Internet Resources For
The Earth and Environmental Sciences





These listings are maintained by
Professor Vic DiVenere
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
C.W. Post Campus - Long Island University

Please let me know if any of these links fail to work
Send email to: divenere@phoenix.liu.edu

general geosciences
natural history museums
NY and LI geology and environment
evolution and life on earth
dinosaurs
climate change
exploration geophysics
conservation
the environment
minerals, rocks, geochemistry, dating
volcanoes
earthquakes
structural geology
plate tectonics and the earth's interior
asteroids and meteorites
mass wasting
groundwater resources
streams, floods, and water resources
shore processes and sea level rise
deserts and desertification
glaciers, the arctic and antarctic
maps, GIS, remote sensing
virtual field trips

 

General Geoscience Sites

Geoscience Information Center: Scripps Institution of Oceanography

American Geological Institute

U.S. Geological Survey

Glossary of Geologic Terms: Iowa State Univ. Dept. of Geology

textbooks

"Earth System History," Stanley

"Understanding Earth," Press and Siever

Web Book on Physical Geography

Geology Link

Natural History Museums

American Museum of Natural History, New York

National Museum of Natural History, Washington

University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley

Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History

New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science

Virginia Museum of Natural History, Charlottesville

Natural History Museum of London

New York and Long Island Geology and Environment

Long Island Environment

Long Island Geology

Long Island Groundwater Geology

Geologic History of Long Island

Geology and Geography of New York Bight Beaches

Geologic History of Harriman and Bear Mountain State Park, NY

Life on Earth

Artist's Illustrations of Prehistoric Life: From Devonian Fishes, Through Dinosaurs, to Wooly Mammoths

Paleontology (Museum of Paleontology, UC Berkeley)

Weird Fossil Menagerie: Yale University

Fossils: UC Berkeley

Echinoids: Natural History Museum of London

Trilobites

Human Origins: National Museum of Natural History

Comparison of Modern Human and Neanderthal Skulls

Neanderthal Man

Tree of Life

Neogene (last 25 m.y.) Marine Biota of Tropical America

Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Database

North American Mammalian Databases

Species 2000: Indexing the World's Known Species

Biodiversity Links: Science

Animal Diversity Web

E-Quarium: marine life and habitats of California: Monterey Bay Aquarium

The Cephalopod Page

Mammalian Fossil Locations

Microbes of Midocean Ridge Hydrothermal Vents

Foraminifera and Other Marine Microfossils

Plant Trivia Timeline

Plankton

Dinosaurs

National Museum of Natural History Dinosaur Web Site

BBC Dinosaurs Homepage

Dino Russ's Lair

Dinosauria On-Line

Dinosaur mailing list

Climate Change

Gateway to Global Change Data: US Global Change Data and Information System

Trends Online: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Lab

Climate Modelling Vizualization Gallery: National Center for Atmospheric Research

Pacific Decadal Oscillation: a slower El Nino - like variation in the Pacific

Global Meltdown: State of the Cryosphere: overview of glacial melting

Paleoclimate and Global Warming - Climate of Recent Millenia

Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (ARM)

Clues from Coral Reefs for Global Climate Change

Antarctic Meltdown?

The Environment

USGS/Landsat: Earthshots

Sea surface phytoplankton mapping

NASA Earth Observatory: sattelite views of the Earth

Images from Terra, NASA's flagship Earth Observation Satellite

Operational Significan Event Imagery: NOAA (satellite images of significant environmental events)

Population, Earth Science, and Environmental Data and Map Overlays: Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center: Columbia University

