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Physical and Earth Sciences

• General Physics:
  • PSIgate: Physical Sciences Information Gateway
  • American Institute of Physics HomePage
  • American Physical Society
  • AIP/APS Publications - PhysRev...
  • The Institute of Physics (UK)
  • American Association of Physics Teachers
  • Yahoo's Physics Page
  • Hyperphysics
  • PhysRev and PRL Manuscript Submission
  • REVTeX Info at AIP (and at APS and at Cambridge)
  • Los Alamos Preprint Library
  • TEXT Scientific Services (editorial service for technical writing)
  • Cambridge University MaxEnt/STA Group
  • Physics News
  • CFD Links
  • Welcom to Crackpotia! (physics crackpots on the 'net)
  • Feynman's "Cargo Cult Science" Address (and here)
  • How and Why Government... Seek to Create Domestic "Labor Shortages" of Skilled Scientists...
  • Quantum Fog - Mac quantum computer simulator; classical & quantum Bayes nets links
  • PDG: Particle Data Group
  • Wigner's "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics"
  • Syracuse U's Physics Links - Includes educational links, applets...
  • CSICOP
  • A fluid mechanics hypercourse
  • Thermal Physics - J. Brewer's course notes
  • Chemical Thermodynamics - Energy, enthalpy, entropy, free energy...
  • Statistical and Thermal Physics (STP) Curriculum Development Project
  • The Active Learning Site - Info on pedagogy
  • Chris Fuchs' correspondence on QM
  • Decoherence and Consistent Histories Reference List
  • Why support science? - From FermiLab
  • Usenet Physics FAQ
  • Eric Weisstein's World of Physics - c/o Wolfram Research
  • Eureka Scientific
  • Computational Physics - HTML/PDF course notes by Angus MacKinnon
  • Intro to Computational Physics - Course notes by Franz J. Vesely
  • Gleeson & Smith's Fundamental Concepts of 20th Century Physics - Dim. analysis, least action, fields...
  • Principle of Least Action - Pedagogical, fundamental treatment by E. F. Taylor et al.
  • Salaries of Scientists by Discipline

• Electronic Journal Access:
  • PROLA: Physical Review Online Archive
  • PRL, PRD etc. online via CU
  • Phys Rev D
  • Nature online via CU
  • Astronomy & Astrophysics - current and back issues
  • AJP online via CU

• Relativity:
  • Relativity Bookmarks
  • General Relativity Tutorial
  • The Light Cone: An Illuminating Intro to Relativity (w/ graphics and animation)
  • Event Horizon Gallery
  • Sean Carroll's lecture notes on GR

• Astronomy and Astrophysics:
  • Christine Lavin's "Planet X"
  • Virtual Library Entry for Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • AstroWeb: Astronomical Internet Resources (STScI)
  • AstroWeb: Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet (NRAO)
  • HEASARC General Astronomy Resources
  • Cambridge Astronomy Page on Astronomical Web Resources
  • Mount Wilson Observatory (StarMap)
  • Sky & Telescope's List of Online Star Charts
  • AAS Home Page
  • ApJ Main Journal Electronic Submission
  • UPenn Astrophysics
  • UPenn Solar Neutrino Page
  • Neutrino Experiments
  • Neutrino Oscillation Industry (various neutrino expt. links, etc.)
  • SKY Online (Sky&Tel; CCD Astronomy)
  • Video On Line Astronomy
  • COAST (5 times HST resolution at 0.001 the cost?! And try here)
  • StarHeads - list of astronomers' URLs
  • Bad Astronomy
  • CfA Home Page
  • New Signals Press (radio spectrum allocation info)
  • The Search for Extrasolar Planets
  • HST Astrometry Team's list of astrometry sites
  • Darwin's list of planet search projects
  • Extrasolar planets encyclopedia
  • SFSU: Discovery of Extrasolar Planets
  • Decadal Committee: Astronomy & Astrophysics Survey
  • Decadal Report: Astronomy & Astrophysics in the New Millennium
  • Earth from space at night
  • Sighting the Int'l Space Station
  • Where is the Int'l Space Station
  • J-Pass 2.0 - Sattelite passages
  • The Constellations and their Stars
  • Fact Guru Astronomy Knowledgebase

