Workshop links Workshop links
| FINDING RESOURCES ON LINE | |
| http://www.altavista.digital.com/ | Altavista search engine - an Internet search engine with a very large database of Internet resources. |
| http://alabanza.com/kabacoff/Inter-Links/ | Inter-Links - an Internet navigator, resource locator, and tutorial. |
| http://www.hdm.com/gis3.htm | Great GIS Net Sites - as the name suggests, lists sites providing information and resources relevant to geographic Information systems (including GIS data and software). |
| http://www.csu.edu.au/links/ozweb.html | Australian web servers - use this site to locate Australian web servers (sites need to be registered to appear). |
| http://wailer.vahsc.uokhsc.edu/acc96/people.html | Finding people - part of an excellent guide to the Internet by Dr. David A. Tong. Provides a guide to resources available to find people on the Internet |
| http://www.scu.edu.au/indexes/index_search.html | Southern Cross University staff and students - a simple search engine for finding email addresses of SCU staff members and students. |
| http://www.whitepages.com.au/ | White pages directory on line - an on line version of the telephone directory. |
| http://www.yellowpages.com.au/ | Yellow pages directory on line |
| http://www.fed.gov.au/ | Australian government entry point - a good place to start to find government departments and on line resources. Also useful for general information on the role or responsibilities of government agencies. |
| http://enzo.nla.gov.au/products/alg/ | Australian libraries gateway - start here to find a library. |
| http://avcc.edu.au/avcc/uniwebs.htm | Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee: Australian Universities WWW Servers - links to university web servers around Australia. |
| http://home.vicnet.net.au/~aragorn/ | Aragorns home page - provides a list of links for Australian and overseas universities (not comprehensive). |
| SPATIAL DATA AVAILABLE ON THE WWW | |
| http://www.agso.gov.au/ | Australian Geological Survey Organisation - use this site to find topographic map sheets or digital spatial data you may wish to purchase. The site provides reference information and purchasing details for spatial data and some sample data sets. The site also provides information and examples of teaching notes and student materials for studying topics in the geological sciences. |
| http://www.agso.gov.au/map/100k.html | AGSO 1:100,000 map reference sheet |
| http://www.agso.gov.au/map/250/ | AGSO 1:250,000 reference sheet |
| http://www.agso.gov.au/map/1000k.html | AGSO 1:1,000,000 reference sheet |
| http://www.erin.gov.au:80/general/spatial_data/ topo_250k/topo_250k.html |
ERIN 1:250,000 reference sheet - lists available spatial data at this scale for selected sheets. |
| http://www.liscity.nsw.gov.au/information/ geography/lismore.html |
Lismore City and Environs - This site is very much under development but will provide some coarse scale spatial data on Lismore. |
| http://www.lic.gov.au/ | Land Information Centre - low resolution road and tourist maps for New South Wales and an on line aerial photograph index along with information on spatial data provided by the centre and other services. |
| http://www.giconnections.vic.gov.au/ | Geospatial Information, Victoria Australia - data reference sheets and suppliers. |
| http://www.hydro.navy.gov.au/ | Australian Hydrographic Office - lists available maritime charts and resources as well as information on the office. |
| http://www.environment.gov.au/marine/coastal_atlas/
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Coastal atlas of Australia - maps and data (protected areas, socio-cultural information, resources, etc.) on the coastal zone (this site is still very much under development). |
| http://www.erin.gov.au/marine/natmis/ subject_info/subject_info.html |
National Marine Information system - provides a range of data and information relevant to the coastal zone (including some geological data). |
| http://www.auslig.gov.au/acres/index.htm | Australian Centre for Remote Sensing - provides information on remote sensing products and services (including Landsat and SPOT satellite imagery of Australia). |
| http://atlas.gc.ca/schoolnet/Home.html | National Atlas on SchoolNet - interactive learning about Canada and its geography. This site has won a number of awards including; Canadian Internet Award (June, 1996, Best Academic or Educational Site), Federal Awards Program - Technology in Government Award (September, 1995) and NetGuide Gold Site (January, 1997). It provides on line thematic maps of Canada, interactive map building and teaching resources. |
| http://water.wr.usgs.gov/ | US Geological Survey home page - Good site with lots of information and examples of geological events or phenomena. Provides some real time climatic data (California), information and resources on environmental issues or hazards (floods, volcanoes, etc.) and a guide to products and services (including some declassified spy satellite images). |
| http://www.rspac.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/core.shtml | NASA Observatorium - Pictures of the Earth, planets and stars along with stories behind them. Teachers guides and resources are available for various topics including Earth sciences. |
| http://bang.lanl.gov/solarsys/eng/homepage.htm | Images of the earth and planets from space - images of the earth and other planets and objects. |
| http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS/ IMAGES/IMAGES.html |
SeaWIFS image library - provides a range of images of the earths surface along with product information for archived data (such as ozone images from 1978 to present). |
| http://www.esri.com/data/online/index.html | ESRI on line mapping and data site - this site provides the facilities to create maps of parts of the US as well as providing information on GIS products data sets. |
| http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov:80/mgg/global/global.html | NOAA /NGDA global relief data and images - world wide relief images and catalogue of data products. |
| http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/ | Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center - a source of satellite data including sea surface temperature and wind velocity and topography. Also provides resources for educators (including currently information on the el nino phenomena and resources for oceanography and earth sciences). |
| http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/env-services.html | Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science - satellite imagery of the east Australia current and other phenomena (along with real time local (Florida and Miami) weather and atmospheric data). |
