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Science /////// Ask a Geologist email your questions to: ask-a-geologist@octopus.wr.usgs.gov Ask geology related questions and you'll have answers and pointers sent back to you within 2-4 days. Neat! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Interactive Weather Map http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/interactive.html Interactive weather maps that has image map links. Click on a place on the map and be transported there with full weather info available! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTELLiCast weather service http://www.tasc.com/icast Includes interactive maps and available 24 hours a day. This service is updated hourly and has world weather watch info as well. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Weather Machine at the University of Illinois Gopher to: wx.atmos.uiuc.edu Weather bulletins, listings, predictions and graphic radar/satellite images should help you decide whether to wear your raincoat or not. Take the "Tour of the Archives" first so you don't get too lost in this massive site. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Weather Warnings (Ohio State Univ Internet Gopher) Gopher to: geograf1.sbs.ohio-state.edu Tornado tracking info, severe weather warnings, natural disaster info and reports from the National Severe Storms Forecast Center should keep you up to date on weather happenings. Unfortunately there is lots of meteorological jargon within the info so the facts are hard to get at. But even the clue- less will easily understand bold caps that say "WRNING - SVR TSTMS!" I don't think meteorologists like vowels. Can I buy an A... an E ? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Weather Site at The Daily Planet - Univ of Illinois http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu Like the weather gopher site at Univ of Ill. only better. Still under construction but even so is a great weather page. Contains hundreds of archived weather pictures, images and maps. And hundreds of current images as well. If Dorothy and Toto only knew about this web page. Hmmm.... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Weather Radar Lab http://graupel.mit.edu/Radar_Lab.html Finally a place where most can understand what's going on. And if you find yourself a little dismayed by the terminology there are helpful links to go to glossary words with meanings, an FAQ link and a complete and helpul bibliography of books and articles to let you learn even more. A really cool image gallery of weather maps makes the trip worthwhile. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Math WWW site (The Mathematics Archives site) http://archives.math.utk.edu/ A large compendium of mathematics information and links to other math related information. Recent findings, discussions plus classic theory and geometry are also here. A wealth of Math info awaits you. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technology Review WWW site http://www.mit.edu:8001/afs/athena/org/t/techreview/www/tr.html Technology Review is edited by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and is a well done and well written science magazine now available on the World-Wide-Web. Technology Review "addresses the practical implications of of science, as opposed to laboratory breakthroughs and theoretical and conceptual abstractions that have no bearing on practicality." The 'zine is done using hypertext links that can take you to other places related to an article such as a link to the EPA gopher while reading an article on ways to produce environmentally safe products. Although the entire hardcopy version of the magazine is not on the web - most of the articles and features are and it is one of the best science publications on the web. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frog dissect WWW Whole Frog Project http://george.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/dissect/whole.frog.html ----- Univ. of Virginia Curry School of Educational Instructional Technology Frog Dissection Program http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/~insttech/frog Look Ma! No scalpel! Er... no frog either! Actually a bloodless and humane way to virtually study frog anatomy. Educational and fun for all! ----- Interactive Frog Dissection (Lawrence Berkeley Labs) http://george.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/dissect/info.html A forms-based approach to dissection. Images of the frog from various views enhances the experience and there are many graphics of the various stages of dissection as well. I can almost smell the formaldehyde. =========================================================================== GEARS (Global Entomology Agricultural Reasearch Server) http://gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov/ A fantastic site devoted to bees, bee myths and bee research. If you are researching bees or bee behavior or just want to find out more about bees then look no further - this is a busy "hive" of information and links to all sorts of apiary related info. The USDA-ARS laboratory server including GEARS offers 12 browsable areas, including research and research links, publications, beekeeping industry tips, photographs and graphics, download software ftp forum, an Internet classroom, insect movies, a sound room and tons of links to other entomology related efforts. Buzz on over here! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Visible Man (National Library of Medicine WWW site) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/extramural_research.dir/visible_human.html The "Visible Man" exhibit in full graphic form. Death row inmate, Joseph Jernigan, requested that after his execution his body be donated to science. His body was frozen and dissected. In the process, each part was imaged by X-Rays, MRIs, CAT scans and filmless digital cameras. The whole project resides on 15 giga-bytes of storage! No scalpel needed here! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paleontology Univ of CA at Berkeley Museum of Paleontology http://ucmp1.berkeley.edu http://ucmp1.berkeley.edu/welcome.html Gopher to: ucmp1.berkeley.edu One of the premeire exhibits on the net. A fantastic virtual tour of the Berkeley Museum. You MUST surf to this place. One of the best web exhibits on the World Wide Web. It is visually interesting, fun and educational. If you have a choice - use the WWW address instead of gopher and browse! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- University of California Museum (Berkeley) http://ucmp1.berkeley.edu/exhibittext/entrance.html The best virtual visit to a museum on the web. Truly astounding. This is both a fun and educational trip that will have you putting this URL down for return trips and explorations. Berkeley exhibits on the web are among the finest in the world. Even a 14.4K modem connection moves quickly and effortlessly through the well designed links and pages of the museum. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yale University Peabody Museum Gopher to: gopher.peabody.yale.edu /Search Peabody Collections/Vertebrate Paleontology Includes a huge resource of the University Museum's cataloged specimens and also contains a huge amount of vertebrate paleontology information. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Honolulu Community College "Dinosaurs in Hawaii" exhibit http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/dinos/dinos.1.html An incredible photographic collection from the replicas at New York's American Museum of Natural History. Also includes great photos of a Triceratops skull and a Tyrannosaurus Rex head. Way cool! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dino Russ's Lair http://128.174.173.205/My_Home_Page.html Russ Jacobsen of the Illinois State Geological Survey's Educational Extension has created this page as a way to promote awareness of the importance of geo-science, geology and paleontology and the way in which these sciences all inter-relate with each other. This page is a great resource site for paleontological info including info on current dinosaur digs in progress and digs that need people to join and help out. There are also numerous links and pointers to other web pages and ftp sites that have even more dinosaur info. A great resource that is little known outside the paleontology world. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- K-12 Dinosaur Unit Gopher to: informns.k12.mn.us /Minnesota K-12 Resources/Dinosaur Unit Created by the Internet for Minnesota Schools (InforMNs) this site has more than 40 text files and plenty of downloadable pictures of dinosaurs. There is a host of information that every one can easily understand and that will keep kids interest. Reports on dinosaur eggs to whether Godzilla was/is a real dinosaur will keep the reading interesting. Also included is much information about theories of dinosaur extinction and the possibility of dinosaurs being warm-blooded. This gopher site also contains a few links to other dino-related gopher sites as well as a time line guide of dinosaur existence on earth. A great K-12 resource for the classroom... or at home! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archaeological Field Server http://durendal.cit.cornell.edu/TestPit.html This WWW site is maintained by Ken Stuart on Cornell University's server and is compiled from email and postal mail messages he receives from other University field schools and professional archaeology contract companies. Want to join an expedition to Tunisia, how about an excavation in Egypt or a dig started in Honduras? That's right - these and many more digs need regular folks like yourself to come on down and help out. If you don't see anything of interest you can use the links to the Archaeological Institute of America's Archaeological Fieldwork Opportunities Bulletin to see other areas of interest or future projects. Grab a shovel or trowel and sign up! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ROBOT CONTROL INTERACTIVE! Robot-MercuryWWW (Mercury Project Site) http://www.usc.edu/dept/raiders/story/mercury-story.html Web forms control a live robot. Now dig for buried treasure. Avast Mateys! ----- Robot control WWW (Mercury-site project) http://www.usc.edu/dept/raiders Control a robot arm via WWW Another Mercury robot project ----- Remote Robot Arm http://telerobot.mech.uwa.edu.au "aye ...that's robot control mates" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt's Solar Car Page http://www-lips.ece.utexas.edu/~delayman/solar.html This site includes information of all types on solar powered vehicles including info on solar-powered racing teams. Contains links to great pages with related slor-powered info. Even a link to U.S. Weather Map reports. Oh no! an Eclipse! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The SETI Institute (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) http://www.metrolink.com/seti/seti-top.html http://www.seti-inst.edu/seti.html Beam me up Scotty! There's no intelligent life-forms down here! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nanotechnology on the WWW http://skyler.arc.ab.ca/~morgan/nano.shtml An under-rated page. It's incredibly cool and it's about the science and study of small machines. Nanotechnology is the study of tiny, miniature self-replicating robots. These mini-bots might be the size of fleas. Prototypes are already being designed. Asimov would be proud! Many links to other robot pages and 'bot information. You'll be dazzled by this! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Thermometer in Maine telnet to: small.eece.maine.edu 9876 You can check the temperature of an office somewhere in Maine. A person named Andrew Sheaff actually connected his office thermo into the net! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Catalog of Known Nuclear Explosions Gopher to: wealaka.okgeosurvey1.gov select "Catalog of Known Nuclear Explosions" Every one of 'em - and they mean it! From the Trinity Test to present day. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volcano World http://volcano.und.nodak.edu Information overload site! Everything you wanted to know about volcanoes and then some. Images, historical and current info, definitions of volcano terminology and tons of links to other volcano related pages. