Ask the Experts
Knowledge and experience matter. The faculty, staff, and students of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science leverage hundreds of years of classroom and field learning to provide unbiased, research-based evidence for use in policymaking and education. Other scientific agencies and organizations do as well. Here we provide a selected list of websites that we consider to be reputable sources of unbiased information concerning Chesapeake Bay, marine science in general, and topics related to climate change. We also provide links to several reputable fact-checking websites.
Chesapeake Bay
- Virginia Institute of Marine Science: Bay Info
- VIMS Center for Coastal Resources Management
- Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
- Chesapeake Bay Program
- Commonwealth Center for Recurrent Flooding Resiliency
- Virginia Sea Grant
Marine Science & Oceanography
- Bridge Marine Education website
- Digital Library for Earth System Education
- Encyclopedia of Life
- Consortium for Ocean Leadership and its member organizations
- International Union for the Conservation of Nature and its Red List of Threatened Species
- NOAA's National Ocean Service
- National Sea Grant College Program
Climate Change
- VIMS: Global Change Research
- Climate.gov
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- National Centers for Environmental Information
- RealClimate
- U.S. Global Change Research Program
- World Meteorological Organization
Fact-Checking Sites
These websites can help you investigate suspicious stories concerning science or other topics.
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