Climate change blogs
Real climate: climate science from climate scientists
Skeptical science: outlines and debunks skeptic arguments
Open Science and Cool Tools
FigShare share your figures, talks, data, papers, videos, and more
Mendeley free and awesome citation manager (EndNote alternative)
Zotero another free and awesome citation manager
PeerJ great new open access journal
PLOS the original great open access journals
eLIFE another cool OA option
StichIt lets you make a presentation out of many web pages
R free stats / analysis and graphic program
Flowing data making nice graphics with R
DataUp share your data!
DataOne share environmental data
UNC
Curriculum in Ecology and the Environment
Office of Undergraduate Research
Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
UNC EHS-minors in the lab policy
Triangle Area Seminars in Ecology and Evolution
UNC lunchbunch (formerly evolunch)
A list of all Triangle life sciences seminars
Marine Ecology and Conservation
ICRI: International Coral Reef Initiative
NOAA Coral Health and Monitoring Program
WRI-Coastal and Marine Ecosystems
Coral Reef Research Foundation
Coral Reef Temperature Anomaly Database
Photodocumentation of climate change
Societies
Western Society of Naturalists
Society for Conservation Biology
American Association for the Advancement of Science
International Society for Reef Studies
American Society for Limnology and Oceanography
Marine Labs and Research Centers
Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences
A link with a huge list of marine labs
Field Programs
Classes at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology
Classes at Friday Harbor Laboratories, WA
Classes at the Duke Marine Lab
Summer classes at the Shoals Marine Laboratory
Pigeon Key: marine field programs for kids in the FL Keys!
Outreach
Morehead Planetarium and Science Center at UNC
Peter Mumby’s collection of great coral reef videos
Career Information
So you want to be a marine biologist? (great advise from Dr. Milton Love, UCSB)
So you want to be a marine biologist? The revenge
A collection of links on career advice and job opportunities in marine sciences
Advice for graduate students and post docs
Internships
There is a website with links to lots of internships here
The NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program has a variety of super summer internships, see the list here
PostBacs (a nice article about doing taking a year or more off to get some hands on experience before going on to grad school)
Ornithological jobs (lots of field positions working with birds)
Ecolog (a discussion board/list that regularly posts various positions in ecology-I recommend subscribing to the list!)
Advice for getting involved in coral reef research from Jim Hendee.rtf