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El Niño Resources on the Net An excellent earth science book online (I give this an A++): http://spso.gsfc.nasa.gov/sci_strategy/Contents.html A good El Niño page: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino/home.html. It has good narrative and useful graphics. Their main page at http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/ gives access to data NOAA Topex/Poseidon Analysis Products http://www.grdl.noaa.gov/SAT/products/topex.html El Niño page at JPL (1 of 2) http://podaac-www.jpl.nasa.gov/ El Niño page at JPL (2 of 2) http://podaac-www.jpl.nasa.gov/topex/ Research papers on El Niño etc. http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/coaps-research.html Student Reports on El Niño and Earth Science Here are two the author's worked on: OLD: http://circles.org/StudentRpts/93_94/el_nino/1stWelcometoElNino.html NEW: http://cs.wm.edu/~ctahan/enso-ct/ENSOsum.html Here are a variety of earth science projects from seven different schools: http://circles.org/Round3/Resources/samples1.html General Earth Science Information The Earth System Science Community Curriculum: http://circles.org Mission to Planet Earth Homepage: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/mtpe/ The Earth System Science Center at Penn State http://www.essc.psu.edu/ Earth Observing System Homepage: http://spso.gsfc.nasa.gov/spso_homepage.html ESSE: Earth System Science Education: http://www.usra.edu/esse/ESSE.html EOSDIS search on WWW: http://eos.nasa.gov/imswelcome WWW Servers with Global Change, Earth Science, & Environmental Data & Info: http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcmdonline.html U.S. Geological Survey Global Change Research Program: http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/ NASA Online Educational Resources: http://www.nasa.gov/nasa_online_education.html NASA/GSFC Earth Sciences Directorate: http://sdcd.gsfc.nasa.gov/ESD/ General Ocean Studies Resources and Curriculum Material THE BEST online Oceanography Course: Resources, student reports, data access http://oceanography.geol.ucsb.edu/ The Internet Realtime Science Modules: Lesson Plans for Educators http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/curriculum/currichome.html Project Athena: Instruction Units and Projects on the Oceans http://athena.wednet.edu/curric/oceans/ Project Athena: Tracking Drifter Buoys to Understand Ocean Currents http://athena.wednet.edu/curric/oceans/drifters/index.html University of Illinois Geoscience Dept.'s Activities in Ocean Science http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/geosciences/students/ocean/ocean.htm l University of Iowa Global Change Course Schedule. http://www.physics.iastate.edu/gcp/sched.html University of Iowa Global Change Course Interactive Discussion Page http://www.physics.iastate.edu/gcp/proto/dbtop.html Libraries of Online Arcticles and resources THE BEST Ocean Related Online Library is at Scripps, of course http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/sio/ http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/sio/guide/publns.html#CLIMPER Free Stuff The TOGA COARE video: Unlocking the Mysteries of El Niño is an excellent introduction to El Niño and earth system processes. You can get it free by writing to: The Office of Global Programs 1100 Wayne Avenue Suite 1225 Silver Spring, MD 20910 El Niņo and the Peruvian Anchovy Fishery, by Edward Laws (University of Hawaii).is a great pamplet on El Niño. Info on ordering it can be found at http://home.ucar.edu/ucargen/education/gcmod/currmat.html TOPEX/POSEIDON CD: Perspectives on an Ocean Planet This informational CD-ROM provides a comprehensive look at the TOPEX/Poseidon mission and spacecraft. The CD contains over an hour of digital video, audio, images, and text captions which describe everything from the impetus for the mission to the science results obtained in the first three years. The software and data on the CD are formatted such that they can be accessed by Macintosh, PC, and other systems. It's available free of charge and can be ordered from: http://podaac-www.jpl.nasa.gov/tecd.html, or if you do not have a web browser, it can be ordered by e-mail (podaac@podaac.jpl.nasa.gov)