| http://www.hpcc.noaa.gov/locators/locators.htm | NOAA Data, Information and People Locators - search facilities for finding satellite data and information. |
| http://www.wcmc.org.uk/marine/data/ coral_mangrove/index.html |
World Conservation Monitoring Centre: Coral reefs and mangroves of the World - access to maps of the geographic extent of mangroves and coral reef just about anywhere in the world. |
| http://www.wri.org/indictrs/reefrisk.htm | World Resources Institute: Reefs at risk - A map based indicator of risk to coral reefs around the world. |
| CURRENT ("REAL TIME") DATA AVAILABLE ON LINE | |
| gopher://babel.ho.bom.gov.au:/ | Bureau of Meteorology - provides current weather forecasts and climatic data along with weather maps and charts. |
| http://www.csu.edu.au/weather.html | Charles Sturt University weather site - current satellite weather images for Australia and the world. |
| http://www.mhl.nsw.gov.au | Manly Hydraulics Laboratory home page - providing "real time" data for New South Wales, including wave height and tidal information, water temperature data, rainfall and barometric pressure, river and estuary flood levels and water quality information. |
| http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino/home.html | El Nino Theme Page: Accessing Distributed Information Related to El Nino - information about the El Nino phenomena (including animations to illustrate) along with links to real time data relevant to El Nino. |
| http://nsipp.gsfc.nasa.gov/enso/sat/animsstanom.htm | Animated Loop of latest SST anomalies - Shows an animation of El Nino along with links to more information on the phenomena. |
| http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/fbin/climate_server | NOAA live access to climatic data - broad scale monthly world wide climatic data. |
| http://www.AODC.gov.au/AODC.html | Australian Oceanographic Data Centre - some real time images of ocean temperature and climatic data. |
| http://www.intellicast.com/weather/intl/worldsat/ | Intellicast world satellite image - radar image of the world (or selected regions may be viewed) showing rainfall intensity (may be rain or snow) updated frequently. Snow reports are also available world wide. |
| GENERAL INTEREST AND TEACHING RESOURCES | |
| http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elnino/ | NOVA El Nino tracking - nice site for general information and explanations of the El Nino phenomena. |
| http://library.envirolink.org/ | EnviroLink library - provides information and resources on environmental issues for teachers and interested parties. |
| http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Metrics/factors.htm | Washington state department of Transport weights and measures conversion tables - provides the conversion relationship between U.S. customary units and SI (International System ) units. |
| http://www.scu.edu.au/sponsored/ncsig/home.htm | North Coast Spatial Information Group - a Northern New South Wales GIS users group. The site provides links to spatial data sources and other resources on the Internet. |
| http://www.esri.com/library/gis/index.html | ESRI About GIS page - provides an introduction to GIS concepts, related technologies and a glossary of terms. |
| http://www.abc.net.au/ | Australian Broadcasting Commission web site - information and resources from ABC television and radio programs. |
| http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ | NASA's Jet propultion laboratory - news and information about space missions and vehicles, images of planets and stellar bodies, latest announcements and news and links to other NASA resources (including spatial data sources). |
| http://www.sd68.nanaimo.bc.ca/schools/swel/ highway/ESTITLE.HTM |
Earth and Space Science page - earth science site aimed at secondary school students. |
| http://www.brs.gov.au/ | Bureau of Resource Sciences web site - Australian site providing links to publications relevant to resource science and management. |
| http://kaos.erin.gov.au/ | Environment Australia on line - Department of Environment and Heritage web site with links to a library catalogue and services and material and sites relevant to environmental management. |
| http://www.its.csiro.au/ | CSIRO web site - current projects, research activities, publications and information on educational resources and careers. |
| http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/ | Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority web site - information on the authority and access to some resources (eg. sea temperature data for sites within the marine park). |
| http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov:80/OCEAN_PLANET/ HTML/ocean_planet_resource_room.html |
Ocean Planet site - links for Oceanographic and teaching resources on the Internet. |
| http://www.jasonproject.org/JASON/HTML/ EXPEDITIONS_JASON_9_home.html |
JASON project about page - an interdisciplinary project, building student and educator skills and knowledge in the areas of geology, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, geography, art, literature and history. |
| http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS/LIVING_OCEAN/ | SeaWIFS project home page - ocean imaging from space, the role of phytoplankton in the global carbon cycle, etc., teachers guide. |
| http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/remote-sensing.html | Australian Institute of Marine Science - Information on remote sensing techniques including radar ocean depth measurements. |
| http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/research/project-net/apnet.html | Australian Institute of Marine Science - resources for marine related school projects. |
| http://www.tip.net.au/~sef/amanda/ | Visitors guide to marine ecosystems of Northern NSW - a web site developed by one of our students (Amanda Fry) on the marine ecosystems of Northern New South Wales. An interesting introduction for teachers and students. |
| http://www.conceptimage.com/a_Pages/ EarthGlobeMaps/aEarthGlobeMaps.html |
Concept images -stylised photographs of the earth from space. |
| http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/ams/ | Australian Marine Studies web site - this site provides information on a CD developed for teachers providing access to Internet resources relevant to the marine studies course in schools. The site also provides a large number of links to sources of spatial data and other resources (http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/marine_studies/info.html). |