Caught in the Net

July 2006
     Want to know more about squid and octopus? Try www.thecephalopodpage.org .
     If the words of brilliant biologists, such as Francis Crick or Ernst Mayr, interest you, go to www.peoplesarchives.com .
     All the scientific publications of the American Museum of Natural History, from 1881 to now, are available at www.digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace .
     You may not be able to visit polar regions but you can keep track of what’s going on in Canada’s icy world at www.socc.ca
     If you use a microscope or plan to, you will find a wealth of information, including an introductory tutorial at Molecular Expressions site, www.micro.magnet.fsu.edu .
     With the summer storm season upon us, you may want to brush up on your meteorology. This site has a short course in the basics and an archive of famous storms. ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu. If you can’t get the site to come up try ”meteorology basics” and scan the page for the website.

April 2006
    Need to know the environmental laws here and abroad?  Check out ECOLEX, a storage base on both national and international law, court decisions, treaties and more.  See http://www.ecolex.org/ecolex
   
Want to know more about fish catches in far-away places?  The Fisheries Center at the University of British Columbia has set up a site to relay daa they collect.  See www.seaaroundus.org

Looking for information on fish?  The California Academy of Sciences has gone over nearly 250 years of publications and has created a repository of over 29,000 species.  They have created an image database of over 160 type specimens with photos and x-rays.  Go to www.calacademy.org/research then hit ichthyology and all will be revealed.

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