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Oceans
General
BRIDGE offers links to many online resources for marine science education.
Supported by the National Oceanographic Partnership Program, and sponsored by the National Marine Educators Association and the national network of Sea Grant educators.
Companion to a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution, promoting education and awareness about our "Ocean Planet."
Smithsonian Institution
Quarterdeck Magazine is a 24-page, tri-annual publication produced by the Department of Oceanography at Texas A&M University. All the articles are written by professors, staff, students, and alumni of the Department of Oceanography.
Texas A&M University
Maps of seafloor elevation based on data collected by satellites. The satellite can't "see" the bottom of the ocean, instead it measures the elevation of the ocean and infers the shape of the seafloor. It seems like magic, but it's really science. See how cleverly it's done on the methods page.
Walter H. F. Smith, NOAA Geosciences Laboratory David T. Sandwell, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Chemistry
Coastal Processes
Information about how the cape formed after glaciation and how it is still changing.
Donna Newman, USGS
Coral Reefs
"a single point of access to NOAA coral reef information and data products, especially those derived from NOAA's Coral Reef Initiative Program."
NOAA
"Coral reefs are complex, biologically diverse ecosystems. Countless studies, books and papers have been devoted to exploring and understanding the nature of these unique marine environments. These four essays discuss some of the most important aspects of coral reefs. Many of their physical and biological characteristics are discussed in detail. Coral reef threats, both natural and anthropogenic, also are explored."
Coral Reef Information System, NOAA
"... two sections devoted to learning about coral reefs: an online tutorial, and an educational roadmap to resources. The Coral Tutorial is an overview of the biology of and threats to coral reefs. The tutorial is rich in substance and is presented in easy-to-understand language. It is made up of 11 "chapters" or pages (plus a reference page) that can be read in sequence by clicking on the arrows at the top or bottom of each chapter page. The tutorial includes many illustrative and interactive graphics to visually enhance the learning process. The Roadmap to Resources complements the information highlighted in the tutorial. The roadmap directs you to specific coral data offerings within the NOS and NOAA family of products."
National Ocean Service, NOAA
This site poses the potential cause-and-effect relationship between the death of corals in the Carribbean with sources of atmospheric dust from the Sahara.
U.S. Geological Survey
Currents
"When several containers of children's bathtub toys spilled over a ship's side and were released into the Pacific Ocean, who would've thought a concerted research project to study the ocean's currents would be the result?"
Curtis C. Ebbesmeyer, Evans-Hamilton, Inc., Seattle, Wash.; W. James Ingraham Jr., National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, Wash.
Drugs from the Sea
"Inside, in biologist William Fenical's lab, it's good-bye to the sea's charms and hello to the smelly and slimy, the creepy and crawly, the disgusting and fascinating world of creatures scooped from that ocean outside, ground up, and thrown at every frightening disease he can think of." See what Dr. Fenical does at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Looksmart and Discover
Energy Resources
Fisheries
Global fisheries information.
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations
Marine Life
Dinoflagellates
A spectacular sequence of photos showing several life stages of Noctiluca scintillans. Our favorite photo shows Noctiluca after it's eaten a diatom chain. Slow loading but worth the wait.
Jan Rimes
Radiolarians"Spectacular objects for the microscope."
Brian Darnton and Wim van Egmond
Physics
Polar Oceans
Pollution
Productivity
NASA
Sea Level
Describes flooding problems in Venice, Italy caused by the dual problems of sinking land and rising sea level and a technological fix.
by John Keahey; NOVA, PBS
Sediments
Tides
Annual and monthly view tide calendar allowing comparison of tide predictions at several locations. Moon phase also included.
Earthguide
Tide tables for many locations around the U.S.
NOAA/NOS
Convenient tide chart for Scripps Pier, San Diego, California.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library
An online tutorial about tides.
National Ocean Service, NOAA
Animated diagram illustrates causes of the two tidal bulges on Earth.
by Rick Groleau; NOVA, PBS
Information about this classic locality from the Hopewell Rocks Park organization. They have an interpretative center at the north end of the Bay of Fundy.
The Hopewell Rocks
NOAA, National Weather Service
University of Southern California
University of Washington
"Scientists hasten to predict and prepare for a monster wave threatening California's coast." SCIENCE NOTES is written and illustrated by the students in the Science Communication Graduate Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Photos of earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, landslides, and other geologic hazards. Free photos online and slide sets for sale.
