EnergyFiles: Geosciences

American Geophysical Union - An international scientific society dedicated to advancing the understanding of Earth and its environment in space and making the results available to the public
Mineralogical Society of America - Organization composed of individuals interested in mineralogy, crystallography, and petrology
National Science Foundation Directorate for Geosciences - GEO supports research to advance the state of knowledge about Earth, including its atmosphere, continents, oceans, interior, and the processes that modify them as well as link them together
Sandia National Laboratory's Geoscience and Geotechnology Center - The Geoscience and Geotechnology Center provides a broad and integrated set of capabilities that are focused either to improve understanding of geosystems or to develop technology for specific geoapplications
U.S. Geological Survey - Bureau within the Department of Interior that provides the Nation with reliable, impartial information to describe and understand the Earth
U.S.Department of Energy, Office of Science, Geosciences Research Program - The role of this program is to aid in providing the scientific foundationthat will underlie the energy and environmental technologies of the futurefocusing on basic, or fundamental, research dealing with the response of naturalrocks, minerals, and fluids to natural or anthropogenic perturbations

Coastal Ocean Modeling at the USGS Woods Hole Science Center - Circulation movies of modeled coastal ecosystem processes including Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay, provided by USGS
EPA Terms of Environment - Defines in non-technical language the more commonly used environmental terms appearing in EPA publications, news releases, and other Agency documents available to the general public, students, the media, and Agency employees
Geostationary Satellite Data - Provided by NASA's Global Hydrology and Climate Center, this site provides real time images of the earth
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Reading Room - Provided by the University of Texas at Austin, this site contains a large collection of resources for the petroleum and geosystems engineering fields
Soil Liquefaction Website - The University of Washington provides this site on soil liquefaction, which occurs during earthquake shaking or other rapidloading
Surface Observed Global Land Precipitation Variations: 1850-1995 - Precipitation data from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies
US Geological Survey Maps - These pages contain a compilation of USGS geologic and thematicmaps (not topographic maps) and map data that can be downloaded (files inARC/INFO export format, for example) or viewed on the World Wide Web
Water Measurement Manual - A guide to effective water measurement practices for better water management published by the US Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation

Federal Geographic Data Committee Geospatial Data Standards - The FGDC develops geospatial data standards for implementing the NSDI, in consultation and cooperation with State, local, and tribal governments, the private sector and academic community, and, to the extent feasible, the international community

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