Sites

Wisconsin sites
Journals/magazines
Organizations
Other sites

Wisconsin sites

Central Wisconsin Groundwater Center: http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/gndwater/

Ice Age Park and Trail Foundation, Inc.: http://www.iceagetrail.org/

Milwaukee Public Museum: http://www.mpm.edu/

Mineralogy of Wisconsin: http://www.uwrf.edu/~wc01/WiscMin.html

Natural Resources Conservation Service, Wisconsin: http://www.wi.nrcs.usda.gov/

State Cartographer’s Office: http://www.sco.wisc.edu/

State Climatology Office: http://www.aos.wisc.edu/~sco/

U.S. Geological Survey, Wisconsin Water Science Center: http://wi.water.usgs.gov/; Fact Sheets for Wisconsin: http://water.usgs.gov/wid/index-state.html#WI; Publications: http://wi.water.usgs.gov/pubs/index.html; Groundwater in the Great Lakes basin: http://wi.water.usgs.gov/glpf/; Importance of groundwater in the Great Lakes region: http://water.usgs.gov/ogw/pubs/WRI004008/

University of Wisconsin, Water Resources Institute: http://wri.wisc.edu/

University of Wisconsin–Extension Water Resources Program: http://clean-water.uwex.edu/

University of Wisconsin–Madison, Department of Geology and Geophysics: http://www.geology.wisc.edu/; Geology Library: http://www.geology.wisc.edu/library; Geology Museum: http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~museum/index.html

University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point Student Chapter of the American Water Resources Association (includes information about purchasing groundwater models): http://www.uwsp.edu/stuorg/awra/

Weis Earth Science Museum: http://www.fox.uwc.edu/wesm/

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources: http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/

Wisconsin Geoscience directory: http://www.uwosh.edu/geology/geoscience/home.php

Wisconsin Groundwater Coordinating Council: http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/water/dwg/gcc/

Wisconsin Historical Society: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/

Wisconsin Section of the American Water Resources Association: http://www.awra.org/state/wisconsin/index.html

Journals/magazines

Geotimes: http://www.geotimes.org/current/; Geotimes annotated listing of earth-science friendly Web sites: http://www.geotimes.org/ontheweb.html

National Ground Water Association periodicals: Ground Water, Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation, and Water Well Journal: http://www.ngwa.org/publication/publications.cfm

Organizations

American Geological Institute: http://www.agiweb.org/

American Geophysical Union, organization: http://www.agu.org/

Association of American State Geologists (includes listing of all state geological surveys): http://www.stategeologists.org/

Association of Earth Science Editors: http://www.aese.org/

Geological Society of America: http://www.geosociety.org/

Groundwater Foundation (information about groundwater for children and adults): http://www.groundwater.org/

National Ground Water Association: http://www.ngwa.org/index.html; Ground Water On-Line, a database of groundwater literature citations: http://www.ngwa.org/gwonline/gwol.cfm

Other sites

Dinosaur and vertebrate paleontology information: http://crystal.isgs.uiuc.edu/dinos/dinos_home.html

EROS Data Center: http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/eros-home.html

Integrated Ocean Drilling Program: http://www.iodp.org/

International Year of Planet Earth: http://yearofplanetearth.org/

Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu

Mineral Information Institute: Lots of free resources for teachers: http://www.mii.org/

National Geophysical Data Center (NOAA), links to World Data Center System: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/

National Park Service: Much information about climate change and its effects on national parks; includes a brochure about climate change impacts on Midwestern parks: http://www.nps.gov/climatefriendlyparks/

Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines (with a link to the Ontario Geological Survey: http://www.mndm.gov.on.ca/MNDM/MINES/mmdhpge.htm

PaleoNet Pages, a resource for paleontological professionals:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/paleonet/

School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST): http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/

Smithsonian Institution: http://www.si.edu/

U.S. Geological Survey: http://www.usgs.gov/; Water Science for Schools: http://water.usgs.gov/droplet; General interest publications: http://geology.usgs.gov/gip.html

Volcanoes page (Michigan Technological University): http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/

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