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COURSE TOOLS
CONTENTS
SOFTWARE GUIDES &
VISUALIZATION TOOLS
SOFTWARE
Excel
Tutorial Adapted, reformatted and updated by Andrew
C. Comrie from a document
by Maki, L. and Stone, K.
(1997).
Product
support for Microsoft Office Programs (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access,
Frontpage, etc.)
VISUALIZATION
WorldWatcher
Visualization Software (SSciVEE project, Northwestern
University) Free download, Windows & Mac version; (NOTE:
due to a bug, animations do not work properly in the Windows version.)
GLOBE
Project Visualizations, Maps & Graphs
Global
Climate Animations Site -- from the Climate Lab of the University of
Oregon Department of Geography
HTML HELP
UA
Library's Free Webpage Creation Workshops
Other
Available UA Library Computer Workshops (Intro to Powerpoint, Photoshop,
other training resources, etc.)
HTML Tutorials and Guides
Other Sites
Anabella's
HTML Help (informal, popular style, but contains the basics)
WebPageTutor.com
(a similar "popular style" introduction to HTML; includes a "So
you want to make a Web Page" tutorial; lots of distracting ad banners)
Matt's Script
Archive
CLIMATE
& GLOBAL CHANGE RESOURCES
University of Arizona's Institute
for the Study of Planet Earth (ISPE) & CLIMAS
The IPCC Website - Learn
about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
GLOBAL CHANGE
MASTER DIRECTORY -
A comprehensive directory about Earth science and
global change data. (The site is maintained by NASA in support of the U.S.
Global Change Research Program.)
Earthshots:
Satellite Images of Environmental Change: Table of Contents
GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE
BROWSE SERVER - VISIT OFTEN!
Nighttime
Lights of the World
- GLOBE -
International Hands-On Science and Education
- Be a part of a global scientific project! For this site,
students all over the world gather environmental data at or near their
schools and then send it to the GLOBE network via the Internet. Then
scientists use the data in their research, and the data is used to make
images for daily display on the web.
MAPS,
ATLASES, & GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ONLINE
DICTIONARIES
& GLOSSARIES
Physical
Geography Online Glossary
EPA
Global Warming Site: Glossary of Climate Change Terms
(pdf)
Global
Change Acronyms & Abbreviations
More
Global
Change Acronyms
Glossary
| climate change | climate policy | global warming
CALCULATORS
& CONVERSION TOOLS
MegaConverter
- for conversion of units
Calculators
Online Center -- links to every kind of calculator you can imagine
From the Constants
and Equations Pages © 1997 - 1999, Jonathan Stott, (note: includes
British spellings):
MATH
BASICS (numbers,
algebra, trigonometry,
and more)
CONSTANTS
& EQUATIONS (alphabetical listing of numerous constants and
equations used in science)
SI
UNITS (all the SI units complete with their units and symbols)
CONVERSIONS
(convert to or from many different measurements)
SYMBOLS
used in math and science (Greek
alphabet, Mathematical
symbols)
The University of Arizona UAINFO
The University of Arizona Library: SABIO
Information Gateway
RIO
(Research Instruction Online)
(presented by the UA Library) -- provides tutorials designed to sharpen your
research, critical thinking, and paper-writing skills
A
Student's Guide to Research with the WWW (tips
on analyzing web sites)
2003-2004 UA
Academic Calendar
Computing on Campus 2003-2004
Open Access Computer Labs on Campus
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