Online Reference Material for the Earth Sciences

 Click for meteorological links, medical links, astronomical links, or use the resources below.

Disaster Information

Current Events

Reference material

Images

UC Boulder Natural Hazards Center

Recent Seismic Activity

Houghton Mufflin Geological Glossary

The Vermont Landscape Change Program

USGS Natural Hazards Gateway

Weekly Report of Volcanic Activity

Volcanology photo glossary

NASA Visible Earth

EPA EnviroMapper

West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center

USGS glossaries

Astronomy Picture of the Day

AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment

Pacific Tsunami Warning Center

USGS Glacial Glossary

NOAA Hazard Images

Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration

Local Geology Events

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

NOAA Significant Event Imagery

NASA Earth Observatory

Science events and conferences

NationMaster.com

Earth Science World Image Bank

NASA Disaster Finder

Vermont Geological Society

Acme Mapper

Earth Revealed online video series

NOAA Storm event database

Space weather

Directory of Open Access Journals

Earth Science Picture of the Day

TerraServer USA

EPA: Surf your watershed

GIS data online

 Remote Sensing Resources

USGS Water Resources

 Earthweek: A Diary of the Planet

Army Corps of Engineers Manuals  

NASA TV (live) 

United Nations' Relief Web

Global Disaster Watch

Science at NASA

MSN Virtual Earth 

 Ocean World

EurekAlert! from AAAS

Google Scholar

Google Hybrid Map
 MIT Open Courseware

Google Suggest

Earth Science World Image Bank
Quantitative Environmental Learning Project

The National Academies

Gateway to Astronaut Photography
Environmental Research Foundation

The US Geological Survey

 

 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

JSC Library

 

SCIRUS: Comprehensive science-specific search engine

 

Mark Francek's links to earth science web sites

 

Unit Conversions

 

Climate Issues and Weather

Real Climate

Carbon Monitoring for Action

Earth Trends: Environmental Information 

Unisys Weather

National Snow and Ice Data Center

 StopGlobalWarming.Org

 National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Weather Underground

Focus the Nation

An Inconvenient Truth

The Future of Coal (a study by the MIT)

NOAA National Weather Service

 New England Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Stephen Schneider,
Stanford University

National Weather Service Glossary

US Weather Pages

US Global Change Research Program (GCRP)

GCRP Synthesis and Assessment Products

Hurricane tracks by Unisys

Intellicast

NWS/NHC Tropical Prediction Center

UV Index

 

Medical Issues

Medical

Health Info.

Agencies

Misc.

Global Disease Alerts

TOXNET: Toxicology Data Network

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Encyclopedia of Life

Global Incident Map

Chemical ID Plus

Disease Database

Biomedical References: PubMed

Household Products Database

National Pesticide Information Center

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

CSPI Guide to Food Additives (and here)

Emerging Contaminants in the Environment

IATP Food and Health

 

News Headlines from SPACE.com


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