Search for U.S. Government Publications and Websites
Selected Websites
| NASA. Visible Earth | Images and animations of the earth. |
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | |
| Data, essays, images, information, and links relevant to arctic areas | |
| Environmental data in the fields of marine geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, solar-terrestrial physics, solid earth geophysics, and glaciology. In each of these fields NGDC operates a World Data Center (WDC-A) discipline center. | |
| Data concerning salinity, coastal water temperature, wind velocity, etc. Animated models of sea surface temperature and water level, links, etc. | |
| Maps that display droughts of the 20th century reconstruction of droughts using tree rings beginning in 1738; data for the past 500 years; and even earlier information derived from pollen, charcoal, and lake level changes. | |
| Historical and current data from NASA and NOAA. | |
| List of forty topics related to oceanic and atmospheric sciences, including air pollution, oceanography, weather, marine biology, wetlands, etc., which provide links, bibliographies, and (where relevant) illustrated keys to specific groups of marine biota.[/ul]
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| United States Geological Survey | USGS information may be viewed by four major themes: hazards, resources, environment, and information management, along with contacts and sources information, etc. |
| Information about earthqwuake activity around the world, the science of earthquakes, and controlling damage | |
| Huge amounts of geoscience information. GLIS (under "Products"), contains regional, continental, and global land information including land use, land cover, and soils data; cultural and topographic data; and remotely sensed satellite and aircraft data. Also publications, newsletters, map and photograph search engines, etc. | |
| Gateway to local, state, and federal data and maps. Construct maps. | |
| Elevation models, line graphs, land use and land cover maps. | |
| Online geological publications of the western United States, arranged by state, year, and type of publication. | |
| Search the holdings of the library. | |
| FTP files of state geographic data. | |
| Data concerning groundwater, surface water, and water quality. | |
| Information about the topography and geology of the continental United States along with geologic time. There is a digital map that contains the description for each geologic feature along with information for the eras in which it was formed. The Rock of Ages is a time line providing information about each geologic era linked to the regions of the map Boundaries shows two more maps: one with geomorphic, or physiographic, regions, the other with state boundaries. | |
| Information on water quality, water use, acid rain, toxic substances, ground water, surface water, etc. |