Awards for web and resource excellence    October 2006 The AIMS web site has been awarded the ISI Web of Knowledge award. For more information about the ISI Web of Knowledge award criteria:  Visit their Web site       September 2006 The Reef monitoring section of the AIMS web site has been awarded the ISI Web of Knowledge award. "Thomson Scientific Web Content Editors, following careful evaluation criteria, have identified your site as an important resource for researchers, scientists, and scholars. These users will have direct access to your site from ISI Web of Knowledge". "When visitors to your page see the Current Web Contents logo they will know that your site is included in the Current Web Contents collection and is one of the most prestigious in its field". For more information about the ISI Web of Knowledge award criteria:  Visit their Web site      July 2002 The AIMS web site has been awarded the Web Feet Seal of Approval and will appear in Web Feet Guides. Available in ONLINE, MARC, and PRINT versions, Web Feet helps students, teachers, librarians, and the general public quickly and easily navigate the Web and find only the best sites. A Web site is included in Web Feet only if their research group of librarians and educators determine it to be an outstanding site in its subject area.   See the selection criteria  The Web Feet Seal of Approval tells the Web community that the AIMS web site is a valuable and trusted online resource.  For more information about Web Feet Guides:  Visit their Web site      May 2000 The AIMS web site has been awarded the prestigious StudyWeb® Academic Excellence Award as, "one of the best educational resources on the Web by their researchers".  StudyWeb® is one of the Internet's premier sites for educational resources for students and teachers. Since 1996, their expert reviewers have scoured the Internet to select only the finest sites to be included in StudyWeb's listing of educational links.  Visit StudyWeb      March 1999 The National Ocean Sciences Education Teacher Resource Centre coordinated by the Virginia Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science has selected the Australian Institute of Marine Science web site to be part of the 'Bridge'.  The Bridge is a unique clearinghouse of the best K-12 ocean sciences education sites available online. Educators can find information on almost any ocean science topic, links to aquariums and research institutions, ocean science research data, lesson plans, career information, and professional development opportunities.  The Bridge is supported by the National Oceanographic Partnership Program, and is sponsored by the National Marine Educators Association and the national network of Sea Grant educators. Visit the Bridge      March 1998 'Key Resource' award from Links2Go in the USA.  The award was given for the high rating the web site received for the way pages are indexed and hyper-linked. Links2Go stated, "During the course of our analysis, we identify which links are most representative of each of the thousands of topics in Links2Go, based on how actual page authors, like yourself, index and organise links on their pages. In fact, the Key Resource award is so exclusive, even we don't qualify for it (yet)!" Visit links2go