No one checks these links very often. Expect some link rot. (Links last accessed 2/18/23)
We've also included some additional print-based sources, videos, and iOS/Android apps.
Marshall University Herpetology
All About Birds Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Feather Atlas (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
Tree ID (Leaf and Twig) Virginia Tech
Tree Fact Sheets Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech also has a nice iOS/Android app: "vTree"
A Guide to Creating Vernal Ponds
American Meteorological Society: Statement on Climate Change
NOAA: Paleoclimatology
Mauna Loa CO2
NASA: Climage Change
EPA: Cliimate Change
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2012 Holiday Lectures:
Changing Planet: Past, Present, Future
Lecture #3, "Earth's Climate: Back to the Future" and Lecture #4, "Climate Change:
How Do We Know We're Not Wrong?"are particularly relevant.
Book: Oreskes, Naomi; Conway, Erik M. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2010.
Bakken Shale at night from Robert Krulwich's NPR blog
Magazine articles:
"America Strikes New Oil." National Geographic, March 2013.
"The Facts Behind the Frack", Science News, September 8, 2012.
DVDs: Gasland, 2010. Gasland: Part II, 2014.
Book: McGraw, Seamus. The End of Country: Dispatches from the Frack Zone. New York: Random House, 2011.
Virginia Tech has a lot of local information on the gypsy moth. Also use their search function to find a lot of Cooperative Extension publications. (Page not updated since 2013)
Sue uses and recommends the "Topo Maps" iPad app (by Phil Endicott -- there are a number of apps with similar names). Although it costs about $10, all maps are free to download.
Other iOS/Android apps with topographic features are:
"Avenza Maps" - not all maps are free or of consistent quality.
"GPS Tracks" - Seems to have most of the local trails in the Governor's School area accurately mapped.
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