Earth Science Resources: Astronomy, Paleoclimate, Global Change & El Nino, Volcanoes, Oceanography

Earth Science Resources:

Geology, Oceanography, Astronomy & Ecology

R. Hays Cummins, Western Program, Miami University

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Table of Contents Geology, Oceanography, Astronomy & Ecology
Paleo-, Climate and Global Change	Earth-, Astro- and Zoo Related	Marine Oriented
Long-Range Forecasts of Impt Global Weather Phenomena (El Nino and Global Change) PaleoClimate and Greenhouse Warming Paleontology	Extinctions Volcanoes Astronomy Sites BIOSIS: Zoological Record Maps and Map Makers Tarantulas!	Oceanography Sites (Open Ocean & Coastal Ecology) Sea Turtle Conservation Marine mammal tracking Marshes & Coastal Environments Coral Reefs Ecology Links
Trop Ecosystem Courses Tropical Ecosystems of the Florida Keys, Everglades, and San Salvador, Bahamas Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica Trop Ecosystem Images: From the Costa Rica & the Bahamas Courses

Main Street Weather (Weather Home Base!!)

Here is a collection of the weather links I visit on a daily basis, some more than others depending upon the weather situation and time of year. I use these sites in my teaching and to fulfill my insatiable appetite for the weather. There are a wide variety of sources ranging from the best weather machines to regional weather, FAX, radar, single frame satellite imagery, computer model forecasts, hurricanes, typhoons, MPEG movies (visible, infrared & water vapor) and buoy data from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf of Mexico. Just what did weather fanatics do for fun before the invention of the internet?
Main Street Weather (Weather Home Base!!) "Text Only" Link of the same weather sites. Not as interesting, but download time is much quicker!	Radar and Severe Weather Get the latest predictions on severe weather	Just the Maps & Views! While far from complete, these downloaded views provide for a satisfying overview of North American Weather.
Satellite Links A complete text listing of satellite images and movies.	Hurricanes & Tropical Weather It's all Here!
Satellite Downloads and Other Maps Real-time satellite movies automatically downloaded	Numerical Models and Forecasting Page	Midwest Weather! Here is a separate page with Midwest weather highlights.

The Periodic Table on the WWW!

PaleoClimate and Greenhouse Warming

Here are a few very good sources for climate change.

This plot was generated from data downloaded from NOAA

Paleovegetation Maps (Review & Map Atlas of Paleovegetation around the World
Greenhouse Effect & Enhanced Greenhouse Effect- An Essay on Greenhouse Warming
The Coming Climate (Sci American article on climate change)
Anthropogenic CO: The natural carbon cycle reclaims center stage
- The Ocean-Atmosphere pCO Gradient

The Tragedy of the Commons

The Commons
Human Population and Global Warming
Broecker's Warning (An essay on the global warming)

Skeptics Corner Makes for interesting perspectives I hadn't thought about till recently

Greenhouse Warming: Fact, Hypothesis, or Myth? An Interesting Perspective on Greenhouse Warming from a Skeptic!
Another Global Warming Skeptic's Page
Still Waiting for Greenhouse A Skeptic's View-A Terrific Alternative Perspective
- Global Climate Web Sites: The Biggest Climate Listing on the Net

Long-Range Forecasts of Global Phenomena: Global Change and El Nino

This plot was generated from data downloaded from NOAA

Colorado State: Global Forecasts Forecasts (Excellent Long-Range Forecast Tool)
- Hurricanes
- El Nino
- Sahael (North African Rainfall)
WORLD CLIMATE REPORT

