List of oceanographic institutions and programs

This is a list of oceanographic 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

Belgium

 * MARE, University of Liege

Brazil
Oceanography Institute of USP has undergraduate ans graduates(master and doctory) courses of oceanography.
 * Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo (Oceanography Institute University Of São Paulo)
 * FURG, Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
 * Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro State University)
 * Universidade Federal da Bahia
 * Universidade Federal do Paraná
 * Universidade Federal do Pará
 * Universidade Vale do Itajaí
 * UNIMONTE

Canada

 * Bedford Institute of Oceanography
 * Institute of Ocean Sciences

China

 * Ocean University of China
 * The Swire Institute of Marine Science, The University of Hong Kong

Croatia

 * Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries

Finland

 * Finnish Institute of Marine Research

France

 * IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
 * Centre d'Oceanologie de Marseille
 * Station biologique de Roscoff

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

Greece

 * Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR). Created in 2003 by merging of the the former National Centre for Marine Research (NCMR) and the Institute of Marine Biology of Crete (IMBC).

Iceland

 * Marine Research Institute

India

 * National Institute of Oceanography, Goa

Ireland

 * The Irish Marine Institute

Italy

 * Italian National Research Council

Netherlands

 * Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

Norway

 * Institute of Marine Research

Pakistan

 * National Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Science and Technology

Poland

 * Institute of Oceanography PAS

Portugal

 * Institute of Oceanography, University of Lisbon

Russia

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

Spain

 * Spanish Institute of Oceanology, Madrid
 * CASEM (Marine Sciences Studies Andalusian High Center), Cádiz
 * ICM, Marine Sciences Institute
 * UTM, Marine Technology Unit

Sweden

 * Stockholm Marine Research Centre

Taiwan (Republic of China)

 * 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

Ukraine

 * Marine Hydrophysical Institute, National Academy of Sciences

United Kingdom

 * 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
 * Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Oban
 * Bangor Marine Laboratory, Bangor

USA

 * American Geophysical Union
 * American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
 * Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution
 * National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
 * Scripps Institution of Oceanography
 * Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
 * Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute