From: Gilles Poitras (gilles@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 21 2002 - 11:17:15 PDT
Message-Id: <l03130300b9391c310e75@[192.174.2.157]> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:17:15 -0700 From: Gilles Poitras <gilles@exploratorium.edu> Subject: - Learning Studio - week of June 16
Another week has gone by and I better get this sent out before I have
another question come up and distract me again. It's taken me two hours to
get this far, but I got plenty of other stuff done at the same time.
I once had a sign on my desk at a previous job that said 'Interrupt
Driven'. The only person who fully got the joke was a UNIX programmmer but
others still got part of the idea and sympathised as they also suffered
from the same phenomenon.
This week the web page is not as fancy as many but I strongly urge you to
take a look as it is very content rich.
The list of new resources continues to be large for online resources but
much smaller for printed texts as we are not buying much at the moment.
Next week there should be fewer online resources as I have finally finished
mining several major sites for such materials.
OK on to the lists!
WEB PAGE OF THE WEEK:
Living Internet
http://LivingInternet.com/
We all know what the Internet is and what we can get from it right?
Well this site may make you rethink that view.
Much of what is available on the Internet is rarely in the news media and
is often not what people think of when they use the Internet. Many of these
resources can be very useful for those who use it. For example in my case I
use Usenet newsgroups and email far more than I use the Web to locate
information.
In any case check this page and book mark it for future reference.
SCIENCE NEWS:
Extraterrestrial Jupiter
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/13jun_newplanets.htm
UPDATED WEB GUIDES:
Botany
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ls/infosources/BotanyInfo.html
Geology
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ls/infosources/GeologyInfo.html
Mapping and Aerial Photography
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ls/infosources/MapsInfo.html
Robotics
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ls/infosources/RoboticsInfo.html
PRINTED, NEW ACQUISITIONS:
Q is for quark : a science alphabet book / written by David M. Schwartz ;
illustrated by Kim Doner.
General collection circ.
Q 173 .S393 2001
Combining solid information with silliness often works for conveying
information.if well done. And in this book it is.combined well. Warning you
may end up groaning at some of the humor. Included are a glossary and
index, a teachers guide is also slipped into the back of our copy.
NEW INTERNET eTEXTS:
Additions for the week of June 9:
New Books and pamphlets:
1. American elk (Cervus elaphus). [1999] Wildlife Habitat Management Institute
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS18530
2. American kestrel (Falco sparverius). [1999] Wildlife Habitat Management
Institute
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS14551
3. Areas susceptible to irrigation-induced selenium contamination of water
and biota in the Western United States,
by R. L. Seiler, U.S. Geological Survey; J. P. Skorupa, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service; and L. A. Peltz, Nature Conservancy.
http://co.water.usgs.gov/trace/pubs/circ1180.pdf
4. Arsenic in ground-water resources of the United States,
by A. H. Welch, S. A. Watkins, D. R. Helsel and M. J. Focazio.
http://co.water.usgs.gov/trace/pubs/fs-063-00/
5. Assessing habitats created by installation of drop pipes
http://www.ms.nrcs.usda.gov/whmi/pdf/wais2.pdf
6. Bioremediation; nature's way to a cleaner environment,
by F. H. Chapelle.
http://water.usgs.gov/wid/html/bioremed.html
7. Butterflies (Order: Lepidoptera). [2000] Wildlife Habitat Management
Institute
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS18593
8. Catalog of Hawaiian Earthquakes, 1823 - 1959
By Fred Klein and Thomas L. Wright
http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/prof-paper/pp1623/
9. Catalog of the historically active volcanoes of Alaska,
by T. P. Miller, R. G. McGimsey, D. H. Richter, J. R. Riehle, C. J. Nye, M.
E. Yount and J. A. Dumoulin.
http://www.avo.alaska.edu/genrl_info/pdfs/cavwaleu_intro_toc.pdf
10. Delta subsidence in California; the sinking heart of the state,
by S. E. Ingebritsen, M. E. Ikehara, D. L. Galloway and D. R. Jones.
http://ca.water.usgs.gov/rep/fs00500/fs00500.pdf
11. Earthquake probabilities in the San Francisco Bay region; 2000 to 2030,
a summary of findings,
by Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities.
http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of99-517/
12. Eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis). [1999] Wildlife Habitat Management
Institute
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS14550
13. Eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus). [1999] Wildlife Habitat
Management Institute
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS14552
14. Grassland birds. [1999] Wildlife Habitat Management Institute
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS18513
15. How to build a model illustrating sea-floor spreading and subduction,
by J. C. Lahr.
http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/open-file-reports/ofr-99-0132/
16. Human Factor in Mining Reclamation
By U.S. Geological Survey
http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/circulars/c1191/
17. Lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus). [1999] Wildlife
Habitat Management Institute
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS14558
18. Long-billed curlew (Numenius americanus). [2000] Wildlife Habitat
Management Institute
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS18512
19. Mercury contamination from historic gold mining in California,
by C. N. Alpers and M. P. Hunerlach.
http://ca.water.usgs.gov/mercury/fs06100.html
20. Modified Mercalli intensities for some recent California earthquakes
and historic San Francisco Bay region earthquakes,
by W. H. Bakun.