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Space and Astronomy ////////////////// Astronomy and Space (including NASA archives) Telnet to: sseop.jsc.nasa.gov log in as "photos" ---------------- telnet to: ned.ipac.caltech.edu log in as "ned" contains extragalactic photos -------------------------- telnet to: cfa204.harvard.edu log in as "einline" and follow instructions contains Smithsonian archives/photos -------------------------- telnet to: stinfo.hq.eso.org log in as "stinfo" the Hubble space telescope place -------------------------- Astrophysics Book Shelf gopher to: psulias.psu.edu Choose The Electronic Bookshelf then Subject Shelf, then Astronomy and Astrophysics shelf. Bon apetite! ----- The AstroWeb http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/www/astronomy.html A virtual warehouse of astronomy related information. Check it out! ----- NASA FTP info ftp to: dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov look around. points of interest are the /IMAGES/GIFS directory and other sub-directories for Apollo, astronomy, NASA, the Space Shuttle and many more. ----- NASA Explorer Site ftp to: explorer.arc.nasa.gov Contains images from NASA space missions. Fantastic graphic site! ----- NASA Spacelink Database telnet, gopher, ftp or WWW the address is: spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov An unbelievable database of GIFs, JPEGs, scans, info-docs and more! ----- NASA Launch Site http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/hqpao/hqpao_home.html Fantastic NASA page. You gotta see this one! ----- NASA Project page http://www.nasa.gov Offers access to its many research and ongoing projects and is also a gateway to many other science-related sites. Includes collections of astronomical data and sources and a wide variety of science information. Much of the information is graphically presented which makes it a wonderful visually interesting educational resource. NASA sites are great! ----- NASA site compilation http://www.larc.nasa.gov/nasaonline/nasaonline.html Most NASA sites can be reached via links from this WWW page. I really have not seen a bad NASA page yet so this is a valuable offering and will take the work out of searching for NASA and NASA related links and topics. ----- Space Telescope Institute Tour http://stsci.edu/top.html A wonderful graphical tour of the Space Telescope Institute complete with pictures of space taken by the telescope. The pictures are continually updated as current photos are being taken. ----- SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space) gopher to: seds.lpl.arizona.edu Information about all sorts of celestial events; past, present and future. ----- Views of the Solar System http://www.c3.lanl.gov/~cjhamil/SolarSystem/homepage.html A visual trip hopping from planet to planet. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to the Planets http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/ Another great web page from NASA - the images are quickly downloaded and you'll be cruising at warp speed through the galaxy. A great trek for all. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- StarWorlds http://cdsweb.ustrasbg.fr/starworlds.html A database of astronomy, space and related information. The list includes info on many astronomy related organizations not yet on the web but still accessible through other means. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- StarBits http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/starbits.html StarBits is a dictionary of more than 80,000 acronyms and abbreviations that are related to astronomy and space sciences. Webster's of the stars! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- StarHeads http://cdsweb.ustrasbg.fr/starheads.html Contains over 1,000 pointers/links to the personal web pages of other scientists and enthusiasts of astronomy and space related fields. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Star*s Family http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/starsfamily.html Includes directories and dictionaries of other "Star" projects (see above) The Star Family of astronomy web projects is under the guidance of: Prof. Andre Heck / Observatoire Astronomique / Strasbourg, France --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mount Wilson Observatory http://www.mtwilson.edu/ The Mount Wilson Observatory is located in the US in the San Gabriel Mountains near Pasadena, California. While much of the facility is no longer open to visitors you can go on a virtual tour of the observatory and all its telescopes and facilities via the WWW. You can learn about the 100 inch Hooker Telescope built in 1917 and read about ongoing scientific projects and astronomical findings. You can even have a "virtual" souvenir to take home with you in the form of a personalized galaxy map that you can download (it's a postscript StarGazer map that figures out where you are and creates a star-map with your perspective of the galaxy based on the area of the world your visiting from). The Mount Wilson site has this to say, "Much of the initial understanding of our universe came from data and observations acquired through this facility". There is still a lot to be learned here through the wonderfully done virtual tour via the WWW site. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Environmental/Ecological //////////////////////// National Wetlands Inventory http://www.wi.fws.gov or FTP to: enterprise.nwi.fws.gov in the /dlgdata directory Complete wildlife inventory of our national wetlands. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- EnviroLink Network gopher to: envirolink.org Contains an evironment watch report and info on endangered species, energy, environmental laws, environment groups, environmental newsletters and tons more. Read this electronic informational resource and save the paper trail. Look Ma - no paper mill trees! