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Earth Sci photos of the day ; EOS news
watch also Digital Universe;
see also Space.com .
and Today@NASA; and Science@NASA;and ESA news; Astro in the news from AAS.
Astrobites posts recent lit synopses.;Quanta physics; The World at Night
WolframAlpha; use Safari not Chrome for ArcGIS explorer online.
observatories, academic departments
organizations (AAS, NASA etc; astro companies)
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data bases, searching (e.g., NASA ast abst service, SIMBAD)
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- Mount Wilson Observatory;
- National Solar Observatory Sacramento Peak and Kitt Peak
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Space Telescope Science Institute;; Hubble's outreach page
- Best of theAdvanced Obs Program of NOAO.
- Japanese Institute of Space and Astronautical Science JAXA (Hayausa, Astro-E2, etc.; missions are under "Our Enterprises")
- European Space Agency space science
- Lowell Observatory
- SOHO - The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory;
- TRACE;
- YOHKOH Public Outreach Project;
- radio jove project
- 2mass
- Sloan digital Sky Survey
- Anglo-Australian obs
- 2dfGRS
- The Digitized Sky Survey;
- Nat'l Air & Space Museum and their Center for Earth & Planetary Studies
- UWisc H-alpha mapper ,
- NRAO homepage;
- Jodrell Bank Observatory;
- LIGO homepage
- CERN homepage; see esp.their Education page.
- Astrogeology at USGS;
- STScI resources / portal
- U.W. astronomy and earth & space sci
- Univ BC astrophys
- Royal Obs Greenwich;
- useful links at Educational Observatory;
- Transit search amateur net and AAVSO;
- North Am. Astr. occultation program (IOTA)
- Int'l Dark Sky Association
- Windows to the Universe from UCAR
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organizations (AAS, NASA etc; astro companies)
- NSF and the FASTLANE grant proposal guide; and for feb 07 the S-STEM description.
- Sigma Xi; and here the Washington Space Grant Consortium
- DOE Office of Sci & Tech Info
- American Astronomical Society;
- Solar Physics Div;
- American Geophysical Union;
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific;
- Here for the IAU;
- Here the RAS Canada
- American Institute of Physics;
- American Physical Society; especially their statistics page
- Soc. of Physics Students
- Physics.org from UK Inst Phys
- SBIG; Apogee (also CCDs); and also Finger Lake Instruments camera page.
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- Astronomy Education Review
- S&T Orders; S&T digital and change the url date
- Science News Online; dobsonak, marcus
- ScienceOnline - dobsonak marcus; and see their netwatch archive;
and their Books et al. review site
- Nature
- go to Sigma Xi to remember how to log on to Am Sci online.
- Physics Today (registered 6/14/01; re-registered 10/22/04) uses email address marcus
- APS PhysicsCentral various articles.
- Net Advance of Physics links to articles, inc. astro. (from MIT).
- IoP (now CRC press) ency of astr and astrop (these don't seem to get updated regularly, so many are several years old)
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- google
- Yahoo
- Webcrawler
- Grants.gov
- FirstScience.gov links to all gov sci orgs.
- arXiv e-Print archive
- NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service
- --> NEW 2019 NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service <--
- Son of Citation Machine citation generator
- Astronomical Almanac from US Naval Observatory
- web of knowledge
- internet public library from Univ of Michigan
- General Catalog of Photometric Data; (Univ of Lausanne)
- SIMBAD home page; CDS (Strasbourg; inc simbad)
- Nat'l Space Sci Data Center NASA archives
- IPEDS secondary educ data
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class (lab help; e.g., CLEA; gen ref; e.g., APOD)
- Nebraska Astronomy Applets, incl. atm retention, from UN-Lincoln
- Palomar Sky Survey online
- Virtual Radio Interferometer from CSIRO
- At GSFC, Star Child for younger students and Imagine the Universe for high school & up; also
Imagine Science level 1 and level 2 and especially spectra
- Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide
- Phys Educ Tech from U. Colorado -- good simulations
- HR diagram evolution of a cluster. (others in the set include good spectra examples; needs java; don't use chrome)
- Shadow & Substance, w/ eclipse and comet animations
- a black hole game at HST
- Galaxy Crash java applet page from CWRU
- comPADRE center for astronomy education
- Univ of Oregon physics applets; physics ed at Contemp Phys Educ Project, inc. fundamental particle charts.