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/~bakun/OFR98-584.html
21. Mountain plover (Charadrius montanus). [2001] Wildlife Habitat
Management Institute
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS18595
22. National assessment of coastal vulnerability to future sea-level rise.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/factsheet/fs76-00/
23. National assessment of coastal vulnerability to sea-level rise; U.S.
Atlantic Coast,
by E. R. Thieler and E. S. Hammar-Klose.
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/epubs/openfiles/ofr99-593/
24. Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus). [1999] Wildlife Habitat
Management Institute
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS18514
25. The Purisima Formation and related rocks (upper Miocene-Pliocene),
greater San Francisco Bay area, Central California; review of literature
and USGS collection (now housed at the Museum of Paleontology, University
of California, Berkeley),
by C. L. Powell, II.
http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of98-594/
26. Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). [2000] Wildlife Habitat Management
Institute
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS18554
27. Ring-necked pheasant (Phasianus colchicus). [1999] Wildlife Habitat
Management Institute
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS18529
28. Ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris). [1999] Wildlife
Habitat Management Institute
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS18557
29. San Francisco Bay Program: Lessons Learned for Managing Coastal Water
Resources
http://water.usgs.gov/wid/html/sfb.html
30. Scenarios for historic San Francisco Bay region earthquakes,
by W. H. Bakun.
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/~bakun/OFR98-785.html
31. Shorebirds. [2000] Wildlife Habitat Management Institute
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS18594
32. Subduction zone and crustal dynamics of western Washington; a tectonic
model for earthquake hazards evaluation,
by Dal Stanley, Antonio Villaseor and Harley Benz.
http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/open-file-reports/ofr-99-0311/
33. Table-top earthquakes; a demonstration of seismology for teachers and
students,
by J. C. Lahr.
http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/open-file-reports/ofr-98-0767/
34. The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in
America before Federal Regulation,
by James Harvey Young
http://www.quackwatch.com/13Hx/TM/00.html
35. USGS response to an urban earthquake; Northridge '94.
http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/open-file-reports/ofr-96-0263/
36. Wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo). [1999] Wildlife Habitat Management
Institute
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS18531
New Bibliographies/Indexes:
1. Bibliography of literature from 1990-1997 pertaining to Holocene and
fumarolic Pleistocene volcanoes of Alaska, Canada, and the conterminous
United States,
by C. J. Harpel and J. W. Ewert.
http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of00-017/
New Databases:
1. General distribution of geologic materials in the San Francisco Bay
region, California; a digital database,
compiled by C. M. Wentworth.
http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of97-744/
2. Quaternary geology and liquefaction susceptibility, Napa, California
1:100,000 quadrangle; a digital database,
by J. M. Sowers, J. S. Noller and W. R. Lettis.
http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of98-460/
New Maps:
1. Geologic Map and Map Database of Parts of Marin, San Francisco, Alameda,
Contra Costa, and Sonoma Counties, California
By M. C. Blake Jr., R.W. Graymer, and D.L. Jones
Digital Database
by Adam Soule and R.W. Graymer
http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/map-mf/mf2337/
2. Geologic Map and Map Database of the Oakland Metropolitan Area, Alameda,
Contra Costa, and San Francisco Counties, California
By R.W. Graymer
http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/map-mf/mf2342/
3. Geologic map and map database of the Palo Alto 30' x 60' quadrangle,
California,
by E. E. Brabb, R. W. Graymer and D. L. Jones.
http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/mf-maps/mf-2332/
4. Minerals in our environment,
by Judy Weathers and J. P. Galloway.
http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of00-144/
5. Seafloor rocks and sediments of the continental shelf from Monterey Bay
to Point Sur, California,
by S. L. Eittreim, R. J. Anima, A. J. Stevenson and F. L. Wong.
http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/map-mf/mf2345/
Gilles Poitras gilles@exploratorium.edu
Learning Studio, Exploratorium Museum
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