Science

[|USDA Organic Agriculture]is a centralized web resource center on USDA.gov for all the programs, services, and data that support organic agriculture. Not only is this web resource center a “one-stop shop” for information about organics at USDA, but there is lots in store!
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[|The National Arboretum]is a living museum where trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes.


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[|Astrobiology Magazine]NASA-sponsored online popular science magazine that reports the latest discoveries and news about the interdisciplinary field of astrobiology -- the study of life in the universe.

[|The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics] combines the resources and research facilities of the Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory under a single director to pursue studies of those basic physical processes that determine the nature and evolution of the universe.

[|How Big Is Space?] is an animated infographic produced by the BBC. As you scroll through the infographic a little rocket moves with you. The rocket passes objects as you scroll. You'll scroll past commercial airplane altitude and the altitude of the highest sky dive. Then you'll leave Earth's atmosphere as start to scroll past satellites, the moon, and planets.

[|International Space Station]This is the International Space Station (ISS) Assembly diagram, piece by piece. Look at what happened from 1998 until 2008. In just ten years it has grown and grown. Watch the pieces come together as they are sent up from Earth.

[|March to the Moon] Working together with NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, the Arizona State University's School of Earth & Space Exploration has created this digital collection of photographs and information from Project Mercury.

[|NASA]—offers news, missions, multimedia, and Apps for educators and students to learn more about space and the future role of NASA. NASA Kids' Club Junior astronauts will have a blast exploring this fun and exciting website. There's information and games geared to a variety of ages and skill levels to help feed their love of space.

[|NASA Space Life Sciences] education website has resources on living organisms in the space environment.

[|NASA: Year of the Solar System]Explore the Solar system through news, events, timelines, photos, and multimedia.

[|The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)] is the United Nations office responsible for promoting international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space.

[|WeChooseTheMoon.org] was designed to celebrate the Fortieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 Lunar landing by developing an interactive recreation of the event. The site uses Flash to mesh archival video, audio, & photos into an experience that will make you feel as if you too had walked on the moon that day.

[|Windows to the Universe: Culture, Myth and Art]Objects in the sky and other natural phenomena have inspired people throughout the ages. Browse our collection of myths, folk tales, and stories of many types about the Earth and sky. Check out artwork, poetry, books, and movies that portray the natural world.


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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|American Museum of Natural History: The Horse]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Animal Law]On this site you will find a comprehensive repository of information about animal law, including:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Animal Protection Laws of the United States of America and Canada]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">over 1000 full text cases (US, historical, and UK)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">over 1000 US statutes
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">over 50 topics and comprehensive explanations
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Atlas of United States Trees]Maps of the ranges of tree species in North America compiled by Elbert Little, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, and others.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Audubon Magazine – Multimedia]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Australian animals]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Biodiversity Heritage Library](BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.”

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|John James Audubon's //Birds of America//]is a portal into the natural world. Printed between 1827 and 1838, it contains 435 life-sized watercolours of North American birds, all made from hand-engraved plates, and is considered to be the archetype of wildlife illustration. Nearly 200 years later, the Audubon prints are coming to life once again, thanks to our vibrant digital library. Each print is also available as a free high-resolution download.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|BioEd Online], the online educational resource for educators, students, and parents. BioEd Online utilizes state-of-the-art technology to give you instant access to reliable, cutting-edge information and educational tools for biology and related subjects. Under "Teacher Resources," check out [|The Body Explained], several cool one-minute videos to grab students' attention.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Cellular Animation]Videos made possible through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Digital Morphology], part of the National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative, develops and serves unique 2D and 3D visualizations of the internal and external structure of living and extinct vertebrates, and a growing number of 'invertebrates.' The Digital Morphology library contains nearly a terabyte of imagery of natural history specimens that are important to education and central to ongoing cutting-edge research efforts.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|eSkeletons] features interactive models of mammal skeletons. Select a model from the menu on the home page then click on any bone in the model to view it in detail. After select a bone to view you can choose from a menu of viewing angles. In many cases [|eSkeletons] offers a short video display of the bone you've selected from the menu. [|eSkeletons] gives students the option to compare bones across models. Select two or more animals from the menu then select a bone and a small gallery of comparative images will be generated. [|eSkeletons] offers a glossary of terms and a legend to help students understand what they are viewing. Even without the models, the glossary is a good resource for anatomy students.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|GeneEd Web], developed and maintained by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Human Genome Institute (NHGRI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), is a safe and useful resource for students and teachers in grades 9 - 12 to learn genetics. The Web site allows the user to explore topics such as Cell Biology, DNA, Genes, Chromosomes, Heredity/Inheritance Patterns, Epigenetics/Inheritance and the Environment, Genetic Conditions, Evolution, Biostatistics, Biotechnology, DNA Forensics, and Top Issues in Genetics.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species]The Red List is a compilation of information on plant and animal species threatened with extinction.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Interactive Biology]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A bunch of cool short Videos breaking down concepts of biology, one step at a time.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lecture Videos. These are from a High School Biology 1 class.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Quizzes. We all know that testing is part of the learning process. Well – the goal is to take the sting out of testing by allowing you to quiz yourself over and over BEFORE actually taking a test.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">All kinds of other junk (and I mean that in a very good way).

