earth science links
Earth
Science Australia's Selected External Links Listings by General Topic
Go to Dinosaurs and Marine Reptiles
Go to Remote Sensing
Go to Weather and Climate
Go to Crustal Movement and Changes
Go to Space Science
Go to Mineralogy / Caves
Go to Classic Fossil Sites
Go to Glaciers
Go to Good General Interest links
Special Link -Wind
Power from Denmark
- excellent site on all aspects of windpower
http://www.windpower.dk/tour/index.htm
Want
to know what wonderful things Australian Scientists have
achieved?
visit
Bright
Sparks
and find out what 3000 Austalian Scientists are doing.
http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/bsparcshome.htm
Dinosaurs and Marine Reptiles
Marine Reptiles (NOT Dinosaurs)
http://www.alphalink.com.au/~dannj/marine.htm
- lots of information on ichthyosaurs, pliosaurs...
Dann's Dinosaur Reconstructions
http://dannsdinosaurs.terrashare.com
/ -lots of reconstructions of Australian Dinosaurs
Dinosaur Dreaming
http://www.earth.monash.edu.au/dinodream/
- Australian Dinosaurs at Monash University
Beri's Dinosaur World
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/1638/contents.html
Palaeontology
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/subway/subway.htmlmany links
Dinosaurs
http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/isgsroot/dinos/dinos_home.html
Dinosaurs- Museum of Victoria
http://pioneer.mov.vic.gov.au/dinoExhibit/safari.html
History of Dinosaur Collecting
Paper Dinosaurs, 1824-1969
Remote Sensing
See a satellite's view of Earth http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html
Earthshots satellite images of environmental change http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/tableofcontents
Weather and Climate
El Nino Effect
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino/
Palaeoclimate
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov:80/paleo/
Australian Severe Weather
http://australiasevereweather.com
Climate and Weather Atlas of Australia
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~michaelt/front.html
Tsunami Resources
http://earthview.sdsu.edu/trees/waves.html a list of tidal wave sites
Crustal Movement and Changes
Plate Tectonics from the acclaimed USGS site
http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html or
get the images from this site without the overseas link from us plate.html
Volcanos
World Volcanoes
www.worldvolcanoes.info
VolcanoWorld
http://www.volcanoworld.org/ try free volcano simulation software from Earth Science Australia
Mass Movements Homepage
http://members.tripod.com/~Jenn2000/main.html landslides, rockslips...
Space Science
American Meteor Society
http://www.amsmeteors.org
Nine Planets
http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp
Hitchhikers Guide
to the Moon
- everything
you want to know about the moon
http://www.shallowsky.com/moon/hitchhiker.html
Build
a solar System -make
a scale model of a solar system
- requires java
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/index.html
The
World's Largest Model of a solar system
http://lydia.bradley.edu/las/phy/solar_system.html
The
Solar System Live -
shows what planets are visible
at
your latitude and longitude in live time
- requires java http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Solar
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html
Powers of Ten -based on the multi-award winning video
of the same name uses powers of ten to zoom outwards from a scene on earth
to the edge of the universe
then zooms back in to the original scene
then continues downwards to the sub-atomic level
http://www.wordwizz.com/pwrsof10.htm
Terrestrial Impact Craters and Their Environmental Effects
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/SIC/impact_cratering/intro/
The environmental and biological consequences of cratering.
The Basics of Space Flight
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/
A slick introduction into the basics of space flight.
Multiwavelength Astronomy
http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/Outreach/Multiwave/
Overview of astronomy at all wavelengths.
Atmospheric Optics
http://www.atoptics.co.uk
Learn about and simulate rainbows, halos, glories, coronas and more.
Mineralogy / Caves
Mineralogy Database
http://web.wt.net/~daba/Mineral/
very comprehensive
http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/links.html
good teaching resource
http://un2sg1.unige.ch/www/athena/mineral/mineral.html
huge but slow
-try free mineral identification software from Earth Science Australia
much better
Description and Classification of Sedimentary Rocks
http://www-geology.ucdavis.edu/~gel109l/lab2.html
All about caves
http://www.goodearth.com/virtcave.html
Classic Fossil Sites
A Guide to the Orders of Trilobites
All aspects of the biology and classification of trilobites, including morphology, ecology, localities, reproduction, development, behavior, biostratigraphy ...
http://www.trilobites.info/
Life History and Ecology of Trilobites
Most trilobites lived in fairly shallow water and were benthic; they walked on the ... Cambrian and Ordovician trilobites generally lived in shallow water
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropoda/trilobita/trilobitalh.html
Australian Trilobites
Amateur fossil collector-seller of trilobites from the Lower Cambrian deposits of South Australia.