- JPL space simulator
- Exploratorium; the Pacific Sci Center; the OMSI
- Franklin Inst
- National Center for Sci Ed. ; good source of sci toys at Arbor Scientific; and Educational Innovations:
- Zombeck Handbook of Space Astronomy & Astrophysics;
- CLEA
- dig lib earth system edu
- Astronomy Net astroguide
- HEASARC's webstars
- ASP / Andy Fraknoi's educ resources; several good sub-pages here.
- Earth & Sky;
- Rob Gendler's astro ccd images
- AstroCappella (not. . .)
- Sing about science and math
- physics songs
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- UNESCO astronomy & world heritage initiative. astro related world heritage sites.
- Nat'l Air & Space Museum; their Apollo 11 AV page.
- NASA astronaut images and movies of Earth; from Johnson Space Center
- 'Moon base Clavius' site debunking the no moon landing conspiracists.
- NOVA notes on Galileo's Battle for the Heavens
and from Univ Missouri KC law school "Famous Trials", the Trial of Galileo
and the Galileo Project at Rice
- Wolfgang Dick's IUA Histr of Astr site
- The Center for Archaeoastronomy anti-nonsense site by John Carlson of Univ Maryland
- Physics history by Jeff Biggus in Boulder;
- RussianSpaceWeb--Soviet / Russian space history.
- AIP history of physics home page;
from the AIP, a site on Marie Curie and one on cosmology
- Einstein manuscripts
- Kennedy Space Center's Historical Archive, incl. a page on human spaceflight
- NASA History Division and their Apollo 11 35th anniversary page.
- NASA chronology of lunar and planetary exploration
- NASA human space flight page.
- The History of Science Society; check this one
- USGS photo lib archive
- Atomic Archive (commercial site)
- the Newton Project from Sussex.
- SunEarthDay from NASA has several ancient astro sites.
- Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy (which has a moon hoax page)
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- Sky & Tel interactive sky chart
- In the sky.org
- Spot the ISS and In-the-Sky satellite viewing
- Julian Date converter
- STScI Digitized Sky Survey image request form
- Your Sky finding charts for stars by name
- NightSkyLive
- Latitude at Rice
- Sky View Cafe -- needs java, not on chrome.
- Sky Query prototype virtual observatory. investigate further.
- And this one: applets for computing phases, daylight, etc.
- Kaler's stars and constellations
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weather, road conditions, forest service, etc
- Forest Service and their fire info page.
- and specifically, Wallowa-Whitman, Umatilla, Mt.B - Snoq., Okanogan - Wenatchee forests.
- InciWeb fire info; also NW large fire info from NW interagency coord center.
- Here for WA dept of ecology air quality monitoring; here for smoke; Airnow also has trends. Canadian fires may be found here and here
- UIUC weather; and the Walla Walla Clear Sky chart is here and for PNRO look here.
- GOES and three lightning sites, Environment Canada and also Intellicast; and Real Time lightning map
- Weather underground; their Walla Walla forecast; and our PNRO weather station
- Real-time Weather UCAR
- National Doppler Radar sites; and for wind, GOES global from MSFC.
- NWS WW weather (KALW) or their zone forcast
- NWS Seattle Forecast Office
- for a near-real time wind map, try here for US or here for globe.
- WA Zone Forecasts from UW
- maps at BING; google maps;
- WSDOT Home Page, including Seattle traffic cams, State ferries, Pass reports
- the Alaska state marine highway system; and the BC Ferries home page
- OR DOT Home Page and their TripCheck page w/ road cams
- Oregon Weather & Road Conditions at Oregonlink.com
- Idaho DOT Home Page; Wyoming DOT; Colorado travel info
- Montana DOT Traveler Info; Utah DOT; NM DOT; Arizona DOT
- Miscellaneous info inc Weather and Road Conditions from Casc Volc Obs.