  • Solar System & Celestial Mechanics:
    • The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
    • Kuiper Belt Object Home Page
    • International Institute for Problems of the Asteroid Hazard
    • MIAC: Meteorite and Impacts Advisory Committee
    • USGS Magellan Venus Crater Database
    • NASA Crater Archive
    • Terrestrial Impact Craters...
    • Case Study of the March 1998 Impact Announcement
    • The Chicxulub Seismic Experiment (many refs; gravity images)
    • Tunguska Explosion (and here)
    • IMO: International Meteor Organization (FIDAC: Fireball Data Center)
    • LPI: NASA Lunar and Planetary Institute (crater slide set)
    • LPI Venus Crater Database
    • CfA Planetary Sciences Division (IAU Circ...)
    • CBAT/MPC/ICQ Index (CfA) (includes close approach lists)
    • Meteoroid/Orbital Debris
    • NEAT Home Page
    • Bigelow Sky Survey
    • Meteors, Meteorites and Impacts (LPL/Arizona; many links)
    • From Stargazers to Starships
    • Basics of positional astronomy & ephemerides
    • NASA satellite tracking resources

  • High Energy Astrophysics:
    • kHz QPO References
    • Kevin Hurley's GRB Bibliography
    • 75th Anniversary Astronomical Debate (On GRBs)
    • GCN: GRB Coordinates Network
    • Magnetars
    • Rob Duncan's SGR and Magnetar Pages
    • KONUS catalog of SGR activity
    • MSFC GRB News for 1997
    • GRB Afterglows

  • High Energy Cosmic Rays:
    • HiRes - The High Resolution Fly's Eye
    • AGASA
    • CASA
    • ICRR, U. Tokyo - AGASA, SuperKam...
    • Pierre Auger CR Observatory

  • Preprint/Telegram Archives and Journals:
    • astro-ph Archive
    • NASA ADS Abstract Service (Astro Abstracts)
    • IAU: Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
    • ApJ Electronic Manuscript Submission

  • Workshops/Conferences:
    • ADASS 2000
    • ADASS 1998 (registration and accomodations)
    • HEAD 1999 - Charleston, SC, 12-15 April
    • Extrasolar Planets - DC, 18-21 June 02

    NSF Resources:

    • NSF Home Page
    • E-Bulletin - Program dates & deadlines
    • Overview of grants & awards
    • Step by step guide to applying for funding
    • Staff directory
    • Proposal preparation
    • NSF MPS (Math, Physical Sciences)
    • MPS funding opportunities
    • Guide to funding
    • NSF ITR Program - and announcement
    • NSF CISE EIA Program

  • General NASA Resources:
    • NASA Home Page
    • NASA OSS Research Opportunities (Office of Space Science)
    • NSPIRES - NASA Research Opportunities
    • NASA Helpful References for Research - NRA Guidebook
    • NASA OSS Proposal Submission
    • NASA SYS-EYFUS Proposal Submission System
    • NASA OSS Missions
    • NASA Space Science News
    • NASA Space Science News - MSFC SSL page
    • GSFC
    • NASA HEASARC Home Page (RXTE archives, etc.)
    • NASA IPAC Systems Group (Documents for ADP and LTSA programs)
    • NASA SpaceLink (Educational Resources, etc.)
    • NASA Logos
    • NASA's Origins program
    • NASA AISR Program
    • NASA Intelligent Systems Program 2000
    • NIAC: NASA Inst. for Advanced Concepts
    • NASAart.com

  • Data Analysis Tools:
    • ASDS: Astronomical Software & Documentation Service
    • Scientific Data Format FAQ (FITS, CDF, graphics formats...)
    • Open Information Interchange Standards and Specifications
    • FITS Archive at NRAO
    • HEASARC FITS Working Group
    • FITSIO (FITS file subroutine library)
    • FTOOLS: FITS Manipulation Software
    • fv: Interactive FITS file editing
    • SAOimage
    • PROS/XRAY Data Analysis System
    • IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility) Home Page
    • XANADU (xspec, xronos, ximage, qdp)
    • IDL Astronomy User's Library
    • AIPS
    • HEASARC Software
    • HEASARC Tools (coordinate & date conversion, mission viewing & exposure times,
    • eclipse: Astronomical Image Processing - Esp. for IR data
    • NED Velocity Correction Calculator
    • Starlink Libraries - SLA, etc.
    • SLALIB Positional Astronomy Library
    • JSky - Java components for astronomy
    • SExtractor - Source extraction from images; used by AVO

