This is the official website of the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve and the Elkhorn Slough Foundation - partners working for conservation.

The National Estuarine Research Reserve System is a network of protected areas established for long-term research, education and stewardship. This partnership program between NOAA and the coastal states protects more than one million acres of estuarine land and water, which provides essential habitat for wildlife; offers educational opportunities for students, teachers and the public; and serves as living laboratories for scientists.

A company providing identification of freshwater benthic macroinvertebrates located in Petoskey, MI, USA. FBS is dedicated to macroinvertebrate taxonomy maintaining and updating a library of literature totaling 367 taxonomic references supported by numerous ecological references.

An EU/Canada Exchange project funded by the EC/Canada Cooperation Programme concerned with developing educational programmes, including student and staff exchanges, in the field of the sustainable use of aquatic biodiversity. Un projet d'echange d'EU/Canada finance par le programme de cooperation d'EU/Canada ayant pour but le developpement des programmes educatifs, y compris des echanges d'etudiants et d'autre personnel, au sujet de l'utilisation soutenable de la biodiversite aquatique.

The Chesapeake Bay Land Margin Ecosystem Reserch (LMER) project investigates mechanisms affecting secondary production of estuarine ecosystems. The Chesapeake Bay LMER project, called Trophic Interactions in Estuarine Systems, or TIES, began in 1995 and is scheduled to run until the year 2000. The project uses Chesapeake Bay to investigate mechanisms controlling secondary product ion in estuarine ecosystems.

Coastal America is a unique partnership of federal agencies, state and local governments, and private organizations. The partners work together to protect, preserve, and restore our nation's coasts. The challenge is to meld the capabilities and expertise of all the partners to solve local coastal problems. This is accomplished by sharing information, pooling resources, and combining management skills and technical expertise. At Coastal America, it's all in the partnership.

The Gulf Estuarine Research Society is a not for profit educational organization for people interested in estuarine and coastal issues centering on the Gulf of Mexico. The fundamental goal is to promote research in the Gulf of Mexico. GERS is a very active research society with a membership of scientists, researchers, and students from universities, agencies and research labs along the Gulf coast.

EPA's National Estuary Program was established by Congress in 1987 to improve the quality of estuaries of national importance. The Clean Water Act Section 320 directs EPA to develop plans for attaining or maintaining water quality in an estuary. This includes protection of public water supplies and the protection and propagation of a balanced, indigenous population of shellfish, fish, and wildlife, and allows recreational activities, in and on water, requires that control of point and nonpoint sources of pollution to supplement existing controls of pollution. In several cases, more than one State is participating in a National Estuary Program.

Physalia Ocean Sciences, Inc. (POSI) is an international marine science and engineering consulting firm specializing in the objective and empirical assessment and documentation of anthropogenic effects (physical, chemical and biological) on the marine and coastal environment.

Free underwater educational game. Navigate underwater on an endless 3D coral reef; Marine Organisms; Brief History of Marine Biology; Seas and Oceans; Wildlife Conservation.