List of oceanographic institutions and programs

International

• World Ocean Circulation Experiment
• Undersea Research Center
• MAST programme, European Commission
• International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO
• European Geophysical Society
• North Pacific Marine Science Organization
• 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,
• Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, http://www.imas.utas.edu.au/

  Bangladesh

• Faculty of Marine Sciences and Fisheries, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh - The country's first marine research institution, inaugurated in 1971.
• Department of Oceanography., Noakhali Science and Technology University,.
• Department of Oceanography, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Maritime University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
• Bangladesh Oceanographic Research Institute, Ramu, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
• Department of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography, Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Dumki-8602, Patuakhali, Bangladesh
• Department of Coastal and Marine Fisheries, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet-3100, Bangladesh
• Department of Fisheries and Marine Science, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Noakhali-3814, Bangladesh
• Department of Oceanography University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Department of Oceanography, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh.

  Barbados

• Bellairs Research Institute

  Belgium

• MARE, University of Liege

• Brazil

• INPOH, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Oceanográficas e Hidroviárias
• IEAPM, Instituto de Estudos do Mar Almirante Paulo Moreira

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• 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
• Centro Universitário Monte Serrat, UNIMONTE

  Bulgaria

• Canada

• Université du Québec à Rimouski - Institut des Sciences de la mer
• Bedford Institute of Oceanography
• Institute of Ocean Sciences
• Ocean Frontier Institute
• , Halifax, Nova Scotia
• , St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

  China

• Ocean University of China
• Swire Institute of Marine Science, The University of Hong Kong
• Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• The South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• The First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration

• 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
• Universidad de Antioquia - Pregrado de oceanografía y maestría y doctorado en ciencias del mar.
• Marine Sciences Group, Department of Earth Sciences, EAFIT University.

  Croatia

• 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
• MIO - Institut Mediterannéen d'Oceanographie/Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography
• 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, Brest
• Station marine de Banyuls-sur-Mer
• - Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales, Toulouse.
• LOCEAN, Paris
• Station marine d'Arcachon
• Station Marine de Concarneau
• - Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine

  Germany

• Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven
• Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen
• Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde
• Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Kiel
• Senckenberg by the Sea, Wilhelmshaven
• German Marine Research Consortium
• Centre for Marine Tropical Marine Ecology, Bremen
• Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg
• Institut für Meereskunde, University Hamburg, Hamburg
• Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment ICBM, Oldenburg, Wilhelmshaven
• Institute for Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Geesthacht, Schleswig-Holstein

  Greece

• . Created in 2003 by merging of the former National Centre for Marine Research and the Institute of Marine Biology of Crete.
• , University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Lesvos.

  Iceland

• Marine Research Institute

  India

• Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology & Oceanography, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu
• Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
• Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
• Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science
• Center for Earth and Space Sciences -UCESS-University Of Hyderabad,Hyderabad
• Central University of Punjab, Bathinda
• 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,Kerala, India.

• Department of Meteorology and Oceanography, Andhra University
• Department of Marine Sciences, Goa University, Goa
• 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, Hyderabad, India.
• Integrated Coastal and Marine area Management Project Directorate, Pallikaranai, Chennai
• Institute of Ocean Management, Anna University, Chennai
• Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies
• Department of Marine Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli
• National Institute of Oceanography, Goa
• National Atmospheric Research Laboratory
• National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean research, Goa
• National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management, Chennai
• National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, RC's at Kochi, Mumbai and Vishakhapatnam.
• National Institute of Ocean Technology, pallikaranai, Chennai
• Nansen Environmental Research Centre, Kerala
• School of Energy Environment & Natural Resources, Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu
• School of Marine Sciences, Cochin university of science and technology, Kerala
• School of Industrial fisheries, Cochin university of science and technology, 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

• . , Jakarta
• . , Bogor
• Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung
• Diponegoro University, Semarang
• University of Riau, Marine Science Department, Pekanbaru

Iran

• Marine Science Faculty in Tarbiat Modares University
• Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science
• Khorramshahr marine science and technology university
• Islamic azad university of Tehran

  Ireland

• Marine Institute Ireland
• Ryan Institute for Environmental, Marine and Energy Research, National University of Ireland, Galway
• Coastal and Marine Research Centre, University College Cork

  Israel

• - University of Haifa

Italy

• Italian National Research Council

• Japan

• Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
• Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
• Kobe University
• University of the Ryukyus

  Latvia

• Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment “BIOR”, Riga
• Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology, Riga

  Lithuania

• Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipėda

  Mexico

• Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, 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,
• Instituto de Investigaciones Oceanológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada
• Facultad de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada
• Universidad del Mar, Puerto Ángel, Oaxaca
• Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, LaPaz, B.C.S
• Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas del Instituto Politécnico Nacional
• Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste S.C
• Facultad de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad de Colima, Colima

  Netherlands

• New Zealand

• Cawthron Institute
• National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
• Victoria University Coastal Ecology Lab

  Norway

• Institute of Marine Research

  Pakistan

• National Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Science and Technology

  Philippines

• Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines - Diliman Marine Science Institute, UP Diliman

  Poland

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• Portugal

• Russia

• P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences
• , 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

  South Korea

• The Department of Oceanography, Pusan National University
• School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University

  Spain

• CASEM, Cádiz
• Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands
• Spanish Institute of Oceanology, Madrid

Sweden

• Stockholm Marine Research Centre
• University of Gothenburg

  Taiwan

• Taiwan Ocean Research Institute
• 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

• Office of Navigation, Hydrography and

• Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University

• United Kingdom

• Marine Biological Association, Plymouth
• 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
• Scottish Association for Marine Science Dunstaffnage, Oban
• Bangor Marine Laboratory, Bangor

  United States

• American Geophysical Union
• American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
• Centers for Space Oceanography
• Florida Institute of Technology
• Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution
• Hawaii Pacific University
• Humboldt State University
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Hopkins Marine Station
• Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory
• Louisiana State University
• Marine Biological Laboratory
• Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
• Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Naval Oceanographic Office
• Naval Postgraduate School
• Nova Southeastern University
• Old Dominion University
• Princeton University
• Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
• Rutgers University
• Schmidt Ocean Institute
• School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University,
• Sea Education Association
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Skidaway Institute 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
• University of Delaware,
• University of Florida
• University of Georgia
• University of Hawaii Buster
• University of Maine
• University of Massachusetts Dartmouth,
• University of Michigan
• University of New Hampshire,
• University of New England
• University of Rhode Island
• University of South Carolina
• University of South Florida
• University of Southern Mississippi
• University of Texas
• University of Washington
• University of North Carolina at Wilmington
• Virginia Institute of Marine Science
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
• Western Washington University,

  Vietnam

• Institute of Oceanography,
• Institute of Marine Environment and Resources, :vi:Viện Tài nguyên và Môi trường biển|Viện Tài nguyên và Môi trường biển
• Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics,