The Freshwater Biological Association is a Registered Charity and an independent membership organisation, with members drawn from around the world. Founded in 1929, it aims to promote freshwater biology through scientific meetings, publications, research and authoritative advice. It publishes a variety of identification keys to freshwater organisms and other specialist volumes, and has one of the finest freshwater libraries in the world. Membership is open to anyone who is interested in freshwater science and wishes to support the Association.

The Center for Coastal Studies is an interdisciplinary marine research institute, CCS conducts basic and applied research, ecological monitoring, public education outreach, and graduate-level education and research programs. Research areas include: wetlands ecology, habitat restoration, creation, and enhancement; coastal habitat ecology and impacts; endangered species use of coastal habitats; benthic ecology; environmental physiology; coral reef ecology, environmental monitoring and impacts; oil spill impacts and habitat recovery; offshore artificial reef studies (including fisheries); and marine ecotoxicology.

The Delta Marsh Field Station, a research and teaching facility of the Faculty of Science at the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada), is located on the south shore of Lake Manitoba (98°23'W, 50°11'N). It borders Delta Marsh, a "Wetland of International Significance" under the Ramsar Convention, that is one of the largest lacustrine marshes in North America. The Field Station property is part of a designated game-bird refuge and wildlife protection area, most of which was designated in 1987 as an ecologically significant area.

The Institute for Tropical Marine Ecology (ITME) is a not-for-profit organization providing tertiary education and research training in marine biology and environmental studies at its field station in Dominica, Lesser Antilles. ITME further serves a resource center (environmental data, training, consultancies) for Dominica's general public, as well as for national and international organizations. The Institute's year-round field station is an ideal base of operations for visiting researchers and university groups, and unique meeting point in the Eastern Caribbean.

The ZMT's activities include a continuing international research interest in tropical marine ecosystems, their resources and their vulnerability to environmental and climatic changes. They address the scientific issues related to the management of tropical coastal marine ecosystems and their resources and contribute to building global partnerships for research, education and training in the field. Through these activities, which are fully integrated into the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission's (IOC) Program TEMA (Training Education and Mutual Assistance), the ZMT continues to contribute to the goals set by the Agenda 21 of the United Nations Convention on Environment and Development (UNCED).

The overall aim of the Department of Lake and Estuarine Ecology is to provide the scientific basis for the administration and management of lakes and estuarine ecosystems. This is achieved through strategic and applied research and through work on environmental data within these research areas. The department's responsibilities also include coordinating NERI's Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing activities.

The Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries is one of the principal German centres for research on limnic ecosystems, and unites hydrologists, chemists, microbiologists, fish ecologists and fish biologists. Our research activities are primarily oriented to the analysis of the widespread structures and functions of freshwater ecosystems. Our subsidiary focus is the study of unique regional environments such as the Berlin river-lake system where numerous shallow lakes are interconnected by dominant rivers, and turbulence is a major influence.