Last update: May 07, 2008

Lecture notes and books (academic level)

• Theory of the Earth Presently out of print, but available electronically. Author: Don L. Anderson
• Samizdat Press electronic books
  Large collection of Academic lecture notes and publications for teaching.
• Albert Tarantola's pages
  Lecture notes and books, mainly on solving inverse problems.
• Zero Phase Digital Anti-Alias Filters: Problems and Cures. HTML pages. Author: Frank Scherbaum.
• Books Lecture notes Stanford. Fairly nice collection of academic level Lecture notes and books by Jon Claerbout and colleagues.
• Nonlinear Inversion and Tomography Author: James G. Berryman
• Digital seismology tutor Java Applet. Author: Frank Scherbaum.
• Transfer functions, system responses and calibration headers postsript pages Author: Axel Plesinger.
• Seismic Sensors and their Calibration (Elementary, more figures) Seismometry (Concise with some advanced topics, IASPEI publication) Author: Erhard Wielandt.
• Inversion of Geophysical data (German) HTML pages. Author: Wolfgang Friederich.
• Seismic wave theory (German) HTML pages. Author: Wolfgang Friederich.
• EPCC-TEC Course Materials Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) course material related to high-performance computing.
• Manual of Seismological Observatory Practise WWW-edition which is regularly updated within the Commission on Practise of IASPEI.

• Public Seismic Network Redwood City, CA, USA. For the advance amateur seismologist, with a.o. instructions of how to build your own seismograph system, recording system, available software to view professional seismograms, etc. Initiative: Larry Cochrane.
• Public Seismic Network Panama, maintained by Angel Rodriguez.
• Dominica Public Seismic Network, maintained by Wayne Abraham.
• The Public Seismic Network of San Jose, maintained by Stephen Hammond.
• Resia, Italy Experimental Seismic Station, maintained by Alberto Zanetti.
• New Zealand Public Seismic Network maintained by Dave Nelson map and Database of Amateur seismologists and their activities
• Amateur Seismic Centre The Amateur Seismic Centre (ASC) is dedicated to spreading knowledge and awareness of earthquakes, in South Asia, primarily in India, using the Internet. Based in Pune (Maharashtra), India, we monitor seismic activity in the region on an amateur basis.
• Friuli Experimental Seismic Network, Italy. A private network created by amateur seismologists in Italy. Contact: Giovanni Rotta.
• Italian Experimental Seismic Array, Italy. Network of (advanced) amateur seismic stations in Italy. Contact: Francesco Nucera.
• Amateur seismology web page Site with a number of relevant links for amateur seismology. Maintained by Mauro Mariotti.

School-yard seismology

• United States Educational Seismology Network A consortium of educational institutions whose mission is to promote the use of seismographs and seismic data for science education.
• Monschau school seismograph (german) , Germany.
• Copernicus Gymnasium Philippsburg (german), Germany. EduSeis partner.
• St. Michael Gymnasium, Aachen (german), Germany.
• Faust Gymnasium, Staufen (german), Germany.
• School-yard seismology (norwegian), Norway.
• UK School Seismology Program (english), United Kingdom

Public Information

• Public education for Earthquake Hazards by Sarah Nathe, Paula Gori, Marjorie Greene, Elizabeth Lemersal, and Dennis Mileti. General information on what to do and not to do with earthquakes and related subjects.
• Savage earth Online Archive site of the Public Broadcasting Station (PBS) with general information on earthquakes.
• BBC Science Earthquakes Information and basic background information on natural disasters. Recent earthquakes in the News.

Programs

• PEPP (Princeton Earth Physics Project), USA. Building a network of seismic recording stations in high schools across the US for students to study earthquakes and build research skills.
• SCEPP (South Carolina Earth Physics Project), USA. Like PEPP, in South Carolina.
• Real-Time K-12 Educational Seismic Network (Nevada Seismological Labn), USA. Similar to PEPP and SCEPP, in Nevada.
• EduSeis A European initiative to co-ordinate high-school educational seismology. Italian EduSeis pages. Co-ordinator Jean Virieux
• IRIS Education and Outreach, USA. Educational programs, internship, workshops, etc. designed in collaboration with the seismological and educational communities.
• US Educational Seismology Network (USESN) Promoting the use of seismograph and seismic data for science education

Resources

• SSA Seismology Resources
  SSA Seismology Resources for Teachers (old site). Interesting information for educational software. video's, books, etc. Seismological Society of America
• Introducing and Demonstrating Earthquake Engineering Research in Schools (IDEERS). Educational site from the Earthquake Engineering Research Centre at The University of Bristol, UK.
• Verband der Deutsche Schulgeographen (german) Relevant (school) educational links.
• EduQuakes On-line web component of the eduquakes column in Seismological Research Letters.
• Virtual Eartquake Interactive Web-based program. Introduces concept of Epicenter, Richter Magnitude, etc.
• Calculus Calculus project. Author: Jack Cohen. Contact. John Stockwell
• EarthView project Columbia University, New York, USA. Educational access to a wide range of contemporary information on the earth sciences.
• Earth & Mineral Sciences Learning Resources Penn State University, Department of Geography. Multimedia educational material to the text 'The Earth System'.
• Explorer Collection of educational resources for K-12 mathematics and science education. (instructional software, lab activities, lesson plans, student created materials, ect.)
• EqIIS Earthquake Image Information System Library of slides/photographs on earthquake related phenomena. Berkeley, California. US.
• General Earthquake information : handouts. Elementary earthquake information, statistics, magnitudes, maps, glossary, plate tectonics, etc. Useful for presentations, etc.
• WebEng Web based Procedures, Tools & Strategies for Internet Based Engineering Education.
• worldwide seismicity GIF picture.
• Body_wave Modeling Applet Java software. Fault plane drawing and pP, sP reflection coefficients. Author: Charles J. Ammon
• SAGUARO Science And GIS Unlocking Analysis & Research Opportunities (SAGUARO). Using GIS as a problem solving and inquiry tool in the Earth Sciences. Different modules on different aspects of Earth Sciences.

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