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Calculators & converters
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OnlineConversion.com
Convert just about anything to anything else. Over 5,000 units and 50,000 conversions.
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ConvertIt.com
Converters & calculators for: Measurements, currency, time, math, finance,
geography, Roman numerals... it goes on and on. Tons of reference info too.
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Earth impact effects program
I'm not sure if this belongs in this section, but I don't know where else
to put it and it is a calculator! This program allows
you to calculate the effects of an asteroid impact. A useful tool
for people studying craters and the ultimate toy for disaster paranoiacs.
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Dictionary of measures, units and conversions
Conversion tables & constants, definitions of units, explanations of SI prefixes, links.
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NIST - Physical reference data
Reference site on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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XE.com - The Universal Currency Converter
Currency converter and live foreign exchange rates.
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OANDA.com - FXConverter
Multi-lingual currency converter with 164 currencies. The
Traveler's currency cheat-sheet
page allows you to print-out a table for your next trip.
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Yahoo! Finance - Currency conversion
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Yahoo! directory of online converters
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Chemistry
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Periodic table of the elements - WebElements
Detailed data and properties for all of the elements: Ionic radii, bond enthalpies,
electronic and physical properties... Brought to us by the
Chemistry
Department of the University of Sheffield.
Note that they have other utilities and calculators.
The Orbitron
is interesting.
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Periodic table of the elements - Los Alamos Lab
Intended for elementary through high-school students.
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Thermodynamic data and property sites on the web
Links to property databases, calculators, programs, organizations & bibliographies. There is a vast amount of information here.
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Geoscience link lists
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British Geological Survey - Geoportal
Geoscience links, addresses, phone and fax numbers.
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University of California, Berkeley - Earth Science & Map Library
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Illinois State Academy of Science
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University of Calgary Earth Sciences Library
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Structural geology on the web
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Structural geology and metamorphic petrology on the web
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Yahoo! Geosciences
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Geology Resources
Geology related news, books and link lists.
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KwMap.net - Browse the Keyword Map of NaturalFractures.com
This site is an alternative to conventional
search-engines. As of this posting (Feb. '04) it's still short on data and can wander off-subject pretty badly, but it's a good idea and with a little
rooting you can turn-up things that you might not find
otherwise. If it's ever perfected, takes-off, and becomes the
next Google then remember that you saw it here first.
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Geomagnetism
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National Geophysical Data Center - Online magnetic field computations
Compute the correct declination and inclination for correcting wellbore survey data, or for setting the declination on your compass.
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U.S.G.S. - Geomagnetism
Lots of information and a short link list.
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British Geological Survey - Geomagnetism
Contains an excellent set of downloadable charts and both British and International magnetic field calculators.
Contains important discussions of the effects of space weather on directional drilling. Note that this information is equally applicable to the accuracy of image log orientations.
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Mapping
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ReliefShading
A beautiful and well-designed site about shaded-relief maps.
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TerraServer.com
TerraServer.com offers online remote-sensing data for the entire world and allows
free viewing at 8-meter and coarser resolutions. The
subsite MapTech.com provides
similar free viewing and sales of topographic maps and of nautical and aeronautical charts and software.
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Plate tectonics
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Plate tectonics by U.C. Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology
Elementary theory & history for non-geologists and plate tectonic animations.
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The Global Earth History pages by Dr. Ron Blakey, University of Northern Arizona
Fabulous stuff. The paleomaps are detailed and beautiful. Lots of other good stuff.
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Paleomap project by Dr. Chris Scotese, University of Texas, Arlington
Way cool stuff. Fun for the whole family, including the geologist. Check out the 3D virtual reality paleoglobes.
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ODSN Plate Tectonic Reconstruction Service
Make your own plate tectonic reconstructions.
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Structural Geology
The majority of links on this page concern structural and/or petroleum geology, so
perhaps you are wondering What is this section for? This new structural geology
subsection focuses on education, reference, general-interest, and unclassifiable sites.
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Prakash Roday's Structural Geology Portal
Yes, this site is worth digging through. Never mind the annoying music,
utterly over-the-top design, poor layout, distracting animations, ads,
malfunctioning computational gizmos... If you can hang-in there
you'll find loads of free educational material, links, software downloads,
and other good stuff. Much of the material is general interest,
although the overall orientation is pretty academic.
