Resources
for
students of Earth Science
Data_for_Natural_Sciences GIS_Geographic_Information_Systems
Earth_Science_Societies Earth Science Misc
Hydrologic_data Weather,_climate,_and_paleoclimate_data
Online_educational_resources Science software (including freeware/shareware)
Videos: Earth Sciences and related Dendrochronology resources
Education:_tools_and_links Undergraduate researchEarth science lectures and powerpoints online New stuff added periodically
Geologic_publications_online
Geologic_field_guides_online
Geology_departments_Pacific_Northwest
Geology of the Pacific Northwest
Reference,_conversions,_standards,_etc
Radiology
resources
Tools_for_students Student opportunities
Supplies and books Study guide (geology)
Washington Online
Writing Lab visit
Curious or
amusing dept
Links
US Geological Survey useful links USGS Diamonds USGS selected hazards USGS Afghanistan
Careers in Geosciences--Earth Science World (leaves this page)
see also under GIS for careers, below
Also, please see Tools for editing or making graphics or figures, below
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Washington
Climate
Summaries new site to find
station data as of ~ 2012! [Use
NOAA Paleoclimate data [see "data search" for tree-ring, ice, fire, coral, cave, paleofire, etc]
USGS Real-time water data--Washington State site (see "Statewide Streamflow table" link)
USGS Washington State Water Center
NOAA storm prediction center, surface and upper air maps
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Lab. of Tree-ring research at Univ. AZ --education tools
Lab. of Tree-ring research at Univ. AZ --dendro resources
The Ultimate Tree-ring web pages
Searchable bibliography of dendrochronology Check tree-ring references here!
NOAA tree-ring paleoclimate database
Link to an online
Physical Geography textbook by Michael Ritter
Physical Geography net by Michael Pidwirny and Scott Jones
Link to the introductory Geoscience Virtual Textbook
Online Oceanography textbook by Robert H. Stewart
Encyclopedia of Earth Windows to the Universe (NESTA)
Link to the companion website for AGI/NAGT Geoscience Laboratory Manual_v.8
Link to The Georoots Etymological Dictionary of Geology by Matt Horrigan
Michael Kimberley's physical geology presentations (both as text + pictures for printing or for viewing online)
About
geology.com
See about
rocks
and explore links
to rock types teacher resources
Tutorials | GeologyRocks (You must establish a username, but this is free)
Online geological dictionary Other online geological dictionaries
Geology Labs On-Line There are only a few labs here, but great potential…
Geowords-Hugh Rance's online geo site, his paleo book toc, glossary of geowords by Hugh Rance
e-notes-for earth science an assortment of Earth science vocabulary words that may be helpful
DLESE Earth science literacy maps Try out the plate tectonics map and then click on the gray text box links to learn more.
This Dynamic Earth: the story of Plate Tectonics A nice overview courtesy of Bob Tilling and others of the USGS
WA SBCTC Open Course Library select "courses" in the menu bar to start or go directly to the links below
About the Open Course Library (news release)
OCL Physical Geology (all modules & resources) OCL Physical Geology "ebook" chapters Physical Geology Info page
Physical Geology notes and powerpoints by Michael Kimberley at N. Carolina State (two versions--one for printing, one for viewing online)
Mike
Strickler's geomania page
Geoman's Glossary of Earth science terms (also by Mike)
Pam Gore's geology lecture notes
Rob Viens' powerpoint lectures for Geology of the Northwest, BCC
Carla Whittington's powerpoint lectures for Natural Hazards, Highline CC
Earth Revealed, Annenberg video series Mike Strickler's study guides for Earth Revealed videos
Annenberg Planet Earth videos series AGI's "Faces of the Earth" video series on youtube
NOVA: Australia Awakening Australia's ancient landscape 2013
The
Khan Academy—lots of tools and helpful videos!
NOVA | scienceNOW | Get Involved | PBS
Watch
NOVA online! ...such as Iceland's doomsday volcanoes
Weather and climate videos for online viewing American Meteorological Society
weather.com video on demand (get weather, but get advertisements too!)
"Central Rocks" with Nick Zentner—CWU geology video series
Professor Andy Bunn of WWU talks about climate change April 9, 2009 presentation at WSU Whatcom Extension on Vimeo
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UC Santa Barbara multimedia visualization center
Gates_Foundation_College-ready_education
Dan's wild wild science journal Dan on what science fundamentals American are not learning--part 1 part 2 part 3: five things we need to teach every American about science
The Triangle Coalition for STEM education
SERC, the Science Education Resource Center Curriculum for the bioregion
Old sticks in the mud Class & lab activities teaching about the hazards of lahars at Mount Rainier by Patrick Pringle
WA Geology Division publications and maps Search online database of geology of Washington
Oregon Dept. of Geology and Mineral Industries Oregon Geology and the Ore Bin publication
Environmental sciences
NEW LINKs ==>
New Washington State kmz files for geology!
