| All About
Weather
| Learn how to interpret weather maps, types
of clouds, all about hurricanes, El Nino, and more! Instructional
units series by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
part of the Covis NSF education project.
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Smithsonian "Ocean Planet"
| Online presentation of the Smithsonian's "Ocean
Planet" travelling exhibit (Smithsonian Institution)
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Phylogeny of Life
| Learn about all animal species: fossils, life
history, ecology, pictures (Museum of Paleontology, University
of California Berkeley)
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| WhaleNet
| A website devoted to whales and marine research.
Has many links to other information sources. (Wheelock
and Simmons Colleges, Boston MA)
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| Vancouver
Aquarium
| Interesting facts about whales, dolphins, sea
otters, sea turtles and sharks (Vancouver Aquarium,
Stanley Park)
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| Views of the
Solar System
| A great site! Online tour of the solar system
-- information on the sun, planets, moons, asteroids, comets
and meteorites; pictures (Calvin J. Hamilton, Los Alamos
National Laboratory)
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| Alaska Volcano
Observatory
| General information and reports on all actively
monitored volcanoes in Alaska, pictures (AVO, USGS/UAF-GI/ADGGS,
Anchorage)
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Environment Online
| Packed with information on climate change,
energy, water, forests, ozone depletion and resource use.
CREST's Experimental Internet Global Environmental Education
Center
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| Discovery Channel
| The Discovery Channel Online
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| Exxon
Valdez Oil Spill (EVOS) Trustee Council
| Information about projects funded since 1991 by
the EVOS Trustee Council in the aftermath of the 1989 Exxon
Valdez oil spill. Section targeted at students (K-12), college
students and professionals.
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| Alaska
Resources Library and Information Services
| Consortium library based in Anchorage that is
the primary holder of materials from the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
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| NOAA
Office of Response and Restoration
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This web site offers information on response and mitigation.
There is also a page for kids with answers to questions, experiments,
help for writing reports and other student-related information.
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| NASA
Oil Website #1
| NASA website with activities on oil consumption,
spills, and tankers.
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| Prince William
Sound Regional Citizens' Advisory Council
| Citizens promoting environmentally safe operation
of the Alyeska terminal and associated tankers.
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| Oil Spill
Intelligence Report
| Contains a weekly report on oil spills around
the world and Oil Spill Basics: A Primer for Students…
a fact sheet written for students and the general public. A
sample of the headings included in this primer are:
a) Yearly spillage
b) Why does all that oil spill?
c) What is all that oil used for?
d) How does it spill?
e) What happens to oil when it spills?
f) What are the environmental impacts?
g) What about prevention?
h) What can students do?
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| Welcome
to the Bridge
| This site has a lot of information on many topics
in marine sciences selected by teachers. The above URL is to
their page on oil pollution which contains a good list of links
to other sites.
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| AK
Fishery Science Center
| Oil spill restoration/research information
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