There are seven parts to this web page:

• Picture of the Day (a continuing event)
• General Science links
  
• General Earth Science links
• Links that are strictly Oceanographic in nature
• Links to Atmospheric Science
• Links to Space Science
• Links to Dinosaurs
• Parks!
• Glide mail
  

Picture of the Day

• Space Shuttle and Space Station against the Sun
• Cat Chases Bear
• Chris Bliss - don't even ask, just watch it.
• Fire Rainbow
• Greg and the House Finch
• Bo Diddley, 12/30/1928-6/2/2008
  
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• The Scientific Method:
• http://www.physics.smu.edu/~pseudo/SciMeth/
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• TheEvolution/Creationism/Intelligent Design Controversy:
• Web Resources:
  
• TalkOrigins - a useful clearinghouse of information about the controversey from a science-based perspective
• Index to Creationist Claims
• TalkDesign
• TalkReason
  
• Blogs:
• Antievolution.org
• Panda's Thumb
• Do ID and Creationism qualify as Science?
• How Do You Teach Evolution?
• Science v Intelligent Design
• “Neil Shubin: Your Inner fish”
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• Science Avenger
• Cranks
• Meyers vs. Simmons Debate
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• Questionable Authority
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• Pharyngula
•  The choanoflagellate genome and metazoan evolution
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• Organizations:
• National Academy of Sciences
• Resources
  
• National Center for Science Education
• Florida Citizens for Science
• Other websites:
  
• Jill Schneider, Lehigh University

• US

• National Park Services / National Forest websites	US National Parks websites	Some of my photos of these areas (in progress)
  Appalachicola/Ocala/Osceola Nat. Forests		Photos
  Arcadia	also
  Big Bend	also
  Blue Ridge Parkway
  Bryce Canyon	also
  Cape Hatteras Nat'l Seashore
  Capitol Reef	also
  Carlsbad Caverns	also
  Colorado Nat'l Monument
  Grand Canyon	also
  Great Smoky Mountains	also
  Guadalupe Mountains	also
  Kings Canyon
  Mammoth Caves	also
  Mt. Lassen Volcanic	also
  Mt. Rushmore
  Mt. Shasta
  Petrified Forest/Painted Desert	also
  Point Reyes Nat'l Seashore	also
  Rocky Mountain	also
  Sequoia
  Yosemite	also
  Zion	also

• Canada
• Ellesmere Island
• French Polynesia
• Tahiti
• Moorea
• 
  

• http://www.heptune.com/geosong.html#GEOLOGY SONGS
• http://www.heptune.com/chemtale.html
• Strange Science
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• http://college.cengage.com/geology/resources/geologylink/glossary.html

• Scientific American:  http://www.sciam.com/
• National Geographic

• The Learning Channel: start with the Discovery channel - it seems to be a subsidiary.
• The Discovery Channel: http://www.discovery.com/

• Classes on Geology:
• Geological images from Geology 326, Cornell University
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• Minerals
• Mineral Evolution through Earth's history
  
• Mineral identification key
• Rocks:
• Igneous and Volcanic Rocks
• Information about the eruption of Nyamuragira
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• Volcano World
• A great USGS site showing pictures of many Volcanic rocks and features
• Sedimentary Rocks
• Metamorphic Rocks
• Volcanos (Thanks to Michelle Varrichione)
  
• Eruption of Stromboli
• http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/070228_stromboli_volcano.html
• http://inst.sfcollege.edu/~gmead/igrks/StromboliEruption.htm
• Caves:
• The world's largest cave (Vietnam)

• http://imgur.com/a/Ja86I

• http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090724-biggest-cave-vietnam/

• Huge crystals (Mexico)
• http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/photogalleries/giant-crystals-cave/
  

• Earth Structure
• Santa Fe Community College
• Volcano World
• Earthquakes
• USGS Earthquake website
• Continental Margins - a short page I set up to describe some of the important points about Continental Margins
• Structural Geology
• Isostacy:
• http://discoverourearth.org/student/isostasy.html
  

