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Links are provided for convenience only. Hyperlinks that Earthguide provides to external websites do not imply official Earthguide endorsement of, or responsibility for, the content contained on those sites. These are provided as a service to the user, and Earthguide does not retain editorial control over them. No endorsement of a product or a point-of-view should be inferred. |
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Descent to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge Join Scripps researcher, Dr. Donna Blackman, and the entire scientific team as they guide the deep submersible Alvin to probe the depths of the North Atlantic - exploring undersea mountains of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Earthguide, California Space Institute at Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
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Dive and Discover: Expeditions to the Seafloor Join scientists as they dive to the mid-ocean ridge. Woods Hole Oceanographic Insitution and the National Science Foundation |
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Reading Earth History in Papua New Guinea Join a "team of researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, East Carolina University, The College of William & Mary, Penn State University, The University of Papua New Guinea and several other institutions are trying to understand Earth's history in the wet tropical islands of the southwestern Pacific Ocean." Scripps Institution of Oceanography, East Carolina University, National Science Foundation, and the MARGINS program |
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Extreme 2001: A Deep Sea Odyssey Join scientists as they dive to deep sea vents on the East Pacific Rise. University of Delaware College of Marine Studies and Sea Grant College Program |
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Extreme 2000: Voyage to the Deep Join scientists as they dive to hydrothermal vent sites in the Sea of Cortés off the west coast of Mexico. University of Delaware College of Marine Studies and Sea Grant College Program |
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Nova: Into the Abyss 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 |
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Balboa Park "Do you fancy photography, folk art or fossils? Are you crazy about cars, trains and planes? Or mad about Old Masters and maybe mummies? Batty for baseball? Or do you just get a kick out of critters like koalas and kangaroos?" - museums and fun in San Diego. http://www.balboapark.org/ |
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California: the Dream and the Challenge in the Twenty-first Century "California is more than a geographical or political state. It is also a state of mind, a way of life, and an evolving dream. The Governor asked noted author and State Librarian of California, Dr. Kevin Starr, to prepare a special essay on the Golden State, placing in context its history, culture, and people with the challenges and dreams of the new Millennium." http://www.ca.gov/state/portal/myca_htmldisplay.jsp?sFilePath=/portal/links/the_dream.html&sCatTitle=California+-+The+Dream,+The+Challenge Kevin Starr, State Librarian of California |
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California as I Saw It "Full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts. The collection covers the dramatic decades between the Gold Rush and the turn of the twentieth century. It captures the pioneer experience; encounters between Anglo-Americans and the diverse peoples who had preceded them; the transformation of the land by mining, ranching, agriculture, and urban development; the often-turbulent growth of communities and cities; and California's emergence as both a state and a place of uniquely American dreams." http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html American Memory, Library of Congress |
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California Heritage Collection "The California Heritage Collection is an online archive of more than 30,000 images illustrating California's history and culture, from the collections of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Selected from nearly two hundred individual collections, this unique resource uses the latest online archiving techniques to highlight the rich themes of California's history. The California Heritage Collection is part of the Online Archive of California, a compilation of finding aids, or guides, to archival collections at more than 30 institutions." http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHeritage/ Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley |
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California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES) The California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES) is an information system developed by the California Resources Agency to facilitate access to a variety of electronic data describing California's rich and diverse environments. http://www.ceres.ca.gov/ State of California |
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CSULB's Virtual Field Geology Geologic tours of Southern California. http://seis.natsci.csulb.edu/VIRTUAL_FIELD/vfmain.htm California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) |
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Wallace Creek Interpretative Trail A geologic guide to the San Andreas fault at Wallace Creek. http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~meltzner/wallacecreek/pdf/ |
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California Department of Transportation http://www.dot.ca.gov/ California Department of Transportation |
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San Diego County Water Authority Includes links to their educational materials for teachers and list of phone numbers for member agencies. http://www.sdcwa.org/ |
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Alternative Futures for the Region of Camp Pendleton, California This server provides links to geographic and other resources related to the Biodiversity Research Consortium's study of region of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. Nice set of environmental maps. http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/brc/brc.html Harvard College Graduate School of Design |
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San Diego's Ocean Useful local informations such as tide predictions, surf cam, and much more. http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/ocean/ Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library |
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Geology Field Notes, Joshua Tree National Park http://www.aqd.nps.gov/grd/parks/jotr/index.htm Geologic Resources Division, National Park Service |
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Seismic Hazards Mapping Program http://www.consrv.ca.gov/dmg/shezp/index.htm California Geological Survey (formerly Division of Mines and Geology), California Department of Conservation |
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Metropolitan Water District of Southern California Includes a link to educational materials. http://www.mwd.dst.ca.us/mwdh2o/pages/education/education01.html |
