)
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• Florida State University
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Louisiana State University
• Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)
• Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
• Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
• Marine Science Center, Northeastern University
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Naval Oceanographic Office
• Naval Postgraduate School
• Nova Southeastern University
• Old Dominion University
• Oregon State University
• Princeton University
• Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
• Rutgers University (New Brunswick)
• Schmidt Ocean Institute
• School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, SoMAS
• Sea Education Association (SEA)
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Texas A&M University
• University of Alaska Fairbanks
• University of California-Davis
• University of California-Santa Barbara
• University of California-Santa Cruz
• University of California-San Diego
• University of Connecticut
• University of Colorado (Boulder)
• University of Delaware, College of Earth, Ocean and Environment
• University of Florida
• University of Hawaii (Manoa) SOEST
• University of Maine
• University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, School for Marine Science & Technology
• University of Michigan
• University of New Hampshire, School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering
• University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography
• University of South Carolina
• University of South Florida
• University of Southern Mississippi
• University of Texas (Austin)
• University of Washington (Seattle)
• University of North Carolina at Wilmington
• Virginia Institute of Marine Science VIMS
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI

Vietnam

• Institute of Oceanography, Viện Hải dương học (Nhatrang)
• Institute of Marine Environment and Resources (IMER), Viện Tài nguyên và Môi trường biển (Haiphong)
• Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics (IMGG), Viện Địa chất và Địa vật lý biển (Hanoi)

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