4empowerment: Science Resources

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Overfishing

Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council www.gulfcouncil.org
Greenpeace www.greenpeace.org/~oceans/
Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council www.gulfcouncil.org
National Marine Fisheries Service www.noaa.gov
Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch - www.mbayaq.org/cr/seafoodwatch.asp
National Audubon Society's Guide to Seafood www.magazine.audubon.org/seafood/guide/
National Coalition for Marine Conservation www.savethefish.org/
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department www.tpwd.state.tx.us

Wetlands Decline

Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands
Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences
www.manomet.org
National Audubon Society www.audubon.org/campaign/wetland/
National Wetlands Research Centerwww.nwrc.nbs.gov
Scientific American www.sciam.com/1998/0698issue/0698numbers.html
Sierra Club www.sierraclub.org/policy/conservation/wetlands.asp
Texas General Land Office www.glo.state.tx.us/landoffice.html
WetNet www.glo.state.tx.us/wetnet

Erosion

Environmental Protection Agency www.epa.gov
Erosion Control www.forester.net/ec.html
National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory (NSERL) http://topsoil.nserl.purdue.edu
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department www.tpwd.state.tx.us
U.S. Global Change Research Information Office (GCRIO) www.gcrio.ciesin.org

Salinity

Clean Water Act 33 U.S.C. s/s 1251 et seq. (1977) - http://www.epa.gov/region5/defs/html/cwa.htm
CSIRO Land and Water - http://www.clw.csiro.au/
The LINK Online Libraries - http://link.springer.de/ol/envol/index.htm
Marine Ecology Progress Series - http://www.int-res.com/journals/meps/index.html
SaltTrack Web Links - http://earth.simmons.edu/salttrack/salt_links.html
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department - www.tpwd.state.tx.us

Introduction to Exotic Species

Center for Conservation Biology Network - http://conbio.rice.edu/
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6 - http://www.epa.gov/region6
Gulf of Mexico Program - http://pelican.gmpo.gov/
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department - www.tpwd.state.tx.us
United States Geologic Survey USGS - http://www.usgs.gov

Pollution and Indicator Species

Greenpeace - http://www.greenpeace.org/~oceans/
Texas On-Site Wastewater Treatment Research Council: An Overview of the Texas
On-Site Wastewater Treatment Research Council - http://towtrc.tamu.edu/
Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission - http://www.tnrcc.state.tx.us/
United States Geologic Survey, Marine Ecotoxicology Research Station (MERS) - http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/mers

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Big Picture Report Ideas

Overfishing

Wetlands Decline

Erosion

Salinity

Introduction to Exotic Species

Pollution and Indicator Species