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observatories, academic departments

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

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.

journals

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)

data bases, searching (e.g., NASA ast abst service, SIMBAD)

google

Yahoo

Webcrawler

Grants.gov

FirstScience.gov links to all gov sci orgs.

arXiv e-Print archive

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service

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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

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

sci history (inc. space flight)

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)

sky

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

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

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

Earth--geology

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