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Earthguide Tools, toys, and other fun things to learn or teach earth science. http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/ California Space Institute (CalSpace) |
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Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures Images of our universe http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html |
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Image Collections of the UC Berkeley Digital Library Project Images of California water resources, habitats, plants, and animals http://galaxy.cs.berkeley.edu/photos/ |
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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. http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/ |
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NASA Photo Gallery An attempt to bring many of NASA's still images to one location. http://www.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/index.html |
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California Historical Society http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/collections/photo_collection/photo_guide/photo_album.html |
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Photos of Luminous Organisms - The Bioluminescence Web Page http://lifesci.ucsb.edu/~biolum/organism/photo.html S. H. D. Haddock, C. M. McDougall, and J.F. Case, Case Laboratory at UC Santa Barbara |
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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 http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/BARPLANK/WWW/HTML/allphoto.html National Oceanographic Data Center/NOAA |
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Visible Earth A searchable directory of images, visualizations, and animations of the Earth. http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/ NASA |
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Visualization of Remote Sensing Data Images, movies, 3-D and virtual reality visualizations of Earth and hurricanes. http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/rsd/ Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA |
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Earth Observation Movie Studio Movies of the Earth based on satellite sources. See global patterns of clouds, rain, snow/ice, and more. http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS/IMAGES/MOVIES.html SeaWIFS, NASA |
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Paleomap Project Plate tectonic and paleoclimate animations. http://www.scotese.com/newpage13.htm SeaWIFS, NASA |
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Chlorophyll http://www.recipnet.indiana.edu/common/Plants/chlorophyll/chlorophyll.htm Indiana University Molecular Structure Center (IUMSC) |
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Alexandria Digital Library Links to science, computing, and technology educational sites useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth. http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/adl.html University of California, Santa Barbara |
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American Memory Map collections 1544-1999. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html Library of Congress |
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Earth Sciences and Map Library Online topo maps and links to other resources. Online maps are one component of this library. http://library.berkeley.edu/EART/ University of California, Berkeley |
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Microsoft Terraserver Internet access to USGS topo map, Ortho photo, and Spin2 imagery. http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ Microsoft |
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NOAA National Data Centers, NGDC Global Relief Data and Images. http://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/global.html National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration |
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Perry-Castañeda Library Map College Global and regional political, shaded-relief, historical, and other maps. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html The University of Texas at Austin |
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Social Sciences and Humanities Library Site emphasizes San Diego County and presents GIS components which include DEMs. Links to other maps also. http://gort.ucsd.edu/mw/maps.html |
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The Global Land One-km Base Elevation (GLOBE) Project Maps of global elevation and bathymetry at 1-km resolution. Great general purpose basemaps. http://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/topo/globegal.shtml National Geophysical Data Center/WDC-A for Solid Earth Geophysics Boulder, Colorado USA |
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The World Factbook 1999 World maps and basic country information. http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ Central Intelligence Agency |
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National Atlas of the United States ® "This Atlas updates a large bound collection of paper maps that was published in 1970. Like its predecessor, this edition promotes greater national geographic awareness. It delivers easy to use, map-like views of America's natural and sociocultural landscapes. Unlike the previous Atlas, this version is largely digital." http://nationalatlas.gov/ Department of the Interior |
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Map Library Collection and links to general, military, and historical maps. http://web.nps.navy.mil/~library/mapcollection.htm Dudley Knox Library, Naval Postgraduate School |
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Science and Health http://www.uniontrib.com/news/science/index.html San Diego Union-Tribune/Sign-On San Diego |
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Technology Review "MIT's magazine of innovation". Their mission is "to promote the understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on business and society". http://www.techreview.com/gen_info/about_us.asp Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
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Nature Firsthand scientific results directly from scientists, for scientists. http://www.nature.com/nature/ |
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PAGES Look under "Overheads" and you'll find overheads for key knowledge about the Earth's climate over the last 100,000 years, at glacial, historical, and modern time-scales. Overheads are in .pdf format. http://www.pages.unibe.ch/index.html The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Core Project |
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Marine Bioluminescence: Secret Lights in the Sea Video for purchase, length: 26 minutes http://www.store.yahoo.com/hboigiftstore/marbiolsecli.html HARBOR BRANCH Oceanographic Marine Science Educational Series |
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California's Gold Information about Huell Howser's educational shows on PBS covering California. http://www.calgold.com/ |
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Micscape Many articles about living things at a microscope scale. Excellent images. http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html |
