Mr Warner's Cool Science

Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein

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Earth Science

Professional Organizations and Resources

Start at the US Geological Survey homepage. Who could go on without a visit to the Kansas Geological Survey home page?

Disaster Awaits...

The NOAA Operational Significant Event Imagery Server shows satellite images of current Dust, Fires, Floods, Ice, Oil Spills, Snow, Storms, Tornadoes, Tropical, Unique, and Volcanic significant events occurring on Earth.

Investigate Earth's greatest forces at the National Earthquake Information Center, or the research on the New Scientist site.

The Tornado Project Online, or the National Hurricane Center help us understand disaster in the air.

It's an eruption of fun learning about volcanos at Volcano World, The Alaska Volcano Observatory, or Cascades Volcano Observatory.

Oceans and Coastlines

Our earth is researched by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It's here this year; learn all about El Nino at NOAA's Tropical Atmosphere Ocean Project . NOAA also has a page on Tides, or try this non-science page on tides, from the Farmer's Almanac. Coasts are the topic at Carolina Coastal Science.

Earth History

Learn about Techtonic Plate Motion on this NASA site or at This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Techtonics.
The amazing Web Geologic Time Machine can take you through all the periods of the Earth's history!

Global Climate and Climate Change

Info on climate data can be found at these sites: Global Change Master Directory, NOAA's Paleoclimatology Program Data Access page.

Mining

"Your mining information source" is a InfoMine.

Weather, Weather, Weather

Find out the weather any place in the world on these great sites:

World Climate page
USA Today Topic Index: A to Z Glossary of Weather-Related Topics
Weather Channel
The National Weather Service
The Weather Underground (do a search by city, state, zip, country)
Making a Weather Station

Research and Reference Sites

See the Earth from space on the Space Science and Engineering Center's Satellite Composite Images page.

A wealth of information is on the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies site.

Geocycles

Study the Water Cycle and Water Treatment at this EPA site. Water Science for Kids is a USGS site.