  • Data Archives:
    • NVO: US National Virtual Observatory
    • IVOA: International Virtual Observatory Alliance
    • Information and On-line Data in Astronomy
    • AstroWeb List of Data and Archive Centers
    • USNO Astronomical Applications
    • ADS: The NASA Astrophysics Data System Home Page ( classic ADS) NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
    • ADF: Astrophysics Data Facility
    • ADC: Astronomical Data Center
    • NSSDC: National Space Science Data Center
    • SPDS: Space Physics Data System
    • SkyView--Virtual Observatory
    • CDS: Strasbourg astronomical Data Center (SIMBAD estrasolar object ID database, etc.)
    • NED: NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (ids, basic data)
    • APS Image Database (POSS I)
    • StarTrax: HEASARC WWW Archive Interface (high energy astrophysics satellite data)

  • Mission/Program-Specific Resources:
    • ASCA (Guest Observer Facility)
    • ASTRO-E (ISAS/NASA)
    • BeppoSAX (US Mirror of SAX SDC)
    • ASI/NIVR SAX FTP Site (proposal templates)
    • BPP: Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program (Warp drive when?)
    • Chandra/AXAF:
      • Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center
      • The AXAF Science Center
      • AXAF/Chandra/Astro-E Guest Observer Program
    • CGRO --- The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory:
      • Compton Observatory Science Support Center (Cycle 7 NRA)
      • BATSE
      • BATSE.COM - GRB PR
      • BATSE Trigger Lookup - Web i/f to FITS archive
      • BATSE 4B Catalog
      • CGRO/OSSE NU Gamma Ray Burst Index
      • EGRET data products at the COSSC
      • EGRET pulsar search home page
    • COBE
    • DUO: Dark Universe Observatory
    • EINSTEIN On-Line Service
    • FAME
    • GLAST
    • GLAST Pulsar Tools
    • HETE
    • INTEGRAL
    • JPL Mars Observer Photos
    • LIGO Scientific Collaboration
    • Origins Project Library
    • ROSAT Science Data Center (USA)
    • RXTE Home Page (ftp site)
    • RXTE Guest Observer Facility
    • RXTE: Taking the Pulse of the Universe (text & various HEA figures/illustrations)
    • SIM: Space Interferometry Mission (was AIM)
    • SIMSWG
    • SIM Grid Workshop, Jan 2000
    • SNO: Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
    • STScI: Space Telescope Science Institute
    • The Tiny Tim Page (HST PSF generator)
    • SWIFT
    • XMM-Newton
    • XMM-Newton GOF
    • XMM-Newton Survey Science Center - Serendipitous source catalog...
    • XMM-Newton Science Archive

• Clifford Algebra, Spacetime Algebra, Geometric Calculus:
  • Geometric Calculus Research & Development
  • Cambridge University Inference/STA Group (Geometric Algebra Group)
  • Leo Dorst's Geometric Algebra Links - Emphasizes CompSci applications
  • CLIFFORD --- MAPLE package for CA
  • XMU Library - GA, matrices, tensors in C++
  • International Clifford Algebra Society
  • Clifford Algebra BBS (or here; and ftp preprint archive)
  • Clifford (Geometric) Algebras (proceedings of Banff workshop)
  • William Baylis's Home Page (references on CA)
  • Bill Pezzaglia's Research Page
  • Counterexamples in Clifford Algebras
  • Clifford Algebras and Spinors (Amazon Books entry on Lounesto's book)
  • CA conference, May 2002
  • Grassman algebra with Mathematica - Book
  • Geometric Calculus Int'l - Japan-based link list

• Geophysics and Meteorology:
  • NOAA Home Page
  • UIUC Weather World
  • Weather Sense---Weather Eqpt. Sales

• Metrology---Physical, Geophysical, and Astronomical Constants:
  • NIST Web Clock
  • US Naval Observatory Master Clock Time
  • NIST 1986 CODATA Values for Physical Constants (several scanned pages)
  • ANSI
  • List of SI Physical Constants With Errors (MIT Course 3)
  • NASA FAQ List of Constants and Equations
  • Brief List of Common Physical and Astronomical Constants (cgs!!)
  • Particle Data Group at LBL
  • Martin Zombeck's Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Online Conversion.com
  • Date Conversion Utility (JD/MJD/TJD/Trad)
  • Physics Units Conversion
  • NIST Guidelines for Evaluating and Expressing Measurement Uncertainty
  • Engineering Technical Data Reference Tables