El Nino

Quicktime Movies A NOAA meteorologist discusses the cause and effect relationships between El Nino and world wide weather. From CNN.
- In Peru, El Nino often brings flooding rains to areas that are not prepared for them.
- By products of El Nino often include powerful Pacific storms that generate huge waves along the California coast.
- Other regions often experience an increase in fires due to drought and purposeful burning.
- A really nice quicktime movie of the eastern pacific and the transition from the '98 El Nino to La Nina.
El Nino Forecasts (Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies)
The El Nino Theme Page (NOAA 3-Star Site)
NOAA: El Nino and Climate Prediction (A pretty good overview of El Nino and climate prediction)
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change See what the United Nations is up to concerning environmental change
TOPEX/Poseidon:Understanding our Oceans & Climate from Space Nasa & France Joint Endeavor
- A Series of El Nino 1997 Images
- Quicktime 2 MB Sea level Change Movie, January-September, 1997. The white and red areas indicate unusual patterns of heat storage; in the white areas, the sea surface is between 14 and 32 centimeters ( 6 to 13 inches) above normal; in the red areas, it's about 10 centimeters (4 inches) above normal. The surface area covered by the warm water mass is about one and one-half times the size of the continental United States. The added amount of oceanic warm water near the Americas, with a temperature between 21-30 degrees Celsius (70-85 degrees Fahrenheit), is about 30 times the volume of water in all the U.S. Great Lakes combined.
- Pineapple Express: "The Microwave Limb Sounder experiment on UARS is detecting an unusually large build-up of water vapor in the atmosphere at heights of approximately 12 kilometers (eight miles) over the central-easterntropical Pacific. Not since the last strong El Nino in the winter of 1991-92 have we seen such a large build-up of water vapor in this part of the atmosphere," said JPL's Dr. William Read. "Increased water vapor at theseheights can be associated with more intense winter-time storm activity from the 'pineapple express,' a pattern of atmospheric motions that brings tropical moisture from Hawaii to the southwestern United States. This phenomena is an example of how the ocean and atmosphere work together to dictate the severity of El Nino events."
- Heat Capacity: "The difference between the current, abnormally high amount of heat in the near-surface waters and the usual amount of heat in the same area is about 93 times the total energy from fossil fuels consumed by the United States in 1995."
El Niño Resources-Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies Library-
- El Niño Resources: Theme Pages
- El Niño Resources: Articles Online
- El Niño Resources: Movies & Animations -MPGs
  - MPG Sea Level Change Animation (From Univ of Texas at Austin)
  - Simulation (QuickTime) of an El Niño Phenomena represented with ocean temperature change (From NOAA)
  - MPG Sea Surface Variability during EL Nino 1994-'95 ( From TOPEX/Poseidon)
- El Niño Resources: Projects - Brief Reports
- El Niño Resources: Current News
- Comprehensive El Nino Bibliography
- Bibliography of Dissertations on the topic of El Niño
USA Today El Nino Page
El Nino and Climate Prediction (1997-Reports to the Nation on Our Changing Planet)
International Research Institute: El Nino Impacts Includes graphs of precip dats and comparisons of El Nino with La Nina years.
- El Nino '97-'98 compared with previous years
Ocean Planet Smithsonian Institution
Earth Space Research Group (Very Nice Graphic Interactive El Nino site)
El Niño and the Southern Oscillation:A Reversal of Fortune (Kimberly Amaral Master's Thesis)
What is an El Nino? (NOAA )
- A MPG Animation of Wind and Sea Surface Temperatures in the Pacific Ocean during El Nino (~1.3 MB)
Current El Nino-Related Climate Predictions and Forecasts (From NOAA /PMEL)
- Forecast Forum - technical discussion of forecasts from different centers
- Current El Ni–o and La Ni–a related climate predictions and forecasts
- US and Global Monthly/Seasonal Climate Forecasts
- Other Weather Forecasts
After many years of research, I have finally found the answer to the effects El Nino has on Hurricane Development. See for yourself:
How El Nino Effects Hurricane Development

Paleontology Sources

The Origin and Evolution of Life (Really cool graphics--from NASA)
The PaleoNet PaleoNet (UC Berkeley) is a system of listservers, www pages, and ftp sites designed to enhance electronic communication among paleontologists.
Kevin's Page of Death (Lots of Paleo Links)
Kuban's Paleo Place ( A wonderful starting point for paleo listings on the WWW)
University of Cambridge This is the WWW home page of the palaeoecology and evolutionary biology research group in the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK.
The Virtual Silurain Reef From the Milwaukee Public Museum
Illinois State Geological Survey (Worth a look! Lots of impressive links to databases and fossil localities around the world)
The World During the Middle and Late Ordovician Period
Univ of California (Berkely) Museum of Paleontology TERRIFIC RESOURCE!!
Historical Geology and Paleontology Resources Univ of Houston
Rugose and Tabulate Corals Univ of NewCastle
Brachiopods (A Comprehensive Listing from the Smithsonian)
Hooper Virtual Paleontological Museum An initiative of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Recent and Fossil Bryozoa
Fossil Hominids
- Hominid Species with Timeline
The Talk:Origins Archive
A History of Palaeozoic Forests
Geology and Geologic Time
- Geologic Time Scale Activity
- A Resource WWW Listing of Sites that have anything to do with Geologic Time. A subset of Kuban's Paleo Place
- Geologic Time Scale Analogy Have students "discover" geologic time!

