Web Sites for Science Research

Science Daily: Provides headlines and links to the day's top science news stories, as well as links to major subject areas in science, health, and computing. Sources, along with links to original news releases, are given for all article. You can view the information in a variety of other languages including German, Spanish, French, and simplified English.
National Science Digital Library: Organized point of access to collections and services for science, technology, engineering, and mathermatics education and research.
NASA: Indispensable resource for information on NASA and space-related fields such as astronomy, geoscience, and aerospace technology. It has up-to-date material of value to almost anyone, from elementary school students and teachers to professional researchers.
North American Mammals: From the Smithsonian, provides a detailed description, distribution range, and a picture for over 400 North American mammal species with a current emphasis on those found in the United States. Searching is available by geographic area, scientific name, common name or conservation status.
Marine Realms Information Bank: Prepared by the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program at the Woods Hole Field Center and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, is intended to organize and provide access to documents and resources relating to the marine and coastal environment.
Water Data for the Nation: Allows access to multiple types of US water data (e.g., surface water, groundwater, and water quality). Real-time data are available for surface water and groundwater sites (on the date of review, the Red River of the North was 16 feet above flood stage at Grand Forks, ND). Extended data sets are available for many sites, some for more than a hundred years.
Wildfinder: Tool for researching Earth's animals. Users can search by city name, zip code, country, or other place-names. "Search by Species" is currently limited to amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Database had records for more than 26,000 species. From the World Wildlife Fund.
SIMBAD Astronomical Database: Gateway for users in the US to the SIMBAD astronomical database operated by France's Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Essential resource for research astronomers. Contains information on 3.3 million astronomical objects, including stars, clusters of stars, nebulae, novae, supernovae, galaxies, and clusters of galaxies.
Structural Geology Page: Provides a comprehensive array of hypertext links to resources in structural geology and in the deeper area of tectonics, including plate tectonics. It is a superb reference resource site in a fundamental component of earth science.
Planetary Society: Promotes grassroots exploration of space through funding novel and innovative projects such as the Solar Sail. Lobbies for space exploration; provides news coverage and discussion of current selected events; promotes the search for extraterrestrial intelligence; and provides a learning center that offers a detailed introduction to the universe
American Chemical Society: American Chemical Society (ACS) is the largest scientific society in the world. Provides a broad range of opportunities for peer interaction and career development, regardless of professional or scientific interests.
Organic Chemistry Resources Worldwide: Aim is to provide an organized set of links to information for organic chemistry researchers.
Atlas of Rocks, Minerals and Textures: From the University of North Carolina. A good beginning to building a resource for introductory petrology. Image library provides thin sections of some 40 minerals, as well as separately organized images of plutonic, volcanic, and metamorphic microtextures.
Chemistry Web Book: Comprehensive source for chemical and physical property data for chemical compounds. From the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
E-print Network: Research Communications for Scientists and Engineers: This site links the user to the full-text of scientific research papers and technical documents in the fields of science and engineering. The e-prints are searchable by author, title, subject, keyword; they are also browsable.
Wright Center for Science Education: The site from Tufts University offers a link to classroom activities for teachers and other links to the "Arrow of Time" where you can "view the past, present and future of the universe" and the "Science Olympiad." One of the goals of this site is to "improve science teaching in elementary and secondary schools."
Digital Library for Earth System Education: This is a great site for science educators. It allows topic search narrowed by grade level and resource type. It also links to National Science Education Standards by grade level.
Energy Citations Database: Includes bibliographic records for energy and energy-related information from the U.S. Department of Energy and its predecessor agencies from 1948 to the present. Includes report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents. Designed and developed by the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Includes publicly available full-text for chemistry, physics, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, and computer science.
WorldWideScience: This "global science gateway" allows searching for articles and presentations by keyword. It searches national and international databases and retrieves articles available full-text and citations or abstracts of articles available for purchase. Subjects covered by WorldWideScience are energy, medicine, agriculture, environment, and basic science.
NatureServe: a Network Connecting Science with Conservation: The stated goal of this site is to provide the "scientific basis for effective conservation action." There are many features, such as the global amphibian assessment that allows you to type in the common name of an amphibian and receive its taxonomy, Red List status, habitat type, major threat type, biogeographic realm, and country distribution.
Dartmouth Flood Observatory: NASA-supported, university-hosted research project established in 1995 as a repository of worldwide flood data. Contains tabulated data on major flooding, including damage, dates, countries, districts, and rivers affected; maps compiling areas affected by flooding; sample images depicting selected flood events; and other research-oriented data describing flooding.
Science Accelerator: This site from the Office of Science and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy, offers keyword and advanced search by author and title and limits of year and type of resource.
SciCentral: Metasite that is a gateway to online resources grouped by science area-biological, health, physical and chemical, policy and ethics, space and engineering. Some links may lead to fee-based services.
EINSTEIN LIGHT: Einstien's theory of relativity in animations and film clips from The University of New South Wales in Australia. Multimedia modules give a brief overview of relativity with links to more complete explanations and mathematical formulas.
ESRL: PSD: Climate Analysis Branch: The Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Sciences Division, Climate Analysis Branch "strives to advance national capabilities to interpret the causes of observed climate variations." Full-text links to climate research and data are available, and an rss feed of the latest information is provided.
lanl.arXiv.org: This open access to e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, and Statistics is funded by the National Science Foundation and maintained by Cornell University.