Partners and Sponsors
The many remarkable discoveries, research, and science that the Census of Marine Life has accomplished since 2000 would not have been possible without the collaboration and support from the following programs, organizations, government agencies, and foundations.
- Founding Sponsor : The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- ABB
- Academia Sinica Institute of Zoology
- Academy of Environmental Science (Florida, USA)
- Acadia University
- Acadia Centre for Estuarine Research (ACER)
- ad2, Inc.
- African Coelacanth Ecosystem Programme (ACEP)
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
- Agulhas-Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystem (ASCLME)
- Alaska Department of Fish and Game
- Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS)
- Alaska Sea Grant
- Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
- AMIRIX Systems Inc.
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Applied Biosystems, Inc.
- Arafura and Timor Seas Experts Forum (ATSEF)
- ARB Project
- The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Russia (AARI)
Russian Antarctic Expedition - Arctic Coastal Biodiversity (ACBio)
- Arcus Kjemi AS
- Argyll and Islands Enterprise
- Argus Remote Systems AS
- ASEAN Regional Center for Biodiversity Conservation
- Associated Scientists of Woods Hole
- Atlantic Frontier Environmental Forum
- Atlantic Salmon Federation Research Grant
- Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo
- Australia Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Center (ACE CRC)
- Australian Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
- Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS)
National Oceans Office - Australian Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
- Australian Government Antarctic Division
- Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
- Australian Museum
- The Australian National University
- Australian Research Council Linkage Grant
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
- BASICS (Bacterial single-cell approaches to the relationship between diversity and function in the Sea)
- Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership (BOFEP)
- Belgian Biodiversity Platform
- BENEFIT
- Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME)
- Bergen Museum
- Bergen University Foundation
- BHP Billiton
- BHP Billiton Petroleum Pty Ltd
- BiodivERsA
- Biological Institute on Kuroshio
- BIOMARE/MARS
- BirdLife International
- Bishop Museum
- Blue Water Fishing Institute, New Zealand
- Bonneville Power Administration
- Braathens ASA
- Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), Philippines
- Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
- CALFED Bay-Delta Program
- California Sea Grant
- Canada Research Chair (CRC) Program
- Canadian Federation of University Women
- Canada Foundation for Innovation
- Canadian Healthy Oceans Network (CHONe)
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
- CANARIE Inc.
- Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University Bremen (MARUM)
- Center for Ocean Sciences Education Experience (COSEE) – New England Division, USA
- Central and Northern California Ocean Observing System (CeNCOOS)
- Centre for Marine Biodiversity, Canada
- Centro de Investigación Oceanográfica en el Pacífico Sur-Oriental (COPAS)
- Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental
- Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR)
- Chiba University
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)
Centro Nacional Patagónico (CENPAT) - Chevron
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
Institute of Oceanology - Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration
- Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program (CBMP)
- College of William and Mary, USA
- Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO)
- Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Wealth from Oceans Flagship - Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea (COMPASS)
- Conoco Phillips
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia Mexico (CONACYT)
Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP-CONACYT) - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (Spain)
Institut Ciències del Mar (CMIMA-CSIC) - Consortium for Ocean Leadership
- Consortium for Ocean Research and Education (CORE)
- Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL)
- Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare (CoNISMa)
- CONWOY Project
- The Cousteau Society (Equipe Cousteau)
- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) (South Africa)
- Countryside Council for Wales
- CRC Reef Research Centre
- The Crown Estate – UK
- Dalhousie University
Faculty of Graduate Studies Scholarship - Danish Centre for Black Sea Studies
- Danish Institute for Fisheries Research
- Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- Davis Conservation Foundation
- Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) – UK
- Department of Ocean Development, Ministry of Earth Sciences (India)
- DIVERSA
- DIVERSITAS
DIVERSITAS in Western Pacific and Asia (DIWPA) project - DIWOOD European Research Group (GDRE CNRS/MPG)
- Duke University
- Dyrkorn AS
- Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund
- Encyclopedia of Life
- E. Nakamichi Foundation (Japan)
- Environment Agency – UK
- Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
- Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu
- Estonian Ministry of Education and Research
- European Commission
- European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)
- European Environment Agency (Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway and Public Funds)
- European Federation of Marine Science and Technology Societies (EFMS)
- European Network of Excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis (EurOceans)
- European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy (EPBRS)
- European Science Foundation
Ecosystem Functioning and Biodiversity in the Deep Sea (EuroDEEP) - European Sea Floor Observatory Network (ESONET)
- European Union
European Union Structural Funds
European Commission’s 6th Framework Programme (FP6)
European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme (FP7) - European University at St. Petersburg
- The Evergreen State College
- EWE-Stiftung
- Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council Gulf Ecosystem Monitoring Program (GEM)
- FishAmerica Foundation
- Fisheries & Oceans Canada
Integrated Science Data Management
Graduate Student Support - Fisheries Research Agency of Japan
- Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
- Fisheries Research Services (FRS), Marine Laboratory (Scotland)
- Fiskebåtredernes Forbund
- Fiskeri- og Havbruksnaeringens Forskningsfond
- Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
- Florida Museum of Natural History
- Florida State University
- Fondation Prince Albert II de Monaco
- Fondation Total pour la Biodiversité et la Mer
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
- Foundation Malpelo
- Fraser River Sturgeon Conservation Society
- French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Embassy, Manila - French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Embassy, Singapore
- French Ministry of Foreigh Affairs, Fonds Pacifique
- French Ministry of Research
- Fulbright Fellowship
- Fulbright Memorial Fund
- Gateway Program
- Geo-Connections
- Geoscience Australia
- German Academic Exchange Council (DAAD)
- Genomic Standards Consortium
- Genoscope, Centre National de Séquençage (CNS)
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
- German Science Foundation (DFG)
- Global Ballast Water Management Programme (GloBallast Partnerships)
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- Global Environment Facility (GEF)
- Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)
- Global Taxonomic Initiative
- Goldman Sachs & Co.
