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Earth Science Images

(Earth As Art)

Disaster preparedness

http://www.72hours.org/index.html

http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/step (24 hour forecast for aftershock hazard)

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/2005/15/

(“Putting down roots in Earthquake Country” publication)

http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/eqmaps/

(Earthquake hazard maps for the Bay Area)

http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist1/d1tmc/m101p100.htm

(live web cam for Hwy 101 Confusion Hill)

http://www.edis.ca.gov/ (Emergency digital information service)

Earthquake Information

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/forcesofnature/interactive/index.html

(simulate an EQ)

http://dsc.discovery.com/guides/planetearth/earthquake/interactive/interactive.html

(simulate an EQ)

http://nemo.sciencecourseware.org/VirtualEarthquake/VQuakeExecute.html

(Earthquake studies)

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/15/g35/earthquakes.html

(Earthquake studies)

Geology

http://earthquake.usgs.gov (“Real-time” earthquake maps)

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov (Information and resources regarding earthquakes)

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/qfaults/ (fault database)

http://quake.usgs.gov/kap/carrizo/ (Kite photography above the Carrizo Plain)

http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/ (Water resources information)

http://www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/plates/#movies

(plate tectonic reconstructions)

http://emvc.geol.ucsb.edu/downloads.php (plate tectonics animations)

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1127/chapter1.pdf (San Andreas Fault info)

http://www.consrv.ca.gov/cgs/index.htm (California Geological Survey)

www.irocks.com/new.html (rocks and minerals site)

www.fi.edu/tfi/units/rocks/rocks.html (rocks and minerals site)

http://soils.usda.gov/gallery/photos/profiles (soil pics and profiles)

http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/visualization/collections/PTMovements.html

http://geology.asu.edu/~sreynolds/home.htm (geology and topography visualized)

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/research/geology/lidar/

(LIDAR to see through forest canopy to underlying earth surface)

Earth observing

www.earthscope.org (NSF EarthScope project)

http://pbo.unavco.org (Plate Boundary Observatory, part of EarthScope)

http://pboweb.unavco.org (Plate Boundary Observatory data repository)

http://pboweb.unavco.org/shared/scripts/stations/?checkkey=P059&sec=overview

(Plate Boundary Observatory instrument Mendocino College Field Station)

http://pboweb.unavco.org/shared/scripts/stations/?checkkey=P190&sec=overview

(Plate Boundary Observatory instrument North Ukiah location)

www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov

http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/temperature/

(global view of monthly temperature anomalies)

www.esa.int (European space agency)

http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/tableofcontentsmap (Satellite images over time)

www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html (night and day on Earth and moon)

www.californiacoastline.org (Air photos of the California coast)

Weather

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=46014

(buoy off Point Arena)

www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=sto&sid=KUKI&num=48

(NWS –Ukiah conditions)

www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov (weather and hydro maps)

www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2004/hurricanes/interactive/hurricane.paths/index.html

(2004 Hurricane tracks and trivia)

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/graphics/hurricane/season_review/flash.htm

(2005 Hurricane tracks)

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/h2005_katrina.html

(Hurricane Katrina info and data)

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/hurricane_2005.html

(Hurricane info and 2005 examples)

http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/temperature (variation from average temp across the globe)

www.stormsurf.com

http://weather.cod.edu/# (College of DuPage meteorology site)

Clouds:

http://www.uen.org/utahlink/weather/clouds/cloud_id.html (KSL-TV & Cloud Chart, Inc.)

http://www.weatherstock.com/cloudcat3.html (Storm photographer Warren Faidley)

http://www.capetownskies.com/clouds.htm (Gordon Richardson personal cloud gallery)

Environmental maps and info

http://www.click2houston.com/news/16197788/detail.html (sinkhole in TX)

http://esminfo.prenhall.com/science/geoanimations/ (Earth science animations)

http://www.scorecard.org/ (pollution information site)

www.nationalatlas.gov/natlas/Natlasstart.asp (map maker)

www.nationalatlas.gov/dynamic/dyn_zm.html (zebra mussels invasion)

www.nationalatlas.gov/dynamic.html (dynamic maps)

www.epa.gov/enviro/index_java.html (EPA site information)

http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/tableofcontentsmap

(Satellite images over time showing environmental change)

http://www.permaculture.org.au/greening.htm (reclaiming salty/desert soils)

http://www.cresis.ku.edu/research/data/sea_level_rise/index.html (Maps of inundation related to sea-level rise)

Maps, mapping and GIS

www.nationalatlas.gov/index.html (GIS type create-a-map interface)

http://nationalmap.gov (usgs maps and air photos)

http://resmap.com (free online satellite imagery)

http://pboweb.unavco.org/?pageid=92 (Google Earth files for Earthscope)

http://soils.usda.gov/survey/geography (GIS soil map data)

http://geography.usgs.gov/partners/viewonline.html

www.topozone.com

http://mapserver.maptech.com/homepage/index.cfm

http://terraserver-usa.com

http://www.csun.edu/science/ref/maps/maps.html (links to mapping sites)

GIS data sites

General download and reference sites for GIS data

http://data.geocomm.com/ (GeoCommunity, since 1999)

http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/EarthExplorer/ (USGS query and order site)

http://www.geographynetwork.com/ (Collaborative group for accessing data)

http://nationalmap.gov (USGS designed site for viewing and downloading data)

USGS DEM (Digital Elevation Model) reference sites

http://edc2.usgs.gov/geodata/index.php

http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/elevation/dpi_dem.html

http://data.geocomm.com/dem/

USGS NED (National Elevation Dataset – raster data)

http://ned.usgs.gov/

USGS DRG (Digital Raster Graphic) reference sites

http://topomaps.usgs.gov/drg/

http://gis.ca.gov/DRG.epl (California DRG)

http://casil.ucdavis.edu/mapsurfer/ (Viewing CA DRG)

http://data.geocomm.com/drg/index.html

TIGER data reference sites

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/faq-index.html

http://www.esri.com/data/download/census2000_tigerline/index.html

http://arcdata.esri.com/data/tiger2000/tiger_download.cfm

www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0103/files/tiger.pdf

http://data.geocomm.com/tiger/index.html

NASA LIDAR

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/research/geology/lidar/

National Geologic Map Database

http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/

Landsat and Digital Orthophotos data

http://www.geotorrent.org/

http://data.geocomm.com/doqq/

Mendocino County data

http://data.geocomm.com/catalog/US/61069/1017/index.html

Information

http://www.earthportal.org/ (objective, science-based information)

http://www.eoearth.org/ (free encyclopedia with credibility)

www.firstgov.gov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki (free encyclopedia)

www.saltwatertides.com/dynamic.dir/californiasites.html (California tides)

http://www.sciencemadesimple.net/conversions.html (unit conversions)

http://www.voycabulary.com/ (link any web page to a dictionary)

Useful stuff

www.gimp.org (free GNU photoshop style image processor)

http://www.savetube.com/ (save YouTube videos)

Web services

www.mail2web.com

Educational support

www.merlot.org

http://www.ngsednet.org/ (National Geographic EdNet)

http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/nf/intro/internet.htm (information literacy tutorial)