Bacteria, corals-every living thing- share a common DNA heritage.

Extinctions

Dinosuar-Volcano Extinction Theory (An interesting perspective on extinction-good jump points)
Mass Extinction Underway, Majority of Biologists Say Lots of Links!
Blast from the Past! The National Museum of Natural History
Dinosaurs: Death from Space? From the Melbourne Planetarium
Lecture 25 - The Impact Theory of Mass Extinction I From Dinosaurs and the History of Life
Meteors & Mass Extinctions
Extinctions: Cycles of Life and Death Through Time
The End of Eden A New Theory of Extinctions at the End of the Ice Age
- The Case of the Arboricidal Megaherbivores An unorthodox perspective
- Pleistocene Extinctions: A Systems Model Approach Try out Dr. Smiths' Model yourself
Human Impact on Extinction From the Extinction Website
Meteorites, Impacts, and Mass Extinction Dr. Nelson's class notes from geology 204, Natural Disasters,Tulane University
Ice age Mammals and their Extinction

Impact Craters

Quicktime It could happen! A Deep Impact Scenario illustrated and animated by CNN--'Deep Impact': It could happen.
Terrestrial Impact Craters From Views of the Solar System
- Terrestrial Impact Crater Structures AMAZING!
- Views of Terrestrial Craters Terrifc!
The Chicxulub Impact Crater
Discovering Impact Craters
- Hands-on Modeling of Impact Craters

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Volcanoes & Other Geologic Resources

A GOES satellite MPG loop of the Mt. St. Helens eruption!

Get the latest world-wide information on volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and other research.