Environmental Change in West Africa: U.S. Agency for International Development

Environmental Esterogens; Biological Effects of Endocrine Disrupters

About Transgenic Crops: Colorado State University crop sciences

Web Atlas of Cancer Incidence: National Cancer Institute

Red Tides: The Harmful Algae Page: Woods Hole

The Arsenic Website Project: Harvard University

U.S. Public Health Statistics County by County

Environmental Cyber Library

Low Dose Radiation Risks

National Fire Danger Rating System

CNIE National Library for the Environment

Chemical Cleanup by Biodegredation: Univ. Minnesota

Global Climate Data (animations of seasonal changes): Univ. Oregon

Photos of Wetlands: Millenium Wetland Event

Ultraviolet Radiation and Ozone Depletion Sites

The Effects of UV Radiation on Phytoplankton

USDA UV-B Monitoring Program

Ozone Depletion and Increased UV Radiation

The EPA's Ozone Depletion Page

Ozone Maps of the Northern Hemisphere from the World Meteorological Organization

WMO Antarctic Ozone Bulletins

Stratospheric Ozone Web Site

Environmental Protection Agency
 
National Science Foundation
 
Department of Energy
 
Deparment of Agriculture
 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Surface Radiation Network
 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Climate Modeling and Diagnostic Laboratory
 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Integrated Surface Irradiance Study

Conservation

Endangered Species: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Endangered Species, etc.: World Conservation Monitoring Centre

The Red List (authoritative list of threatened species): World Conservation Union

NatureServ Database of North American Biodiversity: Association for Biodiversity Information

Ecological Economics: computer model in online article: online journal Conservation Ecology

Center for Energy and Climate Research: Report: U.S. energy consumption dropping b/c of online shopping

Consumption Calculator: quantities of materials, and energy resulting from producing things and services

World Energy Assessment Report: "World's Current Energy System Unsustainable"

All About Renewable Energy, from DOE, National Renewable Energy Lab

Energy Stats: Energy Information Administration, DOE

Fuel Cells: Los Alamos National Lab

Fuel Cells 2000

Fuel Cells: HyWeb, Fuel Cells in Germany

Energy Quest: precollege energy education, California Energy Commission

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna

World Demographic Database: U.S. Census Bureau

Earth Materials: Elements, Minerals, Rocks, Geochemistry, Dating

Microscopic Views of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks

Earth and its Elements: Geochemistry Links

Crystal Lattice Structures

Mineralogy Database

Minerals: Amethyst Galleries, Inc.

Mohs Hardness Scale
Minerals Listed by Class
Minerals Listed by Name

Radiocarbon Dating

Periodic Table of Elements

(another) Periodic Table of Elements

Table of Isotopes: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Volcanoes

Alaska Volcano Observatory

The Electronic Volcano

Terrestrial Volcanoes

Hawaiian Volcanoes

Cascades Volcano Observatory

Hawaii's Center for Volcanology

Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone National Park

Volcanoes (Michigan Technological University)

Japan's Volcano Research Center

Volcano World


Geophysics

Introduction to Exploration Geophysics: Colorado School of Mines

Earthquakes

Seismic Hazard Maps

National Earthquake Information Center

Clearinghouse for Seismic Data: IRIS

San Andreas Fault: San Francisco Exploratorium

U.S. Geological Survey, Pasadena, CA

U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA

Caltech Seismological Laboratory

Southern California Seismic Network

Arizona Seismic Observatory

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Center for Earthquake Research and Information

Images of Earthquake Destruction: National Information Serviec for Earthquake Engineering

Earthquake Maps on the Web

Tsunami

Seismology and Earthquake Information

Carleton University's Recent Global Events

August 1999 Earthquake in Turkey

Structural Geology

California Faults

Black Hills Stratigraphy and Structure

Plate Tectonics and the Earth's Interior

Paleomap Project: Paleogeographic Reconstructions

Plate Motion Calculator

Plate Tectonics

Mid-Ocean Ridge Vent Life: Pictures from the submersible, Alvin)

The Ocean Drilling Program - ODP

Ocean Drilling Program Research Vessel, the JOIDES Resolution

National Geophysical Data Center - Marine Geology and Geophysics

National Geophysical Data Center - Seafloor Images

Earth's Interior

Earth's Interior and Plate Tectonics

Asteroids, Meteorites, Extraterrestrials (?)