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Government of the Azores
- Government of Brazil
- Government of Chile
- Government of Indonesia
- Government of Scotland
- Great Barrier Reef Foundation
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
- Great Barrier Reef Seabed Biodiversity Project
- Grieg Foundation
- Group on Earth Observations (GEO) / Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)
- Gruss-Lipper Foundation Fellowship
- Gu lf of Maine Ocean Data Partnership
- Gulf of Maine Mapping Initiative (GOMMI)
- Gulf of Maine Marine Educators Association
- Gulf Ecosystem Monitoring Program
- Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System (GoMOOS)
- Gulf of Maine Research Institute
- Hakodate Junior College
- Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative (HCRI)
- Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB)
Pacific Region Integrated Data Enterprise
Pelagic Fisheries Research Program - Herbarium of South Australia
- Hiroshima University
- Hokkaido University
- Hotspot Ecosystem Research on the Margins of European Seas (HERMES)
- Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man’s Impact On European Seas (HERMIONE)
- Hudson River Foundation
- Huntsman Marine Science Centre
- INCOFISH
- Indonesian Institute of Sciences – Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia (LIPI)
- Industrial Research Innovation Fund (IRIF), Province of Newfoundland and Labrador
- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
- Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam
- Institut français de recherche pour l’exploitation de la mer (IFREMER)
- Institute of Marine Research (Norway)
Norwegian Foreign Office through IMR - Institute of Marine Sciences (Turkey)
- Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAS)
- The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)
- Institut Oceanographique Fondation Albert 1er Prince de Monaco
- Instituto de Ciencias do Mar, Universidade Federal do Ceara
- Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras José Benito Viveis de Andreis (INVEMAR)
- Instituto de Tecnología y Ciencias Marinas (INTECMAR)
- Instituto del Mar del Perú (IMARPE)
- Instituto do Mar, Portugal (IMAR)
- Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP)
- Instituto Oceanográfico de la Armada (INOCAR)
- Instituto de Tecnología y Ciencias Marinas (INTECMAR)
- Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)
- Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN)
Ecosystem Thematic Network - Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC)
- Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
- International Association for Biological Oceanography (IABO)
- International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators
- International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
- International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE)
- International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC)
- International Polar Foundation
- International Polar Year (IPY)
- International Seabed Authority (ISA)
- International Whaling Commission
- InterRidge
- Island Institute
- Italian Ministry of University Research and Education
- James Cook University
- Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
- Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- Japan Sea National Fisheries Research Institute
- J. Craig Venter Institute
- Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS)
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)- UK
- Kansas Geological Survey
- Kaplan Fund
- Karl Ernst von Baer Museum
- Kejimkujik National Park (Nova Scotia, Canada)
- Kenya Marine Fisheries Research Institute (KEMFRI)
- Khaled Bin-Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
- Killam Fellowship
- Kintama Research Corporation
- Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History
- Kizimkazi High School (Tanzania)
- Kobe City (Japan)
- Kochi University
- Kongsberg Maritime
- Kouchibouguac National Park (New Brunswick, Canada)
- Kumamoto University
- Kushimoto Marine Park Center
- Kyoto University
- La Jolla High School (California, USA)
- Lake Biwa Museum
- Latvian Fish Resources Agency
- Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR)
- Lenfest Ocean Program at The Pew Charitable Trusts
- Leo Model Foundation
- Leverhulme Trust
- Limelight Networks
- Lighthouse Foundation
- Living Rivers – Georgia Basin and Vancouver Island
- Louisiana State University
- Malaspina University
- Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning EU Network of Excellence (MarBEF)
- MARBENA (MARine Biodiversity research in the European economic area and the Newly Associated states)
- Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA)
- Marine Biological Institute, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) (Woods Hole)
- Marine Metadata Interoperability (MMI)
- Marine Research Institute (Iceland)
- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany
- Max Planck Society
- Mediterranean Science Commission (CIESM)
- Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Meyer Sound
- Mia Tegner Grant
- Micro-Mar
- Mie University
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) (Japan)
- Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Republic of Indonesia
- Ministry of Science and Education, Poland
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China
- Ministry of Science and Technology (MCTI), Venezuela
- MIRACLE (Microbial Marine Community Diversity: from Culture to Function)
- Møre and Romsdal County (Norway)
- Møre Research, Aalesund, Norway
- MOMARnet Marie Curie Research Training Network
- Monitoring the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MOMAR)
- Monterey Bay Aquarium & Foundation
- Moscow State University
- Murdoch University
- Museo del Mar, Venezuela
- Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (Chile)
- Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
- Museum of Tropical Queensland
- Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (Paris)
- Museum Victoria (Australia)
