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Societies & Organizations:
Environmental Science
- ECO links page
- Glossary of Environmental Terms
- Centre for Analytical Resesarch on the Environment (CARE)
- National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health
- Earth Portal - by the US National Council for Science and the Environment
- Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) (free subscription on acadiau.ca on-line addresses)
- National Council for Science and the Environment
- Mesothelioma, (from Asbestos.com)
- The Acadia Environmental Blog
- Environmental Protection Agency (USA)
- Canadian Environmental Impact Agency
- Nova Scotia Department of the Environment
Provincial Geological Surveys
- Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Mines and Energy
- NSDNR Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources
- NS DNR DataLocator (for downloading aerial photos) - note only works in Internet Explorer
- New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources and Energy
- Ontario Geological Survey
- Manitoba Industry, Economic Development and Mines (Geolgoical Survey)
- Saskatchewan Industry and Resources
- Alberta Geological Survey
- British Columbia Ministry of Energy and Mines
- Chamber of Mines of Eastern British Columbia
- Yukon Geological Survey
- Northwest Territories Geoscience Office
Map Resources
- Earth and Moon Viewer
- Lithoprobe Seismic Atlas
- Geological Atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin
- Map It - a compendium of map resources from Wadsworth
- Miningco.com : a comprehensive source of all kinds of maps
- Toporama - Canadian NTS maps
- Topozone - every USGS 1:100,000, 1:25,000, and 1:24,000 scale map for the entire United States
- Digital Chart of the World - user-chosen maps of all countries, states, provinces, with roads, relief, etc., as chosen
- Google Maps - the ultimate source for satellite or air photo location worldwide (see also Google Earth - download to your computer)
- Worldmapper - the world as you've never seen it
- Maps of the local area - location of Acadia University and Wolfville.
Volcanoes and earthquakes information
- Acadia seismograph in Huggins Hall - screen capture updated every 5 minutes
- VolcanoWorld - a good starting place for information on volcanoes
- Keweenaw Volcano Observatory - everything from ice volcanoes to fountains of lava
- Eruptions - blog of all the latest in the world of volcanoes
- Earthquakes - information on the latest earthquakes from USGS
- Global Volcanism Program from the Smithsonian Institution
- Seismic-Eruption - from State University of New York, Binghamton
- Seismic Waves - from State University of New York, Binghamton
- Highly Allochthonous - blog commonly featuring volcanoes, earthquakes and hydrology
- Earth and Space Science Today - from NESTA, several links to real-time data on natural phenomena
Mineralogy
- Athena - an excellent searchable mineral database
- Mineral Database - every mineral you'd ever want to see, by Dave Barthelmy
- Bob's Rock Shop - the famous site for minerals of all types
- Mineralogy of Nova Scotia - by Ronnie Van Dommelen
Petrology
- Metamorphic Petrology on the Web from Dave Waters at Oxford
- TWEEQU by Rob Berman
- Structural Geology and Metamorphic Petrology on the WWW by Jürgen Kraus
- Granites - a pun-laden look at the left of the QAP triangle
- Atlas of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks, Minerals and Textures - from U. North Carolina
Economic Geology
- Metals prices from the USGS
- CAPP - Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers - links to over 200 energy companies
Paleontology
- Museum Without Walls from the University of California Museum of Paleontology
- The Burgess Shale - University of Calgary site
- The Burgess Shale - Parks Canada site
- The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology , Drumheller, Alberta - dinosaurs and many fossils links
Stratigraphy and Sedimentary Rocks
- The Stratigraphic Column : eons, eras, periods, epochs and ages
- Siccar Point, Scotland : The original unconformity
- Sequence Stratigraphy from University of South Carolina
- International Commission on Stratigraphy
- UGS Bedform Site
- Prof Paul Heller : professor at University of Wyoming, with very good sedimentology videos
- Prof Strasser : professor at University of Freiburg, very good (sequence) stratigraphy site
Isotopic dating
- Geochronology - from USGS (all the systems, technique and equipment)
Structural Geology and Tectonics
- The Canadian Tectonics Group
- Plate motions measured by satellite GPS interferometry
- Plate reconstructions from the last billion years (University of California, Berkeley)
Geomorphology
- Canadian Landforms and Landscapes from the Terrain Sciences Division of the Geological Survey of Canada.
- landform maps - for the 50 states
- All About Glaciers
- Highly Allochthonous - blog commonly featuring volcanoes, earthquakes and hydrology
- Earth and Space Science Today - from NESTA, several links to real-time data on natural phenomena
Oceanography
- Ocean and Climate Change Institute - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Meteorology and Climatology
- Intellicast - weather worldwide. Click here for the Surface Analysis used in classes.
- Wunderground.com - probably the net's most complete archive of weather data, via this link at UMich.
- Environment Canada - Atlantic Region with many links to current conditions, weather forecasts and publications
- The Online Guides - lots of maps, 12 and 24 hour loops, satellite images, surface conditions for North America
- UNISYS Weather - more advanced maps and models
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - a good source of graphics on climate change
- Global Change Master Directory - from NASA
- hurricane forecasts for the season
- El Nino theme page
- TOMS (Tropical Ozone Mapping Spectrometer)
- National Ice Core Laboratory - a source to access all the ice drilling programs
- The State of the Cryosphere - all the data about changes in ice, sea-ice, permafrost, glaciers from climate change
- Earth and Space Science Today - from NESTA, several links to real-time data on natural phenomena
Professional Registration
- Canadian Council of Professional Geoscientists
- APEGGA
- APGNS (Nova Scotia)
- The Acadia Geology and EnvGeoscience degrees and professional registration (by C. Stanley):
Other
- Geology Departments on the WWW - Canada and the U.S.
- The Internet Earth Scientist - a Virtual Training Suite to help you learn more about using the Internet as a source of scholarly information, from the Resource Discovery Network, UK
- Resources for Earth Science and Geography Instruction - built from Mark Francek's weekly postings at the Virtual Coffeeroom
- WWW Tide & Current Predictor - see what the tides & currents will be like for a given day and time
- NOAA site everything you need to know about tides
- Tide times - worldwide, graphic format from the UK Admiralty Office
- EPOD (Earth Picture of the Day) - every day a new picture relating to the Earth or Space
- MODIS Image of the Day - (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, but don't be put off by that!) a new image from space every day - some show amazing landscapes and details
- Canadian Council of Chairs of Earth Science Departments (CCCESD) - statistical information about national trends
- Local Field Trips around Acadia University
- Field Trips in Earth and Environmental Science
- AUGC: useful information (based on this SMU page)
- Autostitch (2D photostitching software)