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Be sure to visit these other sites with special links to the UTD/TORCH Global Environmental Change web site!

   Bringing Back Big Bend: Teachers' Adventure to be Shared through Virtual Tour

by Cynthia E. Ledbetter and Rebekah K. Nix in the August-September issue of

Simplified Geologic Time Scale, posted by the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

"A Day in the Desert Digging Dinosaurs"
A PowerPoint presentation about the UTD Alamosaurus excavation; click on the link above to view the scripted version or click here to open the file for individual/classroom presentation... check out the Teacher's notes too!

Geology 202, Introduction to Petrology is an online course resource offered in the Geological Sciences Department of the University of British Columbia.

The Big Bend National Park Virtual Field Trip is designed to be a guide to the geological history and features of the Big Bend National Park area. The site was created for an independent study project for the Texas A&M University Department of Geology & Geophysics under the supervision of Dr. Bruce Herbert.

NSTA Outcrops in the Classroom: An active simulation of basic geologic fieldwork from the November 1999 issue of The Science Teacher (Copyright © 1999 National Science Teachers Association).

Dr. Ledbetter's Desert Ecology & Field Methods notes (pdf format)

The Virtual Library of Ecology and Biodiversity division of The Virtual Library Project specializes in reviewing internet information sources pertaining to ecology and biodiversity based on their educational value.

Desert Studies, by Susan Hixson. What resources and support do teachers need to feel comfortable using the Internet for instruction? A trio of educators explore such questions and learn about virtual field trips as they team teach a third grade unit on the Sonoran Desert.

Texas Water from the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, contains: General Information - Environmental Target Flows - Endangered/Threatened Species - Rivers & Streams - Terrestrial Habitat- Wetlands - Recreation & Economics - PGMAs - TWDB - Water Links

Texas Eco-Regions Charts from the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department.

DesertUSA explores the beauty, life and culture of the North American deserts with images, stories, movie and audio clips, virtual reality tours and hard data about, virtually any desert-related topic: plants, animals, geology, cultural and natural history, recreation, parks, cities, travel and people.

Arid and Semi-Arid Environments: Remote Sensing Research and Applications from the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

The Evergreen Project offers a virtual biome, in which you can learn all about deserts - what they are, where they're located, and what kinds of plants and animals can survive there.

EcoQuest: Desert Edition is an interactive WebQuest designed for teachers in search of middle school science curriculum.

The Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server is devoted to information of interest to systematists and other biologists of the organismic kind.

The Nitrogen Cycle

Human Alteration of the Global Nitrogen Cycle: Causes and Consequences

Carbon Cycle

The global carbon cycle

The USGS Global Change Research Program is a component of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), complementing research and observations on oceanic, atmospheric, and biological processes in other Federal agencies. USGS global change research examines terrestrial and marine processes and the natural history of global change, including the interactions between climate and the hydrologic system. The USGS documents the character of environments in the past and present, and the geological, biological, hydrological, and geochemical processes involved in environmental change.

The Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute (CDRI) is a non-profit scientific and educational organization based near Ft Davis, Texas. Its purpose is to gather information on the Chihuahuan Desert Region and to make that information available to all who would like to know. Primary interests are biology, geology, anthropology, and archeology. The Institute conducts research, provides scholarships, designs and implements educational activities, promotes the area, and produces films, publications and other media about the Chihuahuan Desert region.

http://www.irc-online.org/bordline/2000/bl63/bl63comp.html
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/conserve/
http://nsn.bbn.com/science_online/sci_wetlands.shtml
http://www.4anything.com/nf?1-http://geog.tamu.edu/bednarz/shudakr/geog2/finalproject/indanger.html
Considering Ecological Processes in Environmental Impact assessments
Characterization of Causes to Changes to Freshwater Inflow for 29 Gulf of Mexico Estuaries
Household Hazardous Waste, A virtual Library on Environmental topics from A-Z
http://earthsystems.org/All.shtml
http://www.sra.dst.tx.us/aboutsra/basin.htm
http://ice.ucdavis.edu/MAB/
http://www.earthwatch.org/expedetails/graham.html
http://www.earthforce.org/green/
http://www.nps.gov/bibe/aqvis.htm
http://twri.tamu.edu/
http://www.csr.utexas.edu/rs/
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~babydoll/coursematerial/fall95students/finals/h2opublic_html/index.html
Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission: The haze in Big Bend and the causes.

Geologic Map
Tectonic Map
Population Estimate
Shaded Relief Map
Vegetation Types Map
Texas River Basins, Rivers & Natural Areas
Water Usage Map
Precipitation Map
Satellite Image of Texas

PhotoWorks.com, through use of the Internet, provides both digital and film-based camera users with exciting new ways to share, organize and preserve images, including immediate online access to photos, digital print ordering and options to create personal greeting cards or applied to t-shirts, calendars, mugs and other popular gift items.

Inspiration is a visual thinking and learning software application useful in creating concept maps.

Community Juggling
If I Had A Hammer
Balancing Act
Who Was I?
Rope Trick!
More Rope Tricks!
Fuzzy or Furry?
Trees, Trees & More Trees!