Website designed by
Liz Chesser '04 and maintained
by Sue Swanson .
Please direct any departmental questions
to Chair Carl Mendelson
Page Last Updated April 21, 2008
Contents Copyright 2001-5 Beloit College
Website designed by
Liz Chesser '04 and maintained
by Sue Swanson .
Please direct any departmental questions
to Chair Carl Mendelson
Page Last Updated April 21, 2008
Contents Copyright 2001-5 Beloit College
Office of International Education - Beloit's center for study abroad. The college and geology department strongly encourage students to study abroad at some point in their undergraduate years. Geology students have gone to Tanzania, Ireland, Scotland, Turkey, Ecuador, and more!
The Journal of Young Investigators (JYI) is an undergraduate,online, peer-reviewed journal. It is run by undergraduates, for undergraduates. There is a research article side and a feature article side. There is information online about submitting research and/or feature articles; if you are interested in being involved, they are looking for staff members, and that information is also online.
The Suggestions to Authors of the Reports of the United States Geological Survey is the standard that papers are held to in the Geology Department. Here it is placed online in PDF files (Adobe Acrobat will be necessary to read the files) in small bits by section.
Ever needed graphics of geologic symbols, but been unable to find them? The USGS now has a website where you can download them for use with, among other things, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Check out http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of99-430/.
Ever needed to look at the periodic table? Now you can online! At http://www.webelements.com/ you can look at the table and get a lot of information about individual elements.
Looking for a geologic map? Try the National Geologic Map Database at http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/
Geological Society of America - GSA is the premier professional association for geologists. The Department attends the annual conference each year, and encourages students to attend.
Burpee Museum of Natural History - this museum, located in Rockford, Illinois, is the closest to us and the home of the annual Paleo Fest
Milwaukee Public Museum - museum of human and natural history
Geology Museum at UW-Madison - small and funky, but worth the visit
Field Museum of Natural History - the largest natural history museum in our area, known for Sue the T. rex, and destination of many field trips
Keck Geology Consortium - Beloit is proud to be an active member of the Keck Consortium, which is made up of twelve undergraduate geology programs which promote the study of geology, especially fieldwork and research. Each summer Keck runs four to five research projects for students, where they do field work and then come back and do lab work during the school year. Each student writes an abstract for their published abstract volume and gives a presentation at their conference.
GeoRef - GeoRef is the best database for goelogy-related articles, and the Department strongly encourages it's use for research papers. It is a service available through the library, and as such is only available from on-campus.
Carol Mankiewicz - sedimentology/soild and marine biology
Sue Swanson - hydrogeology, environmental geology
http://guide.agiweb.org - The American Geological Institue's "Guide to Geoscience Careers and Employers" offers information on careers within geology, internships and employment opportunities, and other related info.
Research Experiences for Undergraduates - the National Science Foundation funds many REUs each year, and posts all projects on this website
Friends of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area - general information and lots of specifics about each park in the area, rulings relating to wildlife and noise, and more
NASA's Geomorphology from Space
Strickler's Laws of GeoFantasy - Put together by Mike Strickler, a teacher at Rogue Community College and Grants Pass High School, it humorously captures some of geology's finer points
Geological Murphy's Law - very entertaining, particularly for those with field experience
National Ground Water Association
NGWA Sponsored Student Memberships - The NGWA has sponsored memberships available to full-time students studying in ground water related program!
Wisconsin Section of the American Water Resources Association
Wisconsin Water Policies Inventory - This new website debuted Earth Day 2004, and provides citizens with a way to navigate the state's major policies on any aspect of water including use, protection, quality, and management - policies can be searched by topic, keywords, and browder features.
NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - includes educational information, data sets, interactive maps of paleoclimate data, and many links
National Science Foundation's Paleoclimate site
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - complete on-line documents of the most comprehensive assessment of recent and future climate change, including the science, impacts, and politics of global warming
National Climatic Data Center - massive archive of climate records
Educational Module on Global Warming - includes information, interactive questions and answers, and movies
Wisconsin State Climatology Office - local climate information and links to other Midwest sites
NCEP/NCAR Data Bank - contains detailed weather and climate data collected since 1948
University of Wisconsin's Center for Climatic Research - online climate model output
Climate Diagnostics Center - interactive website that allows you to plot weather and climate data for user-defined times
University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Change web site - provides many plots of expected future climate change as projected by various climate models
Illinois State Museum Ice Age Exhibit - shows the Midwest during and after the Last Glacial Maximum 20,000 years ago, including a movie of the Laurentide Ice Sheet retreating
Climate Prediction Center - contains topical and educational information on general climate issues and forecasts
Syllabus from Carleton College's Paleoecology class - good journal links and background info
Alternate viewpoints - written by skeptics of global warming, it provides good alternate viewpoints on future climate change
USGS Photo glossary of volcanic terms - good information, covers many of the topics in igneous petrology