Quicktime Movies A Really Cool Movie (~3 MB) of the Montserrat Eruption August 5-8, 1997 (From GOES Hot Stuff!)
- A Short movie of the Nov 6, 1997 Eruption. Shows a very nice burst of material ejected into the atmosphere,
- Volcanic eruptions are another source of atmospheric aerosols and carbon. Montserrat blows its Stack again on 1/13/99.
Quicktime May 1996 Montserrat Pyroclastic Activity. Fabulous movies including a helicopter fly-by as the steaming ash flows into the Atlantic. From the Montserrat Volcano Observatory.
- An extreme close-up as the hot ash rapidly moves across the ocean surface.
- An interesting blend of Caribbean music and the pyroclastic flow.
Quicktime Movies The Oct 5, 1999 eruption of Guagua Pichincha Ecuador Volcano Check out a picture of the spectacular ash cloud! On 10/7/99, the volcano "blew a smoke ring" as shown in this quicktime. From NASA and GOES Hot Stuff.
Quicktime MoviesA MPEG-4 video of some of the absolutely AMAZING sounds produced by Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica in May, 2003. It was humbling to be so close to something so powerful! The afternoon was a prelude to a fabulous evening of Night Viewing!
Quicktime MoviesArenal Volcano Night Activities . What an amazing place! After a wonderful day, the my Costa Rica class went on a rainy nighthike to catch a view of Arenal. We were not dissapointed! Be sure to check out the fabulous nighttime video of Arenal. A Quicktime Slideshow! (TREC 03)
Quicktime MoviesArenal Night ERUPTION Video . Wow! My Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica class was mesmerized!
MTU Volcanoes Page
Canadian National Earthquake Hazards Program (Natural Resources Canada)
Geological Survey of Canada
Volcano World Learn all about volcanoes. Sponsored by NASA.
- Volcano World starting points
- Topics of the Week!
Quicktime Movies A traffic reporter discusses his airborne perspective of the 1989 Loma Prieta California quake. From Savage Earth's PBS online WNET New York.
Research on Volcanism
Seismic-Surfing the Internet: The latest on earthquake activity around the world.
The Latest Locations & Maps of Seismic Events from around the world.
Hawaiin Volcano Watch
Alaska Volcano Observatory
US Geologic Survey
- A List of Featured USGS Pages (From biology, geology to water resources)
The Virtual Earth A Tour of the World Wide Web For Earth Scientists. EXCELLENT!
- Galaxy Search Results of geoscience sources. Impressive!
- On-Line Resources for Earth Scientists
The Learning Channel Earthquake Quicktime Videos
- The Mexico City 1985 earthquake
- The Kobe, Japan 1985 Earthquake. Wow! A surveillance camera caught this "shaking."
- The 1989 San Francisco Earthquake
Canada Earth Science Educational Resources
Quicktime Movies Mr. Gudnason describes how the 1973 Heimaey eruption destroyed his town. From Savage Earth's PBS online WNET New York.
Time-Scale Metaphor Lab: Using student-created metaphors to comprehend geologic time
Quicktime Movies Fogo, located in the Cape Verde Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, erupts at night and explodes during the day. From Volcano World and Frank Tudsell of the Geologic Survey.
Quicktime Movies Some great videos of Kilauea in the Hawaiian islands. From Volcano World and Movies of Kilauea Page.
- Lava flows towards the sea.
- A typical Pahoehoe flow.
- A bright red liquid lava flow.
- Steam clouds are produced when the flow reaches the sea.
- Quicktime Movie Dramatic footage of a recent Kilauea eruption. From Savage Earth's PBS online WNET New York.
NEW! Quicktime Movies A truly wonderful Quicktime MPEG-4 video of Big Island Volcanic Eruptions in Hawaii. Includes night video of lava flows and lava entering the ocean! Compliments of Joseph Shacat and Adrian Glover. They took video of the ocean entry by "Chain of Craters Road," and also of some fairly impressive breakouts further along the coast, later at night. It was very windy which is why the sound is a bit shaky at times. Edited using iMovie 2.1. The movie is about 8 minutes long.
Quicktime Mount Ruapehu volcano in New Zealand in the spectacular 1996 eruption of ash, steam and lava. From CNN.
GEOLOGICAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND WEBSITES OF U.S. NATIONAL PARKS
- Big Bend National Park (Texas A&M University)
- Guadalupe National Park
- Craters of the Moon National Park
- Greater Yellowstone Area Database
- White Sands Natioanl Monument
- Dinosaur National Monument
Quicktime Of course, earthquakes often produce tsuanmis. A 1946 survivor of the Hilo Bay, Hawaii tsunami describes her experience! From Savage Earth's PBS online WNET New York.
Quicktime CNN presents and discusses a minor eruption of Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico. This beast is very close to Mexico city. Today's challenege--pronounce this volcano's name without cracking a smile. Read the complete CNN report.
Quicktime--On 01/22/01, Popocatepetl volcano Blows its top! Very impressive indeed! The earth's respiratory system at work. From GOES Hot Stuff.

USGS National Earthquake Center

USGS Latest California EQuakes USGS E. Hemisphere Seismicity

USGS Recent S.F. Area Quakes USGS W. Hemisphere Seismicity

USGS Recent Hawaii Quakes USGS Continental US weekly report

USGSEurope Seismicity USGS Central & South America Seismicity

USGS Africa Seismicity USGSWorld Report

USGS National Earthquake Center
USGS Latest California EQuakes	USGS E. Hemisphere Seismicity
USGS Recent S.F. Area Quakes	USGS W. Hemisphere Seismicity
USGS Recent Hawaii Quakes	USGS Continental US weekly report
USGSEurope Seismicity	USGS Central & South America Seismicity
USGS Africa Seismicity	USGSWorld Report

Get the USGS Latest Earthquake "Hot list."

