Textbook Web Site

• Ch 1: Stratospheric Chemistry: The Ozone Layer

American Chemical Society

• "Chemistry in Context" student site
  • Ch 1: The Air We Breath
  • Ch 2: Protecting the Ozone Layer
  • Ch 3: The Chemistry of Global Warming
  • Ch 4: Energy, Chemistry & Society
  • Ch 5: Safe Drinking Water
  • Ch 6: Acid Rain
  • Ch 7: The Fires of Nuclear Fission
  • Ch 8: New Energy Sources
  • Ch 9: Plastics & Polymers
  • Ch 10: Designing Drugs
  • Ch 11: Nutrition - Food for Thought
  • Ch 12: Genetic Engineering

• Environmental Protection Agency
  
  
  • Topics
    • Air Pollution
      • Smog
      • Volatile Organic Compounds - Emissions in Tons/Day (1990) - Portland, OR
      • Nitrogen Oxides (NOx's) - How Nitrogen Oxides affect the way we live and breathe
    • Pollutants & Toxics
      • PCBs
      • Dioxins
      • Pesticides
      • Heavy Metals
        • Mercury
        • Lead
    • Cleanup
      • Superfund - Portland Harbor
    • Wastes
    • Drinking Water Homepage
      • Local Drinking Water Info - Oregon
      • Drinking Water Contaminants
      • Links to Drinking Water Contaminants
        • Glyphosates
        • Nitrates/Nitrites
          
          
  • EPA Methods
    
    
  • Oregon's Environment
    • Oregon Superfund Sites
      
      
  • Surf Your Watershed
    
    
  • Oregon
    • Lower Willamette
    • Middle Willamette
    • Upper Willamette
      
      
  • National GIS Data
    
    
  • EnviroMapper - Portland Harbor Area - Superfund Site Progress Profile - Site Narrative
    
    
  • National Agriculture Compliance Assistance Center

Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality - Portland Harbor - Map of Cleanup Sites (PDF) - Facts and Newsletters

Water Quality
Water Quality Limited Streams 303(d) List - Map of Streams
Oregon's 1998 303(d) List

Water Quality Index Report for Lower Willamette (1995)
Water Quality Index Report for Middle Willamette (1995)
Water Quality Index Report for Upper Willamette (1995)

Willamette Basin Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs)
- Characterization Of Bacteria Concentrations At Water Recreational Sites In The Middle Willamette River, July 1999 - Appendices
- Characterization of Skeletal Deformities in Three Species of Juvenile Fish From the Willamette River Basin, February 2000
- Bioassay for Fish Embryo Development, September 2000

                                                                  - Arsenic - White King & Lucky Lass Mine Sites
                                                                                  - Reynolds Metals Company
                                                                                  - Allied Plating Inc

                                                                  - Cadmium - Rose City Plating
                                                                                     - Formosa Mine

• The National Biological Information Infrastructure
  • Amphibian Declines: An Issue Overview
  • Amphibian Declines and UV Radiation
  • Teacher Resources
  Amphibian Specialist Group - FROGLOG
• AmphibiaWeb
• North American Amphibian Monitoring Program
• USGS Frog & Amphibian Page
• Prof. Andrew Blaustein's Homepage

• Willamette Riverkeeper - Newsroom
• Willamette River Water Quality Map (from Oregon State University and the Corvallis Environmental Center)
• Department of Environmental Quality
• USGS Water Resources of Oregon
• Map of Willamette Basin Land Use (USGS)

• United States Geological Survey
  
  
  • Water Resources of the United States
    • Region 17 Pacific Northwest
      • Luckiamute River Near Suver Historic Data
        
        
  • Western Region Geologic Information
    • Geologic Info About Oregon
    • Shaded Relief Map of Oregon
      
      
  • Water Science for Schools
    
    
  • USGS Water Resources of Oregon
    
    
    • Google Map Realtime Streamflows
    • Interactive U.S.G.S. River Gauges
      • NW River Forecast Center (Willamette Basin)
        • Luckiamute River (Suver)
        • Mary's River (Philomath)
    • Current Streamflow Conditions
      • Willamette River at Harrisburg, Albany, Salem, Oregon City (below falls), Portland
      • Pudding River - near Woodburn, Aurora
      • Tualatin River - near Dilley, at West Linn
      • South Yamhill River - at McMinnville
        
