Outer Island Resources
- Tide Prediction Web Site (search tides anywhere, make custom charts)
- Tide Predictions for Branford, CT (make your own custom chart)
- NOAA Tides & Currents for Branford, CT (tide predictions for Branford, CT specifically)
- Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Preserve
- Friends of Outer Island (Facebook page)
- Friends of Outer Island (website)
- Crab Counts (ongoing research on Asian Shore Crab)
- Boston Harbor Seaside Educator's Guide (PDF) (New England Aquarium)
- CT Rocks!: The Geology of Connecticut (Yale, Peabody Museum of Natural History)
- Description of rocky intertidal habitats at the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, California (NOAA)
- Photos and descriptions of various rocky intertidal organisms (Stony Brook University, State University of New York)
- Seaweeds of Long Island Sound
- Marine Algal Collection
- Mystic Aquarium
- Werth Center for Coastal and Marine Studies
- The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA homepage)
- National Weather Service (NOAA)
- National Ocean Service (NOAA)
- National Marine Sanctuaries (NOAA)
- NOAA Fisheries
- NOAA Fisheries Feature: Marine Mammals
- NOAA Fisheries, Office of Protected Resources: Sea Turtles
- NOAA Fisheries: National Marine Mammal Laboratory
- United States Geological Survey (USGS homepage)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA homepage)
- Coastal and Marine Geology Program (USGS)
- Woods Hole Oceanographic institution
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California, San Diego)
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (Columbia University, Earth Institute)
- Connecticut Sea Grant (University of Connecticut)
- New York Sea Grant (Stony Brook University, State University of New York)
- Rhode Island Sea Grant (University of Rhode Island)
- Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection
- New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
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