The World Data Center System All sorts of "Earth Related Data"

Oceanography

Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies

A few good jump-off points for Oceanographic Info:

The Ocean Information Center (OCEANIC) maintains information on:
- among other thingsOther Oceanographic Information Sources
K-12 Oceanography: An interdisciplinary collection of all things oceanographic! Excellent!
Ocean Planet Exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History
MI-Net--Marine Institute, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Virginia Earth Science Resource Page--includes meterology and oceanography
The Franklin Institute Ocean Science Resources
OceanLink--Bamfield Marine Station, Canada
Oceans Canada
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
- Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory THEME pages
- Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory SEARCH PAGE
Quicktime Movies - The Gulf Stream--Notice the eddies spinning off and the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current
Duke University School of the Environment Marine Laboratory Home Page
National Undersea research Center/UNC Wilmington
WWW Tide and Current Predictor
YAHOO! guide to Oceanography
- Hydrothermal Vents
- Artificial Reefs
- Coral Reefs
- Marine Biology
- Tsunamis
- Oceanography Web Directories
- Oceanographic Projects
- Oceanographic Schools and Institutes
SCRIPPS Institution of Oceanography Library
- Key Databases!
- Electronic Journal Reading Room!
World Wide Virtual Web--Oceanography
Gulf of Mexico Internet Resource Page Texas A&M
Oceanography Information Servers Texas A&M
Starting Points for Internet Exploration
Amazing Environmental Organization Web Directory
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
PDF Pelagic Fisheries Publications University of Hawaii
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Terrific resource!
Quicktime Movies- Deep Sea Vent communities are amazing hot-spots of biological activity and evolution.
- Here, superheated, mineral rich water (from Woods Hole) rushes into the cold, deep sea. Another quicktime view of a smoker in all its glory.
- Chemosynthetic bacterial communities thrive on the sulfur-rich vent waters, They almost look like kelp.
- This animation shows a tube-worm community associated with a "smoking vent."
- Rift zones are dominated by extensive and frequent volcanic and earthquake activity.
United States Coast Guard Navigation Page
National Data Buoy Center
Earth and Environmental Science SEARCH ENGINE USGS internet resources
NOAA Arctic Oceanography and Climatology (Joint US-Russian Atlas-Wonderful resource!)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Oceanography at Texas A&M University's Welcome Page
Oceanography Links: Academic institutions, government, journals, etc.
Web Directory: Science/Oceanography
Coastal Ecosystem Health
Recent & Fossil Bryozoa
Links to ocean sites around the world (Impressive. Alphabetical jump-off points)
The Ocean Research Institute at the University of Tokyo.
The Molluscs of Pigeon Creek, San Salvador, Bahamas
Polar Science Center The International Arctic Buoy Program maintains a network of automatic data buoys in the Arctic Basin whichmonitor synoptic-scale fields of pressure, temperature, andice motion to support real-time operations and meteorological and oceanographic research.
Dalhousie Oceanography -- Oceanography Sites Hotlist (Oceanography Hotlist Sites marked NEW! are the most recently added sites to this list)
An essay on Dolphins : Dolphins and Man.....Equals?
Quicktime Ever wonder how sea level reached its current level? Check out this NASA animation of the Melting of the Antarctic Ice over the last 20, 000 years. Absolutely amazing!

Sea Turtle Conservation Efforts

Scientists currently recognize eight living species of sea turtles grouped into six genera.

Caretta caretta
Loggerhead Chelonia mydas
Green Turtle Eretmochelys imbricata
Hawksbill

Lepidochelys kempii
Kemp's Ridley Chelonia agassizi
Black Turtle Dermochelys coriacea
Leatherback

Lepidochelys olivacea
Olive Ridley Natador depressus
Australian Flatback

The Caribbean Conservation Corporation and its Sea Turtle Survival League
SEA TURTLE CONSERVATION PROGRAM of Broward County, Florida
NOAA Sea Turtle Protection and Conservation
NOAA Sea Turtle Related Links
www.seaturtle.org/
World Turtle Trust
St. Catherine Sea Turtle Conservation Program, Georgia USA
Sea Turtle Conservation Network of the Californias USA and Mexico
Sea Turtle Conservation of Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
- Sea Turtle Conservation of Bonaire Related Links
- MARINE TURTLE SPECIALIST GROUP
Association ANAI, Costa Rica --Fostering Sustainable Development for the World's Tropics
WWF South Pacific Programme--Sea Turtle Conservation and Management
Coastal Conservation Corporation: Sea Turtle Tracking in the Atlantic Ocean & Caribbean Sea!
Turtle Trax (A Page Devoted to Marine Turtles)

