List of oceanographic institutions and programs
This is a list of oceanography, atmospheric science and climate related institutions and programs.

International
 World Ocean Circulation Experiment
 Undersea Research Center (NATO)
 MAST (Marine Science and Technology) programme, European Commission
 International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
 Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO
 European Geophysical Society
 North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES)
 Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research

Australia
 Australian Institute of Marine Science, Queensland. AIMS
 Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Canberra. CSIRO
 University of New South Wales, Sydney. Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab
 Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart, Tasmania. IMAS

Bangladesh
The following institutes of oceanography and related research subjects are based in Bangladesh:

Faculty of Marine Sciences and Fisheries, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh (http://www.cu.ac.bd/) – The country's first marine research institution, inaugurated in 1971.

Department of Oceanography, Noakhali Science and Technology University,(http://ocean-nstu.edu.bd) .

 Department of Oceanography, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Maritime University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. (http://www.bsmrmu.edu.bd/)

Bangladesh Oceanographic Research Institute (BORI), Ramu, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh (http://www.bori.gov.bd/)

 Department of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (MFO), Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Dumki-8602, Patuakhali, Bangladesh (http://www.pstu.ac.bd/)
 Department of Coastal and Marine Fisheries, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet-3100, Bangladesh (http://www.sau.ac.bd/)

 Department of Fisheries and Marine Science, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Noakhali-3814, Bangladesh (http://www.nstu.edu.bd/)

 Department of Oceanography, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh (http://oceanographydu.com)

 Department of Oceanography, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh.

Barbados
Bellairs Research Institute

Belgium
 MARE, University of Liege
 VLIZ, Flanders Marine Institute, Oostende
 European Marine Board

Brazil
INPOH, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Oceanográficas e Hidroviárias (National Institute for Oceanographic and Waterway Research)
IEAPM, Instituto de Estudos do Mar Almirante Paulo Moreira (Admiral Paulo Moreira Institute for Marine Studies)
The following universities have Oceanography departments or institutes that do research and teach the subject at undergraduate and/or graduate level:
 Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, UNIVALI 
 Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, FURG 
 Universidade de São Paulo, USP 
 Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ FAOC - Faculdade de Oceanografia da UERJ - Histórico
 Universidade Federal da Bahia, UFBA Curso de Graduação em Oceanografia - UFBA
 Universidade Federal de São Paulo, UNIFESP Departamento de Ciências do Mar - DCMar - Portal
 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, UFSC 
 Universidade Federal do Ceará, UFC 
 Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, UFES Oceanografia na UFES - Inicial
 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
 Institute of Oceanology - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Varna
 Institute of Fish Resources - Varna, Agricultural Academy, Bulgaria

Canada
 Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR) - Institut des Sciences de la mer (ISMER) 
 Bedford Institute of Oceanography
 Institute of Ocean Sciences 
Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI)
 Oceanography Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia 
 Fisheries and Marine Institute, Memorial University, 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 Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration 
 The South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
 The First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration
 State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics
 State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University

Colombia
 Dinámica y Manejo de Ecosistemas Marinos y Costeros. Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano- UJTL.
 Grupo de investigación en Oceanografía e Ingeniería Costera - OCEANICOS. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Minas, Medellín
 Marine and Coastal Research Institute "José Benito Vives de Andréis" (INVEMAR)
 Centro de Investigaciones Oceanográficas e Hidrográficas del Caribe-CIOHde la Dirección General Marítima
 Centro de Investigaciones Oceanográficas e Hidrográficas del Pacífico-CCCP de la Dirección General Marítima
 Universidad de Antioquia - Pregrado de oceanografía y maestría y doctorado en ciencias del mar.
 Maestria de Oceanografia Escuela Naval de Cadetes "Almirante PAdilla"
 Marine Sciences Group (Área de Ciencias del Mar), Department of Earth Sciences, EAFIT University.

Croatia
 Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries
 Institute for marine and coastal research, University of Dubrovnik
 Centre for marine research, Ruđer Bošković Institute

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 (IUEM), Brest
 Station marine de Banyuls-sur-Mer
 LEGOS - Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales, Toulouse
 LOCEAN - Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat, Expérimentations et Approches Numériques, Paris
 Station marine d'Arcachon
 Station Marine de Concarneau
 SHOM - Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine
 IGEInstitut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, Grenoble

Germany
 Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven
 Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM), Bremen
 Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW), Warnemünde
 Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR), Kiel
 Senckenberg by the Sea, Wilhelmshaven
 German Marine Research Consortium
 Centre for Marine Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Bremen
 Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), Hamburg
 Institut für Meereskunde, University Hamburg (IfM-Hamburg), Hamburg
 Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment ICBM, Oldenburg, Wilhelmshaven
 Institute for Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG), Geesthacht,  Schleswig-Holstein

Greece
 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR). Created in 2003 by merging of the former National Centre for Marine Research (NCMR) and the Institute of Marine Biology of Crete (IMBC).
Department of Marine Sciences, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Lesvos.

