Careers, Jobs, and Resumes:

• Here is a great speech by Steve Jobs on your career choices.
• Find out information about becoming a geologist, including many specific areas within geology, at this site by the FindHow.com search engine.
• Here is a good site with information about salaries and job opportunities from Geology.com.
• Here is another that allows you to search by location and specialty.
• Monster.com is another good place to look for listings across the U.S.
• Here is a good collection of resources for writing resumés, cover letters, reports, etc. from Purdue's online writing program.
• AGI’s Geology Careers Resource Page.

Geology Organizations and Academic Departments:

• Professional Organizations.
• AGI’s Geology Departments of the U.S. Page.
• Geology Departments in the US and Canada.
• Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey
• Geology Department Links maintained by the University of South Dakota.
• This is a great Geology links page that is maintained by the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania.
• Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers
  

Virtual Field Trips:

• The US Geological Survey's Dynamic Earth web site is a great resource for introductory Geology.
• Check this University of Houston site out to experience virtual Geology field trips.
  
  

Library Resources :

• Polk Library.
• Check out this very good digital library resource (DLESE) page for online references and links.
• The Earth Science Virtual Library site for Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography.

Online Learning Resources:

Planets and Space:

• NASA's Visible Earth searchable web site with thousands of images and animations of the Earth.
• This site maintained at NASA's Johnson Space Center contains the most complete collection of all photographs of the Earth taken by astronauts from 1961 to the present. NASA uses this site for its own research archive needs.
• This site provides a zoomable satellite image of the complete earth.
• This is an innovative new Web site that bridges the earth and life sciences, provides a single resource for all things related to biogeoscience.
• Planets.
• Meteorite Impacts.
• NASA's Hubble Telescope Site including downloadable images.

Elements:

• Periodic Table of the Elements.

Minerals:

• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Minerals.
• Minerals.

Inside the Earth & Volcanoes:

• USGS Volcanoes Page.
• Dr. Christopher Scotese's Paleomap Project has great plate tectonic reconstructions, maps and animations.

Earthquakes:

• USGS Earthquakes Page.

Earth Resources:

• Population Information.
• World Petroleum Reserve estimates by region from the U.S. Geological Survey.
• CIA World Factbook Page.

Marine Geology and Climate Change:

• NASA's Oceans from Space Page.
• For great images, see this NOAA Photo Library.
• NOAA’s Coral Health and Monitoring Page.
• The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
• The University of South Florida’s Reef Indicators Lab.
• The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Science (BIOS) formerly the Biological Station for Research.
• Bermuda Information.
• Caribbean Marine Research Center.
• NOAA El Niño Page.
• NASA's SeaWIFS Satellite Images of Oceanic Productivity.
• Climate TimeLine Information Tool: explore weather & climate change over different time scales (powers of 10) (from the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), Boulder, Colorado and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA))

Water Issues (groundwater, pollution, and drinking water):

• For information about global water resources check out this world water organization site.
• This UN web site is a great resource for fresh water issues.
• Do some virtual spelunking at this Virtual Cave web site.
• A case study of a major flood event in Colorado: The Big Thompson River Flood, 1976.

General Earth Information:

• Physical Geology Textbook (by Plummer, McGeary, and Carlson) Site.
• NASA’s Destination Earth.
  
  

Local and Regional Geology:

• Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey Links page including great Wisconsin Geology links.
  
  

More Links:

• U.S. federal government web portal for geospatial data (maps of everything earth-related).
• Click here to see a very well organized list of Geology-related web sites.
• NAGT (National Association of Geology Teachers)
• More Geology Links
• More Geology Links
• Geology Software
• UW-Oshkosh Travel Page.