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The Business of Oil
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Cambridge Energy Research Associates
The leading independent firm that sells predictions of
the energy future. The firm specializes in energy
markets, technology, geopolitics, and strategy.
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Energy Information Administration: Petroleum
This U.S. Department of Energy website includes data on oil and gas prices; an overview of imports and exports, supplies; and information on domestic exploration and production.
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International Energy Agency
Autonomous agency linked with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
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Oil price history and analysis
History and analysis of crude oil prices.
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Oilnergy
My favorite place to check oil prices, futures, etc.
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OPEC
The mother of all cartels.
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The coming energy crisis?
An analysis of short-term U.S. energy-supply vulnerability.
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Energy links from Rentech
This is the Links page of the Rentech corporate website. I include it here
because it is an outstanding and different collection of energy-related links.
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Oil & gas news. The world
news is my soap opera, and the unfolding of the ultimate energy crisis
is the most exciting and interesting story yet.
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Energy Bulletin
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Schlumberger - Today's news
Schlumberger - This weeks news
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Trade Arabia - Energy/oil & gas news
The energy section of an on-line Saudi-based business news magazine.
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Oil & gas journal
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World Oil
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Oil.com
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Bloomberg News Service
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Yahoo! Oil & gas news
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The end of cheap oil and industrial civilization.
Industrial civilization as we know it is coming to an end. I am not joking. The world
is in the process of driving off an energy cliff and it is not going to
be pretty. However, I personally think that when we finally recover
from the crash we will find that life is better, albeit leaner
and slower. This is not Y2K, a giant meteor, the end of the Mayan
Calendar etc. and I am not a kook with an axe to grind. This is
real science and economics and it is not new - the famous geologist
M. King Hubbert
started the science of resource depletion, he has repeatedly
been proven right, and subsequent work ever since
has confirmed his results. North American
natural gas production peaked in 2001. As of this writing (March '05)
most responsible forecasters think that global oil production
will peak sometime between Q4 2005 and 2008. Yes, this is
great career news
for those of us who work in the upstream oil & gas
industry. However, the economic, social, and political
consequences of peak oil production will affect
everyone regardless of profession. For the sake of yourself, your family,
and your responsibilities as a citizen and voter you
need to be informed.
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Peak oil primer and links
The Peak Oil Primer of the news
site Energy Bulletin. This site
provides an excellent just-the-facts introduction to Peak Oil.
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Life After the Oil Crash
This newly-revised site by Matt Savinar provides an excellent introduction to the coming
debacle in an easy-to-read question-and-answer format. The discussion
is non-quantitative and is intended for a general
audience. However, it is an excellent and very readable introduction to
the subject for folks with a technical background as well. Give the site a thorough read
and follow the links. I am slightly less
pessimistic than Mr. Savinar about the economic and social consequences of the
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The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas
ASPO was founded by Colin Campbell, who is an experienced petroleum
industry geologist, a former executive vice-president of Fina, and
is one of the leading researchers in the field of hydrocarbon-resource
depletion. This website is excellent and the monthly APSO
newsletters are essential reading material.
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Crisis Energética - Respuestas a los retos energéticos del SXXI
Spanish-language energy-crisis and oil-depletion
website. This site provides Spanish translations
of the ASPO newsletters and other important material.
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Oil Depletion Analysis Centre
The Oil Depletion Analysis Centre (ODAC) is an independent, UK-registered educational charity working to raise
international public awareness and promote better understanding of the world's hydrocarbon-resource depletion problem.
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BP-Amoco statistical analysis of world energy
Every year BPAmoco puts out a statistical analysis of world energy.
This is good collection of relevant data and is readily accessible. You
can read the report online or download it as a PDF file, the raw data
can be downloaded as Excel spreadsheets, or you can use the interactive, web-based
"Energy charting tool" to make your own downloadable graphs of any and all of the
data and even do statistics on it. If reading these other sites doesn't disturb
you, then go to the BP-Amoco website and spend some time looking at data.
