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Water Quality
Mississippi River Basin Issues and Organizations
Western Water Resource Issues
Vegetation
- GLCTS: Global Land Cover Test Sites
- LTER: Long-Term Ecological Research Program
- Kids and Classrooms (National Gardening Association)
- MBGnet: Missouri Botanical Gardens Education Network
- Texas A&M - Kinder Garden and School Gardens programs
- Desert Botanical Gardens - Phoenix, AZ
- Tucson Botanical Gardens - Tucson, AZ
- Tohono Chul Park - Tucson, AZ
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Juicy Gossip Newsletter - Desert vegetation and grasses
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Biology and Ecology
- Center for Environmental Studies (ASU)
- Environmental Education (EPA)
- DesertUSA On-line magazine - see Desert Life, Maps, ...
- The Nature Conservancy
- The World Conservation Union (IUCN)
- The National Association of Conservation Districts
- Man and the Biosphere - Species Database
- National Wildlife Foundation - Kids Page
- National Wetlands Research Center
- SEED - Students for the Earth and Environment (ES outreach)
- Some Like it Hot - BLM Sonoran Environmental Education
- Rainforest - Environmental and Conservation Topics
- On-Line Arizona - BLM
- USGS National Biological Survey - Kid's Corner - Endangered Species List, ...
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Zero Population Growth (not the only solution, but ...)
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Weather
- How the WeatherWorks - Great educational value
- Project SkyMath - Using Math,Sci & Patterns to explore the weather
- Project SkyMath - About Temperature
- Have your students produce a National Weather Report
- The Weather Unit -
- AMS: Datastreme Project - Many low-res (fast!) current weather maps over US
- AMS: Educational Programs - Project Atmosphere, Maury (Oceanography) Project
- AWS: Automated Weather Source - Virtual Schoolhouse
- CAPS: Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms
- CAPS: Tornado Alley - Edu. Outreach
- FSU: Project Atmosphere Page - An Atmospheric Education Source for teachers
- Kids as Global Scientists Weather Curriculum
- Shared Air - How does the air you breath change across the US?
- NOAA-MAPS Meso-scale Analysis and Prediction System
- OCS: OK Climate Survey - Edu. Outreach - Examples of student projects
- SGP-ARM / OCS - Edu. Outreach - Great Atmo. Lessons!
- TAMU: Introductory Meteorology - Tutorials
- UMICH: The Weather Underground - Blue-Skies and Projects
- UWISC-Madison CIMSS - Weather Wise Educational Activities
- Weather World 2010 Project - integrate current and historical data
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Weatherwise Magazine - The magazine about the weather
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Climate Change Issues
- Climate Institute - Protecting the balance between climate and life on Earth
- GLOBE El Nino Page - Good links!
- CPC: Climate Prediction Products - Great! Work in Progress
- OGP: Regional Climate Forecasts -
- Global Warming: Focus on the Future
- EPA: Global Warming Info
- EDF: Global Warming Issues - Environmental Defense Fund
- Global Warming - Understanding the Forecast
- GCRIO: Global Warming and Climate Change
- Global Environmental Change: An Atmospheric Perspective - an internet companion to a textbook
- GISS: Goddard Institute for Space Studies - 1 pg summaries of current research
- IASTATE: Global Change Course - ideas on electronic learning aids
- SW Regional Climate Change Symposium and Resources
- Sierra Club: Global Warming Campaign
- USGS Global Change Research Program
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US Global Change Research Program
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Satellites
- Earth Observatory - NASA
- The Observatorium - Educational Earth and Space Activities and Data
- EOS/TERRA Data - NASA
- From Star Gazers to Starships - NASA/GSFC
- The GOES Project Science
- NASA COTF: Classroom of the Future
- NASA JPL Learning Link
- NASA JPL KidSat/Project Youth Enhancing Space(YES)
- NASA JPL SIR-C: Shuttle Imaging Radar Educational Projects
- NASA GSFC: Educational Resources at the GSFC DAAC
- NASA MSFC: Space Link
- A Global View of the Earth - A Landsat-7 Teacher's Kit
- NASA Quest K-12 Internet Activities (Jupiter, Shuttle, Mars, Hale-Bopp)
- USDA-ARS: Mapping soil moisture with a Passive Microwave Sensor
- From Star Gazers to Starships - NASA/GSFC
- The GOES Project Science
- NASA COTF: Classroom of the Future
- NASA JPL Learning Link
- NASA JPL KidSat/Project Youth Enhancing Space(YES)
- NASA JPL SIR-C: Shuttle Imaging Radar Educational Projects
- NASA GSFC: Educational Resources at the GSFC DAAC
- NASA MSFC: Space Link
- NASA: The Observatorium - Educational Earth and Space Activities and Data
- NASA Quest K-12 Internet Activities (Jupiter, Shuttle, Mars, Hale-Bopp)
- USDA-ARS: Mapping soil moisture with a Passive Microwave Sensor
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UCB-CEA: Activities and Resources for the Classroom - incl. "How Satellites See"
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Images
- Center for Earth and Planetary Studies - Nat. Air & Space Museum
- Real-time Science Data Access Page
- CCRS: Canadian Centre for Remote Sensing - Education page, Intro. to Remote Sensing
- Canada: IMAGE Centre - Education and Training
- Color Science: Spectra and more
- Earthshot - Satellite Images of Environmental Change
- Earth and Moon Viewer - View the Earth from any vantage!
