Earth & Resource Science: Online Resources
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 | Earth & Resource Science Department at UM-Flint: Homepage | |
Geography | ||
| Atlas of Canada (Natural Resources Canada, Government of Canada) | |
| Geosource: Web directory for geography & geosciences (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) | |
| Great Lakes: An Environmental Atlas & Resource Book: Also available in print in the Thompson Library Atlas Collection, G 1107 .G7 C3 1995 (Government of Canada & U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) | |
| Introduction to Biomes (Radford University) | |
| Nice Geography Sites: Metasite (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) | |
| Oceanography on the Net: Metasite (Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library, University of California-San Diego) | |
| State of the Great Lakes 2002 (Michigan Department of Environmental Quality) | |
| State of the Great Lakes 2003 (Environmental Protection Agency and Environment Canada) | |
| TopoZone: Interactive topographic maps of the United States | |
| USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Soil Survey Division | |
| Water Words Dictionary: Browsable dictionary in PDF format (State Water Resources Control Board, California Environmental Policy Agency) | |
| World's Biomes (UC-Berkeley Museum of Paleontology) | |
Geographic Information Systems | ||
| GeoData Information Systems: Metasite of digital cartographic and environmental data (Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research at the University of Iowa) | |
| WWW Virtual Library: Remote Sensing: Metasite | |
Climate | ||
| Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center: Information on atmospheric carbon dioxide & its effect on climate (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Climate Diagnostics Center: Information on nature & causes of climate variations over time (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences) | |
| Constructed Wetlands Bibliography: List of printed books and documents related to the construction of wetlands (U.S. Department of Agriculture) | |
| El Niño Online Meteorology Guide (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | |
| Global Hydrology & Climate Center: A joint venture between government & academia to study the global water cycle & its effect on climate | |
| Global Warming (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) | |
| Meteorological Service of Canada (Environment Canada, Government of Canada) | |
| NOAA Paleoclimatology Program: Data & software on climate changes of the past (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration) | |
| WINDandSEA: The Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences Internet Locator | |
Hydrology | ||
| Focus: International Joint Commission | |
| Global Hydrology & Climate Center: A joint venture between government & academia to study the global water cycle & its effect on climate | |
| Great Lakes Hydraulics & Hydrology Home Page (Detroit District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) | |
| Great Lakes Information Network | |
| Level News (Environment Canada, Great Lakes Water Level Communication Centre) | |
| Natural Resources Research Information Pages | |
| Water Words Dictionary: Browsable dictionary in PDF format (State Water Resources Control Board, California Environmental Policy Agency) | |
Geology | ||
| Cornell's Digital Earth: Mapping & synthesis of geographical information (Institute for the Study of the Continents, Cornell University) | |
| Earth & Mineral Science Library, Pennsylvania State University | |
| Geological Survey of Canada (Natural Resources Canada, Government of Canada) | |
| Global Volcanism Project (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution) | |
| Mineral Resources Program (U.S. Geological Survey) | |
| Mineralogy Database: Crystallography, X-Ray powder diffraction, chemical composition, physical & optical properties, & classifications of minerals | |
| National Earthquake Information Center: Searchable database of earthquakes (U.S. Geological Survey) | |
| National Geophysical Data Center | |
| Oceanography on the Net: Metasite (Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library, University of California-San Diego) | |
| Paleomap Project: Maps & animations showing plate tectonic development of the ocean basins & continents from the Late Precambrian to the present, as well as projections for 250 million years in the future | |
| Radiocarbon WEB-info: Theory & practice of radiocarbon dating (Waikato University, New Zealand) | |
| Review and Atlas of Palaeovegetation: Preliminary land ecosystem maps of the world since the Last Glacial Maximum (Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory) | |
| Selected Web Sites for Geoscientists (Stanford University Libraries) | |
| Structural Geology & Metamorphic Petrology on the WWW | |
| Topographic Map Symbols (U.S. Geological Survey) | |
| Toporama (Natural Resources Canada, Government of Canada) | |
| TopoZone: Interactive topographic maps of the United States | |
| U.S. Geological Survey | |
| West’s Geology Directory | |
Environment | ||
| AIRData: Data on air pollution (Office of Air Quality Planning & Standards, EPA) | |
| Earth Island Institute: Environmentalist organization | |
| EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal: Environmental data; free but requires registration (World Resources Institute) | |
| Envirolink | |
| Environmental Protection Agency | |
| National Library for the Environment | |
| Our Planet (United Nations Environmental Program) | |
| Superfund Program: Toxic waste site cleanup (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) | |
| World Research Institute: Environmental think tank | |
| World's Water: Information on the World's Freshwater Resources; also available in hardcopy in the Main Collection, call no. TD 345 .W674 | |
