Land Based Sources of Marine Pollution
Links to Pollution Related Websites
These sites are in no particular order. If you know of a site you think should be included in this list, please e-mail your suggestions to rcu@cep.unep.org.
MARINE POLLUTION IN THE CARIBBEAN
REMPEITC-Carib
This site of the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency, Information and Training Center for the Wider Caribbean Region contains information about oil pollution, training, regional focal points, and contingency plans.
Tar and Oil Pollution Data for Stations in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea (1979-89)
http://neonet.nlr.nl/providers/neonet.nlr.nl/local/ceos/datasets/FWA00245.html
This page contains data collected by NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory from the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico as part of the Caribbean Oil Pollution Database (CARIPOL) Project.
ECLAC/CDCC Waste Management Links
http://www.wow.net/community/eclac/CARLINKS/wastlink.htm
This site contains national contingency plans, information about waste management projects, technical documents and the oil spill protocol.
GENERAL MARINE POLLUTION
Smithsonian Institution Ocean Planet Exhibition Page on Marine Pollution
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/peril_pollution2.html
This very educational page has information about cross country sources of pollution, raw sewage, alien species, and America's watersheds.
Ocean News Issue #4 Marine Pollution
http://oceanlink.island.net/marpoll.html
Ocean News is published by Bamfield Marine Station Public Education Programme. The pollution issue has information about sources and solutions of pollution as well as red tides, and is very educational.
Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) page on Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators
http://sedac.ciesin.org/pidb/texts/marine.pollution.dumping.of.wastes.1972.html
The site contains a summary of Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of and Other Matter.
SITES WITH LISTS OF POLLUTION RELATED WEB SITES
Oceanwatch Links
http://www.envirolink.org/envlib/orgs/oceanwatch/links.htm
A compilation of interesting sites with ocean pollution related information.