Links
- Invasivespecies.gov - Invasivespecies.gov is the gateway to Federal efforts concerning invasive species.
- The Northeast-Midwest Institute - The Northeast-Midwest Institute is a private, non-profit, research organization.
- Global Ballast Water Management Programme - The Global Ballast Water Management Programme is helping to reduce the transfer of harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens in ships' ballast water.
- National Sea Grant Office - The Sea Grant Office is NOAA’s primary university-based program in support of coastal resource use and conservation.
- Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force - The ANS Task Force is an intergovernmental organization dedicated to preventing and controlling aquatic nuisance species
- Great Lakes Regional Collaboration - The Great Lakes Regional Collaboration (GLRC) is a wide-ranging, cooperative effort to design and implement a strategy for the restoration, protection and sustainable use of the Great Lakes. MARAD is a member of this collaboration.
- Report to the President on EO 13340
- US Coast Guard Ballast Water Management - The US Coast Guard Environmental Standards Division (G-MSO-4) develops national regulations and policies on marine environmental protection, including ballast water management, and represents US interests in the development of global marine environment protection agreements to integrate US and international environmental standards and public policy.
- Key West Navy Research Laboratory - The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in partnership with the US Coast Guard operates a prototype ETV Ballast Water Treatment System Test Facility at the NRL in Key West, Florida. The facility functions as an instrumented scientific test platform for the evaluation of technologies designed to eliminate aquatic nuisance species in shipboard ballast.
- The IMO Ballast Water Treatment R&D Directory
- The Aquatic Invasions Research Directory (AIRD)
- International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships Ballast Water & Sediments as adopted by consensus at a Diplomatic Conference at IMO in London on 13 Friday 2004
- Draft ETV Protocol for the Verification of Ballast Water Treatment Technologies