Near Earth Orbiting Objects Tracking

Near-Earth Object Program: NASA-JPL

Tunguska Siberia, 1908 Fireball: Site revisited, 1999

Gigantic Gallery of Meteorite Images

Canadian Meteorites

Classes of Meteorites

Martian Meteorites: NASA

Astrobiology: NASA

Astrobiology Web

Mass Wasting

FEMA Fact Sheet: Landslides

US National Landslide Information Center

Ground Water Reseources

EcoNet: Seas and Waters

SW Texas University: The Edwards Aquifer

National Climatic Data Center

National Water Data Exchange

USGS: Water Resources of the US

Your Home Septic System, State of Florida, (1)

Your Home Septic System, State of Florida, (2)

Behavior of Effluent Constituents in Soil

On-Site Wastewater Disposal Systems (Septic Systems), State of Virigina

Colorado State Univiversity's Water Knowledge Site

Streams, Floods, and Water Resources

USGS: Water Resources of the US

USGS Daily Streamflow Data

USGS Stream-Gaging Program

USGS Stream-Gaging and Flood Forecasting

Dartmouth Flood Observatory

University of Kentucky: Daily Flood Summary

Earthsat's Floodwatch

National Flood Insurance Program

Federal Emergancy Management Agency (FEMA): flood facts

FEMA: Flood Backgrounder

FEMA: Map Service

Glossary of Water Resource Terms

Encyclopedia of Water Terms

Shore Processes and Sea Level Rise

Glossary of Coastal Terminology

US Environmental Protection Agency

Tides Online: NOAA

NOAA: marshlands

NOAA: sea level

NOAA: sea level rise

US Geological Survey: coastal and nearshore

Sea Surface and Sea Level

IUCC Fact Sheet 102

Florida Coast

Coastal and Hydraulics Lab: US Army Corps of Engineers

Coastal Erosion and Erosion Control Technologies: Holmberg Technologies, Inc.

Deserts and Desertification

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Information Unit on Climate Change (IUCC)

US Geological Survey

National Geophyusical Data Center of NOAA

CIESIN Thematic Guides

Mbnet Linkages

White Sands National Monument

National Air and Space Museum: Drylands

Discovery: the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s

Wind Erosion Research, University of Kansas

Environmental Change in West Africa: U.S. Agency for International Development

Aeolian Processes on Mars

Glaciers, the Arctic and Antarctic

National Snow and Ice Data Center: Glaciers

U.S. Geological Survey: Glaciers of the World

Snow Crystal Research: pictures of perfectly grown snow crystals

Monitoring Glacial Retreat and Advance From Space: Glacier Bay

NASA: Visualization of Glacier Changes

Arctic Theme Page: NOAA

Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska

Blackcomb Glaciers, British Columbia

Trapridge Glacier Research, British Columbia

University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute

American Geophysical Union, Earth in Space

Maps, GIS, and Remote Sensing

Tapestry of Time and Terrain; geologic and topographic map of the U.S.: US Geological Survey

National Geologic Map Database: US Geological Survey

Day/Night Map of the Earth, Moon Phases, etc.

State Geological Maps

Seismic Hazard Maps

Digital Earth: Cornell online digital maps (java required)

Paleomap Project: Paleogeographic Reconstructions

National Geographic Map Machine

Dynamic Map: U. Pitt.

GPS Links: U. Pitt.

Web Atlas of Cancer Incidence: National Cancer Institute

World Population Maps: National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis

Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (Feb 11 - 22, 2000): Topographic Images

More Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Images

John's Hopkins Remote Sensing Gallery

Landsat 7 Earth Observing Satellite Images

High Resolution Radar Images of Antarctica

Virtual Field Trips

Virtual Geology Field Trips: University of Houston

Virtual Geology Field Trips: smc.edu

A Geologist's Lifetime Field List photo gallery

Canadian Landscapes and Geologic Features