Earth and Planetary Sciences

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• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - established by WMO and UNEP to assess scientific, technical and socio- economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation. It is currently finalizing its Fourth Assessment Report "Climate Change 2007".  Working Group I "The Physical Science Basis"  Released 2 February 2007.
• EROS Image Gallery Collections - A special collection of images that record events of historic significance, beautiful sights or images that stir the imagination.  Includes Earth as Art Image Collections 1 & 2, a satellite view of the Voyage of Lewis and Clark, and the Landsat 7 image collection of the States.  From the Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS).
• PALEOMAP Project - The goal of the PALEOMAP Project is to illustrate the plate tectonic development of the ocean basins and continents, as well as the changing distribution of land and sea during the past 1100 million years.
• Middle Rio Grande Cooperative Water Model - a model for balancing water use with renewable supply in Sandoval, Bernalillo, and Valencia counties.
• Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority - "water information for Albuquerque".
• 2004-2006 State of New Mexico Integrated Clean Water Act - PDF - report to the U.S. Congress.
• NASA M2K4, Roaming the Red Planet -- includes the latest images from the planet. 
• Web-based Paleo-database Home Page, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science -- Search the museum's collections online.
• GEO-DATA Explorer (GEODE) - access, view, and download information from geo-spatial databases containing a broad spectrum of data produced by the USGS and other government agencies.
• Columbia Earthscape -- "Columbia Earthscape selects, gathers, edits, and links the widest range of Earth resources available online. In our new interface, the four sections of the compass give teachers, students, scientists, and decision-makers instant access to the tools they need to understand our planet."   The latest edition of Earthscape has links to resources to understand the history of the UN Global Climate Negotiations, a "State of the Climate 2004" report, a video seminar "Understanding the Global Warming Forecast" and much more.
• Discover Our Earth; Cornell University -- a wide range of information related to the Earth sciences, accompanied by images, graphs, maps, and movies.
• Earthworks -- jobs in the physical sciences.

• Astrophysics Data System: Abstract Service
• National Environment Publications Internet Site (NEPIS)
• GeoRef -- database contains over 2.2 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.
• GeoRef Preview Database -- references to recent geoscience publications.
• SciSearch -- covers 4,600 major journals across 100 scientific disciplines.
• Ingenta
• Water Resources Abstracts -- provides summaries of the world's technical and scientific literature on water-related topics.
• Directory of Geoscience Departments Field Camp Index
• Geologic Guidebooks of North America Database

• Virtual Earth -- A Tour of the World Wide Web For Earth Scientists
• Yahoo's Earth Sciences Section
• Climatology and Paleoclimatology Resources
• Publications on the EPA Site -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office and Program publication pages which provide direct access to full-text publications or information about the publications.
• Geophysics On The Internet
• The Hydrogeologist's Home Page
• Hydrology Web
• Watershed Management Council
• Web Resources for Sedimentary Geologists
• VolcanoWorld -- the web's premier source of volcano information, supported by NASA.
• University of California Museum of Paleontology
• Web Geologic Time Machine -- geologic time scale.
• Park Geology - National Park Service
• Earth Pages Resource Centre from Blackwell Science

• Suggestions to Authors of the Reports of the United States Geological Survey -- the writing style guide for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
• Lite Geology -- a publication of the New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources.
• The Green Gazette, the New Mexico Environment Department Newsletter
• Geology (magazine)
• GSA Today -- table of contents and author index.
• On-line Earth Science Journals -- table of contents and author index.
• Contents of Recent AGU Publications -- access to current issue.
• Elsevier's Science Publications (tables of contents of journals)
• Elsevier's Scirus -- searchable database for scientific information
• Inside Earth, National Park Service, Cave and Karst Programs
• Nature -- fulltext access from June 5, 1997 to date
• SCIENCE Magazine On-Line
• Palaeontologia Electronica, an electronic journal of paleontology
• CONSEQUENCES, The nature and implications of environmental change
• Journal of Young Investigators (JYI) -- dedicated to the presentation of undergraduate research in science, mathematics, and engineering.

• The United States Geological Survey
• USGS Publications Warehouse
• USGS Library
• USGS Geology resource page
• USGS Information for states
  • USGS Programs in New Mexico
• USGS Geologic Division in the Central Region
  • New Mexico District, U.S. Geological Survey
• USGS-Middle Rio Grande Basin Study -- the USGS Middle Rio Grande Basin Study is a 5-year effort by the USGS to improve the understanding of the hydrology
• Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory
• USGS - National Earthquake Information Center
• USGS - National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program(NCGMP)
• USGS - National Geologic Map Database
• USGS cartographic and geographic products and program links
• USGS - Water Resources of the United States
  • USGS -- Real-Time Water Data
• New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources
• Association of American State Geologists

Geological Societies

• American Geological Institute
• The Union List of Geologic Field Trip Guidebooks of North America
• American Geophysical Union
• Four Corners Geological Society
• American Association of Petroleum Geologists
• Geological Society of America
• GSA GeoCorps America™  Temporary summer positions (10-12 weeks) working for National Parks, National Forests, & BLM.
• The Geochemical Society
• International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI)
• Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI)
• Publications of the Lunar and Planetary Institute -- includes full text of reports and abstracts of meetings and conferences.
• The Meteoritical Society
• The Microscopy Society of America
• The Mineralogical Society of America
• The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
• New Mexico Geological Society
• Paleontological Society
• Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists
• Seismological Society of America
• SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)
• SEPM-Permian Basin Section
• The Society of Economic Geologists
• The Society of Exploration Geophysicists
• The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
• Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)
• The West Texas Geological Society