http://info.esc.net.au/~dasimpson/
Ediacara -Australia
http://www.ediacara.org/ediacara.html
Burgess Shales -Canada
http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~macrae/Burgess_Shale/
http://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cambrian/burgess.html
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/shale/pfoslidx.htm
Chengjiang Deposits - China
http://park.org/Canada/Museum/burgessshale/chengjiang.html
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v430/n6998/abs/nature02648.html
http://www.wf.carleton.ca/Museum/burgessshale/chengjiang.htm
Crinoid
http://geowww.gcn.uoknor.edu/WWW/Geol/kidd/crinoid.html
Fossil collecting in the Lower Jurassic
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~gcaselton/fossil/fossil.html
Jurassic Field Trips
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/fld.htm
Green River Formation Fossils
http://www.rof.net/wp/rgreg/rgregfos2.html
T. rex surfs the web -Museum of Victoria
http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/dinoExhibit/tyrannosaurus.htmlgood T.Rex links site
Archyaeopteryx
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/archaeopteryx/challenge.html
all you really want to know about this famous dinosaur/bird link
Glaciers
Glacial Geology
http://www.uc.edu/www/geology/faculty/lowell.htmlGlaciers
http://www.nsidc.colorado.edu/NSIDC/EDUCATION/GLACIERS
Good general interest links
Matt Rosenberg's Geography Page
http://geography.about.com/
Andrew Alden's Geology Page
http://geology.about.com
Rockhounds USA
http://www.rahul.net/infodyn/rockhounds/rockhounds.html
lots of links for fossils / photos/ software Geography World
http://members.aol.com/bowermanb/101n.html
-some great physical geography links Teaching Resources in Earth Science http://earthview.sdsu.edu/trees/trees.html
some good hands on activities but don't bother with the links they are far too general
- some useful primary/junior secondary lessons and demonstrations
The Image
http://www.theimage.com/
images of rocks/minerals etc.
The Geology of the Kingdom of Zanskar
- the highest permanently populated place on earth- only accessable by a considerable journey on foot
-the scarcity of cultivable land also implies that the population has to remain stable.
-- rather efficient birth control system in Zanskar was achieved
by the common practice of polyandrous marriage
(several brothers are married to the same wife)
and the widespread adoption of celibate religious life.
Online Extreme Environments Articles
- articles on life forms found in extreme environments, ot springs, under glaciers, undersea volcanos ... http://www.lyon.edu/webdata/users/dthomas/astrobiology/online_articles2.html
For a free counter for
your website try:
http://www.bcentral.com/fastcounter/
gopher://wiretap.spies.com/00/Library/Document/geologic.tbl Mineral Gallery
http://mineral.galleries.com/
presented by Amethyst Galleries, Inc.,
is a database of mineral descriptions and images for rockhounds,
educators, and geology students everywhere.
This database includes physical characteristics and common associations,
and some of the indexes provide educational material.
Dinosaurs in Hawaii!
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/dinos/dinos.1.html
Berkeley Paleontology Museum
http://ucmp1.berkeley.edu/
The Science Behind Jurassic Park
http://infolane.com/infolane/apunix/sci-jur.html
DNA to Dinosaurs!
http://www.bvis.uic.edu/museum/
World Weather Maps
http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/
Basics of Space Flight
http://oel-www.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/bsf.htm
This training module introduces concepts associated with these basics
to employees new to the space flight operations environment.
This module is the first in a sequence of training modules that
pertain to space flight operations activities.
Humans in Space
http://medlib.jsc.nasa.gov/intro/humans.html examines the question
in more detail and provides an introduction to the basic problems
and theories of space biomedical research.
NASA Images
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/html/home.htm from the Image Sciences Division of NASA's
Johnson Space Center.
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/jsc/home.html
and Cornell University. SPIF has over a hundred thousand images returned
from the United States planetary exploration program. The collection encompasses
images from the earliest Ranger photographs of the Moon through the most recent data returned from the Voyager encounter with Neptune; the Magellan Venus mapping mission; and the Galileo flybys
of Venus, Earth, and the asteroids Gaspra and Ida.
Data are constantly being included as they become available.
make maps easy to read and to use.
It was conducted at University College London,
at the Royal College of Art and at the University of Nottingham.
http://www.utexas.edu/
Computer Science and Geography at Virginia Tech http://gopher.vt.edu/