The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) is a joint program of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAFGI), and the State of Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys (ADGGS).
You can check out current volcanic activity, volcano info, Alaska Volcano Observatory Online Library, images and more.
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Botany.com offers a botanical dictionary of plants and flowers. They describe their site saying:
A botanical dictionary is also commonly referred to as a plant dictionary or flower dictionary. Use this outdoor and indoor plant resource to look up words used to describe plants, flower parts, types of foliage, plant living processes and growing habits, as [...]
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The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) is located just south of Annapolis in Edgewater, MD. We are one of several research branches of the Smithsonian, and are located on 3,000 acres of land along 14 miles of undeveloped shoreline on the Rhode River. SERC’TMs campus is open to [...]
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This mineral identification chart was created Art Crossman as a college course project at Mansfield University in 1997. He did an outstanding job, organizing minerals on the chart in a systematic way – according to their properties. His mineral identification chart has been used in mineralogy and phycial geology courses at Mansfield University ever since. [...]
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Wikisky.org is an awesome astronomy site that you will want to bookmark and explore. Here is a description of the site:
The brilliant work of mathematicians and programmers from SKY-MAP.ORG has enabled that company to achieve a breakthrough in the field of visualization of astrophysical information. The new version of DSS2 at WikiSky demonstrates both the [...]
