Earth Science

Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) "The primary climate-change data and information analysis center of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)" -- quote from website

Climate Change (U.S. EPA) "Offers comprehensive information on the issue of climate change in a way that is accessible and meaningful to all parts of society – communities, individuals, business, states and localities, and governments." -- quote from website

Digital Library in Earth system Education "Include[s] lesson plans, scientific data, visualizations, interactive computer models, and virtual field trips - in short, any web-accessible teaching or learning material" -- quote from website

Discover Our Earth "A wide range of information related to the Earth sciences, accompanied by images, graphs, maps, and movies... [also includes] interactive data analysis and mapping tools that will allow customized access to a large variety of Earth science data sets that are used by research scientists" -- quote from website

Earth Science World Resources include searchable image bank, interactive geological time scale, virtual oil exploration game, career information, book center and more

Earth Trends"Online collection of information regarding the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world" -- quote from website

Global Change.gov "Gateway to global change data and information," including news, policy overviews, agency links, fact sheets, educational links and more -- quote from website

Intute: Science, Engineering & Technology: Earth Sciences "Provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities." -- quote from website

Mineralogy and Petrology Research on the Web Links to related topic-oriented sites, journals, professional organizations and more

Mineralogy Database "This mineral database contains 4,442 individual mineral species descriptions with links and a comprehensive image library" -- quote from website  

National Geophysical Data Center "Provides scientific stewardship, products, and services for geophysical data from the Sun to the Earth and Earth's sea floor and solid earth environment, including Earth observations from space" -- quote from website

National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) "Archives & provides public access to global oceanographic and coastal data, products, and information" -- quote from website

National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Current research, historical information and a wide range of data on the cryosphere

Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Soils "Part of the National Cooperative Soil Survey, an effort of Federal and State agencies, universities, and professional societies to deliver scientifically-based soil information" --quote from website

NCDC: Climatic Extremes and Weather Events Provides information on current and historic weather trends and events in the nation and world including tornadoes, hurricanes, heavy precipitation, temperature extremes, droughts, global climate change and more from the National Climatic Data Center

NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory "Pursue[s] a broad and comprehensive understanding of the Earth system... working toward a greater stewardship of the Earth" -- quote from website

Ocean World "Present[s] you with the latest in oceanography information and topics" -- quote from website

Paleomap Project "Illustrate[s] 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" --quote from website

U.S. Geological Survey Library "Welcome to the largest earth science library in the world;" includes educational resources, geological surveys, geologic map database, photo archives and additional informative links -- quote from website

Water Resources of the United State Contains searchable online reports on water resources from the USGS, including summaries, articles, fact sheets, hydrologic atlases, data sets, graphics, scientific investigations reports, etc.

Weather Web Resources Educational meteorology links from the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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