NOAA National Data Centers, NGDC
General
Many articles discussing issues related to world water resources.
BBC News
"Information on many aspects of water, along with pictures, data, maps, and an interactive center where you can give opinions and test your water knowledge."
U.S. Geological Survey
"a site dedicated to providing water information, data, and resources to individuals, organizations, and institutions working on solutions to a wide range of global freshwater problems."
Pacific Institute
The purpose of this site is to help you find scientific information organized on a watershed basis.
U.S. Geological Survey
"In helping our members rise to meet this challenge, we seek to foster approaches that are people-centered, market-based and earth-friendly."
The World Bank
Water resources links for state, federal, international, professional, non-profit, and general agencies and organizations.
U.S. Water News
NASA Earth Observatory
Water Quality
Waves
Freshwater
General
Many articles discussing issues related to world water resources.
BBC News
"Information on many aspects of water, along with pictures, data, maps, and an interactive center where you can give opinions and test your water knowledge."
U.S. Geological Survey
"a site dedicated to providing water information, data, and resources to individuals, organizations, and institutions working on solutions to a wide range of global freshwater problems."
Pacific Institute
The purpose of this site is to help you find scientific information organized on a watershed basis.
U.S. Geological Survey
"In helping our members rise to meet this challenge, we seek to foster approaches that are people-centered, market-based and earth-friendly."
The World Bank
Water resources links for state, federal, international, professional, non-profit, and general agencies and organizations.
U.S. Water News
NASA Earth Observatory
Atmospheric Vapor & Clouds
WW2010 (the weather world 2010 project) is a WWW framework for integrating current and archived weather data with multimedia instructional resources using new and innovative technologies.
Department of Atmospheric Sciences (DAS) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Pat Jones
Weather Photography, H. E. Edens
Dams"The WCD was an independent, international, multi-stakeholder process which addressed the controversial issues associated with large dams. It provided a unique opportunity to bring into focus the many assumptions and paradigms that are at the centre of the search to reconcile economic growth, social equity, environmental conservation and political participation in the changing global context. The Commission completed its work with the launch of its final report and disbanded." Be sure to read the Commission's Report.
Dams and Development Project (DDP), UN Environment Programme
On the Colorado River
PBS Online and KUED
Part of The American Experience series by PBS and WGBH
The Story of the Hoover Dam
U. S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation
On the Yangtze River
"China's most ambitious project since the Great Wall, the Three Gorges Dam will displace nearly two million people as it swallows up cities, farms, and the canyons of the Yangtze River." (See the magazine for a full copy of the article)
By Arthur Zich, photographs by Bob Sach National Geographic, September 1997, pages 2-33.
CNN
CNN
Glaciers
The National Snow & Ice Data Center
U. S. Geological Survey
US Geological Survey
Australian Antarctic Division
California Institute of Technology
Groundwater
Distribution of aquifers across the U.S.
U.S. Geological Survey
Information about the groundwater resources of the U.S. and the groundwater activities of the USGS
U.S. Geological Survey Professor J. David Allan
Office of Water, Environmental Protection Agency
Gregg A. Eckhardt
Water Science for Schools, U.S. Geological Survey
Hydrology
"... information on many aspects of water, along with pictures, data, maps, and an interactive center where you can give opinions and test your water knowledge."
U.S. Geological Survey
Lakes
Lake Nyos
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/mhalb/nyos/index.htm
Michel Halbwachs, University of Savoie
Salton Sea
Satellite image of the Salton Sea
Center for Inland Waters, San Diego State University
The Salton Sea Authority
Rivers & Streams
Click on the nearest stream and see how current flow stacks up with past flows.
U. S. Geological Survey (USGS)
The Colorado River
"A natural wonder... The Colorado River... Meeting the Natives... Resources"
PBS: Nature
The Mississippi River
Story told as personal account with activities for students.
NASA
The Rhine River
"Fish are once again swimming in the Rhine River but it took an ecological catastrophe for the countries it flows through to clean up their act"
The UNESCO Courier
Other Rivers
USGS, Forest Service, and the Tennessee Valley Authority
Water Quality
Office of Water, EPA
An installment in the "General-Interest Publications" series
USGS
Water Resources
Table showing percentage of population with access to drinking water and sanitation facilities by country.
United Nations Statistics Division
"The UNESCO Water Portal is intended to enhance access to information related to freshwater available on the World Wide Web."
