Resources for students of Earth Science

updated, July 8, 2009


·                                 Careers_in_Earth_Sciences

·                                 Computer_graphics_software_and_resources

·                                 Data_for_Natural_Sciences

·                                     Weather,_climate,_and_paleoclimate_data

·                                     Hydrologic_data

·                                 Dendrochronology resources

·                                 Earth science textbooks and related aids online    (see also “Supplies and Books” below)

·                                 Earth science lectures and powerpoints online   New stuff added periodically

·                                 Videos -- Earth Science and other topics

·                                 Geologic_publications_online

·                                 Maps

·                                 Online_educational_resources

·                                 Radiology resources

·                                 Reference,_conversions,_standards,_etc

·                                 Science software (freeware or shareware)

·                                 Student opportunities

·                                 Study guide (geology)

·                                 Supplies and books

·                                 Tools_for_writing_science_papers

·                                 Washington Online Writing Lab  also, visit Centralia College's Writing Lab in Kemp 105 for more information and assistance

·                                 Links

·                                 Curious or amusing dept   


Careers_in_Earth_Sciences

Careers in Geosciences--Earth Science World  (leaves this page)

          Resume tips:

          10 phrases that kill your resume (online resource)

Computer_graphics_software_and_resources making animated gifs      Irfanview freeware graphics viewer    

NIH Image homepage--image analysis software and  tools     Object Image Mac program for image analysis     

download site for Adobe Acrobat Reader      http://www.snopes.com   Urban legend or not?

NASA Dapple data browser

GIS --Geographic Information SystemsNorm's GIS Glossary     ESRI GIS software  (world’s most used!) 

Washington State Geospatial database

Washington DNR geospatial data

Puget Sound Lidar Consortium

Oregon State geospatial data   

ESRI online resources

GIS data depot    Commercial site

Data for Natural Sciences

    Weather, climate, and paleoclimate data

    Washington Climate Summaries  find station data!    [Use Vancouver and Centralia precipitation "monthly" records for semhill project; “ANN” = annual precip]

    WA Snowtel site 

    NOAA Paleoclimate data   [see "data search" for tree-ring, ice, fire, coral, cave, paleofire, etc]

    Hydrologic data

    USGS Real-time water data--Washington State site  (see "Statewide Streamflow table" link)

Dendrochronology resources

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! 

Pat's tree-ring links

Earth science textbooks and related aids online

Link to an online Physical Geography textbook by Michael Ritter

Link to the introductory Geoscience Virtual Textbook

Encyclopedia of Earth

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 the  various links to rock types

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…

Earth science lectures and powerpoints online

          Physical Geology notes and powerpoints by Michael Kimberley at N. Carolina State  (two versions--one for printing, one for viewing online)

                  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

Videos -- Earth science and other topics

      Main Annenberg website    Great resource, but requires fast connection and establishing a login name (email) and password.

        Annenberg College level/adult video series         

        Earth Revealed, Annenberg video series       

        Annenberg Planet Earth videos series 

            Watch NOVA online!

        weather.com video on demand (get weather, but get advertisements too!)

Geologic publications online

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

Maps  WADNR Geologic Survey    USGS topo maps      USGS publications     WA soils      Mapquest     Chris Heg's WA Geology map site      Google Maps!!!

WASHINGTON STATE GEOLOGIC INFORMATION PORTAL

Online educational resources

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 Resources

Reference, conversions, standards, etc

online conversions

Tera, giga, mega, kilo,hecto, deka, ---, deci, centi, milli, micro, nano       Make sense of why Ma is short for mega annum (a million years), etc

Science software (freeware or shareware)  Oxcal radiocarbon calibration software

     CALIB radiocarbon calibration software 

Student opportunities

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

Supplies and Books

www.maketextbooksaffordable.org –

Free graph paper on the web

Places to buy field gear: Forestry Suppliers    Ben Meadows

Tools for writing science papers

40 tips to improve grammar and punctuation from the DLM site     spend a little time here and improve your grades!!!

Proofreaders marks   How to figure out what that teacher or reviewer meant by all those marks and squiggles on the paper!

How to make perspective drawings             Edit digital pictures         Making graphics for field trip reports  see also above “edit digital pictures”

Example lab report        Sean Student's field trip report (hypothetical) 

Rubric for grading of field reports

Fake field trip report outline (example)        

Simple rubric (grading guidelines) for writing reports and papers

Detailed rubric for grading of papers and reports

Field trip report tips

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)

Geology info and pubs on reserve in Kirk Library 

Links

Pat's weather and climate links

Curious or amusing dept   The Pringle Surface    


Please direct communications about this page to ppringle    ‘at’ centralia.edu