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.
• Go here to find out about the job outlook and salary information for geologists.
• 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.
• You can search on jobs by state on indeed.com
• 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.
• From the author of "The fault in our stars", John Green: Is going to college / university worth it?
  
  
  

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
• 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 :

• Free Open Access Textbooks
• Polk Library.
• Check out this very good digital library resource (DLESE) page for online references and links.

Online Learning Resources:

Free Open Access Textbooks

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.
• Planets.
• Meteorite Impacts.
• NASA's Hubble Telescope Site including downloadable images.

Elements:

• Check out this great interactive periodic table and short podcasts for each element from the British Royal Society of Chemistry.
• Periodic Table of the Elements.

Minerals:

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

Inside the Earth & Volcanoes:

• Here is a great resource called Windows to the Universe from the National Earth Science Teachers Association (NESTA)
• 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.

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:

• 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).
• NAGT (National Association of Geology Teachers)
• UW-Oshkosh Travel Page.