Taxonomy
 Here
you will find authoritative taxonomic information on plants,
animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.
 Southern
California Association Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists
provides a regular monthly forum to address problems in
taxonomy, organizes taxonomic workshops, and maintains
a reference collection and library of taxonomic literature.
 The Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal
Oceans (PISCO)
is a research consortium involving marine scientists from
four universities along the U.S. West Coast:
Biodiversity
 At the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, world leaders
agreed on a comprehensive strategy for "sustainable
development" -- meeting our needs while ensuring
that we leave a healthy and viable world for future generations.
One of the key agreements adopted at Rio was the Convention
on Biological Diversity. Their web site has many links
to other sites pertaining to biodiversity.
 The
mission of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
is to make the world's primary data on biodiversity freely
and universally available via the Internet.
 The ALL
Species Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated
to the complete inventory of all species of life on Earth
within the next 25 years - a human generation. To describe
and classify all of the surviving species of the world
deserves to be one of the great scientific goals of the
new century
Tomales Bay General Info
 This website is sponsored by the Point
Reyes National Seashore Association, a non-profit
organization supporting education and interpretation at
Point Reyes National Seashore. To find out more about
supporting the parks, go to www.ptreyes.org
Tomales Bay Research
 In 1988, the U.S. National Science Foundation began
a research initiative called Land Margin Ecosystems Research
(LMER)
directly designed to investigate the biogeochemical coupling
between land and the coastal ocean, and the human perturbations
of that coupling. Tomales Bay was chosen as an LMER study
site in 1989 because its simple geometry, small surrounding
watershed, and readily defined characteristics of freshwater
flow and internal water circulation make the site especially
tractable for the analysis of how a whole system receives,
processes, and exports materials. In this system freshwater
(hydrological) transport dominates material inputs, and
the hydrological cycle shows several characteristic time
scales of variation. This program was named "BRIE."
The name is, at once, an acronym for "Biogeochemical
Reactions in Estuaries" and acknowledgment that dairy
farming is a traditional livelihood for the region.
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