This website explores the research of Dr. Kim Holland's shark and elasmobranch lab in Hawaii. The lab studies organismic and supraorganismic biology of fish, with a specific focus on sharks and their relatives. The lab makes use of its island location to combine field experiments with lab work. Dr. Holland's lab is a part of the Hawaii Institute for Marine Biology. The site contains numerous research ... Full description.

Life Without Light presents material describing the unique animal communities surrounding deep-sea methane seep habitats in the Gulf of Mexico. Visitors can study numerous photographs and brief text descriptions of tubeworms, mussels, ice worms, and other organisms that inhabit an ecosystem that exists in total darkness. Other materials include an article on deep-sea submersibles, videos of sea life ... Full description.

This non-profit organization provides technical tools and services to community groups, local governments and others to protect streams, lakes, and rivers. The web site features publications related to watershed planning and management and provides summaries of community projects. Technical tools available include Vulnerability Analysis, Watershed Assessment, Rapid Stream Assessment Technique, Retrofit ... Full description.

The Deep Biosphere Laboratory at Goteborg University consists of about 10 people whose unifying interest is in microbial life in underground and sub-seafloor environments. Visitors to the site can access summaries of research projects, personnel information, and links to publications on the topic of underground and sub-seafloor microbes. Research topics include microbes in deep Swedish and Finnish ... Full description.

This interactive map depicts real-time steam flow compared to historical stream flow for selected gauging stations in the United States and Puerto Rico. Users may select a state and choose a list of all stations in the state, a state map, or a list of the nearest stations. The map tracks short-term changes (over several hours) in rivers and streams. Its appearance may change very little from one hour ... Full description.

This database provides access to discharge data from the original UNESCO river archive in a digital format for use by researchers and planners in the water sciences community. While this is a very good global resource, it does not present information on rivers in the United States. Full description.

The ILEC promotes sustainable management of the world's lakes and reservoirs. This site offers information and links to training programs, conferences and publications that address the health and status of lakes around the world. The World Lake Database provides an alphabetical listing of lakes around the world. Data is provided for various parameters from size and area to water quality. An on-line ... Full description.

NOAA's Paleoclimatology Program is working with scientists from around the world to study past climate in hopes of achieving a better understanding of the Earth's present and future climate. This site was developed to help educate, inform and highlight the importance of paleoclimate research; as well as to show how paleoclimate research relates to global warming and other important issues of climate ... Full description.

This site offers an extensive collection of links to sites about water, life, and agriculture in the American West. Some of the articles are from the 19th century, when the arid, western United States was settled. Other pieces are more current and show how indigenous peoples of North America have survived in hostile terrains. Full description.

This site is a US Global Change Research Program Seminar, dated 23 November 1998. It consists of a series or reports that help students to understand how water has been used to transform desert regions into productive and livable environments. Full description.