Research Guides: Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering: Internet Resources

Google Site Searching

Limit your Google search to a specific domain, such as .mil, .gov or .edu, to ensure you are accessing quality information from trusted sources.

Simply add: site:. and the domain to the end of your search in the Google search box. For example: robots site:.mil will return only information about robots from U.S. military websites.

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You can also use this type of search on a specific website, adding site:.navy.mil will return information specifically from Navy military websites.

Building and Construction

Tide, Current and Weather Resources

These resources are a good place to start looking for climate and tidal data - both current and historical. Please also consult the Library's Oceanography guide for more detailed information and other resources.

Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System
National Data Buoy - NOAA
Tides and Currents - NOAA
This is a great resource with tide and current maps, port information, sea level trends and operational forecast systems
National Centers for Environmental Information - NOAA
Formerly the National Climatic Data Center
National Weather Service - NOAA
Oceanography and Meterology Subject Guide
Ocean Observatories Initiative
Data collection is still in development stage but you can find out more about the project and see early data from a couple of their sites.
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science publishes reports on marine spatial ecology, stressor impacts and mitigation, coastal change and social science. Reports through this portal include vulnerability and risk assessments and harmful algae blooms.

Diver Physiology and Undersea Medicine

Borden Institute: Office of the Surgeon General U.S. Army MedCoE
The Borden Institute was established in 1987 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, to foster and promote excellence in military academic medicine through the development and publication of military medical scholarship. Now located at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, the Borden Institute is an agency of the US Army Medical Center of Excellence.

The Borden Institute publishes and maintains the Textbooks of Military Medicine. The volumes in the series constitute a comprehensive treatise on the art and science of military medicine, covering such diverse topics as biological and chemical warfare, military preventive medicine, military medical ethics, combat behavioral health, harsh environments, and care of combat injuries.
Rubicon Foundation - Dspace
This free repository, maintained by the Rubicon Foundation, includes content from the US Navy Experimental Diving Unit, US Naval Medical Research Center, PADI, and others. Use the search box at the top-left, or browse by category.
PubMed
Free resource from the U.S. National Library of Medicine / National Institutes of Health (NIH). Contains citations and in some cases full-text of articles.
Helpful print resources at Nimitz
This link directly searches the Nimitz Library catalog. Try additional searches for Dive Medicine, Decompression, etc.

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Here are a few public sites you might want to consider when conducting your research:

OpenRov
Are you building your own underwater vehicle? This site could help. It contains open source documentation and tips for building vehicles and can provide the support of the open source community.
AUSVI - Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International
Unmanned vehicle conferences, events, competitions and more.
Intelligent Systems, Robotics and Cybernetics - Sandia National Lab
This site describes the work being conducted at Sandia related to robotics. You can view their image galleries and read articles about their work.

Research Websites

American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE)
ASNE is the leading professional engineering society professionals who conceive, develop, construct, and maintain naval systems
IEEE Ocean Engineering Society
Ocean Engineering Society (OES) focuses on numerous ocean engineering topics
Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA)
An internationally renowned institution involved at all levels in the design, construction, maintenance and operation of marine vessels
Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME)
"The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers was organized in 1893, to advance the art, science, and practice of naval architecture, shipbuilding and marine engineering."
Numerical Towing Tank Symposium
The European-based Numerical Towing Tank Symposium covers topics on marine structures (ships, propellers, offshore platforms, etc.) related to nonlinear flows around marine structures (LES, RANSE, Euler with or w/o free surface); free-surface flows around marine structures (3-D ship seakeeping, free-surface viscous flows); fluid-structure interaction; and other related topics (validation experiments, numerical techniques, grid generation, etc).

Military Labs and Agencies

Industry Information

Thomas's Register
Thomas's Register is a great resource for locating parts and product information, drawings and industry news.
GlobalSpec
REQUIRES FREE REGISTRATION - GlobalSpec is a great resource for information on products and suppliers.
MatWeb: The Online Materials Information Resource
MatWeb provides detailed information on the properties of different materials such as boiling point, density and strength properties.