Marine Mammal Tracking

WhaleNet (Track the path of whales real-time)
- WhaleNet Teacher Packet
- Educational Resources
WhaleNet(Satellite data, maps & observations)
Quicktime Right Whales swimming off the Washington coast. This video discusses whaling. From CNN's Nature Video Vault.
- A close-up of a Right Whale Breathing.
Stephanie, The Hooded Seal(Steph really gets around!)
- Latest Tracking Map

Coral Reefs

Hawaii Coral Reef Conservation Group(An amazing coral reef resource)
- Overview of coral reef ecology
- The Hawaiian Reef Ecosystem
- Marine Life of Hawaii
- Educational Material
  - Coral Reef References (Particularly strong on the importance of disturbance on reef systems)
  - Curriculum
  - Coral Reef Survey Study Design Tips and Insights
Biodiversity and Conservation Biology from the University of the Western Cape
- The Effect of el Niño-Southern Oscillation on the Corals of the Pacific
- Coralline Algae: Major Players in the World of Reefs
The Coral Reef Alliance
Planetary Coral Reef Foundation
Sea World Resources
Global Relief Effort for Coral Reefs
The State of the Reefs - ICRI's Major Concern
Coral Bleaching, Coral Mortality, and Global Climate Change
Coral Reef Information Page
Coral Health and Monitoring Program (NOAA's CHAMP Program)
National Oceanographic Data Center-US Coral Reefs and Associated Ecosystems
- NOAA's Coral Links
- United States Coral Reef Task Force: Coral Reef Conservation for the 21st Century
- The Extent and Condition of US Coral Reefs
- 1998-International year of the Ocean
- Caribbean Marine Research Center at Lee Stocking Islnad, Bahamas
- National Undersea Research Program (NURP)
- Coral Reef "Hotspots" The Latest Coral Bleaching Information
- NOAA's Marine Sanctuaries
- NOAA's Sustainable Seas
- USGS Coral Mortality and African Dust
- USGS Southern Florida (Florida Bay) Sea Surface Temperatures
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre Global Coral Disease Database
Coral Reef Ecology in the lab of Phillip Dustan, Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Charleston
An Introduction to Coral Reefs From Anatomy to Threats to Coral Reef Ecology
Coral Bleaching (A project for students at Union College under the direction of John Garver)
Marine Fish Catalog (On-line fish identification)
A Global Database Focusing on Aquatic Resources
Hawaii Coral Reef Network
Florida Keys Marine Sanctuary: Coral reef ecosystems
Action Atlas:Focus on Reefs
THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE "Working together to keep coral reefs alive"
Coral Reefs and Mangroves of the World
Australian Coral Reef Society Australia's independent voice for coral reefs
Australian Institute of Marine Science (Coral Reefs and Mangroves: Modelling and Management)
Quicktime Jellyfish swim in a variety of beautiful undulations as part of a CNN "Earth Story" featuring the biology of jellyfish. From CNN's Nature Video Vault.

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Other Tarantula Links

The Amercian Tarantula Society The largest Arachnid Society of the World.

Tarantula Planet

The Arachnological Hub of the World Wide Web

Trav's Tarantula Page This 10 year old has put together an informative web page on tarantulas.

Phong's Tarantula WWW Pages I love this site. Amazing descriptiuons, details and pictures of over 50 tarantulas.

Phongs Tarantula Links

DiddyBo's Tarantula pages

Petbugs.com's Home page An amazing collection of info from resources to discussion forums.

PetBugs.com tarantula caresheets

GIANT spiders.com Although focusing mainly on tarantulas, this site also offers an insight into the araneomorphs or 'true spiders' such as the wandering, huntsman, orb-web and wolf spiders.

Select Articles on tarantulas and other spiders

The Tarantula Burrow A Tarantula Mega-Site. Includes a searchable database, photos, taxonomy and species specific care sheets!

Rick West's Tarantula Photo Gallery with the correct taxonomy of each featured spider.

Troll Quality Tarantulas

Minax TarantulasA full-featured site devoted to tarantuals. Lots of essential information, care descriptions, and species specific information. A Must visit!

Jordan's Arachnid Page

A Guide to Keeping New World Arboreal Tarantulas

Dan the Man's Tarantula Page

Individual Species with caresheets

Suppliers

Arachnocentric: #1 in Fine Arachnids

Glades Herp Inc.: Suppliers of fine quality reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates to the collectors, breeders, zoos and educators of the world.

