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watch also Digital Universe; also BBC news world front page; and here for googlemaps

At GSFC, Star Child for younger students and Imagine the Universe for high school & up;
Imagine Science level 1 and level 2 and especially spectra; see also Space.com for space news.

observatories, academic departments
organizations (AAS, NASA etc; astro companies)
journals
class (lab help; e.g., CLEA)
data bases, searching (e.g., NASA ast abst service, SIMBAD)
sci history (inc. space flight)
sky
weather, road conditions, forest service, etc
Earth--atmosphere (inc. aurorae)
Earth--geology
planetary
solar (inc. sol-terr)
stellar
galactic, HEA, cosmology
physics & chemistry
math & units conversions
bio / natural history ("EnvS")
gender & sci
other history / info
catalogs (REI, Amazon, wineries, etc)
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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

IUE data search ? gets "connection refused" 7/25/03

The Digitized Sky Survey;

Center Earth Planetary Studies/Natl Air Space Museum

UWisc H-alpha mapper ,

NRAO homepage;

Jodrell Bank Observatory;

LIGO homepage

Astrogeology at USGS;

STScI astro dept resources

U.W. astronomy;

Royal Obs Greenwich;

Iowa State's Educational Observatory;

Transit search amateur net

AAVSO;

Int'l Dark Sky Association & Global Network of small Astronomical Telescopes

Windows to the Universe from UCAR

organizations (AAS, NASA etc; astro companies)

National Geographic News

NSF and the FASTLANE grant proposal guide; and for feb 07 the S-STEM description Sigma Xi;

DOE Office of Sci & Tech Info

American Astronomical Society;

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

Solar Physics Div;

Lowell Solar Analogs Workshop (Oct. 97)

Physics.org from UK Inst Phys

SBIG

Apogee (also CCDs)

journals

Slashdot news for nerds, science page

SKY Online;

Science News Online; dobsonak, marcus

ScienceOnline - dobsonak w/ pwd as marcus;

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 and pwd as marcus

Nature

Science's netwatch archive;

and their Books et al. review site

LANL preprint site;

BAAS

APS PhysicsCentral various articles.

Net Advance of Physics links to articles, inc. astro. (from MIT).

Annotated phys web sites from sci librarian. (no longer being maintained? 7/25/03)

IoP (now CRC press) ency of astr and astrop (these don't seem to get updated regularly, so many are several years old)

class (lab help; e.g., CLEA; gen ref; e.g., APOD)

Online citation styles from Bedford -.St. Martins

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)

Shadow & Substance, w/ eclipse and comet animations

a black hole game at HST

astrophys visualizations from the Hayden planetarium

Galaxy Crash java applet page from CWRU

Astronomy Picture of the Day;

comPADRE center for astronomy education

Univ of Oregon physics applets

JPL space simulator

Exploratorium

Pacific Sci Center

OMSI

Franklin Inst

National Center for Sci Ed.

Zombeck Handbook of Space Astronomy & Astrophysics;

Today@NASA;

Science@NASA;

Spacelink from NASA is a "resource for education".

CLEA

StarWorlds (Heck's Star*s astro resources, Strasbourg);

APS PhysicsCentral various articles.

Net Advance of Physics links to articles, inc. astro. (from MIT).

dig lib earth system edu

Astronomy Net astroguide

AstroWeb's astro links

HEASARC's webstars

astro resources on the Education Index

ASP / Andy Fraknoi's educ resources; several good sub-pages here.

Phys-Astr-Math from Special Libraries Assoc.

Earth & Sky;

Rob Gendler's astro ccd images

AstroCappella (not. . .)

MASSIVE math & science songs

physics songs

Singing Science records

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

google

Infoseek (GO.com)

Altavista

Webcrawler

Grants.gov

FirstScience.gov links to all gov sci orgs.

arXiv e-Print archive

--> NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service <--

-->>>>>>> Astronomical and Navigational Almanacs from US Naval Observatory

web of sci

internet public library from Univ of Michigan

General Catalog of Photometric Data; (Univ of Lausanne)

SIMBAD home page;

CDS (Strasbourg; inc simbad)

nssdc;

adc archives/catalogs check this one

sci history (inc. space flight)

Nat'l Air & Space Museum; their Apollo 11 AV page.

NASA movie clips from Johnson Space Center

'Moon base Clavius' site debunking the no moon landing conspiracists.

Oppenheimer exhibit by the hist sci tech folks at Berkeley.

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;

Evolution of physics from Physics.org.

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 check this one

Atomic Archive (commercial site)

the Newton Project from Imperial College London.

SunEarthDay from NASA has several ancient astro sites.

Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy (which has a moon hoax page)

sky

Your Sky finding charts for stars by name

NightSkyLive

Latitude at Rice

Sky View Cafe --play w/ this more.

here or here for orbit applets. find the second one

Sky Query prototype virtual observatory. likewise investigate further.

And this one: applets for computing phases, daylight, etc.

Kaler's stars and constellation info

weather, road conditions, forest service, etc

Forest Service;; and their fire info page.

and specifically, Wallowa-Whitman, Umatilla, Mt.B - Snoq., Okanogan forests.

InciWeb fire info

UIUC weather

GOES

Weather underground, and, specifically, their Walla Walla forecast

Real-time Weather UCAR and their large weather map

National Doppler Radar sites

NWS WW weather (KALW) or their zone forcast

NWS Seattle Forecast Office

national radar from noaa

WA Zone Forecasts from UW

maps at MSN.com (mapblast! became part of that)

TopoZone

WSDOT Home Page, including Seattle traffic cams, State ferries, Pass reports

google maps; 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)

Intellicast PNW radar

NIST Time and Frequency; the Directorate of Time

USNO data services, e.g., moon phases

Earth--atmosphere (inc. aurorae)

Snowball Earth

NOAA's Climate Time Line; up a couple for NOAA's main paleoclimate page;

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;

Global climate change student guide from Manchester Met univ

from Norway, Northern Lights;

and Polar Image from Finland has aurorae and other stuff

Science@NASA's aurora gallery, Oct 03;

Passive Microwave Earth Sci

World View of global warming. . .images by chap from Oregon.

Ill. State Museum's online exhibit on the ice ages

Weather photog site

WeatherCams from Univ Michigan.

sundogs

NASA's Earth Observing System (try EOS project science; satellites then under mission profiles);

from Univ of Montana, there's also the EOS Education Project

Earth Sci picture of the day

EarthPortal ecology / climate / biodiversity.

Earth Exploration Toolbook from Carleton.

Earth--geology

USGS National Map site

EarthObservatory Blue Marble 2002 earth images

This Dynamic Earth USGS on plate tectonics

Geotime from the Smithsonian

mantleplumes and Geol Soc of Britain on how deep.

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.

GeoImages project at Berkeley

Dynamic Earth at Nat'l Mus Natural History--requires flash6

Paleomap project pangea animations

EarthRef from Scripps Inst

John Butler's Virtual Geosci. prof;

Physical geol on-line text from Okanogan Univ.

Atlas of rocks, minerals, textures at U. N Carolina.

USGS magnetic field maps

USGS earthquake hazard program - has recent quake maps and a glossary page; and their Nat'l Earthquake info center

UW recent earthquakes

Volcano World from Univ North Dakota

Cascade Vol. Obs. and their volcano cams from USGS.

Hawaiian Vol. Obs; the Montserrat volcano site

tectonic maps--play with this one

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, and their astronaut photos of Earth .

JPL Earth photos;

Landsat-7 earth-as-art.

Earth Impact database