Earth-Pages

In the list below we've tried to include sites that are as current as possible, and are hosted by organisations that are likely to invest in regular updating. If you come across any dead links, or have any suggestions for new links we should include, please email Delia Sandford.

UC Berkeley's library
Regularly updated.

The University of Waterloo
List of scholarly societies in the earth sciences, last updated January 2007. Some rather idiosyncratic choices, but worth a visit.

The Geological Society
(of London) maintains a well-organised and regularly updated list of web links, with editorial comment.

University of Texas at Austin
The Walter Geology library's resource pages. Good links to organizations, maps and other on-line resource centers. Last updates November 2007.

Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of Natural History, Dynamic Earth
Some technical glitches but worth a visit if you have a fast internet connection.

US Geological Survey national geological database

Earth Science Jobs
UK and worldwide earth science job vacancies and CVs online.

Earthworks Job Center
More international than Earth Science Jobs.

Resources for earth science and geography
Central Michigan University’s general education resource center for earth science and physical geography, for students and educators.

American Geological Institute
Useful links to key US geological organisations, news, the Georef Database, geological links, and much more

American Geophysical Union
The umbrella organisation for US geophysicists - details of meetings, publications, research, education, links etc.

Geological Society of America
'The professional resource for earth scientists'. Employment, on-line bookstore, meetings , education etc.

American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Bookstore, education, discussion group, searchable database of geologists and students, meetings, links

United States Geological Survey.
A huge but well-signposted site.

The Geological Society, London
Good starting point for UK meetings, links, regional and specialist groups, the Society Publishing House, etc.

British Geological Survey Products and Services
Search online databases such as the Igneous Rock Classification and the Lexicon of Named Rock Units

The Geologists Association
Information, support and education for the UK's community of amateur and professional geologists. See 'Rockwatch' for school children, the GA's Field Guides, Geology Today. Links to other UK sites, etc

The Geological Society of Australia
Australian meetings, special interest groups, links.

Geological Association of Canada
Good starting point for Canadian Geology sites, including links to universities.

BRGM
France's central geological research and survey organisation in Orleans.

International Union of Geological Sciences
The IUGS supports and fosters international research and collaborative geoscience projects. News, meetings, publications, reports of IUGS scientific bodies etc.

The Association of American Geographers

The American Geographical Society

The Canadian Association of Geographers

The Royal Canadian Geographical Society

The Institute of Australian Geographers

Royal Geographical Society's homepage

The Geographical Association

The International Geographic Union

Professor Walter Franke's Quick Assays in Mineral Identification
An excellent little manual in .pdf format intended to be used by those with no access to the facilities of modern scientific research institutes, such as prospectors in the field, scientists working at scantily equipped services and companies in less developed countries, as well as teachers, mineral collectors, and hobby chemists.

Minerals under the Microscope.
Useful and well-illustrated notes on optical mineralogy from Bristol University

The Natural History Museum's Department of Mineralogy
Learn about the Museum's research activities, collections, publications, etc.

Smithsonian's Department of Mineral Science
Check out the meteorite image gallery.

Mineralogical Society of America Home Page.
Details of publications, meetings, links to other mineralogical sites.

The Mineral Association of Canada

The European Mineralogical Union
The umbrella organisation for Europe's national mineralogical societies.

MinSoc online
The web site of the Mineralogical Society of London - meetings publications and much more.

Geneva University
A lot of mineralogy and ore deposit links, plus links to German and Swiss Universities and Museums.

Dayton University Mineralogy and Petrology links
A portal for mineralogy and petrology researchers. Extensive lists of journals, research groups and societies. Updated 2007.

The Mineralogy Database
Descriptions of some 4400 mineral species, and a fantastic image library.

The Palaeontology Department of The Natural History Museum, London.
Details of research, staff, publications etc.

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
The NMNH Paleobiology website.

Peabody Museum
Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History hosts a superb collection of on-line images from its extensive collection

The Paleontological Institute of The Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Images of their vertebrate collections, including Mongolian dinosaurs.

UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
Hosts the web's fullest list of museums with paleo collections

University of Oxford Natural History Museum
The museum has a huge collection of fossils (some 500 000 specimens). There is rolling program to provide a full searchable on-line catalogue (unfortunately not illustrated).

Burgess Shale
A on-line gallery with some good Burgess fauna pics, and Burgess links

The University of California Museum of Paleontology portal
A well designed site with a strong educational theme.

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
Society meetings, publications, resources etc.

The Micropalaeontological Society.
Publications, meetings etc, plus very useful links to other micropalaeontological sites.

North American Micropaleontology Section
micropalaeontology section of the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)

International Society for Environmental Micropalaeontology

The Palaeontological Association
Publications, meetings, links etc.

The Paleontological Research Institute
Visit the on-line collections for paleontological education, bookstore, research etc

Paleonet
The best web forum for academic palaeontologists and the gateway for a number of useful sites.