• Western Regional Climate Center
• NRCS National Water and Climate Center -- climate information retrieval for the United States.
• The National Climatic Data Center
• NCDC Climate Resources
• NCDC Publication
• NGDC/NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
• Climate TimeLine Summary -- Exploring Weather & Climate Change Through the Powers of 10.
• Paleo Perspective on Global Warming -- divided into two sections: The Story and The Data.
• The Weather Visualizer - University of Illinois
• NOAA National Weather Service
  • NOAA IWIN - Interactive Weather Information Network
  • NOAA - current watches, warnings, etc.
  • NOAA/ National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center
  • NOAA Past Weather -- a roundup of NOAA Web sites that contain archived weather information.
• National Weather Service/NOAA Hydrologic Information Center
• Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University -- includes FAQ about climate change and a "Climate Kids Corner".
• Ocean and Climate Change Institute, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• WHOI/OCCI Abrupt Climate Change -- a summary of some of the major points about abrupt climate change.
• Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises; National Academy Press (2002)
• NASA Global Change Master Directory -- access to Earth science data sets and services relevant to the global change and Earth science research.
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988 to assess information on climate change from around the world.
• The Discovery of Global Warming  -- by Spencer Weart. Supplements the author's book, which tells the history of climate change research as a single connected narrative. The page includes links to basic information about climate science. The Discovery of Global Warming is available at Centennial Library.

• USGS - Water Resources of the United States
• USGS National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program -- Assessing more than 50 river basins and aquifer systems.
• EPA Water Topic Page
• EPA Office of Water
• EPA Ground Water and Drinking Water
• EPA Local Drinking Water Information by state and territory
• EPA's Surf Your Watershed
• EPA's Watershed Information Network
• USDA National Agricultural Library Water Quality Information Center
• EPA STORET - provides water quality and biological monitoring data
• Database of Online Documents covering water and agriculture -- electronic documents related to water and agriculture produced by various U.S. government agencies.
• USDA Forest Service Stream Systems Technology Center

• USDA Forest Service Stream Notes
• Western Waters Digital Library -- a comprehensive digital information resource about water in the western United States.
• New Mexico Office of the State Engineer Interstate Stream Commission
  • Water Quality Standards for New Mexico
• Utton Transboundary Resources Center - in the University of New Mexico School of Law, supports collaborative natural resource management using multidisciplinary expertise and inclusive, diverse stakeholder involvement.   The Bellagio Draft Treaty was developed by a group of experienced legal practitioners and scientists from many parts of the world who came together to identify basic requirements for protection and use of international groundwater supplies.
• International Boundary and Water Commission (USIBWC) - Our mission is to provide binational solutions to issues that arise during the application of United States - Mexico treaties regarding boundary demarcation, national ownership of waters, sanitation, water quality, and flood control in the border region.

Mineralogy

• Links for Mineralogists -- Annotated links to internet resources.
• Mineralogy Database -- Mineral data on individual species.
• The Clausthal Online Mineral Collection

• USGS - National Earthquake Information Center
• Global Earthquake Explorer (GEE)
• NMBG&MR Earthquake Resources Page -- earthquakes in New Mexico.
• Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory

• VolcanoWorld
• Global Volcanism Program - Smithsonian Institution
• International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI)
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Volcano Expedition to the Mariana Islands -- UNM E&PS Assistant Prof. Tobias Fischer and graduate student, Maarten de Moor are members of the research team. See the UNM news release here.

• NOAA Ocean Explorer -- provides public access to current information on a series of NOAA scientific and educational explorations and activities in the marine environment.
• NOAA Ocean Explorer Offices -- links to NOAA exploration offices.
• NOAA Ocean Explorer Library -- Web sites, historical books and documents, expedition reports, and journal articles.
• Ocean Institutes, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

• Paleontology at the U.S. Geological Survey
• National Park Service Paleontology Program
• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleobiology
• New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque
• Web-based Paleo-database Home Page -- Search the museum's collections online.
• Paleobiology Database -- information on more than 30,000 different fossil collections.
• Fossil Mammal Research Group
• University of California Museum of Paleontology
• Carnegie Museum of Natural History
• Field Museum, Chicago, IL
• Sue at the Field Museum -- the largest, most complete, and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex.
• Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University
• Natural History Museum, London - Dinosaurs and other extinct creatures
  • Dino-directory - a guide to 230 of the most well-described dinosaurs, including 933 images.
• Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, Alberta Canada

• Institute of Meteoritics, University of New Mexico, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI)
• NASA Student Observation Network (S.O.N.) -- tracking a solar storm. Includes information for teachers and students.
• NASA M2K4, Roaming the Red Planet -- includes the latest images from the planet.
• NASA's Mars Exploration Program
• Mars Picture of the Day from Malin Space Science Systems
• Nine Planets
• Views of the Solar System
• NASA's Index of /planetary/factsheet
• Welcome to the Planets (TM ), Copyright 1995, California Institute of Technology
• Mission to Planet Earth - NASA

• National Science Foundation - Geosciences
• Color Landform Atlas of the United States
• Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
• National Park Service: Nature & Science
• The National Geophysical Data Center
• Geology by Lightplane
• Bibliography of the Grand Canyon and the Lower Colorado River

• Earthworks -- a source for jobs
• GeoScience Books -- books
• GeologyLink, a public forum for all matters geological from Houghton Mifflin. -- etc.
• Science Mall-USA -- Space science, Earth science, and science gifts.
• The Stone Company