Richard Harwood's Courses

Geology and Geography
Links to Earth Science

The following are links to sites which contain
information on current topics in Earth Science

•Information Please
•Library of Congress Country Studies/Area Handbook Program
•The CIA World Fact Book

•Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, Chicago
•Astronomy Picture of the Day
•Comet Hale-Bopp Home Page
•Digitized Sky Survey II
•The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight
•Parallax Project
•San Francisco State University Planet Search Program
•SkyWatching Center
•Space Telescope Electronic Information Service
•Spectra of Gas Discharges
•The Very Large Array
•U.S. Naval Observatory

•NASA's Ozone and Air Quality

•NASA's Global Change Master Directory
•NASA's Earth Observatory
•NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory
•NOAA National Climatic Data Center

•Countries of the World - an alphabetical list of all independent nations in the world.

•Dictionary.com
•Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
•Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus

•Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI)
•IRIS - Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology Home Page
•U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program

•Geomorphology from Space
•Oceanography from the Space Shuttle

•Illinois State Geological Survey
•Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences
•United States Geological Survey
•Links to State Geological Surveys

•British Antarctic Survey
•Byrd Polar Research Center
•Snow, Ice, and Permafrost

These links require that you have Google Earth loaded on your computer.

Right mouse click on the link below. Select "Save As..." or "Save Target As...". Save the file to your computer. Open Google Earth, go to File, select Open. Open the saved KML file.

Earthquakes: 1990 to 2005, >Mag. 5
Plate Tectonic Boundaries and Plate Names
Volcanoes of the World

•Earth from Space
•NASA Image eXchange (NIX)- data base providing NASA images and photographs

•Geography Links (About.com) - lots of good resources and links
•Geology Links (About.com) - lots of good resources and links
•Roger Wellers Geology Home Page - lots of good resources, images and links
•Yahoo Links to Geography Sites

•USA.Gov - the first place to look if you are trying to find a U.S. government web page or information.

•ESRI GIS and Mapping Software - commercial site offering GIS information and data
•Gallery of Map Projections
•The National Map
•Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas
•USGS Elevation Database

•Mars Exploration Rover Mission - Spirit and Opportunity Rovers
•Mars Express
•Mars Global Surveyor
•Mars Pathfinder
•Mars Odyssey
•Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
•Viking

•Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
•Illinois Weather World
•Intellicast: USA Weather
•National Warning Areas
•Ohio State University Atmospheric Sciences Program
•U.S. National Weather Service
•Weather Channel

•Metric Conversions.org - Online Calculators!
•SI Base Units - National Institute of Standards and Technology
•The International System of Units (SI) - National Institute of Standards and Technology
•Think-Metric
•The United States and the Metric System - National Institute of Standards and Technology
•U.S. Metric Association

•Atlas of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks, Minerals and Textures - online reference to minerals and rocks in thin section
•The Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom - online reference to minerals and gemstones

•EOS - Earth Observing System
•NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Orbiting Spacecraft Missions
•SeaWiFS - Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor Project
•TRMM - Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

•American Museum of Natural History
•Field Museum
•Hunterian Museum
•Museum of the City of San Francisco
•New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
•Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
•St. Louis Science Center
•Swedish Museum of Natural History

•NASA Home Page
•NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
•NASA History Office
•NASA Image eXchange (NIX)- data base providing NASA images and photographs
•NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
•NASA Planetary Photojournal
•Recent News from JPL
•NASA's Earth Observatory

•National Park Service

•BBC Online
•CNN
•Miami Herald (an excellent source of news covering Latin America)
•Science Daily - science news about the latest discoveries and research projects
•Voice of America (U.S. Government news/propaganda agency)
•Washington Post (good international and national news coverage)

•Geological Society of America
•Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
•Mineralogical Society of America
•National Association of Geoscience Teachers
•National Geographic Society
•Paleontological Research Institution
•Paleontological Society
•Smithsonian Institution
•Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

•Charlotte, The Vermont Whale
•Diatom Home Page
•Hadrosaurus foulkii
•Mazon Creek Fossils
•Mohawk Valley Fossils
•Tree of Life
•University of California Museum of Paleontology

•Galileo Probe - Probe in orbit around Jupiter

•NASA's Planetary Photojournal
•Solar System Exploration
•Welcome to the Planets

•PALEOMAP Project - plate tectonic development during the past 1100 million years.
•Tectonic Plate Motion
•This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics

•Australian Bureau of Statistics
•Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics
•National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies of France
•National Statistics of the United Kingdom
•Population.com
•Population Reference Bureau
•Statistics Canada
•United States Census Bureau

•Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing
•Color Landform Atlas of the United States
•Global Positioning System Overview
•Remote Sensing Systems- provides daily, monthly and yearly images showing Cloud Liquid Water, Precipitation Rate, Atmospheric Water Vapor and Surface Wind Speed

•Bill Nye the Science Guy - Science Rules!!
•NASA Education
•National Association of Geoscience Teachers
•Science Daily - science news about the latest discoveries and research projects
•Yahoo Links to Geography Sites

•Sumatra-Andaman Islands Earthquake and Tsunami

•Solar Data Analysis Center at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
•SunSpot Index Data Center - A Belgian Royal Observatory web site

•Color Landform Atlas of the United States

•Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program
•Alaska Volcano Observatory
•Cascades Volcano Observatory
•Electronic Volcano
•Hawaii Center for Volcanology
•Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
•Nordic Volcanological Institute
•Stromboli Online
•Volcanism on the Moon
•Volcano World
•Volcano World's Eruption Reports

•National Wildlife Federation

•Preparing a Term Paper for a Physical Geology Course by Kevin McCartney
•Using the Internet to Prepare a Term Paper for a Geology Course by Clayton DeWitt Harris and Kevin McCartney