Paleontologia Electronica
The world's first all-electronic free-access palaeontological journal. It makes use of the internet to deliver high quality graphics, sound , and moving images. The journal also carries an annotated list of paleontological web resources by Dave Polly.

Palaeovision
Details and sample images from The Natural History Museum's Palaeovision digital imaging system.

The calcite palace.
Some excellent US nannofossil images.

Russ' Dino Lair
One of the web's best-known and reliable paleo resource centers, a must-visit for all dinosaur lovers.

Paleontology Resources from Jack Mount
A huge list of paleo resources with particular emphasis on Arizona and dinosaurs.

Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois
A collection of useful links. Last updated 2007.

UK Fossils
An illustrated guide to UK fossil localities and forum for amateur collectors.

Fossil Image Gallery
Wonderful collection of images.

Trace Fossil Images
Tony Martin's Ichnology Site

For such an important field, there are suprisingly few up-to-date web portals in geochemistry. Here's the best of the bunch.

The Geochemical Society web pages.
Publications, a short list of resources, meetings etc.

Association of Applied Geochemists
Useful Index of Elements, no web resource links

American Chemical Society Division of Geochemistry
Not of great interest unless you want to become a member

Chemical Institute of Canada
A useful selection of societies, research groups and publications can be found here.

The European Association of Organic Geochemists
Has some links to other societies and to upcoming organic geochemistry conferences.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Petroleum Organic Geochemistry Group pages. Discussion, research, links, 'virtual coffee hour'.

Geokem - Bernie Gunn’s igneous geochemistry database
A useful compilation of geochemical data. Last updated 2006.

Bill White’s on-line geochemistry text.
The mainstay of many a geochemistry syllabus. Last revised November 2007.

Quaternary Research Association
UK based. Publications, meetings, research, good Quaternary links

AMQUA
The American Quaternary Association

Canadian Quaternary Association
Contains a good list or updated web links

INQUA
International Union for Quaternary Research. A good source of Quaternary links.

American Meteorological Society

Royal Meteorological Society

Atmosphere Sciences Resources
The University of Albany's site is a good starting point for atmospheric science resources and links.

Greenhouse Gas Online
A useful website dealing with global warming and greenhouse gases. Includes a news section.

RealClimate
A climate science discussion site run by climate scientists. A very useful way of getting the science behind the top climate issues/stories of the day

Earth Observatory, Global Warming
A good, accessible introduction to the subject from NASA

IPCC
Reports, presentations, press releases etc

The Royal Society
The Royal Society has its own climate change web pages

The International Association of Geomorphologists
Links to working groups. Some superb images from their CD ROM

The Canadian Geomorphological Research Group

British Society for Geomorphology
Formerly known as the British Geomorphological Research Group

Geology from lightplane
Check out this superb set of images of US landscapes taken from a light plane mainly in 1966 by Louis Maher of the University of Wisconsin

Bernard Gunn's Antarctic Site
An excellent introduction to the environment of Antarctica.

Scott Polar Research Institute

British Antarctic Survey

Alfred Wegener Institute

Byrd Polar Research Center

University of Colorado INSTAAR

Arctic Research Consortium of the United States

Norwegian Polar Institute

International Glaciology Society

Ice Core Gateway
NOAA’s ice core data portal

National Snow and Ice Data Center
NOAA site hosting various key data sources such as the World Glacier Inventory, Glacier Photo collection etc

International Permafrost Association

Climate and Cryosphere
A project from the World Climate Research Program. News , Science, meetings etc

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution home page
A large and rambling web site, but worth exploring

National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration

Scripps Institution

The Ocean Drilling Program
Latest results, databases, publications.

Proudman Oceanographic Laboratories
Britain's NERC-funded physical oceanography research center

Southampton Oceanography Centre

Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory
The Scottish Association of Marine Science's labs in Oban. More life science than geology, but they also carry out important research in biogeochemistry, sedimentary geochemistry, and marine sedimentology.

CSIRO Marine Research
Based in Hobart, Tasmania

Goddard Space Flight Center Homepage.
A must for latest on missions, photo galleries (including earth from space) etc.

Planetary Sciences at the NSSDC (National Space Science Data Centre)
The site to visit for planetary photo archives

The Astrobiology Web.
A commercial site but probably the most up-to-date and comprehensive source of astrobiology links and news.

NASA's Astrobiology Institute.
Details of exobiological and geobiological research, educational material and much more.

Jay Melosh (University of Arizona) impact calculator

Near Earth Objects Dynamic Site (NEODyS)

University of New Brunswick, terrestrial impact crater database

The Hydrogeologist's Home Page.
A good starting point for exploration of hydrogeology on the web

International Association of Hydrogeologists.
Links, contacts, meetings, newsletter, Journal etc.

The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
NERC's research centre at Wallingford, formerly the Institute of Hydrology

International Paleolimnology Association
Has a resource page, links to journal etc

International Association of Sedimentologists
Society web pages with some useful links, meetings diary etc, plus a searchable database of sedimentologists worldwide.

Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) Home Page
Journals ( JSR, Palaios) meetings etc

British Sedimentological Research Group.
News on meetings, field trips, UK employment opps etc.

Info Mine
Billed as the Internet's Premiere Mining Site. Mining news, commodity prices etc.

American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
Good links to petroleum resources, publications, calendar of meetings etc.

American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers

Society of Exploration Geophysicists

GSA's Structural Geology and Tectonics Division

Gillian Foulger, University of Durham, plumes and hot spots
Learn about the plume controversy

Teaching Structural Geology in the 21st Century
Useful site for faculty teaching this subject. List of enigmas is stimulating.

Teaching Resources
Set of visual resources for structural geology faculty from Rob Butler and other at the University of Leeds

International Seismological Center
Collects and analyses earthquake data from around the world.

International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior
Hosts a very complete list of national seismic organisations

Planetary Science Research Discoveries
PSRD web site shares the latest NASA-sponsored research on meteorites, planets and other solar system bodies by featuring in-depth articles that explain the science and the motivation behind the research.

Seismological Society of America
Some good earthquake links

The European Geophysical Society
The EGS now publishes an impressive range of on-line journals, not all strictly geophysical.

US Dept of Commerce/NOAA/National Geophysical Data Center
Lots of educational resources for school and college instructors.

The Volcanoes page of the Michigan Technological Institute
A must for volcanophiles. Site looks dated, but the links seem to work.

USGS's volcano site
Weekly reports on volcanic activity worldwide.

Volcano Watch
Volcano Watch is a weekly newsletter written by the scientists at the US Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Not all the articles concern Hawaiian volcanism.

Smithsonian's Global Volcanism program
Has catalogue of all volcanoes active during the Holocene, with clickable map.

NASA's Earth Observatory
A superb site with weekly updates of satellite images showing global geohazards - dust storms, volcanic eruptions, algal blooms, floods, fires. Also anthropogenic features such as forest clearance in Amazonia.

University of Colorado's Natural Hazard's Center
Acts as "a national and international clearinghouse for information on natural hazards and human adjustments to hazards and disasters."

US Geological Survey volcano Webcams

Environmental Protection Agency
News, US regulation, educational resources

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Useful for weather, climate and ocean data, news. Great source of North American and Hawaiian satellite weather images.

Florida Department of Environmental Protection
The department's site combines high-quality educational media and scientific data about those environmental aspects of Florida that are unique. You can access downloadable AutoCAD *.dxf files showing geological maps from the county level to smaller scales plus other GIS files, lithological logs from boreholes and detailed information on the State's oil and gas industry. Currently featured on its home page is a related web site about Florida's unique hydrogeology and its famous springs. A well-designed, easy to use site.

European Environment Agency
The European equivalent of the EPA. A good site with themed sections (water, air etc)

The UK's Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Some useful information on UK regulation and environmental news.

Geoscience news abounds on the web, largely as a result of the growing interest in environmental issues (particularly geohazards). The following sites - all of which we have visited to check their relevance - carry earth science news or comment. Some (like the New Scientist) are of general interest, others are aimed more specifically at geoscientists

Geological Society
For a very useful overview of the day's top stories, visit this UK site which has a digest of geological and environmental news from sources around the world.

Geotimes
The AGI's Geotimes site has a well–produced News Notes section with background to newsworthy geological research, and longer feature articles.

BBC Sci–tech News
The BBC's general sci–tech news site, but updated daily and usually with something of interest to earth scientists. Particularly strong on planetary science and environmental science stories.

CNIE
The US National Council for Science and the Environment. News of US funding issues.

ENN
The Environmental News Network Inc. A great site for environmental and related news – you can have free basic membership, or delux membership and receive regular email news updates. You can search through five years' worth of news archives for geological stories.

NASA
Keep in touch with the latest on NASA missions, planetary science, satellite shots of geo–events, Hubble Telescope, etc.

Geology.com
Brad Cole's big geology news portal.Has a dictionary and other useful stuff.

Palaeontology News
Richard Cowen (a Blackwell author) at UC Davis gives an excellent and well maintained summary of geological news worldwide. There is a Geology and a Palaeontology section.

NAS
The National Academies site has lots of (American) general science news, and you can use the search engine to pull out geological stories.

The New Scientist
Even without subscribing you can get a useful summary of the week's top science stories, and access archive news from previous Issues. There is usually something of interest to the earth scientist here.

Nature's Science Update
Nature's Science Update carries science news stories updated daily. Plenty of interest for the earth scientist. An excellent site.

Reliefweb
A United nations OCHA project, gives latest news of humanitarian disasters worldwide – including geohazards such as earthquakes, floods and volcanic eruptions.

Global Disaster Watch
Global Disaster Watch is a doom–laden site and not for the anxious, but does contain some useful news of geohazards and other phenomena – meteor showers, Tsunami, earthquakes etc.

Jim Foley’s palaeoanthropology weblog

This resource center is maintained by Ian Francis. Please contact me if you would like your site to be included on earth-pages.