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,^[1] 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^[2]

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,^[3] University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh (http://oceanographydu.com)

Barbados

• Bellairs Research Institute

Belgium

• MARE, University of Liege^[4]

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)

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
• Universidade de São Paulo, USP
• Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ
• Universidade Federal da Bahia, UFBA
• Universidade Federal de São Paulo, UNIFESP
• Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, UFSC
• Universidade Federal do Ceará, UFC
• Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, UFES
• Universidade Federal do Maranhão, UFMA
• Universidade Federal do Pará, UFPA
• Universidade Federal do Paraná, UFPR
• Universidade Federal do Pernambuco, UFPE
• Universidade Vale do Itajaí, UNIVALI
• Centro Universitário Monte Serrat, UNIMONTE

Bulgaria

• Institute of Oceanology - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Varna

Canada

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

China

• Ocean University of China
• Swire Institute of Marine Science, The University of Hong Kong^[5]
• 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.
• Maestria de Oceanografia Escuela Naval de Cadetes "Almirante PAdilla"

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
• Facultad de Ingeniería Marítima, Ciencias Biológicas, Oceánicas y Recursos Naturales FIMCBOR, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral ESPOL

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

Marine Biotechnology and Drugs from Sea Research Program @ Sathyabama University, Tamilnadau

• Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology & Oceanography (CASMB), Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu
• Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
• Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
• Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (CAOS), Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Faculty of Marine Sciences, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu
• Indian National Center for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), Hyderabad, India.
• Integrated Coastal and Marine area Management Project Directorate (ICMAM PD), Pallikaranai, Chennai
• 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
• National Institute of Oceanography, Goa
• National Atmospheric Research Laboratory
• National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean research (NCAOR), Goa
• 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
• Nansen Environmental Research Centre (India), Kerala
• School of Energy Environment & Natural Resources, Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu
• 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
• School of Oceanographic Studies, Jadavpur University
• Centre for Coastal Harzards and Disaster Mitigation in AMET University

Indonesia

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

Universitas 17 Agustus 1945, Cirebon

Iran

• Marine Science Faculty in Tarbiat Modares University (TMU, The Best of Physical Oceanography University in Tehran, 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
• El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, ECOSUR, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Oceanografía ECOSUR
• Instituto de Investigaciones Oceanológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada
• Facultad de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC), Ensenada
• Universidad del Mar, Puerto Ángel, Oaxaca [www.umar.mx]

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^[6]

• National Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Science and Technology^[7]

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^[8]
• School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University^[9]

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 , 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
• 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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References

1. http://www.imscu.ac.bd/
2. http://www.mosict.gov.bd/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=322
3. http://oceanographydu.com/
4. MARE homepage
5. http://www.hku.hk/swims/
6. LUAWMS-Balochistan
7. NIO-Pakistan