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Virtual Geological Field Trips!

Look at some wildlife photos I've taken.
Discover an asteroid or Image a gamma ray burst. Here is a list of asteroids I've helped to name.
Hike up Mauna Loa to see a total eclipse. Here is a photo I took on that trip about 1 minute after the end of totality, showing the moon's umbra projected on Pinatubo ash in the upper atmosphere.
Experience a near-miss by hurricane Iniki. (Or, if you prefer, a direct hit).
Listen to a sped-up earthquake aftershock sequence covering several weeks of real time. (It's over a megabyte, so be patient.)
SEP's 25th reunion photos

Sci.geo.petroleum internet resources provides a very long list of petroleum-related web sites.
The SEG (Society of Exploration Geophysicists). Under it you can find a guide to Geophysical Consortia I maintain. I'm also helping the SEG get started using the internet; here are some of my thoughts about electronic publication.
The SEP (Stanford Exploration Project) home page.
The SOEST (School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology) home page.

Scan an extensive library of usenet FAQ's, many of them now WWW pages in their own right.
AltaVista and Google are my two favorite search engines.

The Economist, perhaps the finest news magazine in the world. For live news, you can't beat the BBC World Service, the best radio news in the world.
Here is a worldwide collection of maps, including in particular maps of US National Parks.

The Dilbert comic strip, a frighteningly realistic portrayal of modern corporate life.

Did you know many artificial satellites are easily visible to the naked eye? See one for yourself by referring to satellite pass predictions for many cities in North America. Here's a list of satellite prediction web sites, the best known of which is Heavens above.
A gallery of images of Earth's impact craters.
See if it's a good night to look for auroras using the University of Alaska at Fairbanks' Geophysical Institute Auroral Activity Forecast.

A radar summary map for Oklahoma. In the spring that can be a popular web site! According to The Tornado Project, Oklahoma gets more class 5 tornadoes per unit area than anywhere else in the world.
Hike Hawaii. Tourists miss Hawaii's best scenery by staying on the coast.
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If I never seem to reply to your e-mail, it may be because my e-mail filter thinks it's spam!