• Sedimentation
• Sediment Types
• Evaporites from the Univ. of British Columbia
• Marine Sedimentation
• http://rmocfis.uprm.edu/~morelock/sedimt.htm
• For another excellent Marine Sediments website, click here
• Geologic Time
• USGS Online Book
• Unconformities
• A variety of images of structures including unconformities from Duke University
• Univ. of Northern Colorado unconformity web site - diagrams of development of unconformities.
• Iowa State Univ. unconformity website
• Univ. of Oregon unconformity web site - images of various types of unconformities.
• The actual unconformity first recognized by Hutton.
• Glacial Ice
• Vostok Ice Core
• Tree Rings
• Bristlecone Pinetree link
• Bristlecone Pine links
• Bristlecone Pines at Inyo National Forest
• Univ. of Manitoba link
• Ball State University Tree Ring link
• Univ. of Tennessee Tree Ring Link
• Varves
• Univ. of Indiana link
• Butler Lake, Ontario
• Glaciers - run by Rice University
• Plate Tectonics
• New ocean opening in African Rift Valley - CNN
• Watch Continental Drift as it happens!
• Plate Tectonics - This link includes an optional animated view of the earth over the last 750 million years - terrific (but loads slowly).
• Paleomap Project
• Volcano World's PT link
• Understanding plate motions [This Dynamic Earth, USGS]
• USGS Plate Tectonics Site
• Ocean Basins
• Ocean Floor without Ocean Crust? (Thanks to Nate McLaughlin)
  
• http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/gg/classroom@sea/JC007/
• http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070306/ap_on_sc/seabed_expedition
• Atolls
• Charles Darwin's theory of Atoll Formation
• http://www.harper.cc.il.us/mhealy/g101ilec/pacific/pad/paphys/Darwin.html
• http://www.ucr.edu/h-gig/maps/beagle4.html
• http://geoclio.st.usm.edu/darwin.html
• http://www.seaworld.org/coral_reefs/coralcr.html
• Volcano World

The world cruise of the (my cousin Lisa and her family)

Publications:

• National Geographic November Issue - includes Maui Waves
• Scientific American Presents: Exploring the Ocean Planet (No link here (but see below), but it's a great issue if you can find it - late 1998)

Topical Material:

• El Nino, La Nina, and ENSO
• Deep Circulation of the Oceans - especially the Antarctic
• Waves- the National Geographic November '98 issue.
• Surfing
• The Physics of Surfing
• Physics of Surfing
• Hydrodynamics of Surfboards
• Discovery Big Wave Surfing
• Discovery Year of Big Waves
  
• TIDES & TIDE PREDICTION (contributed by an OCE2005 student!)
• Mid Ocean Ridge Hydrothermal Vent Communities:
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal_vent
• http://www.ridge2000.org/SEAS/for_students/reference/hydrothermal_vent_intro.html
• http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/nemo/explorer/concepts/hydrothermal.html
• http://www-v1.amnh.org/nationalcenter/expeditions/blacksmokers/black_smokers.html
• Very weird Benthic community beneath the Weddell Sea ice shelf - 2021
  
Taxonomy
• http://earth.jnfs.com/learn
• http://fwie.fw.vt.edu/WWW/macsis/list.htm
• http://www.AnimalDiversity.com
• http://www.biol.andrews.edu/everglades/
• http://www.biomescenter.com/animals.htm
• http://www.cephnet.com/taxonomy
• http://www.dnr.state.md.us/education/completelist.html
• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects
• http://www.marlin.ac.uk/baski/baski_sp_home.htm
• http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/18/8/1484
• http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/c/d/cdg148/
• http://www.tigerhomes.org/animal
• http://www.wikipedia.com
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International Year of the Ocean (IYO):

• US IYO: http://www.yoto98.noaa.gov
• UN IYO: http://ioc.unesco.org/iyo
• American Ocean Campaign: http://www.americanoceans.org
• US National Park Service: http://www.nps.gov/scru/home.htm
• National Marine Sancutaries: http://www.nos.noaa.gov/ocrm/nmsp
• Ocean 98: http://www.ocean98.org/ocean98.html
Aquariums:
• Aquarium links: http://www.aza.org
• Aquarium of the Americas: http://www.auduboninstitute.org
• Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific: http://www.aquariumofpacific.org
• Monterey Bay Aquarium: http://www.mbayaq.org
• Mystic Aquarium: http://www.mysticaquarium.org
• National Aquarium in Baltimore: http://www.aqua.org
• New England Aquarium (Boston): http://www.neaq.org
• Oceans Pavilion: http://www.expo98.pt/en/pavoceanos.html
• Tennesse Aquarium: http://www.tennis.org
• IMAX: http://www.imax.com
Museums:
• Independence Seaport Museum: http://www.scat.temple.edu/seaport
• The Mariner's Museum: http://www.mariner.org
• Mystic Seaport: http://www.mysticseaport.org
• San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park: http://www.maritime.org
• Maritime museum links:
• http://www.bobhudson.com/Smiths/index.html
• http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/www/Nautica/pointers/Museums.html
Plankton:
• http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/plankton.html
• http://www.geocities.com:0080/RainForest/Canopy/6364/plankton.html
Reefs:
• Coral Cay Conservation: http://www.coralcay.org
• Reef Ball Development Group: http://www.reefball.com
• Reef education guide: http://www.reef.org
• Project AWARE: http://www.projectaware.org
Scuba Diving:
• NAUI: http://www.naui.org
• PADI: http://www.padi.com
• SSI: http://www.ssiusa.com
• YMCA: http://www.ymcascuba.org
Sharks:
• Great white shark stories: http://www.greendivers.com
• Hydrosphere expeditions: http://www.hydrosphere-expedition.com
• Mike Ball Dive Expeditions: http://www.mikeball.com/great_white.html
• San Deigo Shark Diving Expeditions: http://www.sdsharkdiving.com
• Shark bytes and links: http://www.sharkbites.com
• Shark Research Institute: http://www.sharks.org
• Stuart Cove's Dive South Ocean: http://www.stuartcove.com
Submersibles, habitats and space:
• Aquarius understa habitat: http://www.uncwil.edu/nurc/aquarius
• Atlantis Submarines: http://www.goatlantis.com
• BBC graphic and videos of the ocean at various depths: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17013285
  
