School of Earth and Environment
Quick reference - science
- Web elements Periodic table with loads of information
- Geologic time scale (British Geological Survey)
- Geologic time scale (Geological Society of America) printable timescale in pdf format.
Both of the above are recommended by staff of the School. - Unit conversions e.g. inches to centimetres etc
- Print Free Graph Paper - various types of graph paper to print out on A4 paper.
- Print Free Graph Paper - another site with a large range of lined & graph paper types. Allows you to set up your own if the one you want isn't in the list.
- Magnetic Declination Calculator for the UK (Only works in Internet Explorer)
Quick reference - general
- U.K. phone book (Look for "Find a person" or "Find a business").
- Yell.com (U.K. electronic yellow pages)
- Currency conversions
- Time zones
- Admiralty Easytide - UK Tide times for the next 7 days. Members of the School can obtain tide times for further in advance from Clare Gordon.
- UK and Irish tidal predictions for the next 28 days. From the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory.
- U.K. Rail times
- Traveline - UK public transport information.
- West Yorkshire Metro web site - bus timetables and information about travelling in the County
- Multimap - street maps, route planning, aerial photos and more!
- Transport Direct - route planning by car and public transport, find a place, live travel news
- Google Maps UK - route planning, maps, local search. Also Google Maps USA.
- NERC home page
- Who owns Scotland - list of landowners searchable via maps.
Science news
Geological links
- Yorkshire Geological Society
- Earth Sciences Departments in the UK (Geological Society list)
- Leeds University Library - Earth Sciences
- Leeds University Library - Environment
- The Geological Society
- British Geological Survey
- Leeds Geological Association
- ATHENA: Earth Science Resources
- GEsource - a free information resource for Geography and the Environment aimed at staff, students and researchers in the HE and FE communities.
- Geoscience Internet Links - long list of links to worldwide Geoscience departments & other info.
- UK virtual field trips
- Foumylinks: Oil industry websites.
- Earthworks - Geoscience career opportunities
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
- The IRIS Consortium Seismic information and map
- Higher Education Academy - GEES - Learning and teaching support network subject centre for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Encyclopedia of Earth
Photograph collections
- Natural History Museum Gallery - rocks and minerals as well as plants and animals
- Earth Science World ImageBank - provided by the American Geological Institute. Photographs available for use in teaching.
- NASA Visible Earth - A catalog of NASA images and animations of our home planet.
- Wiki Commons - Part of the Wikipedia family. Various licences but a wide variety of media available for personal use, including teaching. Not just images but video and sound too.
- morguefile.com - Public image reference archive.
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