Earth Science
Black Smoker Expedition | AMNH web site
Follow the Museum's exciting mission to the bottom of the ocean to recover hydrothermal vents. The Black Smoker's web sites feature daily journals of scientists and teachers on expedition, plus resources, activities, games, and more.
Creating the Hall of Planet Earth | AMNH web site
A behind-the-scenes look at how Museum scientists collected the 130 rock specimens used in the Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth to tell the stories of our dynamic earth.
Earth: Inside and Out | book
In this book, edited by Museum scientist Edmond A. Mathez, essays by leading earth scientists describe exciting current research, from mapping the icy peaks of Mount Rainier to exploring the deep sea hot springs of the Northeastern Pacific. The book is part of a series published by The New Press and distributed by W.W. Norton to trade markets. Available Spring 2001
Earth: Inside and Out | AMNH web site
Look at the world through geologists' eyes and through geological time, using the Hall of Planet Earth as your classroom and the world as your lab, in this six-week seminar developed by the Museum and offered through Classroom Connect.
EarthBulletin | AMNH web site
EarthBulletin is the Science Bulletin located in the Museum's Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth. Feature stories on the EarthBulletin web site highlight recent earth events with data and earth images from the latest global imaging techniques.
Earth Journeys: Featuring the Hall of Planet Earth | offsite web site
Click through time, peel the planet, and learn about the difficult birth of the planet Earth on this expedition web site developed in partnership with Discovery Channel Online.
Kids in the Hall of Planet Earth | AMNH web site
This web site was designed by kids for kids to tell them what they really want to know about geology.
Safe Water | CDROM
In Safe Water, one of the Science Seekers CDROMs developed with and published by Tom Snyder Productions, students learn about groundwater flow and the use of computer models as they try to determine the source of pollution in a new well in the town of Fairview.