• Clips of deep-sea vents: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/geology.video.html
• Jules' Undersea Lodge: http://www.jul.com
• Ocean from space: http://www.eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/eos_homepage/images.html
• US submarine tourist information: http://ussubs.com
• Zegrahm DeepSea Voyages: http://www.deepseavoyages.com
Whales, Dolphins, and Manatees:
• American Cetacean Society: http://www.acsonline.org
• Dolphin Quest: http://www.dolphinquest.org
• Manatees:
•     http://www.wwclyde.com/manateejunction
•     http://www.adventurequest.com/adven/nature.htm
• Mirage Hotel: http://www.mirage.com
• Oceanic Society Expeditions: http://www.oceanic-society.org
• Sea Shepherd Conservation Society: http://www.seashepherd.org
• Whaleclub: http://www.whaleclub.com
• Wildquest: http://www.wildquest.com
• World Wide Web Virtual Library - Whalewatching: http://www.physics.helinski.fi/whale
• Exploding whales!:
•  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27210992
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2CfYOJ5oxk
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_t44siFyb4
  
Youth:
• ExploraMar: http://www.exploramar.com
• Jason Project: http://www.jasonproject.org
• Outward Bound: http://www.outwardbound.org
• School for Field Studies: http://www.fieldstudies.org
• Sea Education Association: http://www.sea.edu

• Notes from Greg's 2009 talk during the national Global Climate Teach-In
  
• The Radiation Balance
• UC San Diego
• Cal State Long Beach
• Winds and maps
• http://hint.fm/wind/
• https://earth.nullschool.net/
  

• The Ozone Hole
• Cambridge
• US EPA
• NASA
• The Earth from Space
• Day (a NASA website)
• Night (a NASA website)
• Elevation (a NASA website)
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• Media
• Picture of the Day (a NASA website)
• Sky and Telescope Magazine:  http://www.skypub.com/
• Topical Material:
• A great site showing how science, especially astronomy, is misinterpreted, sometimes deliberately - badastronomy.com
• Ask An Astronomer (maintained by NASA)
• History of Astronomy
• Galileo
• http://astroblogger.blogspot.com/2008/04/so-much-irony-so-little-time.html
  
• Red Shift
• Astronomy 100 - UMass
• Center for Particle Astrophysics Doppler Shift site - UCBerkely
• Doppler Shift site - UCLA
• Hubble Space telescope:
• NASA HST Archive System
• Hubble Space Telescope Images
• The Best of the Hubble Space Telescope Images
• The solar system
• Nine Planets - UArizona
• GLG101 - Northern Arizona Univ.
• ES10 - UCSD
• NASA images of Mars
• Origin of the Solar System:
• http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~lah/starformation.html
• Origin of the Solar System - from Santa Fe Community College
• AST161: The Solar System - from Journey Through Astronomy
• EAS101 - Community College of Baltimore County
• A Star is Born - Penn State
• AST103 - George Mason Univ.
• AST121 - UOregon
• AST221 - Case Western Reserve Univ.
• Extra Solar Planets:
• http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070424/ap_on_sc/habitable_planet;_ylt=AlDwt0MOR8oaqf_XpsBWz1es0NUE
  

• Other Dino Classes:
• Columbia University
• Evolution
• Charles Darwin
• http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/charles_darwin/voyage_of_beagle/
• http://www.ucr.edu/h-gig/maps/beagle4.html

• Links to many different Museums and Parks with Dinosaur exhibits
• Dinosaur State Park, Rocky Hill, CT
• Grand Canyon Natioal Park, AZ
• http://www.kaibab.org/home.htm
• Chamber of Commerce's Grand Canyon site
• National Park Service's Grand Canyon site
• Commercial Grand Canyon site