- Intellicast.com; for "find a forecast", pdt=Pendleton pdx (Portland) sea geg(Spokane) boi slc phx abq bos ord (Chicago)
- NIST Time (java); the Navy Directorate of Time
- USNO data services, e.g., moon phases
- water and climate
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Earth--atmosphere (inc. aurorae)
- AMS fireball reports
- Snowball Earth
- NOAA's main paleoclimate page; Skeptical Science climate graphics
- and NOAA / Nat'l Climatic Data Center's extreme weather site.
- NCAR's climate visualization gallery.
- From Ken Libbrecht, snowcrystals.
- Links from US Global Change Research Program;
- from Norway, Northern Lights;
- and Polar Image from Finland has aurorae and other stuff
- World View of global warming. . .images by chap from Oregon.
- Ill. State Museum's online exhibit on the ice ages
- Weather photog site; also for clouds, try the Cloud Appreciation Society and their gallery.
- from LPI, there's also Shuttle views of Clouds from Space
- NASA's Earth Observing System
- Earth Exploration Toolbook from Carleton.
- GeoGallery minerals, meteorites, etc., at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
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- USGS National Map site
- EarthObservatory Blue Marble 2002 earth images
- This Dynamic Earth USGS on plate tectonics; also This Dynamic Planet high-res map with ring of fire, etc.
- mantleplumes
- digital earth at Cornell
- ImageBank of Am. Geol. Institute.
- geo image archive from Univ of Pittsburg
- Geology in the national parks, a USGS site; includes a rocks and minerals page.
- Paleomap project pangea animations
- Global Plate reconstructions by Ron Blakey at NAU
- EarthRef from Scripps Inst
- John Butler's Virtual Geosci. prof;
- Atlas of rocks, minerals, textures at U. N Carolina.
- USGS magnetic field maps; also NOAA mag decl estimator.
- USGS earthquake hazard program; Nat'l Earthquake info center; recent quakes world map
- Volcano World from Oregon State.
- Cascade Vol. Obs. and their volcano cams from USGS.
- Hawaiian Vol. Obs;
- Here for Shuttle Radar Topography Mission imagery.
- Terrafly has USGS virtual flights.
- On the Antarctic: Sci Com on Antarctic Research;
the USGS Antarctic Resource Center;
the British Antarctic Survey
- EarthCam .com lots of WebCams;
- Earth from Space shuttle photos at JSC.
- Earth Impact database
is on this page at Univ New Brunswick
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Jules Verne maps etc (geo +planetary)
- Exoplanets.org; Exoplanet database and plots from Europe.; and here for NASA; NASA ipac archive is here.
- Lunar picture of the day and amazing zoom-able full-Moon views of far and near sides from the Lunar Recon Orb; see also LROC image gallery.
- Meteor Impact mechanics site
- Digital Lunar Orbiter atlas at LPI; Kaguya lunar image gallery (not avail. 8-29-13).
- USGS clickable maps of rocky obj.
- NASA science missions, and specifically NASA solar system exploration.
- JPL news; and Cassini mission
- Themis (Mars Odyssey) home page at ASU; Mars meteorite info (JPL)
- Mars Quest (fly-overs require shockwave); google's Mars maps
- The Nine Planets now lives here
- Minor Planet Center
- PDS (planetary data sys) and their Welcome to the Planets page; also at JPL, Planetary photojournal
- S-L-9 NASA/GSFC page
- nssdc general planet info page and their nsscd's planet fact sheets. like where's the pole point, etc.
- Mars Atlas home page
- PDS Imaging Node - Homepage and planetary image atlas search page;
- Nat'l Air & Space Museum Regional Planetary Image Facility;
- Antarctic meteorite expedtion
- From Ames Research Center, NEA impact site; JPL NEO program.
- NEO Dynamic Site at Univ of Pisa
- impact effect calculator
- Try the Am Meteor Soc including their showers page
- Astrogeology at USGS; their planetary nomenclature site.