UNESCO
"EarthTrends is a comprehensive online database, maintained by the World Resources Institute, that focuses on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world." See section on Water Resources and Freshwater Ecosystems.
World Resources Institute
Biosphere
General
An online interactive resource for learning biology.
University of Arizona
Biodiversity
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
American Museum of Natural History
Nature
Bioluminescence
Haddock, S. H. D., McDougall, C. M., and Case, J. F., 2000
This is an educational website, created to provide information, experimental data, images and animations of bioluminescent organisms in action.
Luxgene
Bioluminescence lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography Related article in Explorations
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Carbon Cycle
Details of the carbon cycle.
Office of Global Programs, NOAA
Cell
An interactive website with basic information.
NOVA Online, KPBS
"This website represents over 25 years of experience capturing film and computer-enhanced images of living cells and organisms for education and medical research. A stock video library provides producers with a range of subjects, and includes both live recording and computer animation. A variety of immune cells, bacteria, parasites, and aquatic organisms are available for licensing for educational, broadcast, and commercial use."
James A. Sullivan, Quill Graphics
Images of genetic material including chromosomes and chromatin.
Gwen V. Childs, University of Texas Medical Branch
Basic information and illustrations.
The Merck Manuals, Online Medical Library
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy
Pfizer, Inc.
NOVA Online, KPBS
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy
Chemistry
Chemosynthesis
Site follows researchers at sea as they work to bring a piece of the mid-ocean ridge back to the surface from the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the North Pacific.
NOVA Online
Access Excellence, Alissa Arp
What happens when a dead whale falls to the bottom of the sea? Find out what "biological oceanographer Craig Smith of the University of Hawaii and his research associates, including graduate student Amy Baco: observed in the Santa Cruz Basin offshore California.
by Julie Zeidner Russo, NOAA's Undersea Research Program
Ecosystems
Coral Reefs
"a single point of access to NOAA coral reef information and data products, especially those derived from NOAA's Coral Reef Initiative Program."
NOAA
"Coral reefs are complex, biologically diverse ecosystems. Countless studies, books and papers have been devoted to exploring and understanding the nature of these unique marine environments. These four essays discuss some of the most important aspects of coral reefs. Many of their physical and biological characteristics are discussed in detail. Coral reef threats, both natural and anthropogenic, also are explored."
Coral Reef Information System, NOAA
"... two sections devoted to learning about coral reefs: an online tutorial, and an educational roadmap to resources. The Coral Tutorial is an overview of the biology of and threats to coral reefs. The tutorial is rich in substance and is presented in easy-to-understand language. It is made up of 11 "chapters" or pages (plus a reference page) that can be read in sequence by clicking on the arrows at the top or bottom of each chapter page. The tutorial includes many illustrative and interactive graphics to visually enhance the learning process. The Roadmap to Resources complements the information highlighted in the tutorial. The roadmap directs you to specific coral data offerings within the NOS and NOAA family of products."
National Ocean Service, NOAA
Dr. Dustan's lab page
Dr. Phillip Dustan, Department of Biology, University of Charleston
General information and links to other resources with a focus on U.S. reefs.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Water, Oceans and Coastal Protection Division
Evolution
"... an evolution website for teaachers."
Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley
A co-production of the WGBH/NOVA Science Unit and Clear Blue Sky Productions on KPBS
Genes
Basic information about the genome and related topics.
U.S. Department of Energy Human Genome Project
An interactive website with basic information for kids.
Pfizer
An interactive website with basic information.
NOVA Online, KPBS
"Genome programs of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science - founder of the Human Genome Project and leader in systems biology research."
Office of Biological and Environmental Research, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
Global Change
General information covering these topics - Global warming: The scope of the problem - The greenhouse effect - The Keeling Curve
Wolf Berger, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
General information answering these questions - What is the problem? - Greenhouse Gases? How serious is it? - What do we know? - How much do we emit? Now? In the future?
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Summary of knowledge, impacts and possible solutions.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Habitats
Tidepool EG original
Diagram showing vertical distribution of different types of organisms in a southern California tidepool.
SIO Explorations and Earthguide
Living Things—Organized by Taxa
General
"An online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan."
University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
"Informal monthly web magazine encouraging readers to explore the 'miniature world' around them." Archives include wonderful images of living things.