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|MICROSCOPY UK]Promotes the study of the very small world around us - the microscopical world. The site links to an online magazine, Micscape, movies, projects, 3-D animations, and a museum which has exhibits works of art which are only visible with the aid of the microscope.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|NatureServe] is a non-profit conservation organization whose mission is to provide the scientific basis for effective conservation action. NatureServe and its network of natural heritage programs are the leading source for information about rare and endangered species and threatened ecosystems.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|NEMESIS] is a resource for information on non-native (or exotic) species that occur in coastal marine waters of the United States. The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) has developed and maintains a national database of marine and estuarine invasions of the continental U.S. and Alaska. This relational database compiles detailed information on approximately 500 different non-native species of plants, fish, invertebrates, protists and algae that have invaded our coastal waters. The database identifies which species have been reported, their current population status (i.e., whether established or not), as well as when, where, and how they invaded; it also summarizes key information on the biology, ecology, and known impacts of each invader.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Plant List]A working list of all known plant species. Version 1 aims to be comprehensive for species of Vascular plant (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and their allies) and of Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts).

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Polar Bears International]is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the worldwide conservation of the polar bear and its habitat through research, stewardship, and education.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|State of the Birds : U.S. State of the Birds]Reports on bird populations in United States.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Visible Human Project]has generated over 18000 digitized sections of the human body. This introduction and tour uses images and animals from the project to teach key concepts in human anatomy.


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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Canvas Mol]is a website that provides 3D, interactive, rotating models of simple and complex molecules. There are more than fifty models of relatively common molecules like glucose, fructose, and morphine. Each model can be altered to show or not show bonds, to how or not show individual atoms, and to rotate on the X,Y, or Z axis. Canvas Mol works best in Chrome or Opera, but it can also be used in Firefox and Safari.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Interactive Periodic Table of Elements]Periodic table of elements interactive from Merck

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|TOXinvaders], a Mobile Game about Chemistry, the Environment and Health. The Division of Specialized Information Services of the National Library of Medicine launches TOXinvaders, an environmental health and toxicology game for iPhone and iPad, available from the Apple Store


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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Energy Pathfinder]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|K-12 Energy Lesson Plans and Activities] Offers 350 lessons on energy efficiency and renewable energy. They're organized by grade level and topic -- biomass, geothermal, fuel cells, ocean energy, solar power, transportation fuels, wind energy, and energy efficiency and conservation. Learn about passive solar buildings, advanced photovoltaics, or basic wind turbines.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Today in Energy]From the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration, topical, timely, short articles with energy news and information. Also links to glossary of energy terms and to energy FAQs.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)]Provides information about the sources and uses of energy, and geography with maps and charts.


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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|CSI]Forensic investigations and problem solving

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|National Institute of Justice Forensic Sciences] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Learn how forensic scientists investigate physical forensic evidence.


