Data Sources and Tools
These sites provide on-line or downloadable tools for visualizing or manipulating data or datasets that can be used in the classroom.
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Using Data to Teach Earth ProcessesAn Illustrated Community Discussion at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America part of Data, Simulations and Models:Workshop 03:Activities
Alexandra Moore Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University - Discover Our Earth (more info) is a GIS-based application for the Web that allows students to access, query, and display spatial ...
U.S. Geological Survey: Earthquake Activity for the Previous Week part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This list contains information on all earthquakes with magnitude greater than 2.5 located by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and contributing networks in the last week. Magnitudes 4 and above are ...
United States Geological Survey Water Use in the United States part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site provides access to water use reports for the country and by county and watershed at five year intervals from 1950 to 2000. There is also a region by region comparison and information about ...
Java OceanAtlas part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Java OceanAtlas is a software application that provides a graphic exploration tool to examine and plot oceanographic data. The data sets were compiled from over 2000 vertical ocean sections collected ...
Southern California Earthquake Data Center part of SERC Web Resource Collection
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 ...
Current USGS Fast Moment Tensor Solutions part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This National Earthquake Information Center page shows recent earthquakes with fast moment tensor solutions. The page has both a world map and a list with links to individual earthquakes. Data for ...
TOXMAP - Online Toxicology Maps part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site allows users to create and view maps of chemicals released into the air, ground, and water. Maps show the locations of facilities that have had chemical releases, and users can look up the ...
Ice Core Gateway: Vostok Ice Core CO2 Data part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The Vostok ice core has a long record of global carbon dioxide concentrations, with variations caused by factors other than photosynthesis and human activity. Ice core data sets from three different ...
National Water Information System Web Data for the Nation part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This USGS site provides access to water resources data collected at approximately 1.5 million sites in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. The site features real-time and ...
Quantitative Environmental Learning Project part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This web site provides resources to integrate math and environmental science using real environmental data. The site features many data sets which are ideally suited for use as a classroom exercise. ...