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DIE OFF - A population crash resource page
This website is an archive of articles, many of them scholarly, on the progress and consequences of
humanity's overshoot of our resource base. The subject matter is comprehensive - it is not confined
to hydrocarbon resources. The
synopsis
is excellent. I find the Economic Theory section interesting because
it details the fallacies of economics with regard to resource issues. Sorry folks, but there is
no magical Market God to save us.
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Books. Al's essential
reading list.
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The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
This 2003 book by Richard Heinberg provides a clear, well-written, excellent introduction to peak oil.
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Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage
An interesting 2002 book by Princeton professor Kenneth Deffeyes, who was a colleague of Hubbert at Shell. Deffeyes' website has
a Current Events page where Deffeyes occasionally posts concise comments on how events are unfolding.
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The Oil Factor: How Oil Controls the Economy and Your Financial Future
Investment advice for the oil-crash aware from a Wall Street guru.
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Geologic time
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The official ICS geological time scale
The latest and greatest geologic time scale from the International Commission on Stratigraphy. This is a really
great site that includes free PDF downloads of the detailed geologic time scale, lots of free information, and
even the official U.S.G.S. and Commision de la Carte Geologique du Monde color codes for the geological time
intervals. Go up one level to the ICS site for even more good info.
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The DNAG geologic time scale
A PDF of the time scale chart produced by the Geological Society of America as part of its Decade of
North American Geology project. This black & white download is an alternative to the ICS time scale
charts and includes a magenetic stratigraphy column.
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The Geological Time Scale
The basic geologic time scale courtesy of U.C. Berkeley.
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The current time
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World Time Server
Accurate current local times adjusted for Daylight Savings Time. I recommend
downloading the free utility that keeps your computer's clock synchronized with
the atomic clock at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST), which is accurate to +/- 1 second in 20 million years. Never
again will you wonder if your watch is correct.
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The official U.S. time
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Tides & astronomical
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U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department
Complete sun, moon and other astronomical data including
the dates of the solstices, equinoxes & eclipses; celestial
navigation data; an interactive sun and moon data calculator
for anywhere in the world; and the dates of Easter and
Ramadan. Fabulous educational material too.
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Fourmilab - Earthview
Interactively make views of the earth and moon from space, plus more interesting links than you can stand. Go to the home page for even more cool stuff.
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WWW Tide and Current Predictor
Ocean tide and current predictions for key locations around the
world. This is my favorite tide site despite the clunky
appearance. I never go fishing without consulting it.
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Tides Online
Ocean tide predictions, historical data, and real-time storm-surge monitoring from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Red tide updates for the Texas coast
These nasty single-celled organisms can really ruin a fishing
trip or a weekend at the beach. Generally only of concern
from mid-July to mid-October.
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Weather
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National Weather Service Houston/Galveston
Local & marine forecasts, condtions, satellite images etc. for the Houston/Galveston area.
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National Weather Service clickable U.S. forecast map
Local and marine forecasts, conditions, satellite images, radar, etc. for the entire U.S..
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Intellicast - Houston metro radar loop
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Intellicast - Houston regional radar loop
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Intellicast - Texas radar loop
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Intellicast - U.S. radar loop
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Intellicast - Boat & beach weather Amazingly accurate wind forecasts.
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Intellicast - Clickable world forecast map
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Operational wave predictions
State-of-the-art wave forecasts for the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf of Maine
from the Department of Maritime Systems Engineering at Texas A&M at Galveston.
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Satellite Meteorology
Fabulous images and animations from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Satellite Meteorology Team.
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Operational Significant Event Imagery
High-resolution remotely-sensed images of significant environmental
events such as hurricanes, forest fires, volcanoes etc. courtesy of
the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Tropical weather sites. Tropical weather is
a topic of great interest to those of us who live in drained subtropical
swamps on low, flat hurricane-prone coastlines.
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U.S. National Hurricane Center - Tropical Prediction Center
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Weather Underground - Tropical Weather
Provides the National Hurricane Center forecasts & graphics in a convenient format.
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Naval Research Laboratory - Tropical Cyclone Page
The hurricanes, typhoons and tropical cyclones website of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Marine Meteorology Division.
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Storm-surge monitoring (U.S. only)
Real-time storm-surge monitoring by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Well logging
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SPWLA - Logging mnemonics
Database of log curve and other mnemonics courtesy of the Society of Professional Well Log Analysts.
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