Black Hawk College
GEOGRAPHY and GEOLOGY
Links to Earth Science

San Cristobal Volcano, Nicaragua

Important Course Links

Richard Harwood's Office and Class Schedule
WebCT Course Materials
XanEdu Course Pack
myBlackHawk


The following are links to sites which contain information on current topics in Earth Science

Almanacs

Information Please
Library of Congress Country Studies/Area Handbook Program
The CIA World Fact Book

Antarctica

Antarctica Images

Astronomy

Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, Chicago
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comet Hale-Bopp Home Page
Digitized Sky Survey II
Digitized Spectra Data
The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight
Parallax Project
San Francisco State University Planet Search Program
SkyWatching Center
Space Telescope Electronic Information Service
The Very Large Array
U.S. Naval Observatory

Atmosphere

NASA's Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer

Climate

Mean Sea Surface Temperatures
NASA's Global Change Master Directory
NASA's Earth Observatory
NOAA Climate Diagnostics Center
National Climatic Data Center

Countries of the World

Countries of the World - an alphabetical list of all independent nations in the world.

Dictionaries

Dictionary.com
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus

Earthquakes

Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI)
IRIS - Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology Home Page
National Earthquake Information Center Earthquake Bulletin
Surfing the Internet for Earthquake Data - an amazing list of links to earthquake related sites.
U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program
U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program - Central and Eastern U.S.
U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program - Northern California

Geomorphology

Geomorphology from Space
Oceanography from the Space Shuttle

Geological Surveys

Geological Survey Canada
Illinois State Geological Survey
United States Geological Survey
Links to State Geological Surveys

Glaciers

British Antarctic Survey
Byrd Polar Research Center
Snow, Ice, and Permafrost

Images

Earth from Space
NASA Image eXchange (NIX)- data base providing NASA images and photographs

Links to General Geology and Geography Sites

Geography Links (About.com) - lots of good resources and links
Geology Link (Worth Publishers) - lots of good resources, news and links
Geology Links (About.com) - lots of good resources and links
Yahoo Links to Geography Sites

USA.Gov - the first place to look if you are trying to find a U.S. government web page or information.

Maps

ESRI GIS and Mapping Software - commercial site offering GIS information and data
Map Collection at the University of Delaware
National Atlas of the United States
National Map Viewer
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas
TerraServer
USGS Elevation Database

Mars Probes

Mars Exploration Rover Mission - Spirit and Opportunity Rovers
Mars Express
Mars Global Surveyor
Mars Pathfinder
Mars Odyssey
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Viking

Meteorology

Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
Climvis World Weather Graphs and Data
Current Visible Satellite Image - Eastern US
Current Visible Satellite Image - Western US
Global and Hemispheric Air Temperature, 1854-1991
Illinois Weather World
Intellicast: USA Weather
National Warning Areas
Ohio State University Atmospheric Sciences Program
Sea Surface Temperatures
U.S. Cities Weather and Forecasts
U.S. National Weather Service
Weather Channel
Weather On Demand - EarthWatch

Metric Systems - International System of Units (SI)

Metric Conversions.org - Online Calculators!
Metric Information and Conversions - National Institute of Standards and Technology
The United States and the Metric System - National Institute of Standards and Technology
Think-Metric
Bartlett's Guide to SI Units - Biomedical Sciences, University of Aberdeen
U.S. Metric Association

Minerals

Atlas of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks, Minerals and Textures - online reference to minerals and rocks in thin section
The Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom - online reference to minerals and gemstones

Missions to Planet Earth

EOS - Earth Observing System
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Orbiting Spacecraft
SeaWiFS - Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor Project
TRMM - Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

Museums

American Museum of Natural History
Field Museum
Hunterian Museum
Museum of the City of San Francisco
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
St. Louis Science Center
Swedish Museum of Natural History

NASA

NASA Home Page
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA History Office
NASA Image eXchange (NIX)- data base providing NASA images and photographs
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA Planetary Photojournal
Recent News from JPL
NASA's Earth Observatory

National Parks and Monuments

National Park Service

News Services

BBC Online
CNN Interactive
Miami Herald (an excellent source of news covering Latin America)
Science Daily - science news about the latest discoveries and research projects
Voice of America (U.S. Government news/propaganda agency)
Washington Post (good international and national news coverage)
WWW News Resource Page (links to news sources, newspapers and radio, around the world)

Organizations

Geological Survey Canada
Geological Society of America
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Mineralogical Society of America
National Association of Geoscience Teachers
National Geographic Society
Paleontological Research Institution
Paleontological Society
Smithsonian Institution
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

Paleontology

Burgess Shale Fossils
Charlotte, The Vermont Whale
Diatom Home Page
Dino Russ's Lair
Dinosaurs in Hawaii!
Fossil Collections of the World
Hadrosaurus foulkii
Mazon Creek Fossils
Mohawk Valley Fossils
Tree of Life
University of California Museum of Paleontology

Planetary Probes

Galileo Probe - Probe in orbit around Jupiter

Planets

NASA's Planetary Photojournal
Solar System Exploration
Welcome to the Planets

Plate Tectonics

PALEOMAP Project - plate tectonic development during the past 1100 million years.
Tectonic Plate Motion
This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics

Population and Statistics

Australian Bureau of Statistics
Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics
National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies of France
National Statistics of the United Kingdom
Population.com
Population Reference Bureau
Statistics Canada
United States Census Bureau

Remote Sensing

Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing
Color Landform Atlas of the United States
Global Positioning System Overview
Remote Sensing Systems- provides daily, monthly and yearly images showing Cloud Liquid Water, Precipitation Rate, Atmospheric Water Vapor and Surface Wind Speed
TerraServer

Science Education

Athena Earth and Space Science for K-12
Bill Nye the Science Guy - Science Rules!!
National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Science Daily - science news about the latest discoveries and research projects
Yahoo Links to Geography Sites

Sumatra-Andaman Islands Earthquake and Tsunami

Sumatra-Andaman Islands Earthquake and Tsunami

The Sun

Solar Images from Solar Data Analysis Center at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
SunSpot Index Data Center - A Belgian Royal Observatory web site

Topographic Maps

Color Landform Atlas of the United States
TerraServer
TopoZone - An interactive topographic map of the entire United States.

Volcanoes

Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network
Alaska Volcano Observatory
Cascades Volcano Observatory
Electronic Volcano
Hawaii Center for Volcanology
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Nordic Volcanological Institute
Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
Stromboli Online
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
Update on Current Volcanic Activity
Volcanism on the Moon
Volcano World

Wildlife

National Wildlife Federation

Writing Term Papers

Preparing a Term Paper for a Physical Geology Course by Kevin McCartney
Using the Internet to Prepare a Term Paper for a Geology Course by Clayton DeWitt Harris and Kevin McCartney


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