Links to earth science shareware and freeware repositories, as well as purchasing information from software companies.

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500Natural sciences|520Astronomy and allied sciences|
530Physics|540Chemistry and allied sciences|
550Earth sciences|560Paleontology|
570Life sciences|580Plants|590Animals|
600Technology|620Engineering and allied sciences|660Chemical engineering|900Geography. History.

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500 Natural sciences and mathematics

• 503 Dictionaries and encyclopedias

520 Astronomy and allied sciences

  Home Planet (John Walker) - Earth-space -sky simulator. Orbits, planets, stars,asteroids,comets and more.

• 521 Celestial mechanics
  

  521.3 Orbits
  Comet Hale-Bopp QuickTime Movies( created with Carina Software's Voyager II by Brian Monson, Univ. of Tulsa) - show the sun, earth, and the comet from 8/11/95 to at least 12/97. They clearly show that the comet misses the earth. No- nonsense very fast loading animations which are worth having.
  J-Pass 2,0 (NASA) - this is a programme which runs within your browser and plots a sky map showing the path of any satellite(man-made) directly overhead.  After setting up the programme (automatic) all you have to do is put in values for latitude and longitude, the time of day and then choose a satellite.  It will also show the positions of the International Space Station, MIR and the (US) shuttle when applicable.  Very useful for a realistic overview of all the satellites in orbit, as well as to know what you are actually seeing when you look up at night.
  Solar System Live- interactive orrery of the solar system. Date, viewpoint, objects and many other items can be entered.

• 522 Techniques, equipment, materials

• 523 Specific celestial bodies & phenomena
  
  • 523.3 The Moon
    
  • 523.4 Planets
    
• 524
  
• 525 Earth (Astronomical geography)

• 526 Mathematical geography
  
• 527 Celestial navigation
  
• 528 Ephemerides
  
• 529 Chronology

530 Physics

540 Chemistry and allied sciences

Instructional Software for Chemistry (St. Lower Simon Fraser, BC) - lists of software sources, demonstration materials and other resources of interest to chemistry teachers and course designers.
CTI Software Catalogue - well organised (by subject) catalogue giving addresses, prices etc. of chemistry software for teaching and research. (CTI=Computers in Teaching Initiative U.K)

• 541 Physical and theoretical chemistry
  Radiogenic Isotopes in Geological Sciences (Bob Cliff and the University of Leeds Computers and Teaching in Earth Sciences Team ) - this is one of several modules from the UK Earth Science Courseware Consortium. What you get from this link is a course outline description. If you really like it you can get a downloadable demo, or order the complete course (details online). The level is second to third year university, but if you are really keen there is no reason why you should not be able to learn a lot. It assumes little or no previous knowledge in chemistry or physics.
  
• 548 Crystallography
  Crystallography (Ann Dray and Trevor Emmett, Anglia Polytechnic University) - this is one of several modules from the UK Earth Science Courseware Consortium. What you get from this link is a course outline description. If you really like it you can get a downloadable demo, or order the complete course (details online). The level is first year university. Very clearly written, assumes no previous knowledge.
  
• 548 Mineralogy
  Optical Mineralogy (Dave Emley, George Rowbotham and Graham Lees, University of Keele). this is one of several modules from the UK Earth Science Courseware Consortium. What you get from this link is a course outline description. If you really like it you can get a downloadable demo, or order the complete course (details online). The level is first to second year university.
  
• Virtual Microscope (Open University, UK) -

   

550 Earth sciences

 

• 551 Geology, hydrology, meteorology
  
  • 551.1 Gross structure and properties of the earth
    
  • 551.2 Volcanoes, earthquakes, thermal waters and gases
    
  • 551.3 Surface and exogenous processes and their agents
    
  • 551.4 Geomorphology and hydrosphere
  • 551.5 Meteorology

• 552 Petrology
  
• 553 Economic geology
  
• 554 Earth sciences of Europe
  
• 555 Earth sciences of Asia
  
• 556 Earth sciences of Africa
  
• 557 Earth sciences of North America
  
• 558 Earth sciences of South America
  
• 559 Earth sciences of other areas

560 Paleontology and paleozoology

570 Life sciences and Biology

580 Plants

590 Animals

600 Technology (Applied sciences)

620 Engineering and allied operations

660 Chemical engineering

900 Geography, History.

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