Maps & Images

• EarthRISE Photos (beautiful satellite photos -- searchable too! UCSD, USA)

• Flags of the Pacific Islands (inline images & historical info., Aust. Defence Force Academy, Aust.)

• Images of the Earth (the Pacific area) (satellite JPEG images from GMS-4, Japan)

• Map of Oceania (262K jpeg)

• Maps of Islands, Oceans & Poles (Perry-Castañeda Library, U. Texas, Austin, USA)

• Marquesas Fracture Zone Images (bathymetry data, MIT, USA)

Environment & Physical Features

• Animal Epidemiology Reports (includes SPC countries, OIE Information, 1992)

• (Indonesian) Atmospheric Scientific Community (not considered a "Pac. Is." country, but good info.)

• Children of the Tropics: El Niño and La Niña (B. Henson & K. Trenberth, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado, USA)

• Climate Variability & El Niño (Bureau of Meteorology, Aust.)

• Coral Reef Initiative (brief report by National Ocean Service, NOAA, USA)

• Coral Quest (Student directed learning adventure in French Polynesia! )

• Galapagos Coalition
  • Charles Darwin Research Station (Mirror site in USA much faster!)
  • Fernandina Volcano (Glapagos Is., P. Mouginis-Mark, Uni. Hawaii, USA)
  • Endangered Galapagos Giant Tortoise (World Conservation Monitoring Centre, UK)
  • Map of Galapagos Islands (19K gif)

• Gaia Forest Archive (G. Barry, Ecological Enterprises, USA)
  • World Wide Forest/Biodiversity Archives
  • South Pacific
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Solomon Islands

• Hakuho-Maru Cruise Plan: 1994-1998 (Japanese research vessel)

• Island (Plant) Migration Simulation (G. Staples -- 6th Grade teacher, WI, USA)

• National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS, USA)
  • Western Pacific Bottomfish & Armorhead Fisheries
  • Pacific Highly Migratory Pelagic Fisheries

• Oceania (general info. provided by City.Net!)

• Ocean Drilling Program (oceanographers studying core samples from atolls)
  • JOIDES Resolution (Drillship of the Ocean Drilling Program)

• Pacific ENSO Applications Center (NOAA funded pilot project, Uni. Hawaii, USA)

• Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (NOAA, USA)

• Pacific Ocean

• Pacific Rim Biodiversity Catalog (including Aust, NZ, PNG, & Cent. Pacific, UC Berkeley, USA)

• Schools of the Pacific Rainfall Climate Experiment (SPaRCE) (Uni. of Oklahoma, USA)
  • Schools of the Pacific Atmospheric Monitoring (SPAM) (Older site, Uni. of Oklahoma, USA)

• School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

• Surface Pressure and Ocean Wave Charts (North & South Pacific, Gold Coast Weather, USA)

• TOGA COARE (sample images from MIT/Vicars Radar, W. Pacific)

• Weather, Current Outlook (courtesy of UHM Metrology, USA)
  • Eastern Pacific
  • Central Pacific
  • Western Pacific

- - all pau!   (Last modified: 01 September 1998)