Microscopy UK
"A collaborative Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity"
David R. Maddison, et al.
Archaea
Arthropods
Sand Crabs Along California Beaches Emerita analoga
Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association
The Pacific Mole Crab Emerita analoga also know as the "sand crab"
Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association
Horseshoe Crab Limulus polyphemus
Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce
Carl von Ossietzky, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Australian Antarctic Division
Bacteria
Possibly "the most abundant photosynthetic cell in the oceans."
Earthguide
Birds
Cnidarians
"a single point of access to NOAA coral reef information and data products, especially those derived from NOAA's Coral Reef Initiative Program."
NOAA
"Coral reefs are complex, biologically diverse ecosystems. Countless studies, books and papers have been devoted to exploring and understanding the nature of these unique marine environments. These four essays discuss some of the most important aspects of coral reefs. Many of their physical and biological characteristics are discussed in detail. Coral reef threats, both natural and anthropogenic, also are explored."
Coral Reef Information System, NOAA
"... two sections devoted to learning about coral reefs: an online tutorial, and an educational roadmap to resources. The Coral Tutorial is an overview of the biology of and threats to coral reefs. The tutorial is rich in substance and is presented in easy-to-understand language. It is made up of 11 "chapters" or pages (plus a reference page) that can be read in sequence by clicking on the arrows at the top or bottom of each chapter page. The tutorial includes many illustrative and interactive graphics to visually enhance the learning process. The Roadmap to Resources complements the information highlighted in the tutorial. The roadmap directs you to specific coral data offerings within the NOS and NOAA family of products."
National Ocean Service, NOAA
General information and links to other resources about coral reefs.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Silent Sentinels was originally broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV in 1999. This site contains Real Audio commentary by internationally recognized scientists.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
General information about coral reefs.
Texas A&M University
Short summary with references.
Union of Concerned Scientists
"There has been significant bleaching of hard and soft corals in widely separate parts of the world from mid-1997 to the last months of 1998. Much of this bleaching coincided with a large El Nino event, immediately switching over to a strong La Nina. Some of the reports by experienced observers are of unprecedented bleaching in places as widespread as (from west to east) the Middle East, East Africa, the Indian Ocean, South, Southeast and East Asia, far West and far East Pacific, the Caribbean and Atlantic Ocean."
Compiled by Clive Wilkinson, Global Coordinator, Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, Australian Institute of Marine Science
by Tony Corey, Rhode Island Sea Grant
"It provides an introduction to the biology of siphonophores, and is intended for both a scientific and general audience. In the near future it will also consolidate data on siphonophore systematics and provide access to digitized siphonophore literature. These latter objectives are being met in collaboration with Dr. Philip R. Pugh of the National Oceanographic Centre in the United Kingdom."
by Casey Dunn, www.siphonophores.org
Echinoderms
Article from the San Diego Union Tribune about prized sea urchins harvested offshore San Diego.
Catalina Offshore Products and the San Diego Union Tribune
Fish
General reference for a wide variety of fish species. Site may take a little time to load.
FishBase
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
"Meet the coelecanth, a bizarre fisn and "living fossil" that has changed little in its 400 million years on Earth."
NOVA, PBS
All about coelecanths, including videos.
Third Wave Media Inc.
All about the ocean sunfish (Mola mola).
OceanSunfish.org
Student and teacher resource.
Ministry of Fisheries, New Zealand
Corporate site include information about the biology of orange roughy
The Orange Roughy Management Company Ltd.
Information to help you buy fish in a way that supports conservation.
Montery Bay Aquarium
HumansSmithsonian Institution
Interactive website that includes 3-D skulls that you can rotate and compare.
Phillip L. Walker and Edward H. Hagen, University of California Santa Barbara
Marine Mammals
National Marine Mammal Laboratory
NOAA
National Marine Mammal Laboratory, NOAA
What happens when a dead whale falls to the bottom of the sea? Find out what "biological oceanographer Craig Smith of the University of Hawaii and his research associates, including graduate student Amy Baco: observed in the Santa Cruz Basin offshore California.
by Julie Zeidner Russo, NOAA's Undersea Research Program
Mollusks
Bivalves—includes clams, oysters, scallops, mussels
Cephalopods—includes octopus, squids, cuttlefish, nautilus
Basic information and movies about the market squid, Loligo opalescens. This species has recently become the most valuable fishery in California.
