General Images
NOAA Photo Collection
Images related to oceanography, marine life, and marine commerce.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), US Department of Commerce
NOAA Ocean Explorer: Gallery
Images from NOAA's Ocean Explorer expeditions. Includes videos, slideshows, and audio in these categories: Maps, Living Ocean, Sounds in the Sea, Cultural Heritage, History, Technology, and Explorers.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), US Department of Commerce
Earth Science World: Image Bank
This site is "designed to provide quality geoscience images to the public, educators, and the geoscience community."
American Geological Institute (AGI)
CalPhotos
Images of California water resources, habitats, plants, and animals
Digital Library Project, University of California, Berkeley
Photo Library
"Our Photo Gallery contains a variety of digitized images representative of the diversity found among the 520,000 negatives in the Photo Collection of the Geological Survey of Canada. Numbers associated with the images are those assigned to the original negatives. The selection has been made from both historic and modern photographs relating to surveys and studies carried out by Survey scientists during the course of its 150 year history. The digitization of selected photographs is an ongoing project.
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Natural Resources Canada
Visible Earth
A searchable directory of images, visualizations, and animations of the Earth.
NASA
NASA Earth Observatory
"..freely-accessible publication on the Internet where the public can obtain new satellite imagery and scientific information about our home planet. The focus is on Earth's climate and environmental change. In particular, we hope our site is useful to public media and educators. Any and all materials published on the Earth Observatory are freely available for re-publication or re-use, except where copyright is indicated."
NASA
NASA Multimedia Gallery
"... selection of images, video and interactive features."
NASA
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
"Unique in their scope and richness, the Prints and Photographs collections today number over 13.6 million images. These include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people. ... Online access to about 50% of P&P holdings"
Library of Congress
National Image Library
Fish and Wildlife images only
"... U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's online collection of public domain still photographs."
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
NYPL Digital Gallery
"NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 376,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more."
New York Public Library
Picture Collection Online
"The Picture Collection Online is an image resource site for those who seek knowledge and inspiration from visual materials. It is a collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923."
Mid-Manhattan Library, New York Public Library
Living Things by Topic
Living Things by Type of Organism
General
Animal Diversity Web
University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
BIODIDAC
A bank of digital resources for teaching biology, including images related to organisms, humans and histology. Emphasis on diagrams and tissues.
Affiliated with the University of Ottawa
University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP)
"The mission of the University of California Museum of Paleontology is to investigate and promote the understanding of the history of life and the diversity of the Earth's biota through research and education."
Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley
Field Guide
Illustrated resources and guiddes to living things around the San Diego region.
San Diego Natural History Museum
Invertebrate Photos by Phylum
Organisms that live in the eastern Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and marine waters off California, Oregon, or Washington.
Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NOAA
Bioluminescence
Photos of Luminous Organisms - The Bioluminescence Web Page
S. H. D. Haddock, C. M. McDougall, and J.F. Case, Case Laboratory at UC Santa Barbara
Luxgene.com
This is an educational website, created to provide information, experimental data, images and animations of bioluminescent organisms in action.
Luxgene
Plankton Blooms
Plankton Blooms
Selected photos.
Earthguide
Archaea
Life in Extreme Environments
Links to websites that contain images of archaeans.
Astrobiology Web
Arthropods
Iowa State Entomology Index of Internet Resources
Links to many great websites that contain photos of insects from around the world.
Department of Entomology, Iowa State University of Science and Technology
Iowa State Entomology Index: Images
Department of Entomology, Iowa State University of Science and Technology
Bacteria
Procholorococcus
Recently found to be the "most abundant photosynthetic cell in the oceans."
Earthguide
Birds
Audubon's Birds of America
"... online version of John James Audubon's Birds of America. ... It is from an 1840 "First Octavo Edition" of Audubon's complete seven volume text, and presents Audubon's images and original text descriptions."
Audobon
WDFW Image Gallery - Birds
"Images supplied on these pages, unless otherwise indicated, are owned by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife or have been made available to the Department for public use. They may be used for non-profit or educational purposes provided that the Department or copyright holder is properly credited."
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
CBRC Rare Bird Photos
California Bird Records Committee - A Committee of Western Field Ornithologists (WFO)
Cnidarians
Coral Kingdom
Wide range of photos related to coral reefs.
NOAA Photo Library
Photo Gallery
Wide range of photos related to coral reefs.
ReefBase
Echinoderms
Phylum Echinodermata
Quick overview of the phyla with a few photos.
The Shape of Life, KPBS
Echinoid Directory
Nice photos of the shells of dead sea urchin specimens.
The Natural History Museum, London
Ochre Sea Star
Nice photos of the shells of dead sea urchin specimens.
The Natural History Museum, London
Fish
Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia
Still photos of once-living fish and lots of other information.
Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
FishBase
Link to photo and informational database from FishBase, a "global information system on fishes."
FishBase
California Marine Sportfish Identification
Sample illustrations and basic information on fish caught for sport in California.
California Department of Fish and Game
Fish Images Links
Underwater photos and videos of trout and salmon.
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
Tsukiji: The Great Tokyo Fish Market
Views of the world's largest fish market.
National Geographic.com
National Image Library - Main page
Fish and Wildlife images only
"... U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's online collection of public domain still photographs."
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Marine Mammals
The ASM Mammal Image Library
The American Society of Mammologists
Marine Mammals
National Marine Mammal Laboratory Image Gallery
Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Mammal Laboratory, NOAA
NOAA's Ark
Includes photos of marine mammals.
NOAA Photo Library
Marine Plankton
Paulette's Plankton
Center for Cell Dynamics, University of Washington
Mollusks
Hardy's Internet Guide to Marine Gastropods
Collection of shell photos compiled by an individual.
