WWW Links of Interest (2/25/04) 

USGS and DOI Links
Environmental Education Links

Library and Reference Resources

• USGS Ask-A-Geologist
• USGS-Biological Resources Libraries
• USGS Glossary
• USGS Library
• USGS Maps on Demand
• USGS Water Resources Technical Resources
• Aquatic Network
• Berkeley Digital Library
• Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server
• Compendium of Pesticide Common Names (UK)
• Ecotox Database System (EPA)
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian
• Envirofacts (USEPA Data Warehouse and Applications)
• EnviroLink Network
• Environmental Contaminants Encyclopedia (National Park Service)
• Environmental Fate DataBase
• Federal Register
• Herpetology Links
• more Herpetology Links
• John R. Borchert Map Library (University of Minnesota)
• National Library for the Environment
• Organic Chemistry Forum
• Pictorial Periodic Table
• The Virtual Library Portal
• Unit Conversion, Weights and Measures, and Periodic Table
• Water Librarians Homepage
• WWW Library Catalogs
• WWW Virtual Library - Ecology and Biodiversity

WWW Search Tools

• USGS Search
• USGS-BRD BioBot (Biological Search Engine for the Internet)
• USGS-BRD Science Information System
• Environmental Education on the Internet
• Flora and Fauna Databases of the National Parks
• Government Information Locator Service (USDA)
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• Man and the Biosphere Species Databases
• Scorecard (U.S. pollution information with detailed search capability)
• Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center CIESIN Gateway
• National Park Service Search Engine
• US Fish and Wildlife Service Search Engine
• USEPA Search the EPA Internet
• USEPA Search Other USEPA Sites (Specific Web Sites Listed)

Environment/Ecology/Natural History Links

• USGS-BRD National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)
• American Chemical Society (ACS)
• American Environmental Photographs (Library of Congress 1891-1936)
• American Fisheries Society (AFS)
• American Fisheries Society (AFS) - North Central Division
• American Institute of Biological Sciences
• American Rivers
• American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
• American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
• American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
• America's Wetlands (USEPA)
• Aquatic Ecology Page (your guide to aquatic life and ecology interests on the internet)
• Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants (University of Florida)
• Diversity Endangered: Resource and Program Guide
• Ecological Footprints of Nations
• Ecological Risk Analysis
• Ecological Risk Assessment (EPA)
• Ecological Society of America
• Ecology (Yahoo Science)
• Ecosystem Valuation
• EcoWorld
• Endocrine Disruptors Research (USEPA)
• Freshwater Web Site (Environment Canada)
• Geological Society of America
• Global Warming (The Warming of the Earth--Wood's Hole Research Center)
• Know Your Environment (Academy of Natural Sciences - Philadelphia)
• Marine Debris
• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
• Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's Contaminated Sediments Page
• National Wetlands Inventory (USFWS)
• Native Americans and the Environment
• Oceans in Peril (Smithsonian Institute)
• Phytoremediation
• Rachel Carson - Witness for Nature
• Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)
• State of the Land - The NRCS Resource Analysis Site (USDA)
• Tree of Life
• UV Index, Weather, and You (Environment Canada)
• Wetland Links
• WetNet (Texas Wetland Information Network)
• Water Environment Federation

Fish and Other Critters    

• Aquatic Life
• BIRDNET
• Bug INFO (Smithsonian Institute)
• Chinook Salmon
• EMBL Reptile Database 
• eNature (online searchable field guides to over 4,800 plant and animal species)
• Endangered Species Program (USFWS)
• Entomology Image Gallery (Iowa State University)
• Fish of the Great Lakes
• Fishes of New York State (Cornell University)
• Fishes of Wales - Rivers, Lakes, and Coastal Seas
• Herps of Texas (Amphibians and Reptiles) (University Texas-Austin)
• Ichthyology (Texas Natural History Collections)
• Internet Resource Guide to Zoology (amphibia)
• Medaka Developmental Stages
• North American Freshwater Fish Index
• Plankton (image gallery and 3D)
• Species 2000 (Indexing the World's Known Species)
• The Fish Out of Time - Coelacanth

Microscopy

• BIODIDAC (databank of digital images)
• Cell Biology
• Embryonic Zoo (Virtual Embryo)
• Internet Guide to Microscopy
• Microbe Zoo
• Microscopy Educational Resources for K-12
• Protist Image Data (Picture Gallery)
• Scanning Electron Microscope (+ Image Gallery) (Boston Museum of Science)
• Virtual Cell
• Web Atlas for Cellular Structures (Using Light and Confocal Microscopy)

Watersheds   

• USGS SAST Database: An Environmental Information System-Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri River Basins
• Center for Integrated Watershed Science and Management (UC-Davis)
• Internet Watershed Educational Tool
• Missouri River Communities Network
• Missouri's Rivers and Their Watersheds
• Missouri Watershed Information Network (MoWIN)
• Riverwatch (northern Missouri stream teams)
• Spatial Modeling Environment
• Stream Corridor Restoration - Principles, Practices, and Processes (USDA)
• Surf Your Watershed (USEPA)
• Virtual Watershed
• Water, Soil, and Hydro-Environmental Decision Support System Water SHEDSS (University of North Carolina)
• Watershed Homepage (USEPA)
• Watershed Education Resources on the Internet
• Watershed Management Council
• Watershed Management in the Southwest
• Watersheds - Curriculum Enhancers

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS)

• CERC Community Base Station in Columbia, MO
• USGS-BRD GIS Related Information Servers
• USGS-BRD GPS Related Information Servers
• USGS GIS Tools
• USGS National Spatial Data Clearinghouse
• USGS United States/Mexico Transboundary Mapping and GIS Initiative
• USGS-BRD Gap Analysis Program
• USGS-BRD Geospatial Technology Homepage
• USGS-BRD Patuxent Wildlife Research Center - GIS
• AI-Geostats (Information server for Spatial Statistics and Geostatistics on the Internet)
• Biotelemetry Resources
• Digital Elevation Data Catalogue
• Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
• GPS Lab Base Station Michigan State University
• Geography and GIS Related Sites
• GIS/Visualization (USEPA)
• GPS Applications Exchange (NASA)
• Global Positioning System Overview 
• Metadata (Federal Geographic Data Committee)
• Navigating the GIS Web
• Online Map Creation
• Society for Conservation GIS
• Spatially Oriented Research in Ecology (SpORE)
• Stanford University GIS Links
• Texas GAP Analysis and GIS

Real-Time Hydrographs and Weather Reports

• USGS Real-Time Water Data
• Missouri River Region - Water Management Information US Army Corps of Engineers
• Missouri Basin River Forecast Center National Weather Service (NOAA)
• National Water and Climate Center (USDA)

Miscellaneous  

• Desert Life in the American Southwest
• DNA Learning Center
• Environmental Jobs and Careers (eJobs.org)
• eSkeletons Project (UT-Austin)
• Essays on Science and Society (AAAS)
• Extinction (BBC searchable website for past extinctions)
• Greening Earth Society
• Make a Balloon-Powered Nanorover (NASA)
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• Molecule of the Month
• NASA Homepage
• NASA for Kids
• NASA's Global Change Master Directory
• National Science Foundation
• NetBiochem (online Biochemistry tutorial)
• Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Job Listings
• RasMol (free software for looking at molecular structures)
• Snow Crystal Research (electron microscope images of snow flakes)
• The Exploratorium - Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception
• Virtual Geologic Field Trip to Iceland

Do you have links you'd like to add? Find any broken links? e-Mail Marcia Nelson 

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