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Cloud Identification Quiz - If you would like expert instruction in cloud identification, this Cloud Exploration designed by Kevin Frender at NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center and Dr. Ron Holle from NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory gives students and teachers expert guidance in cloud identification and many rehearsals of different cloud pictures so that they can develop proficiency online. Dr. Holle's cloud photographs are also featured in the Audubon Field Guide to North American Weather. Students can look at multiple slides of the same cloud type, access an introduction as to how they are categorized, and then take a quiz which automatically develops an error matrix for participants in order to help figure the points of confusion. This is a wonderful way to train observers and to have students think about the difficulties with categorization.Earthquake Information - The USGS provides a wide-range on earthquake information here. You can explore Hot News, current seismicity maps, information on and photographs of the recent quakes and historic data. Links to California sites with more detailed information.
GLOBE Geography Quiz
Hydrology Web - The Hydrology Web is an extensive set of links to water information, discussion groups, publications, projects, and university and government research groups.
LandSat Image Identification Quiz - Ted Habermann from NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center and David Brown from NASA's Observatorium have used Public Domain Landsat Images from the NASA Observatorium as a basis for an online, in classroom activity that allows students to become familiar with how the earth looks from space. From Morro Bay to Moscow, students can look at satellite images of famous cities and land forms from space. This is not only fascinating "sky geography" but it helps students understand what "remote sensing" reveals about our world and why it is so important. It will assist students who are interpreting their own GLOBE landsat images in placing what they are seeing in a larger context. Students will become more aware of the features that can be revealed from above. They will also take a trip around the planet and think about connections they might make with other countries participating in GLOBE.
Min/Max Thermometer Drill
NOAA/PMEL/TAO El Nino Theme Page - An excellent description of current research into the El Nino phenomenon. A page that includes great graphics, good background information, access to a wide variety of data from satellites and buoys, FAQ's, and a dial-a -scientist connection to those doing the research.
PSC Meteorology Program Cloud Boutique - Another good resource for GLOBE classrooms trying to distinguish between types of clouds. Plymouth State College in New Hampshire offers brief descriptions and good photographs.
Solstice: Sustainable Energy and Development Online! - This site sponsored by CREST, The Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology, offers a universal guide to that familiar and near-by star we call the sun, as well as a compendium of information on renewable energy, from education to legislation. It provides access to an electronic edition of 'Global Change,' a monthly review of current articles on climate change and ozone depletion.
Stratospheric Ozone Protection Home Page - The EPA's page presents the current debate and research on ozone depletion: everything from the causes of ozone depletion to myths, health effects, regulations, conferences, and the Montreal Protocol.
Surf Your Watershed - This EPA site is extremely helpful for GLOBE classes as they do their Hydrology investigations. You can make a map of your local or regional US watershed. You can get recent studies of water quality and other environmental factors that affect the watershed. You can build a map which also includes roads, superfund sites, population density and a number of other variables. A fantastic source for understanding and researching the water in your area.
The EPA's Water Site - The EPA's guide to everything you want to know about waters. They are building a section on Exploring Your Watershed that looks like it will be valuable for GLOBE classrooms as they begin their hydrology investigations.
The University of Arizona/GLOBE Soil Moisture Home Page - This site has discussions of protocols, FAQs about soil, links to schools that have developed interesting projects, pictures of soils from around the world, and projects under development. An essential resource for GLOBE schools in Soil Characterization as well as Soil Moisture observations.
The pH Factor - This explanation of what pH is can enhance GLOBE students' understanding of this part of their hydrology investigations. The site offers many activities and lots of links to other Web pH sites.
UIUC Cloud Catalog
VolcanoWorld Home Page - This site offers everything you want to know about volcanoes: current eruptions on a clickable world map, historical data, explanations of what happens during an eruption, and if you can't find what you are looking for you can ask-a-vulcanologist. The replies to questions are thorough and thought-provoking. A site at which the overflow is lots of fun and the best of current research.
Welcome to Tsunami! - Truly the total picture of tsunamis. Everything thing from the physics of these huge waves, the etymology of that fascinating word, the history of the deadliest, and their impact on humans. A wonderful surf site but not so much information that you'll drown.