- Musquash Marine Protected Area (New Brunswick, Canada)
- Namibian Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources
- Nanwalek School (Alaska, USA)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Astrobiology Institute
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)
- The National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP)
- National Association of Marine Laboratories (NAML)
- National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)
- National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
- National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
- National Environmental Research Council (NERC)
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
- National Geographic Society
- National Institute for Environmental Studies (Japan)
- National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), India
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- National Institute of Polar Research
- National Institute of Technology and Evaluation
- National Marine Research Institute of Angola
- National Museum of Nature and Science,Tokyo
- National Museum of the Philippines
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Arctic Research Office
Coral Reef Conservation Program
Environmental Research Division
Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory
National Marine Sanctuaries
National Undersea Research Program
Ocean Exploration and Research
Fisheries Service (NMFS)
NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center
NMFS Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center
NMFS Northwest Fisheries Science Center
NMFS Alaska Fisheries Science Center
West Coast and Polar Regions Undersea Research Program - National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP)
- National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
Biological Oceanography
Information Technology Research for National Priorities (ITR)
Office of Polar Programs - Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
- National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung
- National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG)
- National University of Singapore
- Natural England
- Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC)
- Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba
- Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- NatureServe
- Nautilus Minerals Inc.
- Navarre High School (Florida, USA)
- Netherlands Department of Nature, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality
- New Bedford Whaling Museum
- New Brunswick Environmental Trust Fund
- New England Aquarium (NEAQ)
- New England Ocean Sciences Education Collaborative (NEOSEC) – USA
- New Hampshire Sea Grant
- New Zealand Department of Conservation
- New Zealand Foundation for Research, Science and Technology
- New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries
- New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
- Niceville High School (Florida, USA)
- Nihon University
- Nippon Foundation
- Nisqually Indian Tribe
- Nordic Council of Ministers
- Normarine AS (Norwegian Marine Foods)
- North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC)
- North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES)
- North Pacific Research Board
- Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS)
- Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument
- Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
- Norway-Portugal Exchange Cultural Programme
- Norwegian American Foundation
- Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
- Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries
- Norwegian Embassy in Portugal
- Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Norwegian Polish Research Fund
- Norwegian Whaling Museum
- Oak Foundation
- The Oceanographic Society of Japan
- Ocean Genome Legacy
- Ocean Tracking Network (OTN)
- OASIS (Oceanic Seamounts Integrated Study)
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
- O. Mustad and Sons, AC
- Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
- Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, University of Oregon
- Oregon State University
- Osaka University
- OSPAR Commission
- Otto Kinne Foundation
- Pacific Salmon Foundation
- Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO)
- Pennsylvania State University, USA
- Pew Charitable Trust
- Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT/MCTES)
- Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education
- P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
- Prince William Sound Science Center
- Pro Natura International
- Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton
- Province of British Columbia
- Proyecto Fondecyt
- Proyecto Modelo del Mar (Argentina)
- Puget Sound Telemetry Group
- Queensland Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries (QDPI&F)
- Queensland Museum
- Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research (Singapore)
- The Research Council of Norway
- Rasmuson Foundation
- Regione Veneto
- REVIZEE Program
- Richard Lounsbery Foundation
- Ridge 2000
- Ripley’s Aquarium Research Grant
- Roskilde University
- Roscoff Marine Station
- The Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ)
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- Russian Antarctic Expedition
- Russian Federal Special Program: “World Ocean”
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research
- Rutgers University
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences - Ryo Minemizu Photo Office
- San Diego Supercomputer Center
- Sapelo Island Microbial Observatory (SIMO)
- The Sauvage Family
- SCALA Broadcast Multimedia
- SCANMAR AS
- Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Marine Biodiversity Information Network (SCAR-MarBIN) - Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR)
- Scottish Association for Marine Science
- Scottish Natural Heritage
- Sea Education Association
- Sea Grant
- Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU), University of St. Andrews