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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|21st Century Skills Map: Science] The linkages between the 21st Century and Science skill sets detailed in this map are rooted in the inquiry, process knowledge, experimental design, and scientific habits of mind elements of these traditions, as referenced in the AAAS Project 2061 Benchmarks for Science Literacy1 and the Atlas of Science Literacy2, and the National Science Education Standards3, and extrapolated from the practices of scientific research as they are changing in the 21st Century.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[|AMSER] (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Library, and is being created by a team of project partners led by Internet Scout.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Bill Nye the Science Guy]applies his entertaining approach to science to the Web, with a Demo of the Day, highlights from the day's television episode, and a chance to e-mail your own query.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The mission of [|Earth Observatory]is to share with the public the images, stories, and discoveries about climate and the environment that emerge from NASA research, including its satellite missions, in-the-field research, and climate models.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Educators National Science Standards and Lesson Bank]This Bank of Standards Based Lessons is designed to help PreK-12 educators increase student learning, specifically in science. It has the capability of preparing students to demonstrate their knowledge and skills both on standardized testing and in daily learning.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Field Museum] Combining the fields of Anthropology, Botany, Geology, Paleontology and Zoology, the Museum uses an interdisciplinary approach to increasing knowledge about the past, present and future of the physical earth, its plants, animals, people, and their cultures.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Garden Gateways Photo Tours] A database of public and private gardens around the world. There's a database of plant origins as well.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Interactive Simulations]Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET project at the University of Colorado.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The MacKinney Collection of Medieval Medical Illustrations]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Maya Adventure] presented by The Science Museum of Minnesota, a World-Wide Web site that highlights science activities and information related to ancient and modern Maya culture.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|McREL] has lesson plans and other resources that are helpful for curriculum planning, including activities developed for specific benchmarks. Subject areas include the Arts, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Civics, Economics, Foreign Languages, Geography, Health and PE, History, Language Arts, Math, Multi/Interdisciplinary, Science, and Technology.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Menlo School]Select from the list of academic subjects on the right-hand side of the screen for more links.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The NOAA View imagery portal]provides a single point for experiencing NOAA data from satellites, models, and in-situ analyses. The site allows for seamless browse, animate, and download capability of high resolution images and Google Earth formatted files. With over 60 datasets (and growing) that go as far back as 1880 and out to 2100, NOAA View provides the ability to see our dynamic planet and how it changes over weeks, months, years and even decades.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Newton Manuscripts at the National Library][|of Israel].Among the many manuscripts preserved at the National Library are works by the man considered to be the greatest physicist of all time, Sir Isaac Newton. Contrary to what one might expect to find amid Newton’s works, these papers cover topics such as interpretations of the Bible, theology, the history of ancient cultures, the Tabernacle and Temple, calculations dealing with the end of time, historical documents, and even alchemy.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Science360 Knowledge Network] immerses visitors in the latest wonders of science, engineering, technology and math. We gather the latest science videos provided by scientists, colleges and universities, science and engineering centers, the National Science Foundation and more. Each video is embeddable to put on your own personal websites, blogs and social networking pages. Science360 engages the general public, science junkies and students alike in the cutting-edge discoveries and big science stories of the day.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Science Activities]Edheads helps students learn through educational games and activities designed to meet state and national standards.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Science Bob]is your go-to site for all things science and science fair. There's so much great information on Science Bob on science experiments and research methods that you almost won't <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">need to help at all. Almost.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Science NetLinks]is a premier K-12 science education resource produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. At Science NetLinks, you'll find teaching tools, interactives, podcasts, and hands-on activities, and all of it is free!

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Science News for Kids (SNK)] offers timely, interesting news stories and features, accompanied by suggestions for hands-on activities, books, articles, and web resources.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[|The TeachEngineering digital library]provides teacher-tested, standards-based engineering content for K-12 teachers engineering content for K12 teachers to use in science and math classrooms. Engineering lessons connect real-world experiences with curricular content already taught in K-12 classrooms.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|TINAFAD]Free Online Educational Math and Physics Games for High School Kids

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Trailblazing]is an interactive science timeline representing 3.5 centuries of Royal Society publishing.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Useful Charts] for lesson plans, study help, or quick reference.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Who was Leonardo Da Vinci?] Explore this site and learn about this fascinating scientist, inventor, and artist. Developed by the Museum of Science, Boston for the Science Learning Network.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|WorldWideScience.org]A global science gateway-accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals.


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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Born To Prey]Watch T. Rex Come Alive through the latest research videos.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Geology.com]News and Information About Geology and Earth Science

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Life of a Vertebrate Fossil] Online learning module from the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum can help both young and old to learn about locating fossil bones, among other things.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Mammoth Site] in Hot Springs, South Dakota, is the world’s largest mammoth research facility. You can tour an active paleontological dig site and view Ice Age fossils exhibited as they are found.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Teaching Earth Science]: A Collection of Classroom Activities and Lesson Plans Here is a list of teacher resources that can easily be modified and incorporated into the earth science classroom.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|United States Geological Survey's (USGS) Earthquake Hazards Program]Educational resources for teachers and students

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Walking with Dinosaurs]from the BBC Everything about dinosaurs.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|INFOdocket.com--Japan]On our new INFOdocket.com site we've compiled (and will continue to compile) a number of resources about the earthquake/tsunami in Japan. Includes in the compilation are a number of news sources direct from Japan in English.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ABC News (Australia) has two links that graphically depict aerial photos taken before and after the tsunami. Go to the website and then "roll your cursor' over the shots for comparison. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">MSNBC also has a website that compares before and after aerial photographs. This site uses a 'slider' for comparison of their 21 photos. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Digital Collections is the National Library of Medicine's]free online archive of biomedical books and videos. All of the content in Digital Collections is freely available worldwide and, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. Digital Collections provides unique access to NLM's rich, historical resources.
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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: auto;">[|Howard Hughes Medical Institute]Provides free resources for science teachers and students. There are lessons, animations, virtual labs, videos and more to enhance instruction.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|National Poison Prevention Week]The National Poison Prevention Week Planner will help you plan and implement activities to raise awareness of poison prevention during March.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Office of Rare Disease Research](ORDR) is part of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). The goals of ORDR are to identify, stimulate, coordinate and support research to respond to the needs of patients who have any one of the approximately 6,800 rare diseases known today.

