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Academic Institutions

• Calif. Inst. of Technology Dept. of Environmental Engineering Science
• Calif. Inst. of Technology Div. of Geological & Planetary Sciences
• Caltech Dept. of Geol. & Planetary Scis. and Paleomagnetics Lab.
• City Univ. of NY Hunter College Dept. of Geology & Geography
• Desert Research Inst. University & Community College System of Nevada.
• ETHZ - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zürich
• Emory Univ. Geosciences Program.
• Geophys. Inst., Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks
• Harvard Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sci.
• James Cook Univ., Sch. of Earth Sciences
• Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. No provision for browsers without frames.
• Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC)
• Queens Univ. Dept. of Geography
• Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National Univ.
• San Francisco St. Univ.
• School of Env. Sciences, Univ. Of E Anglia
• Stanford Univ. School of Earth Sciences
• Swiss GeoWeb, Univ. of Basel
• Syracuse Univ. Dept. of Earth Sciences
• The Queen's Univ. of Belfast
• Univ. of Bern
• Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles, Dept. of Earth & Space Sciences
• Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara, Inst. for Computational Earth System Science
• Univ. of Calif., Santa Cruz, Earth Sciences & Inst. of Tectonics
• Univ. of Lausanne
• Univ. of Liverpool.
• Univ. of Maine Stable Isotope Laboratory
• Univ. of Mass.,Boston Environmental Science Program
• Univ. of S. Calif. Dept. of Earth Sciences
• Univ. of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology
• Univ. of Virgina, Dept. of Env. Sciences
• Univ. of Zürich
• Université de Genève Section des Sciences de la Terre
• Virtual Geomorphology

Commercial Sites

• Environmental Law World Wide Web Site

Data Archives

• CEOS IDN Datasets List. Holy cow, Batman! This is big. Takes forever to load and render, but worth it.
• Digital Geospatial Data Source Directory
• EOSDIS Information Management System
• ESA/ESRIN AVHRR Browser
• National Environmental Satellite, Data, & Information Service (NESDIS)
• National Geophysical Data Center
• UARS/ACRIM II Solar Data
• US Navy Master Environmental Library (MEL)
• Virtually Hawaii

Education Resources

• Earth Science Cybernaut
• EarthEd: Earth Science Education Resources
• New York Earth Science Teacher
• UCI SEP - Earth Science. Educational resources oriented.

Experiment or Project

• Earth Observing System (EOS) Project Science Office
• International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Science Initiative
• JPL Imaging Radar Home Page
• MESH, Marine aspects of Earth System History
• USGS AVHRR Guide.
• USGS Landsat Guide.
• Xerox PARC Map Viewer

Governments outside the US

• Atlantic Geoscience Center
• Australian Environmental Resources Information Network
• Canadian National Atlas Information Service
• Environment Canada - Bedford
• Environment Canada - Green Lane
• Environment Canada - Vancouver
• Environment Canada
• National Space Agency of Japan (NASDA)
• Natural Resources Canada

International Organizations

• Int. Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG).
• International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) is the international environmental agency for local governments.
• United Nations Environment Program.

Museums

• Illinois State Museum
• Provincial Museum of Alberta
• The Smithsonian Institution

Non-governmental Organizations

• CIESIN gateway system conducts searches of databases from one site.
• CIESIN. This site has a large collection of documents relating to climate change.
• United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)

Publications

• American Scientist
• Consequences - The Nature and Implications of Environmental Change
• Earth Interactions. Strange helper application required.
• Environmental Geology.
• Nature. People in the Americas should use the Americas site.
• Naturwissenschaften.
• Quaternary Research.
• The Arid Lands Newsletter
• AGU publications. Recent issues contents and abstracts.
• Earth Science Journal list
• Earth science journals online
• Elsevier earth & planetary science publications.
• Geoscience Information Mailing Lists
• NASA publications
• Quadrennial US Report to IUGG. Has a large number of very good review papers.
• WWW Virtual Library - Electronic Journals

Societies

• American Geophysical Union
• Webpages and gophers of scholarly societies from Univ. of Waterloo, Canada.

Software

• NCSA Hierarchical Data Format.
• The Soft Earth. A software companion to The Virtual Earth.

Tutorials and FAQs

• AGU's Science for Everyone page. Excellent articles on earth science from the American Geophysical Union.
• Global Environmental Policy Research Tools, Marcy Levy, Princeton
• Isogeochem page. Stable isotope geochemistry.
• Pamela Gore's virtual library
• Satellite Imagery FAQ. This is a very good resource.
• Talk.origins Archive Home Page
• Terrain Analysis Home Page. From Hunter college. A good introduction.

US Government Institutions

• Advanced Reservoir Management Proj., Earth & Environmental Sciences Div., Los Alamos Nat. Lab.
• Earth & Environmental Sciences Div., Los Alamos Nat. Lab.
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• NASA Earth Sciences Directorate
• NASA home page
• NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories
• NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory
• NOAA National Geophysical Data Center
• NOAA Space Environment Laboratory
• National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• National Science Foundation

Web Indexes

• Cornell Earth Science Resources on the Internet
• Dino Russ's Earth Science Links page
• Earth Science Resources: Geology, Oceanography, Astronomy & Ecology. A very eclectic collection of links.
• Environmental Sites on the Internet. A huge collection of environmental site pointers by Larsgöran Strandberg
• Eric Fookes's good links page
• Geo Exchange
• Geol. Surv. of Can., Atlantic, Earth Science Site of the Week. Formerly, Scott's ESSotW. Hasn't been updated for several months.
• Links to Great Earth-Science Resources Rates and describes sites well.
• On-Line Resources for Earth Scientists.
• Planet Earth
• Steve Baum's home page has a great selection of oceanography, meteorology, and climatology material. Plus stuff on Unix/Linux, WWW etc.
• Telson Spur: Earth History and Geography
• Texas A&M Univ. Geoscience Directory
• The Virtual Earth. This is the biggest, most complete earth science hotlist I know of.
• USGS Earth & Environmental Science Index
• USGS Earth & Environmental Science
• USGS Earth Science Index
• USGS Registry of Earth & Environmental Sciences Internet Resources
• Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara, Geology on the Web
• WWW Virtual Library - Cartography
• WWW Virtual Library - Earth Science
• WWW Virtual Library - Environment
• WWW Virtual Library - Remote Sensing
• Yahoo Earth Sciences Index

Usenet News Groups

• sci.answers
• sci.geo
• sci.geo.eos
• sci.geo.fluids
• sci.geo.satellite-nav

Parascientific Sites

• [S] National Wilderness Institute. A fake conservation group.
• [S] Ted Holden. Catastrophism. Carboniferous Man.

Paul D. Farrar

Last updated 17 Jul 03