NOAA's Aquarius : world's only undersea research station

Aquarius is an underwater laboratory situated adjacent to deep coral reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Scientists live underwater in Aquarius during ten-day missions to study the reef and surrounding ocean. Live webcams of the laboratory are available during missions. There are frequently asked questions; press releases; lessons about buoyancy, pressure, light and coral reefs; and summaries of past missions. Links to other websites about coral reefs and marine biology are listed. Aquarius is owned by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and is operated by the NOAA Undersea Research Program's Undersea Research Center at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

http://www.uncw.edu/aquarius/

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Introduction to statistical analyses

Compiled by Barry Shepherd, Magnus Johnson and Ted Gaten, Department of Biology, University of Leicester, 'Introduction to statistical analyses' provides a comprehensive coverage of statistical techniques for field biologists. the site covers techniques used in descriptive statistics, diversity indices, comparisons, correlations/relationships/trends and predictions. Other sections include data categories and initial appraisal and overriding limitations of statistics. A glossary of terms is provided, as are references and web sites of interest. Made available on the Web by the University of Leicester.

http://www.le.ac.uk/biology/gat/virtualfc/Stats/start.html

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Carnivore Ecology & Conservation

Resources on carnivores (with sections on Felidae, Canidae, and Ursidae) for scientists and conservationists: news, searchable literature database, dissertations, meetings and conferences, action plans, jobs. This is the personal website of Guillaume Chapron, assistant professor at Grimso Wildlife Research Station, Swedish Agricultural University The site includes: automatically updated news, a searchable literature database with 15778 papers and 459 full theses to download, future meeting details and proceedings of past ones, action plans, automatic job watch, and ecological knowledge monitoring via RSS feeds from relevant journals.

http://www.carnivoreconservation.org/portal/index.php

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Engineering Pathway

"The Engineering Pathway is a portal to high-quality teaching and learning resources in engineering, applied science and math, computer science/information technology, and engineering technology and is designed for use by K-12 and university educators and students"

http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/index.jhtml

Qwiki

Qwiki is a quantum physics wiki including, but not limited to, quantum optics, quantum metrology, quantum control, quantum information and quantum computation. It was created by the Mabuchi Lab at Stanford University and aims to encourage collaboration amongst the quantum physics community. Registered users may post content.

http://qwiki.stanford.edu/wiki/Main_Page

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Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS)

The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission will be ESA's second Earth Explorer in orbit. Launched on 2 November 2009, with a minimum three year duration, SMOS will make global observations of soil moisture over land and of sea-surface salinity over the oceans to improve our understanding of the water cycle. Data from SMOS will be important for weather and climate modelling, water resource management, and agriculture, and will also contribute to the forecasting of hazardous events such as floods. This website from the European Space Agency (ESA) provides information about the mission, the satellite and the launch, together with a brief description of the underlying science. An image gallery, videos, animations and online resources are also provided.

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/smos/

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Introduction to geology

This website for this course (12.001 Introduction to Geology, Spring 2008) is made available as part of the MIT OpenCourseWare project. It includes a syllabus, readings, lecture notes, laboratory practicals, assignments and handouts. The course introduces "major minerals and rock types, rock-forming processes, and time scales; temperatures, pressures, compositions, structure of the Earth, and measurement techniques; geologic structures and relationships observable in the field; sediment movement and landform development by moving water, wind, and ice; crustal processes and planetary evolution in terms of global plate tectonics with an emphasis on ductile and brittle processes." The notes are available as PDF files.

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Earth--Atmospheric--and-Planetary-Sciences/12-001Spring-2008/CourseHome/

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