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Earthguide Tools, toys, and other fun things to learn or teach earth science. http://earthguide.ucsd.edu California Space Institute (CalSpace) and Scripps Institute of Oceanography (SIO) |
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Eisenhower National Clearinghouse Math and science resources - "ENC's mission is to identify effective curriculum resources, create high-quality professional development materials, and disseminate useful information and products to improve K-12 mathematics and science teaching and learning. ... The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education (ENC) is located at The Ohio State University, and is funded through a contract with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement" http://www.enc.org/ |
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Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators Links to science, computing, and technology educational sites useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth. http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/sci-tech/scicom.html |
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Athena Earth and space sciences activities resource for K-12 http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov/ SAIC, the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction in the state of Washington, and the local school districts of Seattle, Bellevue, Northshore, and Lake Washington. NASA funds Athena as part of its Public Use Of Remote Sensing Data project. |
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EarthNet EarthNet is a virtual resource centre of earth science resource information and contacts for teachers, home educators and students of all levels - elementary, junior and senior high school. http://agc.bio.ns.ca/schools/EarthNet/ Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic) |
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Explorer The ExplorerTM is a collection of educational resources (instructional software, lab activities, lesson plans, student created materials ... for K-12 http://explorer.scrtec.org/explorer Great Lakes Collaborative and University of Kansas UNITE group |
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Observatorium NASA's Observatorium is a public access site for Earth and space data. We have pictures of the Earth, planets, stars, and other cool stuff, as well as the stories behind those images. http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/entries/entry_6.html NASA |
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Virtual Courseware for Science Education Interactive Web-based activities for the Life and Earth Sciences designed to enhance the learning and teaching of scientific principles at the undergraduate college and university level as well as at the high school AP level. http://www.sciencecourseware.com/ Gary A. Novak, California State University at Los Angeles |
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Digital Library for Earth System Education "A library providing access to digital resources for learning about the Earth system, and an open, organized community of users." http://www.dlese.org/ |
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Eisenhower National Clearinghouse ENC's mission is to identify effective curriculum resources, create high-quality professional development materials, and disseminate useful information and products to improve K-12 mathematics and science teaching and learning. http://www.enc.org/ |
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National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) "To promote excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning for all." http://nsta.org/ |
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Full-Option Science System http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/FOSS/ Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley |
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Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) Centralized source for data related to the greenhouse effect and global climate change. This site contains both modern and paleoclimatic data. http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/ Department of Energy |
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IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library http://iri.ldeo.columbia.edu/iri/ The International Research Institute for climate prediction (IRI), NOAA/Office of Global Programs, and Columbia University/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory data distribution site |
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PAGES PAGES is the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Core Project. They provide a quantitative understanding of the Earth's past climate and environment. Not only does this site contain useful data for scientists, it provides overheads in .pdf format. For example, you can find a very nice overhead of the Vostok ice core record here. Look under "Publications" http://www.pages.unibe.ch/ PAGES is supported by the Swiss and US National Science Foundations and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) |
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Pangaea PANGAEA is an information system aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing data from Global Change research with special emphasis on paleoclimatic, marine and environmental sciences. http://www.pangaea.de/Info/ Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany |
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The Delphi Project Marine sediment core data, in particular oxygen and carbon isotope data, from a variety of different locations are available from this site. http://delphi.esc.cam.ac.uk/ Cambridge University |
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SIOExplorer Data, documents and images from 822 expeditions by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography since 1903 are becoming web-accessible through the new SIOExplorer project. Developing resource. http://nsdl.sdsc.edu/ Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
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The Global Land One-km Base Elevation (GLOBE) Project The results of an international effort to develop a best-available global digital elevation model on a 1-kilometer grid. http://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/topo/globe.shtml Department of Energy |
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USDA Plants Database 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. http://plants.usda.gov/plants/index.html United States Department of Agriculture |
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National Climate Data Center "World's largest archive of weather data". http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html National Climate Data Center, NOAA |
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National Geophysical Data Center Contains bathymetry/topography, geomagnetism, habitat, hazards, ocean geosciences, paleoclimate, satellites, snow and ice, solar, space weather, and terrestrial data. http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/index.html National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA |
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National Oceanographic Data Center Contains chlorophyll, nutrient, ocean current, oxygen, plankton, salinity, sea level, temperature, and wave data, and more. http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/index.html National Oceanographic Data Center, NOAA |
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National Snow and Ice Data Center "Archives and distributes digital and analog snow and ice data" http://nsidc.org/index.html Established by NOAA |
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SOHO Explore Glossary Terms related to the Sun and radiation. http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/explore/glossary.html Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA |
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Nature Firsthand scientific results directly from scientists, for scientists. http://www.nature.com/nature/ |
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Association of American State Geologists Links to the state geological surveys in 50 states and Puerto Rico. http://www.kgs.ukans.edu/AASG/AASG.html |
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Earth Science Organizations Links to earth science organizations in many countries. http://www-vl-es.geo.ucalgary.ca/VL/html/es-orgs-by-location.html Geology and Geophysics, The University of Calgary, Alberta |
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Los Alamos National Laboratory http://www.lanl.gov/worldview/ Operated by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy |
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California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) CalCOFI has been collecting hydrographic and biological data from the southern California Borderland since 1949. http://www-mlrg.ucsd.edu/calcofi.html |
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INDOEX The INDOEX goal is to study natural and anthropogenic climate forcing by aerosols and feedbacks on regional and global climate. http://www-indoex.ucsd.edu/ |
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Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) - International home page http://ads.smr.uib.no/jgofs/jgofs.htm |
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SeaWIFS NASA's global ocean color monitoring mission http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov./SEAWIFS.html NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
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TOPEX/Poseidon The TOPEX/Poseidon satellite measures global sea level http://tethys.jpl.nasa.gov/ NASA Jet Propulsioni Laboratory (JPL) |
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World Ocean Chemical Experiment (WOCE) - International home page http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/OTHERS/woceipo/ipo.html |
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Cyanosite " Cyanosite is dedicated to information transfer within the cyanobacterial research community. It is hoped that this site will eventually contain archives of experimental protocols, a multi-media phylogenetic tree, databases of known bluegreen algae genes and proteins, comprehensive bibliographic information, educational resources for college and secondary school teachers, general information about blue-green algae, and links to other cyanobacterial, prochlorophyte, and cyanelle sites on the WWW." http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/index.html |
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National Weather Service Homepages Links to all of the National Weather Service homepages in the United States. These sites contain local forecasts, official weather statements, precipitation products, etc. http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/wrhq/nwspage.html |
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Near Real Time Earthquake List List and map of most recent earthquakes across the world. http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/bulletin.html U. S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center |
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Recent Earthquakes in California http://www.scecdc.scec.org/recenteqs/ U. S. Geological Survey, UCB, CalTech, UCSD, UNR |
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography Pier: Tide Predictions http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/tide/piertide.html Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library |
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The Earth in Near Real Time Global cloud cover, earthquakes, sea surface temperature, global biosphere, global water vapor, and more. http://www.nasm.si.edu/earthtoday/planet.htm Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum |
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U.S. Drought Monitor http://drought.unl.edu/monitor/monitor.html USDA, NOAA, National Drought Mitigation Center |
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Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) of 1972 http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/prot_res/laws/MMPA/MMPA.html NOAA |
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United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 http://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/convention_overview_convention.htm United Nations |
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Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change "Text from the UNFCCC Third Conference of the Parties (FCCC/CP/1997/L.7/Add.1; 10 December 1997)." United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
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United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Text of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. "The landmark international treaty unveiled at the UN Conference on Environment and Development (the Rio Summit) in June 1992." U.S. EPA |
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The Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the Ozone Layer Current text of the agreement which was initially agreed upon on 16 september 1987. United Nations Environment Programme, The Ozone Secretariat |
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U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy Includes Preliminary Report of the Commission "with detailed findings and recommendations for a coordinated, and comprehensive national ocean policy." U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy |
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California Coastal Act The California Coastal Act "was enacted by the State Legislature in 1976 to provide long-term protection of California's 1,100-mile coastline for the benefit of current and future generations. The Coastal Act created a unique partnership between the State (acting through the California Coastal Commission) and local government (15 coastal counties and 58 cities) to manage the conservation and development of coastal resources through a comprehensive planning and regulatory program. The 1976 Act made permanent the coastal protection program launched on a temporary basis by a citizens' initiative that California voters approved in November 1972 (Proposition 20 -- the "Coastal Conservation Initiative")." California Coastal Commission |
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