The Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) has broad intellectual horizons that encompass the solid Earth, its fluid envelopes, and its diverse neighbors throughout the solar system and beyond. The Department seeks to understand the fundamental processes defining the origin, evolution and current state of these systems and to use this understanding to predict future states. EAPS is notable for emphasis on interdisciplinary problems. The Earth System Initiative (ESI) was formed in 2002 to encourage and coordinate multidisciplinary research efforts in the earth sciences and engineering at MIT. The Earth Resources Laboratory is broadening its base to include a wider range of geophysical, geological, and environmental topics. The Center for Global Change Science (including the Climate Modeling Initiative) and the Program in Atmospheric, Oceans and Climate continue to foster cross-fertilization among all areas of the earth sciences that control the climate system. Research activities are gradually broadening so that geologists are now working with oceanographers and atmospheric scientists, and models of the climate system have been constructed both for the modern system and for times deep in the geological past. Department faculty also continue to play leading roles in the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. EAPS has vigorous graduate educational programs in geology and geochemistry, geophysics, atmospheres, oceans, climate, and planetary science. The EAPS graduate program includes students in the MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Joint Program.

Welcome to the Earth Sciences Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz! The past five years has seen the expansion of our program into planetary and atmospheric sciences. The most recent faculty addition is Assistant Professor Patrick Chuang who joined the faculty in July of 2001. Prof. Chuang is an atmospheric chemist with particular interests in observational constraints on aerosols and atmospheric pollutants. I hope you will find our website useful in learning about our research and degree-granting programs: please contact our faculty directly for more information about specific research areas.

Dive and Discover is an interactive distance learning Web site designed to immerse you in the excitement of discovery and exploration of the deep seafloor. Dive and Discover brings you right on board a series of research cruises to the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and gives you access to the latest oceanographic and deep submergence research as it happens! Be at the front line of scientific inquiry and join scientists - geologists, geophysicists, chemists and biologists - who are exploring the seafloor and making amazing deep-sea discoveries. Daily updates, photos, videos, and e-mail correspondence with scientists aboard research vessels allow you to follow the progress of the scientific mission and find out about life on the floating laboratories at sea.

This web site offers a cyberspace glimpse into the world of Dr. Robert Reisz's vertebrate palaeontology research group at the University of Toronto's Mississauga Campus. Robert and his associates study the fauna of the Late Palaeozoic, a fascinating interval of Earth's history that saw the first flowering of groups that were ultimately ancestral to modern mammals, reptiles and amphibians. This period of evolutionary experimentation appears to have been suddenly terminated at the end of the Palaeozoic, probably by a cataclysmic mass extinction that made way for the earliest dinosaurs and many other new forms.

The Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI) is one of the leading earth and environmental sciences research institutes in the United States. It is located in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State, on the University Park Campus. Dr. Susan L. Brantley, Professor of Geosciences, is the Institute Director. EESI is one of the Penn State Institutes of the Environment (PSIE), the central structure for environmental research, education, and outreach at Penn State.

The interests of the faculty cover a broad range of earth sciences. The traditional fields of petrology, mineralogy, mineral resources and structural geology are represented. Solid earth geophysics includes a unique combination of expertise in seismology, mineral physics and geodynamics. Recently we have added a marine geophysics program, an atmospheric science program and most recently a planetary science program, with links to programs in the Departments of Chemistry, Astronomy, Geography and Environmental Science and Policy Management.

Information on the New Madrid Fault zone including historical and recent seismic activity, map of recent quakes, topography, tectonics. etc. Includes a map of earthquakes in the midwestern US from within the past 6 months to the past hour.

EarthScope is a bold undertaking to apply modern observational, analytical and telecommunications technologies to investigate the structure and evolution of the North American continent and the physical processes controlling earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. EarthScope will provide a foundation for fundamental and applied research throughout the United States that will contribute to the mitigation of risks from geological hazards, the development of natural resources, and the publics understanding of the dynamic Earth.

Earthquake early warning can provide a few seconds to tens of seconds warning prior to ground shaking during an earthquake. ElarmS, short for Earthquake Alarms Systems, is a methodology designed to provide warnings in California and other earthquake prone regions around the world. The warning messages provided by ElarmS can be used to reduce the damage, costs and casualties in an earthquake.

The mission of the Environmental Protection Agency is to protect human health and the environment. Since 1970, EPA has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people. View the Agency's complete strategic plan, annual report, and policy resources.

An Initiative of the Global Leaders for Tomorrow Environment Task Force, World Economic Forum. The Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) is a measure of overall progress towards environmental sustainability, developed for 142 countries. The ESI scores are based upon a set of 20 core "indicators," each of which combines two to eight variables for a total of 68 underlying variables. The ESI permits cross-national comparisons of environmental progress in a systematic and quantitative fashion. It represents a first step towards a more analytically driven approach to environmental decisionmaking. The documents made available here provide in-depth details on the analytical framework, quantitative methodology, and data sources that underlie the ESI .

GENESIS (Global Environmental & Earth Science Information System) is a suite of data services that bring together the Earth science products generated by spaceborne Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers flying on several international missions. GENESIS provides a database for GPS occultation observations from the CHAMP and SAC-C spacecraft, which carry NASA-supplied GPS receivers designed for atmospheric and ionospheric sounding. The flight database is augmented with GPS ground data and a variety of higher level derived products. We hope soon that occultation data from the GRACE mission can be added to this unique archive.

A nonprofit organization working toward global earthquake safety.

The goal of GEON is to advance the field of geoinformatics to prepare and train current and future generations of geoscience researchers, educators, and practitioners in the use of cyberinfrastructure to further their research, education, and professional goals. Geoinformatics will foster new interdisciplinary research, for example, the gravity modeling of 3D geological features, such as plutons; study of active tectonics by integrating LiDAR data and geodynamics models; and, study of lithospheric structure and properties across diverse tectonic environments.

The vision of the GEOsciences Network (GEON) project is to prototype interpretive environments of the future in Earth Sciences, using advanced information technologies to facilitate collaborative, inter-disciplinary science efforts. Scientists will be able to discover data, tools, and models via portals, using advanced, semantics-based search engines and query tools, in a uniform authentication environment that provides controlled access to a wide range of resources. A services-based environment facilitates creation of scientific workflows that are executed in the distributed environment. Advanced GIS mapping, 3D, and 4D visualization tools allow scientists to interact with the data. Such an environment enables new modes of science and can transform the day-to-day conduct of science.