Links - National/International Earth
and Space Science
Initiatives and Programs
January,
2008
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Arctic Research Consortium of the US (ARCUS) - Formed in 1988 to identify and bring together the distributed human and facilities resources of the Arctic research community. |
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Digital Library for Earth System Science Education (DLESE) - Easy access to teaching and learning resources, services to help teachers effectively create, use, and evaluate digital learning resources, interfaces and tools to allow student exploration of Earth data. |
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EarthScope - A national earth science program to explore the structure and evolution of the North American continent and understand processes controlling earthquakes and volcanoes. |
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The GLOBE Program - A worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based science and eduation program. GLOBE supports an promotes students, teachers, and scientists to collaborate on inquiry-based investigations of the environment and the Earth system. |
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Integrated
Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) -
A new international partnership of scientists and research institutions
organized to eplore Earth's structure and history through scientific
ocean drilling. |
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InterRidge and Ridge - International cooperation in ridge-crest studies. |
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Margins - Program seeks to communicate to students and the public the outcome of its interdiciplinary research on continental Margins. |
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Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) - A program of the Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI), OOI wil construct a networked infrastructure of science-driven sensor systems to measure the physical, chemical, geological and biological variables in the ocean and sea floor. |