Iceland
 Marine Research Institute

India
Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology & Oceanography (CASMB), Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu
Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi 
Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur 
Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (CAOS), Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Center for Earth and Space Sciences -UCESS-University Of Hyderabad,Hyderabad
Central University of Punjab, Bathinda (CUPB)
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 Aquaculture and Fisheries Science, M.E.S. Ponnani College, Ponnani, Malappuram Dist, Kerala, India.
Department of Fisheries Science, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India
Department of Physical Oceanography, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala 
Department of Meteorology and Oceanography, Andhra University 
Department of Marine Sciences, Goa University, Goa [/www.unigoa.ac.in/]
Department of Ocean Studies and Marine Biology, Pondicherry University, Port Blair, Andaman Islands, India.
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 
Department of Oceanography and Coastal Area Studies, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India
Faculty of Marine Sciences, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu 
Indian National Center for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), Hyderabad, India.
Integrated Coastal and Marine area Management Project Directorate (ICMAM PD), Pallikaranai, Chennai 
Institute of Ocean Management (IOM), Anna University, Chennai 
Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS)
Department of Marine Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli 
National Institute of Oceanography, Goa
National Atmospheric Research Laboratory 
National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean research (NCAOR), Goa 
National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM), Chennai
National Institute of Oceanography, Goa (HQ), RC's at Kochi, Mumbai and Vishakhapatnam.
National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), pallikaranai, Chennai 
Nansen Environmental Research Centre (India), Kerala 
School of Energy Environment & Natural Resources, Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu 
School of Marine Sciences, Cochin university of science and technology (CUSAT), Kerala
School of Industrial fisheries, Cochin university of science and technology (CUSAT), Kerala
School of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar 
School of Oceanographic Studies, Jadavpur University 
Centre for Coastal Hazards and Disaster Mitigation in AMET University
Department of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, University of Kerala, Karyavattom, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

Indonesia
 . Research Center For Oceanography LIPI, Jakarta
 Bogor Agricultural University. Marine Science and Technology Department, Bogor
 Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung
 Diponegoro University, Semarang
 University of Riau, Marine Science Department, Pekanbaru
Universitas 17 Agustus 1945, Cirebon

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 (NUIG)
 Coastal and Marine Research Centre, University College Cork (UCC)

Israel
 Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Institute (IOLR)
 The Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences - University of Haifa
https://in.bgu.ac.il/teva/geological/eng/Pages/default.aspx

Italy
 Italian National Research Council
 OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale)
 CoNISMa (National Inter-University Consortium of Marine Sciences)

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 (CORPI), Klaipėda

Mexico
 Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), 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, Oceanografía ECOSUR
 Instituto de Investigaciones Oceanológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada
 Facultad de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC), Ensenada
 Universidad del Mar, Puerto Ángel, Oaxaca [www.umar.mx]
 Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur (UABCS), 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 (UCOL), Colima

Netherlands
 Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
 University of Groningen - Master's degree programmes

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

Norway
 Institute of Marine Research

Pakistan
Lasbela University of Agriculture, Water and Marine Sciences, Balochistan 
 National Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Science and Technology

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

Poland
 Institute of Oceanology of Polish Academy of Science; 
 National Marine Fisheries Research Institute; 
 Institute of Oceanography of University of Gdańsk;
 Maritime Institute in Gdańsk

Portugal
 CCMAR-Centre of Marine Sciences 
 CIMAR -Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research 
 Hydrographic Institute
 DOP - department of Oceanography and Fisheries
 Institute of Oceanography, University of Lisbon

Russia
 P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences
 Marine Hydrophysical Institute,  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 (TINRO-Center, Vladivostok)

South Korea
 Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST)
 The Department of Oceanography, Pusan National University
 School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University

Spain
 ICMAN - Institute of Marine Science of Andalusia (CSIC)
 AZTI, Marine Research Unit
 CASEM (Marine Sciences Studies Andalusian High Center), Cádiz
 ICM, Marine Sciences Institute
 Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands
 Spanish Institute of Oceanology, Madrid
 UTM, Marine Technology Unit

Sri Lanka 
The National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency (NARA)

The Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Sciences & Technology, University of Ruhuna

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 Oceanography
Institute of Marine Sciences and Management, Istanbul University
Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University
 Institute of Marine Sciences and Technology, Dokuz Eylül 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 (SAMS) Dunstaffnage, Oban
 Bangor Marine Laboratory, Bangor

United States
 American Geophysical Union
 American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
 Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (Maine)
 Centers for Space Oceanography
 Downeast Institute (Maine)
 Florida Institute of Technology
 Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution HBOI
 Hawaii Pacific University 
 Humboldt State University (California)
 Florida State University
 Georgia Institute of Technology
 Hopkins Marine Station 
 Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory
 Louisiana State University
 Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)
 Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
 Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
 Naval Oceanographic Office
 Naval Postgraduate School
 Northeastern University Marine Science Center
 Nova Southeastern University
 Old Dominion University
 Oregon State University
 Princeton University
 Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
 Rutgers University (New Brunswick)
 Schmidt Ocean Institute
 School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, SoMAS
 Sea Education Association (SEA)
 Scripps Institution of Oceanography
 Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkiO)
 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 (Boulder)
 University of Delaware, College of Earth, Ocean and Environment
 University of Florida
 University of Georgia
University of Georgia Marine Institute
 University of Hawaii (Manoa) SOEST Buster
 University of Maine
 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, School for Marine Science & Technology
 University of Michigan
 University of New Hampshire, School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering
 University of New England 
 University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography
 University of South Alabama, Dauphin Island Sea Lab 
 University of South Carolina
 University of South Florida
 University of Southern Mississippi
 University of Texas (Austin)
 University of Washington (Seattle)
 University of North Carolina at Wilmington
 Virginia Institute of Marine Science VIMS
 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI
 Western Washington University,

Vietnam 

 Institute of Oceanography, Viện Hải dương học (Nhatrang)
 Institute of Marine Environment and Resources (IMER), Viện Tài nguyên và Môi trường biển (Haiphong)
 Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics (IMGG), Viện Địa chất và Địa vật lý biển (Hanoi)

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