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solar (inc. sol-terr)
- heliophysics graphics from GSFC
- Fred Espenak's eclipse photography page.
- Big Bear latest solar images.
- solar phys at Marshall SFC
- spaceweather.com and their satellite flybys page.
- TRACE image archive at Stanford.
- GSFC Cosmicopia cosmic ray / solar / spaceweather
- Solar images at SDAC;
- Here for latest SOHO and soho hotshots (inc April 10, 2001 cme); Data Query for SOHO.
- SDO atm imaging assembly sun today site.; and main Solar Dyn Obs site
- Heliophysics at UCAR
- GOES solar x-ray imager and the main page for space weather prediction center.
- TRY GSFC eclipse page
- NASA Sun-Earth viewer at Berkeley; requires flash6.
- Alvestad solar-terr act report
- Helioseismology tours from Stanford Solar Center
- Lowell; Jeff Hall, now director, has solar analogs workshop links.
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- binary star simulation from Cornell and eclipsing binary applet.
- SDSS white dwarf database
- from UK, the European Pulsar Network;
- Information Bulletin on Variable Stars;
- Revised Catalog of MK spectral types for cooler stars;
- Microvar & Osc of Stars Canadian satellite
Multiwavelength museum from IPAC.
SkyFactory very cool Palomar sky survey reconstructions
Scale sketches from solar system out beyond local supercluster; "atlas of the universe"
- Disk & Bulge Mosaic new spring 2012. very hi-res.
- Laniakea video on this page
- Java galaxy crash at CWRU.
- NRAO surveys page, including neutral hydrogen survey
- supernova risk calculation site.
- SEDS Messier object database and SEDS NGC object database
- A Galactic Globular Cluster database
- NASA Extragalactic Database (NED);
- Bill Keel's (U of Alabama) gallery of Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei
- WMAP site.
- supernova cosmology project or the High-z supernova search
- Max Tegmark's home page. . .see movies of changing CMB power spectrum
- Wayne Hu's home page; see esp his intermediate pages
- Cosmic Variance and Sean Carroll's homepage; see esp his cosmology primer
- Of Particular Significance Matt Strassler on particle phys etc.
- Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial homepage and Cosmology calculator
- CASTLES gravitational lens survey page
- HST grav lens image creator
- the 2dF galaxy redshift survey
- UWisc H-alpha mapper ,
- Multi-wavelength MW at GSFC. and large-scale at Chromoscope
- Here for "a cheeky tutorial on string theory"
- Violence in the Cosmos from Mike Guidry at UT Knoxville; also his intro astro lecture notes.
Contemp Phys Educ Proj, which includes LOTS of nifty charts and posters.
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- particle data group and symmetry magazine particle data news.
- Living Reviews in Relativity from Max Planck.
- water phase diagram
- Einstein online from Max Planck Inst.
- Gen Rel tutorial by John Baez at UCRiverside
- Andrew Hamilton's homepage has useful animations for relativty, color, and FFT stuff
- Phys Educ simulations from Colorado
- HyperPhysics at Georgia State.
- spectral stds at KPNO
- Brookhaven's NuDat interactive chart of nuclei.; periodic tables with origins of the elements at Cosmic-Origins;
- at U of O, an applet showing spectra by element.
- "a brief illumination of relativity" from the Univ New South Wales physics folks.
- partial Grotrian diagrams from Moore et al., at ned; energy levels, etc. from NIST; also partition fcns & configurations.
- nuclear glossary from LBNL
- High energy phys at Argonne;
- Sanford Underground Lab at Homestake; LUX dark matter detector.
- Interactions, a particle physics news and resources page
- Hands-on-CERN particle physics, collisions, etc.; see also antimatter general cern page
- the Neutrino Oscillation industry;
- physics of music from New South Wales;
- Rayleigh scattering
- articles about entropy
- optical illusions
- "Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics";
- Visual QM from Kansas State.
- Physics World news, jobs, etc.
- gen chem virtual textbook Stephen Lower of Simon Fraser
- Chemistry of how things work.
- Info on indiv elements from American Elements .com
- Physics of Baseball by a chap at Univ Illinois.
