Conducts courses and projects investigating fish health, reproduction and genetics, environment, aquatic systems and nutrition, and offers directories of Web resources concerned with aquaculture and fisheries, environment quality, and marine, freshwater, and earth sciences. Associated publications and commercial services are detailed. 20000331 Savage Seas Resource based on a television series of the same name, examining the danger, beauty and mystery of the seas. Offers information about waves, including tsunamis and freak waves, and features a simulator which demonstrates how the power of waves is affected by wind speed, fetch, and duration. Provides facts about the survival of objects, creatures and humans beneath the surface, illustrated by a deep sea simulator, and details of weather conditions such as cyclones, icebergs and global warming.
Most activity falls within the areas of marine mining, marine pollution and marine management.