Pet Center USA An amazing resource and source of spiders at reasonable prices.

Pet Center Links

West Coast ZOO,com

Marshes & Coastal Environments

Toxic Red Tides and Harmful Algal Blooms: A Practical Challenge in Coastal Oceanography (Department of Biology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Nekton Utilization of Tidal Marshes: Literature Review and Introduction
USGS Fact-Sheets: Briefings on Coastal and Marine Geology Projects (Terrific!)
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK / NASA COASTAL MARSH PROJECT
Louisiana Sea Grant Publications
The University Field Station (Delta Marsh), a biological station of the Faculty of Science at the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg,Canada).
- Links to Wetland Sites Around the World
Ecosystem Health & Land Loss in Chesapeake Bay (NOAA & Others)
Quicktime A Florida Manatee swims gracefully in clear Florida waters. A CNN story discusses an alarming Manatee die-off due to disease. From CNN's Nature Video Vault.
California Coastal Commission LINKS TO OTHER SITES
USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program (Terrific!)
USGS Coastal Storms & Tsunamis

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Ecology and More Global Change

Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server The Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server is devoted to information of interest to systematists and other biologists of the organismic kind. COOL SITE!
- Herpetology
Systematic and Population Biology
The Union of Concerned Scientists The Union of Concerned Scientists brings sound science to society's decisions about global security and the global environment.
Welcome to The ECOSYSTEM the environmental information service on the World Wide Web
- The Environment Digest
World Wide Fund for Nature
The Ecological Society of America Home Page
The United Nations Environment Program
The North American Amphibian Monitoring Program
Bureaus of the US Dept of Interior (An amazing source of a wide variety of ecological info)
US Environmental Protection Agency
British Antarctic Survey Ozone Homepage
Understanding our Planet Through Chemistry This U.S.Geological Survey site shows how chemists and geologists use analytical chemistry to: determine the age of the Earth; show an extraterrestrial body collided with the Earth; predict volcanic eruptions; observe atmospheric change over millions of years; and document damage by acid rain and pollution of the Earth's surface.
Large Lake Data Base Global Lake and Catchment Conservation Database
EnviroNet (A network of students, teachers, scientists, environmental educators and others who utilize telecommunications to enhance environmental science education)
- Classroom Web Resources
Marcel's Home Page Has some good Ecological Links!

Monarch Watch (Wonderful site on monarch biology)

EnviroNet Newsletter

GLOBE (International Hands-On science & education)
Ancient Bristlecone Pine
Carnivorous Plant Database
Missouri Botanical Garden: Other Links
The Tree of Life is a collection of World Wide Web pages that combines present information about the world's organisms. Each page presents information about a particular group. The beetle page, for example, shows pictures of beetles, introduces them, provides a description of the key characteristics, and so on.
Everglades Information Network ( A collaborative project :Florida International University Libraries Everglades National Park
- Everglades Scientific Reports & Papers
- US National Parks Flora and Fauna Database

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Maps and Map Makers

EARTH SCIENCES & MAP LIBRARY (Univ of California)
Univ of Iowa Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research (An absiolutely Oustanding source for on-line Maps and References!)
Map Generator (Make a your own maps. You supply the coordinates)
The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection(The General Libraries - The University of Texas at Austin)
- Maps of the United States National Parks and Monuments
National Geographic Society Map Machine
Navigation and Mapping (The Beginning Efforts) From the GULF of MAINE Aquarium
- An exercise on triangualtion "Where am I?"

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BIOSIS Home (Publisher of the Zoological Record: Need I say More?! )
- Resources for Biologists
- Biodiversity Internet Resource Guide (Subject and Animal Group)
  - Guide by Animal Group
  - Guide by Subject Categories
- BIOSIS Resource Guide
- Field guide to freshwater mussels of the Midwest INHS Manual 5 (Amazing on-line key to the complex unionid molluscs)
Biological Sciences Database - Marine Biology

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Earth Pages--Earth Sciences and News from the Geological World
- A fine index of links to geologic resources on the WWW

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Caretta caretta Loggerhead	Chelonia mydas Green Turtle	Eretmochelys imbricata Hawksbill
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