====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Protecting Yourself]Everything you've ever wanted to know about buying medicine and other products online including things to watch out for, from the Food and Drug Administration. ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|RxList]: The Internet Drug Index is an online medical resource dedicated to offering detailed and current pharmaceutical information on brand and generic drugs.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The gift of a lifetime]Takes a look at the stories of donor families and organ and tissue transplant recipients. The links on "The Transplant Journey" page are not working, but the other pages work fine. Explore the Interactive Body, learn about brain death and how organ and tissue donation restores lives.
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====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Donate Life America]Donate Life America, was founded by the transplant community in 1992 to educate the public about organ, eye and tissue donation and avoid duplication of effort. Use the links on the left to find out more information. ====

====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|OrganDonor.gov]The official U.S. Government web site for organ and tissue donation and transplantation ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|New Mexico Donor Services]Website has links for facts, the donation process, the transplant process, what can be donated, religious views, brain death, legislation, myths, and minorities.

====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Medline Plus]A service of the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. This webpage has links for overviews, the latest news, treatment, management, specific conditions, related issues, videos, financial issues, clinical trials, journal articles, dictionaries, directories, statistics, and patient handouts. ====

====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network]The only national patient waiting list and features the most comprehensive data available in any single field of medicine. Includes news, reports, and survival rates. ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Ethics of Organ Transplantation]This report looks at the medical, ethical, social, and legal issues of organ transplants.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Organ transplant history]
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====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Discovery Health: How face transplants work] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In this article, we'll look at how face transplants are performed, meet a few people whose lives have been transformed by them and find out why some doctors believe face transplants should never be done. The history of organ transplants is included along with links to more information. ====

====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|The ultimate gift: 50 years of organ transplants] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A New York Times article about the anniversary of organ transplants with links to related articles. ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Oral history video of organ recipient]
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====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Liver Transplant]Mayo Clinic liver transplant page. There are tabs for news, research, resources, etc. There are links to the different ways the liver may be harvested and transplanted, the transplant process, and patient stories. ====

====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Donation Process]There are many types of donation possible, however, most fall into one of two categories: organ donation or tissue donation. For information on living donation, click the living donation button on the left. The main difference is that for organ donation the donor must be brain dead. Tissue donors are not required to meet this criteria. For each category there are additional requirements. To find out more about the donation process select a link. ====

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====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">[|Arbor Research Collaborative for Health] Use the tabs across the top of the page to access fast facts, publications, research and a kidney waiting time calculator. ====

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Meteorology **__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[|WeatherSpark] is a new type of weather website, with interactive weather graphs that allow you to pan and zoom through the entire history of any weather station on earth. Get multiple forecasts for the current location, overlaid on records and averages to put it all in context.


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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Global Climate Change] NASA’s eyes on the Earth

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|International Program on the State of the Ocean]Provides information on the state of the ocean's health, particularly regarding threats from warming ocean temperature and climate change.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|NOAA's National Marine Sanctuaries]Ocean for Life: One World, One Ocean increases cultural understanding through ocean science by providing high quality, immersive ocean field studies and follow-on education programs to encourage students to discover common ground in marine science, conservation and how the ocean connects us all.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The NOAA Fisheries Office of Habitat Conservation]Protects, restores, and promotes stewardship of coastal and marine habitat to support our nation's fisheries for future generations.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|NOAA PMEL CO2]continues to investigate the evolving state of the ocean carbon chemistry with high quality measurements on ships and autonomous platforms. This website provides information on their public outreach efforts, along with news features on how these changes may affect everything from marine animal populations to tourism operations.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution]is the world's largest private, non-profit oceanographic research institution and a global leader in the study and exploration of the ocean. K-12 Resources provides opportunities and resources for teaching and learning about ocean science and exploration.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|The American Institute of Physics]works to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics and related fields of science and engineering and its applications to human welfare.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[|Health Physics Society] where you can find information and answers to your questions about radiation and radiation safety/protection.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|OpenRocket]is a free, fully featured model rocket simulator that allows you to design and simulate your rockets before actually building and flying them.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Physics of Baseball]research interests are two-fold: the physics of the baseball-bat collision and the flight of the baseball.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Physics To Go]Collection of websites where visitors can learn physics on their own through a variety of formats, including webcasts, online exhibits, and games.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Scitation]is the online home of leading journals and conference proceedings from The American Institute of Physics.

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics **__

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|K-12 Resources for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education]—Resources and findings generated through educational research and development projects funded in part by the National Science Foundation can help inform states and school systems that are developing strategies for improving K-12 STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education.