NSDL ExhibitsContent for NSDL exhbits channels.Snakes of North America- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Snakes of North America. The Colubrid snakes are sometimes refered to as "typical snakes". They comprise the largest family by far with over 2000 species worldwide. Most are medium sized snakes, and all lack a pelvic girdle and have no vestigial hind limbs and whose left lung is either absent or greatly reduced. Most species are considered members of two large subfamilies, Colubrinae and Natricinae which are distinguished by the presence (Natricinae) or absence (Colubrinae) of spines on the...http://www.pitt.edu/~mcs2/herp/SoNA.html SIOExplorer- (Found July 2, 2008 ) The SIOExplorer Digital Library was launched as an NSDL Collections Track project in 2001 primarily to open access to 700 cruises by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), including tens of thousands of data files, images and documents. The initial investment in NSDL technology has been augmented by NSF ITR and Ocean Science awards. The overall growth of the library is managed by federating new collections in disciplines as needed, each with their own independent data publishing...http://sioexplorer.ucsd.edu Nature.com- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Nature.com provides links to science journals, jobs and information from the nature publishing group's wide ranging science resources.http://www.nature.com NSDL Recommended Resources- (Found July 2, 2008 ) This collection consists of resources recommended by NSDL partners and collection developers.http://nsdl.org National Academies Press- (Found July 2, 2008 ) National Academies Press. The Joseph Henry Press, an imprint of the National Academies Press, was created with the goal of making books on science, technology, and health more widely available to professionals and the public. The new imprint responds to rising public interest in science issues. As the Cold War has given way to a spirit of international competitiveness, Americans have shifted their attention to the need to maintain the U.S. lead in science and technology. The Joseph Henry Press..http://www.nap.edu/ Directory of Open Access Journals: Biology and Life Sciences- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Gateway to open access journals in biology and life sciences.http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=67 Rockhound Home Page- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Information about rocks and their creation.http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow1/oct98/index2.html US EPA Environmental Information Management System- (Found July 2, 2008 ) EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) has developed a scientific environmental information management system (EIMS) that stores, manages, and delivers descriptive information (metadata) for data sets, databases, documents, models, multimedia, projects, and spatial information. The EIMS design also provides a repository for scientific documentation that can be easily accessed with standard Web browsers to place a virtual library on the desktop of EPA staff and others with Internet...http://www.epa.gov/eims Tree of Life Web Project Home- (Found July 2, 2008 ) The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world. On more than 3000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics. Each web page contains information about a particular group of organisms, and ToL pages are linked one to another hierarchically, in the form of the evolutionary tree of life. Starting with the root of all Life on Earth and.http://tolweb.org Nanotechnology Industries--Links Database- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Provides free nanotechnology news email lists, news, huge database of links, essays and current events. Since 1998.http://www.nanoindustries.com/links/index.html |