Water: Related Sciences

Links for the sciences useful for water professionals. For links on water specifically, see my page of water portals or the Water Librarians' Home Page.

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Science and Technology, generally | Earth Sciences | Engineering | Environmental Science

Science and Technology, generally

• Science Cataloging Internet Resources - Useful science resources for catalogers (reference librarians, too)
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters Library - See especially Guides to Resources and Recommended Reading

Earth Sciences

• Earth/Geoscience Information on the WWW (Illinois State Geological Survey)
• Earth Science Virtual Library
• Geo-Index: A Search Engine for Geo-Environmental Professionals
• Geoscience Information Center - Web pages, mailing lists, new books, journal contents, conferences, job postings (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego)
• Geoscience Information Resources - Extensive list, even includes a section for Hydrology and Water Resources (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Geology Library)
• Guide to Resources and Research in Geology/Earth Sciences - Includes a section on hydrology, by Deborah Metzger, California State University Sacramento
• National Geologic Map Database - Catalog of maps published by the U.S. Geological Survey, state geological agencies, and other organizations
• Research Resources for Earth Sciences (Ian Gordon, Brock University Library, Canada)
• Resources for Earth Sciences and Geography Instruction (RESGI)
• U.S. Geological Survey
• USGS Newsroom (What's this?)

Earth Science Indexes:

See also

• Water Indexes
• American Geological Institute (AGI):
• GeoRef - Earth sciences database
• Geologic Guidebooks of North America
• HazLit - Index to literature on natural hazards
• MinAbs Online - Free online version of Mineralogical Abstracts, which was published until 2008
• Astrophysics Data System - Indexes literature in geophysics, as well as astrophysics
• Quakeline - Index to the literature of earthquakes, earthquake engineering, and related subjects (MCEER)
• Geosciences Indexes, Abstracts, Bibliographies, and Table of Contents Services (University of Houston Libraries)
• Earth Science Book Reviews Database Search - Index of reviews in earth science journals (University of Illinois)

Climate Change:

• Climate.Data.gov - Federal government portal for climate change data
• Climate Change Portal - Latest reports on climate change for water managers, sorted by date and topic; separate page on sea level rise with projections

Engineering

• Aecportico - U.K. portal for architecture, engineering, and construction
• American Society of Civil Engineers
• BridgeHunter - Historic and notable bridges in the United States
• Civil Engineering Virtual Library

• Engineering Virtual Library
• GlobalSpec - Engineering search engine for finding Web pages, products, standards, patents, etc.
• ICE, Internet Connections for Engineering, from Cornell University
• Icivilengineer.com - A comprehensive index to all aspects of civil engineering
• Ultimate Civil Engineering Directory - 500+ civil engineering resources (tenlinks.com, formerly Lund University, Sweden)
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Engineering Indexes:

See also

• Water Indexes
• Standards
• CE Database - Index of journals and conferences published by the American Society of Civil Engineers
• Engineering Repository Cross Search Demonstrator - Search across many sources for technical papers in engineering (Engineering.ac.uk). Also available: Source Listing (PerX project)
• engrXiv - Repository of engineering preprints
• IEEE Xplore - Index to publications of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• TechXtra Tech Journal Contents - Searchable tables of contents from recent journals in technology
• Transportation Research International Documentation (TRID) - Database from the Transportation Research Board (TRIS) and OECD

Environmental Science

• Environmental Professional's Homepage, includes links to government agencies and environmental software
• EnviroInfo - A portal for environmental science and technology
• Envirolink
• Enviroindustry environmental industry page
• Environment Virtual Library
• Environmental Jobs and Careers (ejobs.org)
• Librarian's Environmental Toolkit - Waste Management & Research Center, Illinois
• Right to Know Network - Information on environmental hazards, based on public information

• Wildlife & Ecology: Internet Journals and Monographs (CSIRO, Australia)