Dr. John Butler, Fisheries Resources Division, NOAA Fisheries
"The purpose of CephBase is to provide life history, distribution, images, catch and taxonomic data on all living species of cephalopods (octopus, squid, cuttlefish and nautilus)."
Dr. James B. Wood, National Resource Center for Cephalopods, University of Texas Medical Branch>
A "site, devoted to the Giant Octopus in Alaska, where for the past five years I have been studying the ecology of this animal" - David Scheel.
David Scheel, Alaska Pacific University
"This online exhibit explores and interprets the mystery, beauty and complexity of giant squids - the world's largest invertebrates"
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
Gastropods—includes snails, slugs, limpets, nudibranchs
Historical photos and short accounts of a bygone industry.
Historical Morro Bay, California
Content about the rich history of Morro Bay's commercial fishing industry. Contains oral histories, photos and more.
California Sea Grant
Other Mollusks—includes chitons, tusk shells
Plants
Poriferans (Sponges)
Includes information about the evolution of sponges over geologic time.
UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
Segment on sponges accompanying a PBS series covering major phyla.
The Shape of Life, PBS
Living glass sponge reefs off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.
Aquanews, Vancouver Aquarium
About sponges and the history of the sponge industry in Kalymnos, Greece. Don't miss the buttons that lead to other content at the bottom of the short front page.
Municipality of Kalymnos
History of the diving attire that contributed to the death and disability of sponge divers.
Diving Heritage
History of the sponge industry in the U.S. in Tarpon Springs, Florida.
Diving Heritage
Protists
Coccolithophorids
Diatoms
Dinoflagellates
Latest on an organism that causes fish kills in coastal waters and estuaries of the east coast of the U.S.
North Carolina State University
Radiolarians
Other Protists—includes algae, kelp
Reptiles
Worm Phyla
Speculating on the origin of worms in the Robert Service poem, "The Ballad of the Ice-Worm Cocktail."
by T. Neil Davis, Alaska Science Forum; Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks
A poem by Robert Service.
Water Resources of Alaska, USGS
Marine Biology
What happens when a dead whale falls to the bottom of the sea? Find out what "biological oceanographer Craig Smith of the University of Hawaii and his research associates, including graduate student Amy Baco: observed in the Santa Cruz Basin offshore California.
by Julie Zeidner Russo, NOAA's Undersea Research Program
Origin of Life
People
Data on the U.S. population and around the world.
U.S. Census Bureau
Photosynthesis
Arizona State University
Productivity
NASA
Resources
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Terrestrial Biology
The PLANTS Database is a single source of standardized information about plants. This database focuses on vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. The PLANTS Database includes names, checklists, automated tools, identification information, species abstracts, distributional data, crop information, plant symbols, plant growth data, plant materials information, plant links, references, and other plant information. PLANTS reduces costs by minimizing duplication and making information exchange possible across agencies and disciplines.
United States Department of Agriculture
Includes information about types of southwest deserts and images.
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Geoscience
General
"More than 50 years ago former [USGS] Director George Otis Smith recognized that scientific reports are often couched in words and phrases that are understandable only to other scientists, engineers, or technicians. His plea for 'Plain Geology' was a classic, just as applicable now as it was in 1921. It is herewith reprinted to make it generally available."
George Otis Smith (1871-1944), USGS
Great connections between basic earth science themes and National Parks. Excellent images.
Cooperative project of the U.S. Geological Survey Western Earth Surface Processes Team and the National Park Service.
Philip B. King and Helen M. Beikman, U.S. Geological Survey
Caltech Library System
California Geological Survey
Deserts
Part of the USGS "General-Interest Publications"
USGS
Earth History—See the Earth History Section
Earthquakes
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program
Earthquake Activity:
Earthquake Activity:
US Geological Survey
Earthquake is an activity that shows how an earthquake epicenter is located and how the Richter magnitude of an earthquake is determined.
Virtual Courseware for Earth and Environmental Science
Earthquake reports and information.
Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD
UC Berkeley/USGS
California Institute of Technology (CalTech)
IRIS is a consortium of United States Universities that have research programs in seismology. The purpose of IRIS is to develop and operate the infrastructure needed for the acquisition and distribution of high quality seismic data.
The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS)
"A regionally focused organization founded in 1991 with a mission to gather new information about earthquakes in Southern California, integrate that knowledge into a comprehensive and predictive understanding of earthquake phenomena, and communicate this understanding to end-users and the general public in order to increase earthquake awareness, reduce economic losses, and save lives."
