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ONLINE RESOURCES FOR HOFSTRA GEOLOGY STUDENTS

Students currently enrolled in geology courses should login to the My.Hofstra.edu Portal and click on the link to Blackboard for information and materials relating to their specific courses.

Degrees, Course Offerings, and Class Schedules
For information about geology degrees and course offerings, please consult the official Hofstra University Bulletin. Current course schedules can be accessed through the My.Hofstra.edu Portal (currently enrolled students).

Materials for Introductory Geology Courses
Students enrolled in Physical Geology 001 and other introductory courses will find the following resources useful:

• Geology 001 Syllabus Lab and Lecture (download pdf)
• Geology 001 Field Trip Information
• Geology 001 Field Trip Guidebook (Web version), (download pdf)
• Geology 001 Tutoring Schedule
• Geology 001 PowerPoint Presentation Assignment Instructions (download pdf)

• Earth Science Web Links

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GEOSCIENCE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION AT HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Geology of Long Island and New York City

• History of the New York City Water Tunnel System
• Sedimentary and Glacial Geology of Long Island
• Metamorphic Geology, Glacial Geology, and Tectonics of New York City and Long Island

Paleontology and Paleoecology

• Cretaceous Paleoecology of the NJ Coastal Plain
• Cretaceous Plant Fossils from Long Island
• Quantitative Paleoecology
• Fossil Trackways

Other Topics Farther Afield

• Appalachian Basin Marine Units and Cyclothems

TEACHING RESOURCES

Geology of Long Island and New York City

• Digital Elevation Model of Long Island, NY (images and QTVR movie)
• Queens Water Tunnel (annotated images)
• Minerals of New York City (annotated images)
• New York City Earthquake -Jan. 2001 (images, diagrams, text)

Paleontology and Paleoecology

• Virtual Reality Images of Fossils (QTVR movies)
• Marine Microfossils (teaching resources and Power Point presentation)

Petrology and Mineralogy

• Petrologic Image Gallery (petrographic thin section images)
• Rotating Petrographic Thin Sections (QTVR movies)

Panoramas and Virtual Field Trips

• Geological Panoramas (QTVR movies)
• Virtual Geology Field Trips
• Geologic Photo Tour of Iceland

Misc. Topics and Resources

• Starry Night Astronomy Labs (MS Word files)
• QuickTime Virtual Reality Multimedia for Teaching Geology

REFERENCE MATERIALS FOR GEOLOGISTS AND K-16 TEACHERS

• Professional Organizations Offering In-Service Credit to Teachers
• Geoscience Web Links
• Bibliographic Reference List - NYC, Appalachian, and Cordilleran Geology
• "On the Rocks" Field Trip Guidebooks to the Regional Geology of the New York / Southern New England Region by John Sanders and Charles Merguerian

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EARTH SCIENCE LINKS

Looking for more information? Here is a list of some of our favorite Earth-Science-related links to get you started.

• Featured Links
• General Geology / Earth Science
• Regional / New York State Geology
• Paleontology
• Planetary Geology / Astronomy
• Environmental Science / Hydrology
• Geology Education
• Other Useful Sites

Featured Links

Links to Web Sites by Physical Geology Topic (courtesy of McGraw Hill Publishing)

Open Directory Project - Earth Science Links (over 4000 links by category)

Environmental Science and Hydrogeology Job Search (ejobs.org)

General Geology / Earth Science

Useful Geological Links
US Geological Survey Home Page
Geological Society of America
AGI American Geological Institute
AGU American Geophysical Union
SEPM, Society for Sedimentary Geology
The Geological Survey of Canada (Natural Resources Canada)
British Geological Survey

Regional / New York State Geology

New York State Museum (excellent geological resources / displays)
Geologic History of Long Island (from Newsday)
Long Island Geologists - Conferences/Resources
Westchester Geology Home Page
Nearby Seismic Events from Columbia/Lamont
New Jersey Geological Survey
Pennsylvania Geological Survey

Paleontology

The Paleonet Pages
Open Directory Project - Paleontology links - 1000 links organized by category!

Oceans of Kansas - Fossil marine reptiles and more.
Dino Russ' Lair - A good jumping off point for information about dinosaurs.
British Geological Survey Fossil Focus - Basic information about different fossil groups.

Planetary Geology / Astronomy

Sky Online Astronomy Web Directory (an extensive list of links by category)
JPL Directory (Jet Propulsion Laboratory web pages)
Current Sky Events
NASA Clementine Moon Images
Mars Global Surveyor
NASA Galileo at Jupiter
NEAR Mission to Asteroid Eros
NASA's Planetary Photo Journal
Astronomy Magazine
NASA's Planetary Photo Journal (a large collection of planet images)
NASA's Spacelink - Earth images from space (a large collection of links to images)

Environmental Science / Hydrology

Massachusetts Office of Environmental Affairs (has a good environmental links page)
Pollution Online
Solid Waste Online
Water Online

Geology Education

National Association of Geoscience Teachers
National Center for Science Education (anti-creationism group)
National Science Teachers Association
New York Earth Science Teacher
How the Weather Works

Useful sites for finding images and diagrams for teaching
University of Bremen Mineral Gallery (large mineral images arranged by mineral family)
Smithsonian Gem and Mineral Gallery (large, high quality images)
NASA's Planetary Photo Journal (a large collection of planet images)
NASA's Spacelink - Earth images from space (a large collection of links to images)

Other Useful Sites

Newsday Series on Long Island's History
Science
Nature
Duke Geological Laboratory (home of our own Charles Merguerian!)