One-stop
pdf
link to most WA Div. of Geology geologic maps access all scales here; 1:100,000 are scans of b&w maps; also valuable here is progress map on the 1:24,000 mapping
WASHINGTON STATE GEOLOGIC INFORMATION PORTAL
Washington Geology Library Geologic field guides online A list of geology field trips compiled by the Washington DNR Div. of Geology
WA DNR map of the Capitol Forest There are also links to other WA State Forest maps etc
USGS Preliminary Atlas of shallow, active, tectonic deformation in the Puget Lowland, Washington
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Mount Hood field guide by Scott etal, 2003
Landslides of Seattle field trip, BCC
Archive of GSA field guides since 1999 online
Search the Geologic Guidebooks of North America database (GIS)
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Evolution of the Pacific Northwest by John Figge
USGS revised geologic time scale 2007
Sedimentary rocks;
USGS Bulletin 1244 on Lincoln Creek Formation in Grays Harbor CO
The Columbia River Basalts and Oregon High Lava Plains
Watch a short Oregon Field Guide video about research on the High Lava Plains
Central Washington Univ. Dept. of Geological Sciences Inquire about the program or prerequisites
Western Washington University Geology WWU advising questions
University of Washington Earth and Space Sciences more on undergraduate admissions to UW about transfer requirements for UW
Washington State Univ. Earth and Environmental
Sciences
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USGS Geologic Investigations Map I-2800, This Dynamic Planet
USGS Geology of the National Parks and more Geology of the National Parks USGS photo library of National Parks
USGS Earthquake Hazards, Earthquake Glossary strike-slip fault animation normal fault and thrust fault animations
USGS Earthquake Hazards, For Kids, Animations for Earthquake Terms and Concepts
USGS videos and audio interviews audio podcasts on the left; video podcasts on the right
USGS talks, video, etc Lots of interesting lectures you can listen to! presentations about water more interesting lectures!
USGS Water Science for Schools, Photo Gallery
3-D geology of the National Parks You need red/blue 3_D glasses to view this.
USGS publications about diamonds:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2012/5256/
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2012/3128/
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2012/3130/
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2010/5043/
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2010/5044/
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2010/5045/
-- diamond commodity info web site: http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/diamond/
and yearly commodity reports: http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/mcs/ - for 2013, Diamond (Industrial) is on pages 50-51
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USGS hazards links:
USGS Earthquake Summary Posters: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/poster/
Sumatra-Andaman, 2004: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/poster/2004/20041226.php
---tsunami generation: http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/tsunami/sumatraEQ/
Haiti, 2010: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/poster/2010/20100112.php
Chile, 2010: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/poster/2010/20100227.php
Japan, 2011: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/poster/2011/20110311.php
USGS Water Science School, Tsunami Hazards: http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/tsunamishazards.html
Global earthquake archive search: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/epic/
"Top 10" lists and maps: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/
To volunteer to host a seismograph, information is available at: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/netquakes/
-- for example, for this last website, check out the stories under the text "NetQuakes in the News"
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NW Geological Society/ Student memberships are $5 per year
The Geological Society
of America
(GSA)
http://www.geosociety.org/
The American Geological
Institute http://www.agiweb.org/
The American
Geophysical Union
(AGU) http://www.agu.org/
The American Association of Engineering Geologists http://www.aegweb.org
The Association of
Women
Geoscientists
http://www.awg.org/
The Geological Society
of the
Oregon Country
http://www.gsoc.org/
About the nwearthscience listserv
Electronic book collections via Centralia College's Kirk Library
Online periodicals via the Centralia College Kirk Library
Monterey Institute's national repository of online courses (see "view repository") Open Educational ResourcesTera, giga, mega, kilo,hecto, deka, ---, deci, centi, milli, micro, nano Make sense of why Ma is short for mega annum (a million years), etc
Convert degrees-minutes-seconds of latitude/longitude into decimal degrees
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CALIB radiocarbon
calibration software
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Subsurface Biosphere Initiate at Oregon State University Summer internships. Deadline is 4/15 for 2006, but they may be flexible!
Investigating the Wenas Creek Mammoth--summer field school CWU 2006
www.maketextbooksaffordable.org –
Places to buy field gear: Forestry Suppliers Ben Meadows
Geology
info and pubs on reserve in Kirk Library Put more information into your field trip report and cite a reference!!
Want help with format and grammer? See the Writing Center info below
Style guide for geology papers This is heavy duty, because it's the official style guide for submission of papers to the Geological Society of America
US Geological Survey "Suggestions to Authors" (a classic)
Grammatical and usage tidbits
ALSO, PLEASE USE THE CENTRALIA COLLEGE WRITING CENTER IN KEMP 105 OR USE THE ONLINE WRITING LAB TO SUBMIT YOUR WORK TO THE WRITING CENTER VIA EMAIL!!!
Reference sites for checking on geographic or geologic names, DOI numbers, etc
US Geologic Survey Board of Geographic Names Check to see if a landform or place has been recognized as a Geographic Name, and if you need to capitalize it.
GEOLEX Check geologic names, lithologic or geochronologic
Proofreaders marks How to figure out what that teacher or reviewer meant by all those marks and squiggles they put on the paper you wrote!
What is DOI?
While researching you may see a "digital object identifier" at
the end of a reference, like this: "doi 10.1130/B25899.1" You can
go to the DOI website and type the number (not "doi") into the "RESOLVE a doi name" query box at the bottom of the DOI website to find the reference in question.
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Tools for editing or making graphics or figures
Making graphics for field trip reports [succinct version for people who know how to cook] Edit digital pictures [“cookbook” version]
How
to make
perspective drawings
A cool site with info on editing the levels histogram of an image in Photoshop
See also Google Earth and Maps section above IrfanView is a great free image viewer and editor Irfanview on a Mac with Wine
Download Jing, a free screen capture app gimp is a free image manipulation/editing program Graphicconverter for Mac (not free anymore)
ImageJ Image analysis software
SERC: Analyzing change over time using ImageJ
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Pat's weather and climate links
Please direct communications about this page to ppringle ‘at’ centralia.edu