- optical illusions by Michael Bach.
Optics Simulation from BU / Davidson.
Falstad's math and physics applets
diffraction slits
Physlets applets from Davidson
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- Desmos online calculator(s)
- currency conversions
- java Euclid from Clark univ.
- chaosbook from Georgia Tech
- Powers of 10 at FSU; try also The scale of the universe 2, an interactive.
- Wolfram web resources (e.g., mathworld)
- Chaos textbook. . .slow movies.
- chaos art
- Wavelet tutorial
- R-project statistics
- math archives
- ColorBrewer for map coloring. .. investigate further.
- Sci Tech Info Exchange technical fonts.
- units conversion (lots of cookies).
- NIST stats handbook
- Atlas of cyberspace; maintained thru 2004
- ethnomath digital lib
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- Solcomhouse solar power.
- Institute for Creation Research;
the Creation Resource Foundation;
and the Creation Science Home Page
- The Berkeley UC Museum of Paleontology: evolution / history;
- Talk Origins archive / part of "paleo ring".
- Paleo portal at UC Museum of Paleontology
- Primate eskeletons
- Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter;
- CalPhotos from Berkeley
- Missouric botanical Garden angiosperm phylogeny site.
- Global Biodiversity Info has browse, search, links to lots of taxonomy.
- NOAA's vents site.
- ARKive images of endangered species.
- USDA plant database.
- Dino directory from Natural Hist Museum,London;
- Virginia Tech tree id;
- Cycad pages.
- Texas A&M Cave biology
- Am Museum Nat Hist
- Oregon Coast Aquarium
- Mont Bay Aquarium
- Scripps et al. SeamountsOnline; also Seamount catalog at earthref.org
- from NOAA, Ocean Explorer
- From the Natural History Museum in London, the echinoid on-line guide
- And on copepods, Smithsonian's world of.
- Duke's "Medicine & Madison Ave"
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- Contributions of Women to Physics site at UCLA (re: Out of the Shadows)
- CWRU diversity report in sciences
- Women in Biology;
- Virginia Tech Science ethics site
- 4000 y of women in science;
- the Ada project bibliography;
- Women's Intellectual contributions to the study of mind and society.
- Feminism and Women's Resources FIND THIS AGAIN
- AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy;
- APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics;
- Early Women at the USNO;
- ASP women in astronomy
- STScI 1992 Women in Astronomy meeting
- Women, Gender and Science links
- Women-Related Web Sites in Science/Technology -- Korenman;
- Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering -- Spertus;
- Association for Women in Science;
- Barry women astronomers page;
- women in sci and eng archives at Iowa State
- Committee on Women in sci, eng, & med of the National Academies
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- UPenn origins of wine on-line exhibit
- Britannica online good bloody luck with Penrose.
- the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosphy
- PhilSci archive
- UT Austin Classics
- Fordham U. Internet history sourcebooks.
- Theban mapping project.
- A digital library of cuneiform .
- Greek & Roman Science & Technology, Univ Swansea, Wales
- European Prehistoric Art
- WebMuseum: Bienvenue! (Welcome from the curator)
- Dada postmodernist essay generator.
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- Near Eastern Studies;
- Hyperion;
- Images;
- Modification times;
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catalogs (REI, Amazon, wineries, etc)
- Consumer Price Index from the dept of labor
- Edmunds.com car info;
- Public Radio Market;
- WW Valley wineries; WA wine commission;
- Reininger; Ash Hollow
- Delta Airlines; Alaska Airlines;
- American Airlines; US Airways; United Airlines;
- Travelocity and Expedia
- Best Western; and Comfort Inn & other "Choice"
- AAA Washington
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- IRS
- Walla Walla County
- City of Walla Walla
- Anywho and Switchboard online phone directories (with lots of ads and cookies)
- Telephone Directories on the Web;
- comparison list of colleges
- U. W.
- League of Women Voters; and also the Progressive voters' guide
- Washington legislative info;
- ABC News;
- KIRO;
- SF Chronicle; Chicago Tribune
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