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- EnviroWeb http://www.envirolink.org This is an "outgrowth" of the EnviroLink Network and has to be one of the best thought out and laid out web sites around. It contains beautifully done pages that don't take years to download the images. It is a breezy ride through page after page and the links flow so easily and quickly that surfing this web site is not a chore or a task - it is highly enjoyable. There is so much to learn and enjoy here that I doubt you will be able to put your browser down. I mean it. Collaberative ventures between public schools are here courtesy of the Environmental Education Network along with many other on-going projects. A linked list of K-12 education sites is also here. A wealth of information comes from many sources including the Enviro Products Directory and of course links back to the "parent" network - the EnviroLink Network. HAS TO BE SEEN! TEACHER ALERT! YOU MUST CHECK THIS OUT! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- GreenPeace World Wide Web Home Page http://www.cyberstore.ca/greenpeace/index.html Everyone who comes to visit this site says the same thing - so where is the information? It seems this site has not been updated on some time and was a let-down. I expected more than this. A few paltry photos (ok a lot of old GreenPeace demonstration photos from the early 90s') and a few scant pieces of info relating to the GreenPeace mission. Stay away until this site is either updated or completely redone. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eco-Net (Institute for Global Commnications project) http://www.icg.apc.org/igc/en.html gopher to: gopher.igc.apc.org select "Econet Environment" Both sites offer info on a wide variety of ecological issues and topics. Climate, development of lands, pesticide use and pollution are just a few of the covered topics. There are many links available to other ecological and environmental resources. Links to the National Wetlands Inventory, The League of Conservation Voters National Environmental Scorecard, (which is a watch dog agency that keeps tabs on Congressional voting on environmental issues), the Electric Green Journal at the Univ of Idaho, and many more. This is a very good site for educational institutions to use as it is both informative and interesting. Even non-environmentalists will like it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Wilderness Society's WWW Page http://town.hall.org/environment/wild_soc/wilderness.html This society is a noble "watchdog" of our nations's (US) 90+ million acres of wilderness protected under The Wilderness Act of 1964. This society is devoted to protecting public lands and stopping mismanagement of these public wilderness lands. The web site includes information on the society itself along with kinks to other information such as fact sheets on areas of the Adirondack Mountains, Endangered Species list and their habitats, Grazing on public lands (still a hot topic), and Yosemite Nat'l Park. It also includes references to the Endangered Species Act of 1973 and contains many other links to environmental info and reading. There is a Wetlands page and so much more. This is another must visit in your web itinerary. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rachel's Environmental and Health Weekly Gopher to: ftp.std.com select "ftp" then select "The World's Anonymous FTP Archive" then select "Periodicals" and finally select "Rachels" This weekly journal is put out by the "Environmental Research Foundation" and offers information relating to health and environmental issues. The archive contains over 400 back issues but the organization of the archive is first-rate so finding what you want won't be a difficult task. Not only does this journal contain original articles but it contains compilations of articles, info and viewpoints from many other publications. The New York Times, The Nation and The Miami Herald are just a few examples. FDA regulations and how they affect what you eat, farming practices and a whole lot more are included. This is a plethora of information yet its clear and concise layout make it an undaunting archive to find the info you need. A highly recommended site to visit to find health and environmental issues and how they both realte to one another. Informative and well done! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- EE-Link (Environmental Education) http://nceet.snre.umich.edu or gopher to: nceet.snre.umich.edu A great educational K-12 resource as there are lesson plans within this site that deal with science and environmental concerns. This site is sponsored by The National Consortium for Environmental for Environmental Education and Training (NCEET) and its mission "...is committed to provide our children with effective tools and strategies that will enable them to start shaping tomorrow's environmental solutions today." Their mission is quite evident within the EE-Link site. Includes links to a solid Waste Recycling course (Univ of Wisconsin) lesson plans galore from all over the United States, links to the Aspen Global Change Institute and even includes lesson plans from The Minnesota National Valley Wildlife Refuge. There is so much more that this brief paragraph can hardly begin to scrape the surface of the breadth and depth of the resources and links to other resources this site provides. Even see and hear a bullfrog plus many other sounds and sights! INCREDIBLE! TEACHER ALERT --> EXCELLENT INTERNET RESOURCE AT EE-NET! If your school is on the net then you should drop what you are doing NOW and surf on over to this site. No excuses. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gateway to Antarctica home page http://icair.iac.org.nz/ The International Centre for Antarctic Information and Research operates and runs this web page site and is located in Christchurch, New Zealand. Scads of information on Anarctica and the arctic environment. No mittens needed! Also includes research efforts underway to save this fragile eco-system from pollution and environmental disaster. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- EPA Gopher (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) Gopher to: gopher.epa.gov A comprehensive source of the EPA FAQ lists - includes the most commonly asked questions and answers. Also includes synopses of Federal Regulations as well as six pages of telephone numbers and hotlines to inquire about EPA regulations as well as other Federal guidelines and mandates. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------