Marine Realms Information Bank (MRIB)

Updated: 2015-02-24

The Marine Realms Information Bank (MRIB) provides access to free online scientific information about oceans, coasts, and coastal watersheds. MRIB has over 2400 records online (509 of these contain datasets) and encourages its users to discover online information about coastal and marine science by browsing a topical classification with 12 categories, including author, agency, project, location, feature type, and hot topics (fig. 1). In addition, MRIB utilizes maps for searching and retrieving georeferenced information.