SCEC
The Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, California
Earthguake Hazards Program, USGS
Photos of earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, landslides, and other geologic hazards. Free photos online and slide sets for sale.
NOAA National Data Centers, NGDC
An Installment in the "General-Interest Publications" series
USGS
Earthquake Hazards Program, USGS
Discusses how earthquakes are measured, the Richter scale, and the differences between intensity and magnitude.
USGS
Photos of earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, landslides, and other geologic hazards. Free photos online and slide sets for sale.
NOAA National Data Centers, NGDC
"The Earthquake Engineering Online Archive is a database of significant, publicly-funded research and development literature, photographs, data, and software in earthquake, structural, and geotechnical engineering. It includes full text for EERC, SEMM, and PEER reports published at UC Berkeley, the NISEE software library, and images from EQIIS, including the Steinbrugge, Godden, and Kozak collections."
National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE) at UC Berkeley
Erosion
Article highlighting predicted loss of "approximately 25% of homes and other structures within 500 feet of the U.S. coastline and the shorelines of the Great Lakes."
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Faults & Other Upheavals
USGS
by Jennifer Reynolds, NOAA's Undersea Research Program
Fossils
An Installment in the "General-Interest Publications" series
USGS
University of California, Berkeley
Fossils
Case where isotopes help to solve an archaeological mystery - Where did the remarkably successful ruler of Copán, Yax K'uk Mo, originate? Yax K'uk Mo is credited with transforming Copan from "a modest village" to "among the most accomplished Maya cities in art, architexture, and astronomy."
Physics Today, Volume 57, Number 1, January 2004, pages 20-21.
Geologic Time
USGS
Geologic time chart including some detail in the Precambrian.
Museum of Paleontology, UC Berkeley
"The Climate TimeLine uses a "powers of ten" exponential approach to frame 1) meteorological and climatic processes (Climate Science) and 2) specific climate events of the past at varying timescales."
National Climatic Data Center, NOAA
Geologic time chart without detail in the Precambrian.
Cascades Volcano Observatory, USGS
General content about geologic time
William L. Newman, U. S. Geological Survey
Detailed time scale chage that includes geomagnetic polarity reversals. Suitable for printing.
The Geological Society of America
Geologic time chart with some detail in the Precambrian and highlighted events for each time
San Diego Natural History Museum
Glaciers
Educational and informative website about glaciers.
Rice University
The National Snow & Ice Data Center
USGS
The Quaternary GIS Library "supports quantitative spatial analysis of glacier, climate, and other environmental relationships at high latitudes." Includes animations and maps related to glaciation, including an animation showing rising sealevel and inundation of the Bering Land Bridge over the last 21,000 years.
INSTAAR, University of Colorado
Animation showing rising sealevel and inundation of the Bering Land Bridge over the last 21,000 years.
1.6 Mb .mov file.
1.6 Mb .mov file.
INSTAAR, University of Colorado
Central website and link to their resources.
INSTAAR, University of Colorado
"all about snow crystals and snowflakes -- what they are, where they come from, and just how these remarkably complex and beautiful structures are created, quite literally, out of thin air."
snowcrystals.com
Global Change
How Old is That Rock?
USGS
USGS
Hydrology
Landslides
USGS
"Prehistoric, giant landslides in Montgomery and Craig Counties, Va., in the Blacksburg/Wythe Ranger Districts of the Jefferson National Forest, are the largest known landslides in eastern North America and are among the largest in the world. One of the landslides is more than 3 miles long! The ancient, giant landslides extend for more than 20 miles along the eastern slope of Sinking Creek Mountain."
USGS
Photos of earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, landslides, and other geologic hazards. Free photos online and slide sets for sale.
NOAA National Data Centers, NGDC
Magnetic Field
Scientific American
Modeled images of the magnetic field before, during, and after a reversal.
Gary Glatzmaier, UC Santa Cruz
About the part of the Earth's magnetic field that extends into space and interacts with the solar wind.
Space Plasma Physics Branch, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA
Manganese Nodules
Mineral Resources
University of California, Santa Barbara
Petroleum
Coal, petroleum, and natural gas.
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Copy of journalist Ida Tarbell's report on John D. Rockefeller's business practices in 1904.
