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 ...
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. ...
NASA Global Change Master Directory: Discover Earth science data and services part of SERC Web Resource Collection
NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) is an online card catalog of data sets covering just about every scientific area of global change research. The website includes downloadable ...
National Water and Climate Center - SNOTEL part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) installs, operates and maintains an extensive, automated system to collect snowpack and related climatic data in the western United States called ...
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 ...
WorldWatcher Software part of SERC Web Resource Collection
WorldWatcher is scientific visualization software for geospatial data, and is available for both Macintosh and Windows. The software provides an environment for students to explore, interpret and ...