Geophysical Sciences

• Cartography Resources on the Web
• GIS DIctionary From the Association for Geographic Information in the UK
• Points, Pixels, Grids, and Cells:A Mapping and Gridding Primer by Kenneth W. Knowles, NSIDC
• GPS Device
• Global Positioning System Tutorial
• Historic USGS Maps Online (New England states only)
• History of Cartography
• NAISMap From the National Atlas Information Service of Canada. Make custom maps with data layers you select.
• National Geological Map Database (NGMDB) Stanford's Branner Earth Sciences Library project
• Ryhiner Map Collection 16th to 18th Century Maps
• University of Chicago Library Map collection home page

• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission a Unesco commission, site includes a significant online publication program
• International Oceanographic Foundation
• Marine Geology and Geophysics at the National Geophysical Data Center
• National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)
• Ocean Research Institute at the University of Tokyo
• Ocean Information Center at the University of Delaware
• The Ocean Project
• Satellite Oceanography Laboratory at the University of Hawaii
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Tide and Current Prediction
• WINDandSEA Index (NOAA Internet Resources Locator)
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• World Ocean Circulation Experiment

• Ground Water Atlas of the United States
• NASA/GSFC Lab for Hydrospheric Processes
• National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing

• All About Glaciers
• National Ice Center
• National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
• Links to Glaciology-Related Sites from CalTech Glaciology Group
• SPRILIB Ice and Snow online bibliography from Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
• Arctic and Antarctic Research Center at UC San Diego
• Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State
• National Institute of Polar Research Tokyo
• Polar Science Center at University of Washington

• British Micropalaeontological Society Includes pages with information and links to various groups of organisms (Conodonts, Foraminifera, Ostracods, Palynology)
• Cushman Foundation LinksIncludes pointers to online exhibitions, museums, journals, organizations, and more
• Fossil Vertebrates in the Burke Museum
• Museum of Paleontology from Berkeley. Home of the Geological Time Machine
• Palaeontological Association (UK)
• Paleobiology Database Collaboratively built database of occurrence and taxonomic data for marine and terrestrial animals and plants of any geological age, includes web-based software for statistical analysis of the data.
• PaleoNet A system of listservers, www pages, and ftp sites designed to enhance electronic communication among paleontologists
• Paleontological Research Institution
• Paleontological Society
• Polyglot Paleontologist A clearinghouse for non-English papers in paleontology that have been translated into English
• Doug Henderson's Earth History Illustrations A fun site with lots of artist's renderings of prehistoric environments, including plants, dinosaurs, landscape, etc.
• American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists
• Directory of Palynologists
• Web Sites for Palynologists

• EROS Home Page Earth Resources Observation System
• Earth Observing System Home Page
• HPCC Earth and Space Science Applications Project
• Historical GOES Browse Server A growing archive of retrospective satellite images
• International GPS Service for Geodynamics
• Ionia "1 km AVHRR Global Land Data Set" Net-Browser from the European Space Agency
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Remote Sensing

• Amethyst Galleries' Mineral Gallery
• Mineralogisch-Petrographisches Institut Christian-Albrechts-Universitat Kiel
• Mineralogy from Universite de Geneve Alphabetic and systematic lists, extensive links, and a searchable database
• Smithsonian Gem & Mineral Collection

• UMN Department of Soil, Water, and Climate Web Server
• World Soil Data Set

• ANSMET (Antarctic Search for Meteorites)
• Antarctic Meteorites
• Meteorite Collection
• Meteorites This site has an extensive set of links to other meteorites information, including several image collections
• Metorites from Mars
• The Meteoritical Society
• on the Question of the Mars Meteorite

• 3-D Simulations of Hayward Fault Earthquakes
• Earthquake Info from the U.S.G.S. in Menlo Park, CA
• Plate Tectonics The Cause of Earthquakes
• Nevada Seismological Laboratory
• IDA/IRIS DCC International Deployment of Accelerometers
• IRIS DMC Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
• Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Home Page
• Live Internet Seismic Server from Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory
• National Earthquake Information Center
• Record of the Day From Caltech
• SASO Southern Arizona Seismological Observatory
• SCEC Data Center Home Page Southern California Earthquake Center
• SESAME Seismic Event Server at MIT
• Seismic Intensity Scales from the Illinois State Academy of Science
• Seismic Intensity Scales from the USGS
• Seismo Lab Home Page
• Seismo-surfing the InterNet
• World-Wide Earthquake Locator at the University of Edinburgh
• Alaska Volcano Observatory
• Cascades Volcano Observatory Home Page
• The Center for the Study of Active Volcanoes (CSAV) University of Hawaii at Hilo
• The Electronic Volcano
• Encyclopedia of Volcanoes
• Global Volcanism Program From the Smithsonian
• NASA EOS IDS Volcanology
• Volcano Watch Weekly newsletter written by the scientists at the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.
• VSC Home Page Volcano Systems Center, University of Washington
• VolcanoWorld Home Page

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