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Net, library, reference resources

NetTrail UCSC's Information Literacy Tutorial
You should be knowledgeable about the material covered in this tutorial.

Pieces on Scientific Presentation

Excellent resource on giving scientific presentations and posters
Scientifically Speaking

The Gettysburg Address powerpoint presentation

Resources on Writing

Any of Diana Hacker reference books on writing, including A Writer's Reference, see Hacker's website

The classic Elements of Style by W. Strunk, Jr., and E.B. White

New/newsworthy items

Subduction

Mantle Plumes

Website on mantle plumes

Maps

Online map creation

Topography/bathymetry of Earth's surface

International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO)

NOAA/NGDC Marine Geology and Geophysics
Explore various links here, includes--

Global Seafloor Topography from Satellite Altimetry

and an explanatory article: EXPLORING THE OCEAN BASINS WITH SATELLITE ALTIMETER DATA

See also: Global Sea Floor Topography from Satellite Altimetry and Ship Depth Soundings
Walter H. F. Smith, David T. Sandwell, Science Volume 277, Number 5334, Issue of 26 Sep 1997, pp. 1956-1962

Total sediment thickness

Plate tectonic reconstructions for the past 150 m.y.

Ocean Circulation

World Ocean Circulation Experiment WOCE

See especially the WOCE atlas series

World Ocean Data Atlas 2005 (WOA05)

World Ocean Atlas 2005 figures (WOA05F)

Scientific Ocean Drilling

Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

Ocean Drilling Program

Ocean Leadership

Other material

"Could a single bubble sink a ship?" article