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- Hurricane Floyd - 10th Anniversary
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Legacy of Hurricane Floyd, the storm that brought flooding rains, high winds, and rough seas along the Atlantic seaboard in September, 1999. NOAA site includes maps and photos of the flooding.
www.erh.noaa.gov/mhx/Floyd
- Global Maps - NASA Earth Observatory
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NASA's interactive global maps allow you to explore how key parts of Earth?s climate system change from month to month.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/GlobalMaps
- The International Year of Astronomy
Official site for the The International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009), the global celebration of astronomy and its contributions to society and culture.
www.astronomy2009.org
- Darwin 2009 - The Festival
Celebrating the bicentenary of Darwin's birth, the 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work, 'On the Origin of Species', and the 800th anniversary of the University of Cambridge in 2009.
www.darwin2009.cam.ac.uk
- The Secret Lives of Seahorses - Monterey Bay Aquarium
Explore one of the U.S.'s largest collections of seahorses (sea dragons, pipehorses, and pipefish) through the Monterey Bay Aquarium's online versions of The Secret Lives of Seahorses.
www.montereybayaquarium.org/efc/seahorse.aspx
- Origins - Science/AAAS
Companion blog to Science's year-of-Darwin coverage.
blogs.sciencemag.org/origins
- Coral Cross: Can Information Outrun a Virus?
Coral Cross is an Emergent Reality Game, an experiment in using gaming techniques to promote real public awareness and impact real events. Using information to fight the H1N1 swine flu outbreak. From the State of Hawaii Department of Health.
coralcross.org
- Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th-Century Chesapeake
View the Smithsonian exhibit Written in Bone, which examines history through 17th-century bone biographies, including those of colonists at Jamestown, Virginia, and those living in the well-established settlement of St. Mary?s City, Maryland.
anthropology.si.edu/writteninbone/index.html
- Extreme Life Thrives Where the Livin' Ain't Easy - Wired.com
Photo gallery highlighting a few particularly tough species of bacteria and archaea, a lesser-appreciated but vast branch of the the tree of life.
www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/06/extremophile
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