Water: Related Sciences
Links for the sciences useful for water professionals. For links on water specifically, see my page of water portals or the Water Librarians' Home Page.
This page:
Science and Technology, generally |
Earth Sciences |
Engineering |
Environmental Science
Science and Technology, generally
- Science Cataloging Internet Resources - Useful science resources for catalogers (reference librarians, too)
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Library reference desk - Links to ready reference sources in many subjects
- See also my Science and Technology page
Earth Sciences
- Earth/Geoscience Information on the WWW (Illinois State Geological Survey)
- Earth Science Virtual Library
- Geo-Index: A Search Engine for Geo-Environmental Professionals
- Geoscience Information Center - Web pages, mailing lists, new books, journal contents, conferences, job postings (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego)
- Geoscience Information Resources - Extensive list, even includes a section for Hydrology and Water Resources (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Geology Library)
- Guide to Resources and Research in Geology/Earth Sciences - Includes a section on hydrology, by Deborah Metzger, California State University Sacramento
- National Geologic Map Database - Catalog of maps published by the U.S. Geological Survey, state geological agencies, and other organizations
- Research Resources for Earth Sciences (Ian Gordon, Brock University Library, Canada)
- Resources for Earth Sciences and Geography Instruction (RESGI)
- U.S. Geological Survey home page
- Worldwide
Earthquake Activity in the Last Seven Days
(U.S. Geological Survey) - USGS Earthquake Hazards Program
- Earthquake Hazards Program-Northern California (USGS, Menlo Park)
- Northern California Earthquake Data Center (UC Berkeley)
- Earthquake Engineering Research Center/National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
- Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, Buffalo, N.Y.
- National Earthquake Information Center, USGS
- Seismosurfing, from the University of Washington
- American Geological Institute (AGI):
- GeoRef - Earth sciences database
- Geologic Guidebooks of North America
- HazLit - Index to literature on natural hazards
- NASA Astrophysics Data System - Indexes literature in geophysics, as well as astrophysics
- Quakeline - Index to the literature of earthquakes, earthquake engineering, and related subjects (MCEER)
- Geosciences Indexes, Abstracts, Bibliographies, and Table of Contents Services (University of Houston Libraries)
- Earth Science Book Reviews Database Search - Index of reviews in earth science journals (University of Illinois)
- See also Water Indexes
Earthquake Information:
Current Earthquakes:
Earth Science Indexes:
Engineering
- Intute: Engineering - A major hub for engineering (formerly EEVL)
- Aecportico - U.K. portal for architecture, engineering, and construction
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- Civil Engineering Virtual Library
- ENR's Cost Indexes
ENR (Engineering News-Record)
- Engineering Virtual Library
- GlobalSpec - Engineering search engine for finding Web pages, products, standards, patents, etc.
- ICE, Internet Connections for Engineering, from Cornell University
- Icivilengineer.com - A comprehensive index to all aspects of civil engineering
- Ultimate Civil Engineering Directory - 500+ civil engineering resources (tenlinks.com, formerly Lund University, Sweden)
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- CE Database - Index of journals and conferences published by the American Society of Civil Engineers
- E-journals Search Engine - A useful way to find engineering, mathematics, and computing articles in Web publications (Intute)
- Engineering Repository Cross Search Demonstrator - Search across many sources for technical papers in engineering (Engineering.ac.uk). Also available: Source Listing (PerX project)
- IEEE Xplore - Index to publications of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- TechXtra - Articles, key Web sites, books, news, and more in engineering, mathematics, and computing
- TRIS Online - Transportation literature from the National Transportation Library, U.S. Dept. of Transportation
- See also Water Indexes and Standards
Engineering Indexes:
Environmental Science
- Environmental Professional's Homepage, includes links to government agencies and environmental software
- EnviroInfo - A portal for environmental science and technology
- Intute: Geography - Includes links on the environment and physical geography
- Envirolink
- Enviroindustry environmental industry page
- Environment Virtual Library
- Environmental Jobs and Careers (ejobs.org)
- Librarian's Environmental Toolkit - Waste Management & Research Center, Illinois
- Right to Know Network - Information on environmental hazards, based on public information
See also Water Pollutants, Chemical Substances
- EPA home page
- Office of Water
- Environmental Information
Management System - Reports of EPA's latest research
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:
- Wildlife & Ecology: Internet Journals and Monographs (CSIRO, Australia)