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Geology
Reference Material
Images
USGS Water Resources Recent Seismic Activity Science at NASA NASA Visible Earth
EPA How's My Waterway Weekly Report of Volcanic Activity GIS Data Online and VT GIS data and the VT Open Geodata Portal Astronomy Picture of the Day
Water Online Volcanic Global Risk Identification and Analysis Project Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences NOAA Hazard Images
Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center Icelandic earthquakes and volcanoes NEIGC Guidebooks: 1954-2016 NOAA Significant Event Imagery
USGS Natural Hazards Gateway West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center The US Geological Survey Earth Science World Image Bank
Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration Tsunami Information Center Lyell Collection of the Geological Society Earth Revealed Online Video Series
NASA Earth Observatory Science Events and Conferences PLOS One Earth Science Picture of the Day
Ocean World Earthweek: A Diary of the Planet Elsevier's Science Direct Open Access Journals Earth Science World Image Bank
TerraServer USA EurekAlert! from AAAS European Geosciences Union Open Access Journals Gateway to Astronaut Photography
United Nations' Relief Web Headlines From Space Directory of Open Access Journals NASA Image and Video Library
AGI Critical Issues Webinars Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services arXiv and bioRXiv Animal livecams
AGI Critical Issues Program Army Corps of Engineers Manuals Cambridge Open Access Journals Native lands
AGI Critical Issues Research Database Google Earth VR Retraction Watch Database
  Natural Resources Conservation Service US Soil Map LibGen Journals  
Transportation
Government
 The Logic of Science
Videos
Fight Radar 24 US Government's Open Data Terra Daily Nasa Live
Marine traffic NationMaster The National Academies NASA TV (live)
Scheduled space flight launches Trading Economics Science Alert Videos at TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
  Our World in Data Science Times Human: The Movie
  US Census Science Direct Cell Reports Peer-Reviewed Scientific Video Journal
  Population Reference Bureau Reddit Journal of Science Films On Demand
  UN World Population Prospects Science Daily Paleobiology Database and Interactive Map
  Homeland Security News Wire SciHub Journals Macaulay Library of Biodiversity Audio and Video Recordings
State Department Travel Advisories Dept. Homeland Security: Overseas Travel    
  Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy  



Vermont-related Events
Road Closures Weather and (graphical presentation) Lamoille River at Johnson Local Geology Events
VT Council on Rural Development Summit Snow Depth at the "Stake" Lake Champlain at Burlington Vermont Geological Society
Vermont Biofinder Ski Vermont Snow Conditions VT Plowfinder Vermont Geological Survey
The VT Futures Project Vermont Power Outages VT Emergency Management Report card for Vermont's infrastructure
The Vermont Landscape Change Program   Vermont Open Geodata Portal Lake Champlain Phosphorous TMDL
  VT Natural Resource Atlas VT Interactive Map Viewer



Climate Issues and Weather
Climate Change
Hurricanes
Weather
National Snow and Ice Data Center Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network Joint Typhoon Warning Center Weather Underground
New England Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative An Inconvenient Truth Japan Meteorological Agency for Tropical Cyclones NOAA National Weather Service and (graphical presentation)
US Global Change Research Program Stephen Schneider,
Stanford University		 NWS/NHC Tropical Prediction Center Intellicast Radar
USDA Climate Change Research Center NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information Tropical Tidbits NWS Climate Prediction Center
Vermont State Climate Office NASA: Global Climate Change NOAA Storm event database Mike's Weatherpage
Fourth National Climate Assessment (2018) Tokyo Climate Center Weather on Mt. Everest (and the story) Wright-Weather
COP 26 in Glasgow 2021 SSEC Real-time composite animation
Space Weather
 UV Index
The IPCC Assesment Water Resources Dashboard Meteor showers Weathernerds
Climate Action Tracker 54 Sources for Climate Change News Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Carbon Monitoring for Action The Future of Coal (by the MIT) Northern Lights Climate Change 2022: Impact, Adaptation, and Vulnerability (IPCC 6th Assessment)
Sea Level Rise and Flood Risk Maps Climate at the National Academies Space Weather IPCC 6th Assesment Summary for Policy Makers
Flood Map Models National Renewable Energy Laboratory Mars Weather  
Click here for climate action links
    

