USGS National Landslide Information Center

United States Geological Survey (USGS) scientists are working to reduce long-term losses and casualties from landslide hazards through better understanding of the causes and mechanisms of ground ...

Weather: What Forces Affect Our Weather?

This website provides an easy-to-understand look at our weather system. Topics covered include the atmosphere, the water cycle, storms, ice and snow, weather forecasting and Earth's changing climate. ...

NOAA El Nino Page

El Nino is a disruption of the ocean-atmosphere system in the Tropical Pacific having important consequences for weather and climate around the globe. This webpage provides a portal to a wide array ...

Webshaker

The UC San Diego Webshaker is a live earthquake experiment conducted over the internet. The user can select a historic earthquake or design an earthquake by specifying the frequency, amplitude, and ...

Movies of El Nino (ENSO) Ocean Model Experiments

The Thermal Modeling and Analysis Project (TMAP) at PMEL carries out ocean model experiments, using a state-of-the-art ocean circulation model developed at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics ...

Quick Epicenter Determinations (QED) Data Table for the Previous Three Weeks (title provided or enhanced by cataloger)

This site provides a data table of the Quick Epicenter Determinations (QED) for worldwide earthquake activity in the previous three weeks. The table reports the date, time, latitude, longitude, ...

National Climatic Data Center: Most Popular Downloadable Products (title provided or enhanced by cataloger)

This section of the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) Web site offers the most popular items in their collection. Users can order and receive data via e-mail from the site. Data available include ...

United States Geologic Survey: Selected Volcano Information

This United States Geological Survey (USGS) Volcano Hazards Program site contains links to selected material related to volcanic hazards. Users can access information about the volcanic hazards ...

USGS Natural Hazards and Public Safety

This USGS portal offers information about the origin, frequency, and distribution of natural geologic hazards and catastrophic events, and the resulting impacts on people, property, and the ...

SAGUARO: Science and GIS Unlocking Analysis and Research Opportunities

The SAGUARO project CD-ROM features three learning modules that use GIS to learn about earth system science. The three modules - Exploring Tropical Cyclones, Exploring the Dynamic Earth, and ...

Virtual Courseware for Earth and Environmental Sciences

This site is a collection of interactive, inquiry-based learning exercises for variety of science topics. Activities are grouped by category and include earthquakes and seismicity, global warming, ...

Southern California Earthquake Data Center

This site features an interactive map of recent earthquakes in California and Nevada, a searchable earthquake data archive, a clickable fault map of southern California, and an interactive map of ...

The Sleeping Mountain

In this role-playing scenario, students represent townspeople whose lives and livelihoods are endangered by an active volcano which may or may not erupt in the near future. They must debate whether ...

Volcano World

VolcanoWorld has been a leading source of information about volcanoes since January 1995. Each year VW serves about 4 million different users, including grade school kids, teachers, college students, ...

Research Outdoorsmanship Homepage

This website provides information about field trips. The site was written specifically for those participating is field research but information applies to wilderness camping and classroom field ...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Environmental Health

This CDC site features links to a number of topics concerning environmental and human health. Topics include air quality, carbon monoxide, chemical agents, disasters and extreme weather, ...

Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer

This NASA website documents the detection, tracking and measurement of volcanic eruption plumes from space. The site features an image archive of satellite data that has been used to create maps and ...

Disaster Dynamics

The Disaster Dynamics project is a learning environment for the study of the unique challenges surrounding natural disasters. By focusing on dynamics, this project emphasizes the complex and emergent ...

Scientific Visualization Studio

This collection of remote sensing animations, images and videos produced primarily from satellite data and computer simulations can be accessed through five different indexes, organized by keyword, ...

Global Change Course at Iowa State University (title provided or enhanced by cataloger)

This website offers a complete course on the topic of global change. The authors have compiled pertinent information in the form of summary information, images, and suggested readings. The topics are ...