• Finding background information
• Finding books
• Finding articles
• Earth science journals in Buley Library
• Selected Internet resources

Finding background information:

Selected Reference Books on earth sciences in Buley:

Natural disasters – 3 vols.
Ref. GB10 .N373 2001

Finding articles:
Online databases located in Buley (read these directions for remote access):

GeoRef FS
Indexes and abstracts materials in geoscience. The premier database for earth science journal article citations. Go here first for doing research. The database has over 2.1 million records. It covers dates 1785 to the present for North America. For international it covers dates 1933 to the present. It is updated 24 times a year and is produced by the American Geological Institute. Subjects covered include economic geology, hydrology, environmental geology, engineering geology, marine geology, mineralogy, geochemistry, oceanography, geophysics, paleontolgy, crystallography, and hydrogeology. There are over 25,000 sources used.

Earth science journals in Buley Library:

Selected Internet resources:

Meteorology: one site that is excellent is ISCCP research publications. You can click on http://isccp.giss.nasa.gov/research.html Another site that is excellent is NOAA/CDC Satellite Research Publications site. http://www1.etl.noaa.gov/climsat/publications.html These sites I have mentioned all have publication citations that can be used to access journal articles. Another site is Meteorology Pathfinder, http://members.aol.com/gnsharkfan/meteor.html. This site is compiled by Gary Ciszewski, a librarian at the University of Buffalo. The site is meant for the University of Buffalo student but others can find useful items here. There is a great set of Library of Congress Subject Headings related to Meteorology. There is a list of journals and abstracts that can be accessed on line such as the American Meteorological Society. Online Journal. There are quick links to National Weather Agencies. There is a good list of books available at UB that Buley either has or can get through Interlibrary Loan. The databases on this site are for UB students only and require a password.

Remote sensing http://www.vtt.fi/aut/rs/virtual/ This database is named The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: remote sensing. It was created by Seppo Vaatainen, a member of the Technical Center of Finland's Remote Sensing Group. The information is well organized in outline format. There are no unnecessary graphics. The database is updated monthly. This site was rated by Choice as one of the best-constructed virtual libraries ever used. I checked it out it really is good. Journal article citations can be found along with lots of other remote-sensing specific information.

Earthquake information http://neic.usgs.gov/ This database is a wealth of information on the location and size of most earthquakes that occur worldwide. The information is supplied by the National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC). The data that is collected by the NEIC are published in a variety of formats and a lot of the information is available through its Web site. The site gives more than 10,000 seismograph station codes and coordinates. There is a near real-time earthquake list. This site is useful for upper-division undergraduates through professionals.

Bridge: Ocean Sciences Education Teacher Resource Center http://www.vims.edu/bridge/ This site has a lot of educational resources for teachers of earth science in middle and high schools. It would be very useful for students planning to become earth science teachers. It covers the field of oceanography. The site was compiled by Lisa Ayers Lawrence, a marine education specialist at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.

Natural Resources Research Information Pages (NRRIPS) This site is intended to be an internet resource guide for researchers, practitioners and students in the natural resources field. It was compiled by Yu-Fai Leung at the Department of Forestry, Virginia Tech. This site is good for bibliographies in envirometal science. The site does not do much evaluation of the sources but it has a very good guide design and the site's organization is excellent. I wouldn't look here for journal articles, though.

Tides and Tide Prediction This resource directory links to online tide predictors, tide observations/sea level measurements, tide prediction software you install to generate tide predictions on demand, and general information on tides and tide prediction. The site was compiled by Peter Brueggeman, Director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library. It is an excellent site. When I tried to get the prediction for New Haven, Ct., I put in the name New Haven, Conn and got nothing. You have to put in only New Haven. You also have to select a region (in this case - New England).

The Worldwide Soil Jumpstation This site was compiled by Fred Moor (fred.moor@which.net) This site is enormous. There are links arranged by soil-physical with links to soil composition pages, geology and soil mapping, soil classification, soil formation and composition, soil texture and structure, soil and organic matter and soil analysis and testing. There are other links to soil-chemistry, soil-biology, soil-management-soil-various and soil-organisations. Under soil- physical I found papers done by students for a geology of soils class in 1996. Anything you want to find out about soil science you should be able to find at this website. A couple of the links were dead but overall it seemed very good.

Stratigraphy/Sedimentation Pathfinder  This site was compiled by Gary R. Ciszewski Librarian at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has another pathfinder site I mentioned earlier on meteorology. I found no dead links at this site. I didn't find journal citations but there was some very good information at this site. The online databases at this site are for UB students only. There is a list of library of Congress Subject headings for stratigraphy at this site which is very helpful.

Mineralogy and Petrology Research on the Web This is an excellent site with links to journal abstracts like the American Mineralogist and the contents and abstracts of the American Journal of Science.

Soils Online Interesting site. I found a bibliography of the literature on Podzols/Spodosols with 750 articles listed. Abstracts and Table of Contents to some of the journals listed had some dead links.

Biome This is a large site but one I found useful for information on soil science. To get to soil science information you had to click on agrifor on the biome home page.