- Earth Online - Home of the Living Earth
- Envirofacts Warehouse - Spatial data from EPA
- HoloGlobe - Smithsonian Exhibit with GREAT views or Earth!
- NASA JSC: Digital Image Collection
- National Mapping Information @ USGS
- National Aerial Photography Program @ USGS
- Imagenet: Commercial geospatial data products
- Intermountain Digital Imaging - The USA from Space
- NASA: The Observatorium - Landsat Thematic Mapper Data Sets
- NASA JPL - Image and Information Archive
- NASA RSD: Public Use of Remote Sensing Data
- NASA RSPAC: Remote Sensing Public Access Center
- NASA EOS: Educators' Visual Materials Great intro images and text!
- NSSDC Planetary Image Archive
- NSSDC Photo Gallery
- LSU ESL: LSU Earth Scan Lab - Best Images
- UMICH: Windows to the World - Earth & Space Science Imagebank (SLOW!)
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American Museum of Photography
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Global Positioning Satellite System
- Global Positioning System Overview
- JPL: GPS Time-Series - purpose?
- UNAVCO: University NAVSTAR Consortium - Promoting use of GPS in reseach
- NIST: National Institute of Standards - Time and frequency services
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USNO: Official US time reference
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Mapping Resources
Geology and Geomorphology
- Geoscience Information Center @ Scripps
- National Geoologic Information @ USGS
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USGS: Learning Web
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Soils
Soil Water and Soil Physics Research groups
- SoWaCS: Soil Water Content Sensor discussion group - South Africa
- Univ. of Arizona - Soil Physics Lab
- Univ. of Arizona - Ag. and Biosystems Eng.
- Utah State Univ.
- Univ. Wisconsin
- Univ. Georgia
- Univ. Minnesota
- Oregon State Univ.
- Univ. of Florida - Soil and Water Science Handbook
- Div. of Soils, CSIRO, Australia
- Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
- Irrigation Research, Germany
- Institute of Hydrology, UK
- USDA-ARS-CPRL - Conservation and Production Research Laboratory
- USDA-ARS-USWCL - US Water Conservation Laboratory
- USDA-ARS-USSL - US Salinity Laboratory
- USDA-ARS-SWRC - SW Watershed Research Center
Energy
- Calif. Energy Comm: Energy Quest - Games and Resources
- CREST-Solstice - Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology
- Green Lights - Energy conservation
- EPRI: Electric Power Research Institute
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Louisiana Energy & Environmental Resource & Info Ctr.
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Profesional Organizations
- ACS: Ameriacan Chemical Society - Education Pages
- AGU: Science for Everyone - Selected News stories
- AIP: Ameriacan Institute of Physics - Education Pages
- AMS: American Meteorological Society
- FFA: Future Farmers of America
- 4-H: National 4-H Council
- NCTM: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- NHRI: National Hydrology Research Institute
- NISE: National Institute for Science Education
- NSF: National Science Foundation Homepage
- NSTA: National Science Teachers Association
- SSSA: Soil Science Society of America - also CSSA and ASA
- SCA: Student Conservation Association - Work opportunities!
- USGS: Water Education Posters
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USGS: Earth and Environmental Science Links
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State Agencies
Commercial
- ALTP: Arizona Learning Technology Partnership
- CITA: Community Information and Telecommunications Alliance
- The Evergreen Project - Environmental classroom learning material
- Precipice Development
- ZDNet - Back to School '97
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