University of Rochester
Plate Tectonics
Site follows researchers at sea as they work to bring a piece of the mid-ocean ridge back to the surface from the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the North Pacific.
NOVA Online
Maps of plate motion based on Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR).
NASA Space Geodesy Branch
Online edition of U.S.G.S book by Kious and Tilling. Static figures, but they're very nice.
W.J. Kious and R.I. Tilling, USGS
Discusses the evidence for continental drift and the condition of the United States through geologic history.
John S. Schlee, USGS
Site contains maps showing the distributions of tectonic plates over geologic time. Unlike other sites that only show changes in the position of the tectonic plates, the paleogeographic reconstructions here show changes in the distribution of oceans vs. land.
University of Chicago
Site contains maps showing the distributions of tectonic plates over geologic time. Unlike other sites that only show changes in the position of the tectonic plates, the paleogeographic reconstructions here show changes in the distribution of oceans vs. land.
University of Chicago
GREAT Plate tectonic and paleoclimate animations.
Christopher R. Scotese
Plate tectonic animations and stills..
EarthByte
Plate tectonic reconstructions
L. A. Lawver, M. F. Coffin, I. W. D. Dalziel, L. M Gahagan, D. M. Campbell, and R. M. Schmitz, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
Plate tectonic reconstruction and other animation downloads, including those created by Tanya Atwater.
UC Santa Barbara
Rocks & Minerals
Everything you wanted to know about rock, cement, and concrete - history, chemistry, production ....
Portland Cement Association
Everything you wanted to know about granite. Lots of photos with clearly visible mineral components.
Robert Reed
Bob Keller
U.S. Bureau of Mines
An overview of the production of specific U.S. gemstones
USGS
USGS
Special Scenery
Great connections between basic earth science themes and National Parks. Excellent images.
Cooperative project of the U.S. Geological Survey Western Earth Surface Processes Team and the National Park Service.
Stratigraphy
Volcanoes
"This booklet presents a generalized summary of the nature, workings, products, and hazards of the common types of volcanoes around the world, along with a brief introduction to the techniques of volcano monitoring and research. "
Robert I. Tilling, USGS
University of North Dakota
Robert I. Tilling, Lyn Topinka, and Donald A. Swanson, USGS
"One of the most destructive volcanic eruptions in the history of Iceland began in the early morning of January 23,1973, near the country's premier fishing port, the town of Vestmannaeyjar, on Heimaey, the only inhabited isle in the Vestmannaeyjar volcanic archipelago."
Richard S. Williams, Jr. and James G. Moore, USGS
"With precise instruments and refined data analysis, it is now possible to track the subsurface movements of magma by monitoring the earthquakes and measuring the ground changes that accompany such movements."
Robert I. Tilling, USGS
Information about the volcanoes in the US, especially large eruptions.
Steven R. Brantley, USGS
On the Hawaiian Islands
Robert I. Tilling, Christina Heliker, and Thomas L. Wright, USGS
USGS
"This booklet provides such information for the residents of Hawaii so they may effectively deal with the special geologic hazards of the island."
USGS
A site devoted to Loihi volcano, a young and still submerged seamount of the Hawaiian-Emperor chain.
Hawaii Center for Volcanology, SOEST, University of Hawaii
What's Inside?
Information about the layers of the earth and the chemical composition of the Earth's interior.
Eugene C. Robertson, USGS
Photos of earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, landslides, and other geologic hazards. Free photos online and slide sets for sale.
NOAA National Data Centers, NGDC
Atmosphere
General
Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA
University of Cambridge, Britain
Clouds
WW2010 (the weather world 2010 project) is a WWW framework for integrating current and archived weather data with multimedia instructional resources using new and innovative technologies.
Department of Atmospheric Sciences (DAS) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Pat Jones
Weather Photography, H. E. Edens
Hurricanes
National Weather Service, NOAA
CNN.com
Ozone
Centre for Atmospheric Science, Cambridge University
"Within this area you'll find information about the science of ozone depletion, information about the regulatory approach to protecting the ozone layer, and information on alternatives to ozone-depleting substances, ..."
U.S. EPA
Summary of the sources, causes, and effects of ozone near the ground.
Air Quality Planning & Standards, U.S. EPA
How ozone affects us.
April 19, 2002, by Jeannie Allen, NASA Earth Observatory
The Donora Smog Disaster, London: The Big Smoke, and Los Angeles: Welcome to Car Land - thre