The Sciences

Below are links to sources and materials in the sciences. There are sites for professionals and amateur scientists alike.

General Sciences

• Science Resources (University at Buffalo). Best scholarly science guides (by topic). Click "Guides" tab and search by topic, or search keyword.
• Nature Guides. Currently Bird identification guides (others to follow).
• Maps to View. Maps for projects.
• National Geographic Society
• American Museum of Natural History.
• Animal Locomotion: Eadweard James Muybridge. Has animations and history of this famous photographer/scientist.
• Scientific Visualization Studio, Goddard Space Center.
• Learning Web offers science materials for educators and students (USGS).
• Einstein and the Year of Physics, 2005. Celebration of the 100th anniversary of Einstein's publications on Relativity. (Original page removed: pdf of what's left of a highly recognized exhibit that I created).

Astronomy

• Astronomy & Astrophysics. Resources site at the University at Buffalo.
• Constellations and Their Stars (Guide)
• Hubble Space Telescope (HubbleSite). Beautiful images, discoveries, history, and more.
• SFA Start Charts. Star charts (pdf) designed to work anywhere on Earth; with instructions.
• Your Sky. Enter Earth coordinates and time (optional) to get a custom star chart. You can zoom in or out, and pan in any direction of your chart. Also allows you to see plots for comets and other bodies. The site has additional pages for locating and viewing: planets, the Moon, deep sky objects, stars, constellations, and star groups; radiants of meteor showers, and many other items.
• Star Journey
• NASA Home Page
• NASA Kid's Club.
• Virtual Solar System. A 3-D tour of the solar system
• Solar System Live. The interactive Orrery of the Web
• Moon Phase Calendar. Visually see the entire month (any month).
• Sunrise/Sunset/Twilight and Moonrise/Moonset/Phase from the U.S. Naval Observatory
• Sun, Moon, Planetary, and other data from the U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department. Enter location.
• Sunrise Sunset Calendars. Enter location.
• Five Millennium Catalog of Solar Eclipses (NASA). Covers 2000 BCE to 3000 CE. Maps and coordinates.
• Aboriginal Star Knowledge: Native American Astronomy Scholarly studies; well illustrated
• Astronomy page From the Weather Underground
• Hawaiian Astronomical Society. Very good resources for Solar System, stars, and other charts, photographs, and materials.
• Meade Telescopes Company that makes some great scopes.
• SAO Telescope Data Center (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Harvard).
  • SAO Star Catalog Entire SAO catalog of 258,996 stars, including B1950 positions, proper motions, magnitudes, and, usually, spectral types in a locally-developed binary format described below. While the SAO catalog is more or less complete to V=9, with 4,503 stars fainter than V=10, the PPM catalog is fairly complete to V=9.5, with 102,672 stars fainter than V=10 and 22,395 stars fainter than V=11.
• SFA Observatory Links (Stephen F. Austin Univ.). All aspects of astrophysics/astronomy-research.
• Computer Operated Telescopes. What do you want to learn?

Planets

 Planet Rendering

• POV-Ray Planet Rendering (Dan Bruton, SFA Univ.). See high-quality renderings of the planets in correct proportion to each other, as well as texture maps, surface, and other views. Includes "tenth planet" Xena.
  • PovRay code and images for the images above
  • Largest Known Kuiper Belt Objects
  • JPL Planet Maps
  • Planet Texture Maps
  • Rendering Planets
  • Planet Rendering
  • Viking Orbiter Image Map. of Mars.
  • Rayleigh Atmosphere

Earthquakes, Volcanoes, & Natural Disasters

• Hurricane Katrina (August/September 2005). The worst natural disaster in the United States is documented here, including: coverage of the disaster, relief, science and economic studies, and continuing efforts to renew the Gulf Coast region as well as plans to mitigate future disasters. (Highly recognized page).
• Indian Ocean Tsunami Disaster (December 26, 2004). Includes historic and currrent resources for ongoing study. This page won a number of awards and honors for its content.
• Mount St. Helens 20th Anniversary Commemorative Exhibit. Archive of a resource that I created. Covers the history of the volcano, with emphasis on the 1980 eruption, and many stable links to data, sources, and images of the volcano and the Cascade Range. Covers current activity as well.
• Earthquakes in the World (USGS Earthquake Hazards Program). See the last seven days activities. Also includes regional maps and lists, such as:
  • Northeastern States (and Canada vicinity). See also: Recent Earthquakes in the Northeastern U.S.
• VolcanoWorld. Offers data and information on volcanoes and seismic-related activities worldwide.