Web Links and Other Resources by Category

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This page contains a list of some interesting links, most of which will take you to other web sites.

Groundwater

California Department of Water Resources (includes both SW and GW information)

California Data Exchange

California Water Plan: should be updated every five years, deals mainly with surface water (but also has some groundwater information)

Integrated Water Resources Information System (IWRIS)

Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency

USGS Groundwater Page

Groundwater Resources Association of California

California Groundwater

The Recharge Initiative

Association of California Water Agencies - Management Framework

Artificial Recharge (USGS Site)

Methods to Assess Ground Water Recharge in Humid Areas (USGS Site)

 

Surface Water

California Department of Water Resources (includes both SW and GW information)

California Data Exchange

California Water Plan: should be updated every five years, deals mainly with surface water (but also has some groundwater information)

USGS Surface Water data

USGS gauging station, San Lorenzo River at Big Trees above Santa Cruz

USGS gauging station, Pajaro River at Chittenden, south of Watsonville

USGS gauging station, Corralitos Creek at Green Valley Road, north of Watsonville

California Data Exchange

Waterweb Home Page

California Water Blog

 

Marine Geology

Main site for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)

IODP U.S. Scientific Operator (TAMU)

 

Modeling

USGS Groundwater Software (includes MODFLOW)

FEHM home page

LaGrit (mesh generator) home page

LaGrit online documentation

GMV (general mesh viewer) home page

MATLAB Tutrorials (Mathworks)

MATLAB Courses, resources (skilledup)

MATLAB tutorials (Duke University)

 

General Earth Science

Earth: Portrait of a Planet (5th Edition), home page (includes a link library, practice quizes, etc.)

Earth: Portrait of a Planet (4th Edition) (we don't use this one anymore...)

Geological Dictionary (learn what all those crazy words mean!)

Geological Field Guides to California

U.S. Geological Survey (what an amazing site, so many resources!)

The Geology Shop (numerous links to many things geological)

Geology.com (yet more links to many things geological)

GMT home page (Generic Mapping Tools, freeware)

GMT online manual

Alternative to Evolution: The Flying Speghetti Monster (as valid as Creationism, Intelligent Design, etc.)

Periodic Table of Elements

Metal Alloys and Compositions

Multimedia tour of the solar system

Converting between Lat-Long Units in Excel

 

Climate Change and Miscellaneous

Real Climate: A site by scientists for scientists, the media, and the public. If you really want to understand climate change and global warming, this is the place to start.

Global Warming Art: numerous images that illustrate the (potential) impacts of ongoing and future climate change.

Modern Mass Extinction: Sobering. This quote from the main page of this site says it all, "Human beings are currently causing the greatest mass extinction of species since the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. If present trends continue one half of all species of life on earth will be extinct in less than 100 years." How can you not be enraged?

California Climate Change Portal: The State of California maintains this site, which has lots of useful links and information.

 

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this page last updated: 06-Sep-2016