Introduction to Physical Oceanography

Robert Stewart

A textbook for upper-division college students and new graduate students in oceanography, meteorology, and ocean engineering.

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Our Ocean Planet: Oceanography in the 21st Century

Robert Stewart

An introductory online-only web textbook for students studying oceanography or other earth science topics.

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ElementList.com

Links to top science news sites, research labs, educational resources, scientific data, freeware for data analysis, research funding and job opportunities.

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Education Improvement Internet Library

Walter Antoniotti

The Education Improvement Internet Library has free material to help students learn, teachers teach, and everyone improve our educational system.

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Global Land Vegetation

A book designed to support a series of “hands-on” exercises illustrating how satellite data can be used to monitor vegetation dynamics around the globe.

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Kerala Geography

This book from the government of Kerala, India, has a particularly broad view of geography, covering topics as diverse as the evolution of man, the international monetary fund, accounting, and plate tectonics.

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Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)

If you’re looking for info on geology, geography, soils, volcanos, hurricanes, tsunamis, astronomy, the sun and solar system, or any other earth and planetary science topic, this is a great place to start.

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The Physical Environment

Michael Ritter

An excellent online-only physical geography textbook, with integrated videos, biographies, and more.

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Fundamentals of Physical Geography, 2e

Michael Pidwirny

A top-quality, online-only textbook that is part of a much larger site with many other resources.

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Physical Geography Glossary of Terms

Prof. Michael Pidwirny, Univ of BC, Okanagan

This hyperlinked ebook contains approximately 1800 definitions of commonly used terms in Physical Geography.

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An Outline of American Geology: Regional Landscapes of the United States

Stephen S. Birdsall and John Florin, both of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Web-only abridged version of print Regional Landscapes of the United States and Canada, 4th ed.

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Exploring Earth Companion Website

Published by McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

Very well done companion website to standard high-priced physical geology textbook.

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