Glossaries
Geology
Meteorology
Astronomy
Encyclopedias
USGS Glacial Glossary National Weather Service Glossary Astronomical Glossary Encyclopedia of Earth
Volcanology Photo Glossary Glossary of Meteorology SI Units Encyclopedia of Life
  Climate Change Glossary Unit Converter The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Technology     Census of Marine Life
NIST Cybersecurity Glossary     Earth BioGenome Project
Networking Terms     Digital Atlas of Ancient Life


Online Education
Open Courses
Software
GRE Preparation
Search Engines
MIT Open Courseware GIMP Image Manipulation Program GRE Practice Tests Wikipedia
Coursera Unit conversion calculators GRE Youtube links Wolfram Alpha
edX Password Checker GRE from Kaplan on Youtube DuckDuckGo
Udacity Web Design GRE links from ETS DuckDuckGoLite
LinkedIn Learning LightZone (open-source digital darkroom) GRE from Study.com StartPage
Khan Academy RawTherapee (open-source raw image processing)   Google Scholar
VT Geospatial Webinars LightWorks (open-source video editor)
Guides
 Refseek
OpenCulture Prezi Nine courses that will change the way you see the world Semantic Scholar
Github 7-Zip Alan Alda's Center for Communicating Science iSeek
Marginal Revolution University Shot Cut College Scorecard Virtual LRC
Erik Kirk's Introduction to Digital Media HandBrake Applied Thematic Analysis Microsoft Academic
SchoolForge Best free software 2021 Online Study Guides  
  Davinci Resolve Journalist's Toolbox  
  Public Domain Classical Art
Coding
Dictionaries
    Code Academy Online Etymololgy Dictionary
    Learn Python Oxford Dictionaries
    Tim Berners-Lee Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Medical Issues
Global Disease Alerts TOXNET: Toxicology Data Network National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences University of Washington Medical Videos
International Travel Advisories Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Collaborative on Health and the Environment UVM Community Medical School Videos
Disease Database National Pesticide Information Center Emerging Contaminants in the Environment Health videos from the US National Library of Medicine
Environmental Health News Drug Interactions Checker Human Gene-Editing Initiative US Health Map
Web of Life   Genetically Engineered Crops (NAS) Biomedical References: PubMed
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species      
USGS Nonindegenous Aquatic Species Database
Ticks
Flu, Pneumonia, and Virus
Food
Audubon Bird Migration Explorer Tick Encounter Resource Center Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza Hospitalizations CSPI Guide to Food Additives (and here)
Environmental Working Group (EWG)
 Vermont Tick Tracker Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality Surveillance As You Sow
EWG: Foods VT Tick Encounters (by week) COVID-19 (Wuhan Coronavirus) iNaturalist
EWG: Cosmetic Database Cicada Watch COVID-19 in Vermont (from the VT DOH) and graph  
EWG: Sunscreen Guide Locust Watch Coronavirus information from the NSF  
    COVID-19 Information Page  



 

Open Education Resources from Physics Today

► The Open Education Network, https://open.umn.edu/oen, works to make higher education more accessible. It hosts the Open Textbook Library, https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks, which currently offers more than 1200 open textbooks.

► In addition to providing open licensing, Creative Commons runs programs to train and spread the word about sharing knowledge, https://creativecommons.org.

► “Twenty years of Open Educational Resources: Building robust networks for innovation,” by Angela DeBarger and Cathy Casserly for the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 7 October 2021, https://hewlett.org/twenty-years-of-open-educational-resources-building-robust-networks-for-innovation.

► The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources provides materials and support, https://www.cccoer.org.

► The Mason OER Metafinder conducts real-time searches across many sources, https://oer.deepwebaccess.com.

► The multi-institutional LibreTexts project produces open textbooks, including in physics, https://phys.libretexts.org.

► MIT offers lectures and course materials for thousands of its undergraduate and graduate classes at OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu.

► PhET offers a large selection of free, interactive math and science simulations, https://phet.colorado.edu.

► Walter Lewin’s lectures on YouTube claim they’ll make viewers ♥ physics, https://www.youtube.com/@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259.

► HyperPhysics explores many physics concepts, http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu.

► Crash Course posts freely available educational videos for high school and college levels on YouTube, https://thecrashcourse.com.

► The oPhysics site offers a collection of interactive physics simulations, https://ophysics.com.

► Some 250 libraries and academic organizations in North America belong to SPARC, a nonprofit advocacy organization that supports open educational resources. It tracks US state policies at https://sparcopen.org/our-work/state-policy-tracking.