        
  • Online Reports
    
    
    • "Arsenic in Ground Water of the Willamette Basin, Oregon"
      • Abstract
      • Complete Report (HTML) - Plate 1 (GIF file 222 Kb)
      • Complete Report (PDF file - 1.2 M)
        • Plate 1 (PDF file)
        • Polk & Linn Counties (enlargement of Plate 1)
        • Eugene Area (enlargement of Plate 1)
        • Tualatin Area (enlargement of Plate 1)

• "Distribution of Dissolved Pesticides and Other Water Quality Constituents in Small Streams, and their Relation to Land Use, in the Willamette River Basin, Oregon, 1996"
  • Abstract
  • Complete Report (PDF file - 1.9 M)

OZONE LINKS [top]

• Get your longitude and latitude here (census.gov) to find your total column ozone level (NASA).
• NASA Ozone Hole Watch
• NASA TOMS Ozone website  - Global Ozone Maps - Sept '99, Oct '99, Nov '99, Dec '99, Jan '00, Feb '00, Mar '00, Apr '00, May '00, Jun '00
  
• NASA Resource Materials for Educators
• Today's Global Ozone Satellite Image (via FTP)
  
  
• National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center
  • Stratosphere: Winter Bulletins - N. Hemis. Winter Summary 1979-1995
  • National Weather Service Current UV Index Forecast
    
    
• EPA Ozone Webpage - The Ozone Depletion Process - Stratospheric Ozone Depletion: A Focus on EPA’s Research (PDF)
  
  
• NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
  • Data Visualization >> South Pole Ozone Hole
  • South Pole Ozone Animations
    
    
• Solar Survey Archive - High resolution solar spectra
• Cycles of the Earth and Sky
• The Ozone Hole Tour - University of Cambridge
• The Polar Vortex
• World Meterological Organization

• The Oregonian - Articles

3-D MODELS TOXIC CHEMICALS [top]

NOTE: 3-D models require the CHIME plug-in.

• Chemical Bonds, Molecular Models and Molecular Shapes
• Insecticides
  1. DDT and DDE - insecticide and its metabolite
  2. Lindane or BHC (benzene hexachloride)
  3. Aldrin
  4. Parathion and Malathion
• PAH's
  1. Benzo[a]pyrene
• Misc
  1. Biphenyl
  2. Furan
  3. Tetraethyllead

• Amphibian Declines - FrogWeb Educational Resources
                                    - Teacher's Toolbox
• Water - USGS Water Science for Schools
• Ozone - Resource Materials for Educators
              - NASA Educational Materials
• General - Resources for Earth Science and Geography Instruction - Science Lesson Plans
• Environmental Awareness Link

• National Cancer Institute - Nitrate in Drinking Water Associated with Increased Risk for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

• State Service Center for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) - Oregon Spatial Data Library
• GIS Data Depot - United States - Nation-wide Data
                                                        - US State-Wide Data - Oregon - Oregon State-Wide Data
                                                                                                             - Oregon County-Wide Data - Polk County

GLOBAL WARMING [top]

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
  • IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4)
    • Working Group I Report "The Physical Science Basis"
    • Working Group II Report "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
    • Working Group III Report "Mitigation of Climate Change"
      
      
• Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC)
  • Atmospheric Measurements of Climate-Relevant Species
    • CO2
      
      
• North Greenland Ice core Project (NGRIP)
  
  
• Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP)
  
  
• Nature Magazine
  • Nature Reports - Climate Change
    
    
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  • NOAA's National Climactic Data Center - World's Largest Archive of Climate Change Data
  • Ice Core Data
  • Paleoclimatology Slide Sets
    
    
• NASA
  • Earth Observatory
    • Climate and Earth’s Energy Budget
    • Deforestation
    • Global Warming
      
  • The Visible Earth
    • Global Albedo
    • Animations
      
• NASA Terra Satellite
• TOMS
  • Aerosols
    
    
• Environmental Protection Agency
  • EPA Climate Change Webpage
    
    
• The New York Times Science Page
  • Global Warming Section
    
    
• GlobalWarming.org - a website dedicated to disproving global warming