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If you cannot find the kind of image
you are looking for, try using one of the Web's big image search sites
such as Google Image Search.
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Images on this site (www.usgcrp.gov) and other sites
maintained by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program Office:
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- AMRC
"Iceberg" Page. Page of recent Iceberg images
from the Antarctic Meteorology Center, a research group at the University
of Wisconsin - Madison's Space Science and Engineering Center.
- Climate
Change Research Center's Photo Gallery. Collection of images
from some of the projects undertaken around the world by the Climate
Change Research Center at the
University of New Hampshire, Institute
for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space.
- Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- Department of Interior:
- Department of Energy (DOE):
- Office
of Science, Image Gallery
- Photographic
Information Exchange (PIX). The Photographic
Information eXchange (PIX) collection consists of renewable energy
and energy efficiency technology photographs. The collection was
developed and is maintained for the Department of Energy (DOE) at
the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado.
PIX is part of NREL's Information Clearinghouse (NICH).
- energy.gov
- Photo Gallery From this Department of Energy website you can
download photos. There
are historical images of test sites as well as current photos of
different energy laboratories, including the National Renewable
Energy Lab. If you
are preparing a presentation related to energy, you will certainly
find something useful here.
(link updated 28 March, 2001)
- Ditto.com.
Search the web for graphics.
- Earth
Science World ImageBank
- El
Niño Cartoons. From the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric
Prediction Studies.
- Environmental
Protection Agency, Great Lakes National Program Office, Visualizing
the Great Lakes. Images of a Region.
- European Space Agency:
- Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Photo Library.
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:
- Iowa
State Entomology Index: Images
- Library of Congress: Photographs
from the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
- Includes America
from the Great Depression to WW II, Photos from the FSA and
OWI, 1935-45.
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American
Environmental Photographs (American Memory, Library of Congress)
This collection consists of approximately 4,500 photographs documenting
natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities in the
United States at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of
the twentieth century. Produced between 1891 and 1936 by a group
of American botanists generally regarded as one of the most influential
in the development of modern ecological studies, these photographs
provide an overview of important representative natural landscapes
across the nation. (link
updated 12 April, 2001)
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Learn
More: American Environmental Photographs - Summary Page This
website will link you to more information about the environmental
photograph collection. You
can find related collections and exhibits, more information on
historical eras, special presentations, and tips for finding items
in American Memory. (link
updated 12 April, 2001)
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Learning
Page: The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920: Summary This collection
contains 900 photographs of rural and small town life at the turn
of the century. Highlights include images of sod homes and the
people who built them; images of farms and the machinery that
made them prosper; and images of one-room schools and the children
that were educated in them.
(link updated 12 April, 2001)
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Learn
More: Pioneering the Upper Midwest Summary Page This collection includes records of the land and its natural
resources; conflicts between settlers and native people; as well
as the experience of pioneers, missionaries, soldiers, immigrants,
and reformers. The collection also documents the growth of local
communities and cultural traditions and the development of regional
agriculture, business, religion, politics, and education.
(link updated 12 April, 2001)
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Learning
Page: Voices From the Dust Bowl Summary Page This collection contains audio recordings, photographs, manuscript
materials, publications, and ephemera generated during two documentation
trips to migrant worker camps in California. Documented are dance
tunes, cowboy songs, traditional ballads, square dance and play
party calls, camp council meeting conversations, and storytelling
sessions of Dust Bowl refugees who inhabited the camps.
(link updated 12 April, 2001)
- National
Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Digital Media Catalog
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH):
- Public
Health Image Library. "Created by a Working Group
at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), PHILTM
offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures.
We welcome public health professionals, the media, laboratory scientists,
educators, and the worldwide public to use this material for reference,
teaching, presentation, and public health messages. The content
is organized into hierarchical categories of people, places, and
science, and is presented as single images, image sets, and multimedia
files."
- Images
from the History of Medicine. From the National Library of
Medicine
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA)
- NOAA
Photo Collection. On any given day NOAA personnel could
be chasing tornadoes, flying into hurricanes, battling stormy seas,
tagging turtles and whales, taking scientific readings at the South
Pole, monitoring the health of coral reefs, or engaging in virtually
any task that can be thought of related to monitoring our environment
and the health of our planet.
It's all documented on this amazing page containing thousands
of photo images. The images can be viewed by album, by catalog, or individually
through a keyword search function.
(link updated 27 March, 2001).
- National
Snow and Ice Data Center. NSIDC was established by NOAA
in 1982 to serve as a national information and referral center in
support of glaciological research. Mission is to make fundamental
contributions to cryospheric science and excel in managing data
and disseminating information in order to advance understanding
of the Earth system
- GFDL
Gallery. Hurricanes, Global Warming, Radiative Transfer, Stratospheric
Processes, El Nino, Cyclones/Storms.
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- NCDC
Climate Visualization.
- National Climatic Data
Center.
- Paleoclimatology
Program, Educational Slide Project Each set of 20-40 slides includes vivid photographs of field
research conducted around the globe, high-quality graphics of important
data sets, and descriptive diagrams, making these sets ideal instructional
aides. Eight slide sets, including tree rings, ice cores, and coral
paleoclimatology, are described.
This is a great site for educators especially at the advanced
high-school or college level to learn about high-quality visual
aids for climate change or environmental education.
(link updated 27 March, 2001).
- US
Outlook Maps, Graphs & Tables."The Climate Prediction
Center (NOAA/CPC) is responsible for issuing seasonal climate outlook
maps for one to thirteen months in the future. In addition, CPC
issues extended range outlook maps for 6-10 and 8-14 days as well
as several special outlooks, such as degree day, drought and soil
moisture, and a forecast for daily ultraviolet (UV) radiation index.
Many of the outlook maps have an accompanying technical discussion."
(link updated 23 October 2000)
- National Science Foundation
- World
View of Global Warming. "The photographic documentation
of climate change by Gary Braasch."
- Photoshare. Johns
Hopkins Center for Communication Programs. A database of photographs
available for non-profit educational use.
- Polar Image.
Sky photos by Finish photographer, Pekka Parviainen.
- Science Magazine's "NetWatch" Articles on Images.
Noteworthy sites providing access to science illustrations.
- Smithsonian Photographs
Online.
- United Nations
- United States
Joint Global Ocean Flux Study. Image Gallery.
- University
of Washington Libraries, Digital Collections
- Weather
Photography. Site maintained by photographer Harald
Edens.
- Weatherstock
Photo Agency. "Worlds only stock photography agency specializing
in weather related images, film and video footage." This site is
for commercial clients.
- World
Bank, MultiMedia Products.
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