Earth Sciences *: Websites

Information retrieved from the Terra satellite monitoring the Earth's ongoing climatic and environmental changes

Contains news, timely information, and documents pertaining to earthquakes and related engineering issues

Information on historic earthquakes, statistics, and fault zones.

The Earth Science World Image Bank has photographs of all aspects of Earth Science available to the public, educators, and the geoscience community from the American Geological Institute. This also includes information about geoscience careers.

Get the latest earthquake information.

Introduction and gateway to information about El Nino weather patterns.

Informative metasite on La Nina sponsored by the NOAA.

A meta list of oceanographic sites around the world.

Current wind maps, wind speeds, and other data for locations around the world.

Major U.S. government site for geological information. They have been actively scanning their publications, so check here if you need USGS maps, Professional Papers, or other publications from them.

The LandsatLook Viewer is a prototype tool that was developed to allow rapid online viewing and access to the USGS Landsat image archives.

World Organization of Volcano Observatories provides alerts for volcanic events and alert level protocols.

U.S. Volcanoes and Current Activity Alerts

This USGS site shares research to develop and disseminate scientific information needed for understanding the ecology and values of our nation's wetlands.

General broad site good for introducing the ocean environment.

Scirus is Elsevier's science and engineering-focused free web search engine.