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Earth Science
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Earth Science/Geology Quick Links
- AAPG ToolkitThe American Association of Petroleum Geologists toolkit includes data sets, surface and mapping resources, new technology tools, and business and career information.
- Geographic Names Information SystemFind information about a place such as latitude, longitude, elevation, county, state, and map.
- GeoNamesSimilar to the GNIS but more user-friendly (latitude, longitude, country, map, population, area in km squared). Contains 10 million geographical names, worldwide.
Earth Science/Geology Agencies & Organizations
- American Geological InstituteProvides professional and information services related to government affairs, earth-science education, outreach, human resources, and scholarships, publications, as well as the bibliographic database, GeoRef. They also have made available the Geologic Guidebooks of North America Database.
- Digital Library for Earth System EducationPromotes the education of Earth systems by providing access to educational resources, and access to Earth data sets and imagery
- Geological Society of AmericaA global professional society with a membership of more than 20,000 individuals in more than 100 countries. Access information on Society publications, memberships and meetings.
- Geology and Ecology of National Parks (USGS)Explore a variety of geologic topics that are exhibited by US National Parks and take virtual tours of the parks.
General Earth Science/Geology Websites
- Earth Science World Image BankThe image bank is a service provided by the American Geological Institute. It is designed to provide quality geoscience images to the public, educators, and the geoscience community.
- Geologic Guidebooks of North AmericaUse the search boxes to find bibliographic information for guidebooks of North America. This database was jointly created by the Geoscience Information Society, GeoRef, and the American Geological Institute.
- Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) KeywordsIncludes a list of sites that contain acronyms used throughout the Earth Science communities, glossaries of Earth Science terms, and gazetteers of geographic location names.
- Mindat.org Mineralogy DatabaseMindat.org is the world's largest open database of minerals, rocks, meteorites and the localities they come from.
- NASA's Earth Data: Open Access for Open ScienceNASA's free and open earth science data made interactive, interoperable, and accessible for research and societal benefit both today and tomorrow.
- NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS)The mission of the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) is to define, maintain and provide access to the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS) (PDF, 123 KB). The NSRS provides a consistent coordinate system that defines latitude, longitude, height, scale, gravity, and orientation throughout the United States and its territories.
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)The U.S. Geological Survey is the nation's largest water, earth, and biological science and civilian mapping agency. It collects, monitors, analyzes, and provides scientific understanding of natural resource conditions, issues, and problems.