- Seacoast Science Center
- SeaLifeBase Project
- Seamount Biogeosciences Network (SBN)
- SeaweedAfrica
- Seikai National Fisheries Research Institute
- Senckenberg Research Institute
- SERPENT Project
- Seymour Salmonid Society
- Shin Pro
- Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Sciences (SAHFOS)
- Sir James Dunn Academy (New Brunswick, Canada)
- Skipsteknisk AS
- Smithsonian Institution
- Smithsonian Marine Science Initiative
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
- Society for the Management of Electronic Biodiversity Data (SMEBD)
World Registry of Marine Species (WoRMS) - Society for the Study of Evolution
- Sogn and Fjordane County (Norway)
- SonarData
- Southern African Data Centre for Oceanography
- South African Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Marine and Coastal Management
Marine Living Resources Fund
South African Department of Science and Technology - South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON)
- South African National Research Foundation
- South Walton High School (Florida, USA)
- Stanford University
- State of Hawaii
- States of Jersey – UK
- Statoil ASA
- Stavros Niarchos Foundation
- Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
- Stiftung Alfred-Wegener Institut
- Strategic Japanese-Australian Cooperative Program on Marine Science
- Suffolk University
- Suido-sha
- Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS)
- Svalbard Environmental Protection Fund
- Swedish Museum of Natural History
- Tag-A-Giant
- Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG)
- Technical University of Denmark – DTU
- Techno-Ocean Network
- TELENOR AS
- Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
- Texas A&M University
Corpus Christi, Center for Coastal Studies
Harte Research Institute (HRI) for Gulf of Mexico Studies - Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute
- Tohoku University
- Tokai University
- Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
- TreeBASE
- Trinity College Dublin
- uBio (Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer)
- UK Economic & Social Research Council
- United Nations Atlas of the Oceans
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) World Conservation Monitoring Centre
- United Southeast Alaska Gillnetter’s Association
- Universidad Arturo Prat
- Universidad Austral de Chile
- Universidad de Antofagasta
- Universidad de Buenos Aires
- Universidad de Costa Rica
- Universidad del Valle, Colombia
- Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile
- Universidad de Concepcion
- Universidad de La Habana
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
- Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
- Universidad Simón Bolívar
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
- Universidade de Sao Paulo
- Universidade do Vale do Itajaí (UNIVALE)
- Université du Littoral
- University of Aberdeen, UK
- University of Adelaide
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
Coastal Marine Institute
Cooperative Institute For Arctic Research - University of Auckland
- University of the Azores
- University of Bergen
Meltzer Foundation - University of Bologna
- University of British Columbia
- University of California, Berkeley Moorea Biocode Project
- University of California Coastal Ocean Health Initiative
- University of California, Merced
- University of California, San Diego
Scripps Institution of Oceanography - University of California, Santa Cruz
Center for Integrated Marine Technology
Institute of Marine Sciences - University of California Ship Funds
- University of Cambridge
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research - University of Cape Town
- University of Connecticut – Avery Point
- University of Ghent, Belgium
- University of Hamburg
- University of Hawaii
- University of Iceland
- University of Hawaii at Manoa: Department of Oceanography
- University of Hull
- University of Hull Maritime History Trust
- University of Kiel, Germany
- University of Latvia
- University of Lodz, Poland
- University of New Brunswick
- University of New Hampshire
- Universite Pierre et Marie Curie
- University of Pisa
- University of Porto, Faculty of Sciences
- University of Puerto Rico
- University of Queensland
- University of Rhode Island Office of Marine Programs
- University of the Ryukyus, Japan
- University of Salento
- University of South Alabama
- University of Southampton, UK
- University of San Carlos
- University of Southern Denmark
- University of Southern Maine
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- University of Sydney
- University of Tasmania
- University of Toronto
National Program on Complex Data Structures - University of Victoria
- University of Vienna, Austria
- University of Washington
- University of Western Australia
- University of the West Indies
- University of Wollongong
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) (Previously U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS))
- U.S. Department of Energy
Joint Genome Institute - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)
National Biological Information Infrastructure Pacific Basin Information Node - U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)
- U.S. National Park Service
- Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre
- Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea (VENUS)
- Virginia Institute of Marine Science
- W. M. Keck Foundation
- Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
- Western Australian Museum
- Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA)
- Widecast/Earth Watch
- Wildlife Conservation Society
- Wildlife Trust of India
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- World Whaling History Project
- World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
World Wildlife Fund, Canada
Endangered Species Recovery Fund (ESRF), Canada
McNaughton Conservation Scholarship, Canada - Worldwide Universities Network
- Yokohama National University
- Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
- Zoological Society of London