Eddie Hardy
Image Gallery
Images of cephalopods - octopus, squid, etc.
CephBase
Opisthobranchs
Images of wild and colorful sea slugs, including nudibranchs. Images of slugs from around the world.
Mediterranean Slug Site
Plants
Photo Gallery
California Native Plant Society
Protists
Dominant Phytoplankton Taxa of the Arctic Seas
In Biological Atlas of the Arctic Seas 2000 - Plankton of the Barents and Kara Seas, International Ocean Atlas Series, Volume 2
National Oceanographic Data Center, NOAA
Algae
Diatoms and Other Algae: The ANSP Algae Image Database
"Contains light micrograph images of diatom taxa from rivers throughout the USA."
The Academy of Natural Sciences
Coccolithophorids
Diatoms
Dinoflagellates
Dinoflagellates
Basic information and a few photos.
Andrew MacRae
Foraminifera
Seaweed
Seaweed Site
National University of Ireland, Galway
Radiolarians
Web links
Links to websites with many images.
Radiolaria.org
Porifera
Fossils / Algae and Stromatoporoids
School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton
Reptiles
Tidepool Organisms
Tidepool Zones
Diagram showing where different organisms live in a southern California tidepool.
Earthguide and SIO Explorations
Worm Phyla
Geology
General
Earth Science World: Image Bank
This site is "designed to provide quality geoscience images to the public, educators, and the geoscience community."
American Geological Institute (AGI)
NGDC Geologic Hazards Photos
Photos of earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, landslides, and other geologic hazards. Free photos online and slide sets for sale.
NOAA National Data Centers, NGDC
Earthquakes and Engineering
The Earthquake Engineering Online Archive
"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
Glaciation
Quaternary GIS Library
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 of Bering Land Bridge
Animation showing rising sealevel and inundation of the Bering Land Bridge over the last 21,000 years.
1.6 Mb .mov file.
INSTAAR, University of Colorado
Snow Crystals.com
"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."
Kenneth G. Libbrecht, snowcrystals.com
Minerals
Chime Displays
Chime models
Virtual Museum of Minerals and Molecules
Calcite
Chime model
Earthguide
Plate Tectonics
Paleomap Project
Plate tectonic and paleoclimate animations.
Paleomap Project, Christopher Scotese
Climate & Weather
Snow Crystals.com
"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."
Kenneth G. Libbrecht, snowcrystals.com
Clouds Photography
Photo gallery
Harald Edens, Weather Photography
People
Clip Art Libraries
Searchable clip art related to topics such as household items, hazardous wastes, light bulb, and much more.
Cooperative Environmental Assistance Bureau, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Ocean
NOAA Photo Collection
Images related to oceanography, marine life, and marine commerce.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), US Department of Commerce
Sea Surface Temperature
Build your own animation maps.
NASA Earth Observatory
Earth from Space
Visible Earth
A searchable directory of images, visualizations, and animations of the Earth.
NASA
Visualization of Remote Sensing Data
Images, movies, 3-D and virtual reality visualizations of Earth and hurricanes.
Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
Scientific Visualization Studio
Movies of the Earth based on satellite sources. See global patterns of clouds, rain, snow/ice, and more.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Johnson Space Center Image Collection
Collection of Shuttle mission Earth-looking imagery and press release images from the manned space program, from Mercury to the STS-81 Shuttle mission.
Johnson Space Center, NASA
Astronaut's View of the Home Planet: Earth from Space
"A dataset of seleted astronaut acquired imagery of Earth."
Johnson Space Center - NASA
NASA Multimedia Gallery
"... selection of images, video and interactive features."
NASA
Our Earth as Art
"These images use the visceral avenue of art to convey the thrilling perspective of the Earth that Landsat provides to the viewer." Images from all 7 continents.
Landsat-7, NASA and USGS
Space Imaging
A company that describes itself as "Transforming visual information into visible results, Space Imaging offers effective solutions and decision-support tools for a variety of business, economic, environmental and security challenges around the world. We bring actionable Earth imagery to life, revolutionizing the way we view, map, measure, monitor and manage the world in which we live." They sell images taken by their
IKONOS satellite.
Space Imaging
ISSEarthKAM
A program for middle-school students to take photographs of Earth from the International Space Station.
NASA
Weather Photography
"This site contains photographs of many weather phenomena, and tips and techniques to photograph these. The photo collection is split up into five galleries: Atmospheric Optics, Lightning, Clouds, Astronomy, and Miscellaneous."
Harald Edens,
Destination Earth
40 years of NASA Earth Science, Today and the Future.
NASA
Science@NASA
The science mission directorate website.
NASA
Space and Planets
NSSDC Photo Gallery Mars
Images of Mars.
National Space Science Data Center, NASA
NSSDC Photo Gallery Mars
Images of Mars.
National Space Science Data Center, NASA
Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures
Images of our universe
HubbleSite.org
Johnson Space Center Digital Image Collection
"NASA's Johnson Space Center is proud to provide this collection of press release images from the manned space program, from Mercury to the STS-79 Shuttle mission. This collection represents over 9,000 images."
Johnson Space Center, NASA
Places
California Coastal Records Project
Detailed aerial photographic survey of the California coastline. Easy-to-use and complete source of image data.
Kenneth Adelman
Photography Collections
California Historical Society
Grand Canyon Photos
National Park Service
Aramco Servies Company - Public Affairs Digital Image Archive
"... photographic archives specializing in images of the Middle East and the Islamic world."
Aramco Services Company
Events
Scientific Equipment
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