http://www.isvr.soton.ac.uk/

At this website, the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) at the University of Southampton features its research and educational opportunities dealing with noise and vibrations. Users can find materials about virtual acoustics, aeroacoustics, high frequency vibrations, and many other ISVR projects. Researchers can learn about ISVR's vacancies and about upcoming conferences such as the international Noise and Vibration (NOVEM) meetings. The work presented at this website is a great example of how an understanding of physics can benefit people's lives. [RME]

http://solim.geography.wisc.edu/index.htm

The SoLIM (Soil Land Inference Model) Project, based in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, "is a new technology for soil mapping based on recent developments in geographic information science (GISc), artificial intelligence (AI), and information representation theory." Visitors can learn about the many limitations to the current soil survey and how SoLIM's approach has tried to overcome these limitations. Users will find a detailed summary of two of SoLIM's projects: updating the Dane County soil survey and applying the SoLIM approach to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park soil survey. The website offers a summary and tutorial to the 3dMapper, "a landscape visualization and three-dimensional mapping application". [RME]

http://www.geophysics.buffalo.edu/

The University of Buffalo's geophysics group studies primarily "problems related to noninvasive characterization of the upper 200 meters of the subsurface." Visitors can find an introduction to the field of environmental geophysics and discover how the research can benefit society. The website offers a brief synopsis of the group's research projects and funding as well as descriptions of its equipment and a lengthy list of publications. Researchers interested in this type of work can learn how to collaborate with the geophysics group. [RME]

http://hercules.geology.uiuc.edu/~tmjohnso/index.html

At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Professor Tom Johnson's environmental geology research group is currently investigating the fate and transport of redox-sensitive contaminants. The website offers descriptions and helpful figures explaining the group's four main projects dealing with selenium isotopes, chromium isotope ratios, the fate and transport of nitrates, and isotope ratios as groundwater flow tracers. Visitors can find a list of the facilities available to the group including in-depth details at the thermal ionization mass spectrometer. [RME]

http://wave.xray.mpe.mpg.de/

This website features the latest space science news, research activities, projects, and laboratories of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics' X-Ray Astronomy group. Visitors can view images and read clear summaries of its research in the areas of galactic and extragalactic astronomy. Researchers can learn about the group's instrumental techniques using soft and hard X-rays such as imaging with Wolter telescopes and multi-wire proportional counters. In the Data Center, visitors can explore the group's data analysis software and user data archives. The site provides links to its innumerable collaborators. [RME]

http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/index.php

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) created this website to display its role in the scientific research, surveys, and long term observations of the past and present environments of Antarctica and the surrounding regions. After discovering the mission and organization of BAS, visitors can learn about BAS's interests in Antarctic ice and rising sea levels, climate change, the ozone hole, and the evolution of the geosphere. The site supplies press releases, publications, and materials on meetings and conferences. Researchers can find numerous links to geological, physical, environmental, and biological data resources. Students can explore the ice, rock, and weather of Antarctica. After learning about the difficulties of living and working on this frigid continent, users may have a new appreciation for the researchers' work. [RME]

http://www.physics.ucdavis.edu/Cosmology/Cosmology_Group.html

This UC-Davis web site promotes its cosmology research, investigators, and related events. Users can find links to the group's four main research projects: Deep Lens Survey, The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), the proposed development of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), and Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty - cm (FIRST). The site offers extensive descriptions and images of many of the individual researchers' activities as well. Visitors can find a series of links to external cosmology research, educational opportunities, and groups. [RME]

http://www.ul.ie/~cer/

The Centre for Environmental Research (CER) encompasses research in many science areas at the University of Limerick including biochemistry, hydrogeology, geochemistry, and hydrology. The website features the current projects of the director, Professor Richard Moles, whose interests incorporate "integrated assessment, system dynamics and spatial modelling, interactive research, sustainable development, plant and bird ecology, landscape evolution, soil science, geomorphology, and pollution pathways." Users can find links to CER's three main themes: environmental catalysis and chemistry, scientific management of environmental quality, and environmental technology. There, individuals can obtain extensive information on the researchers, their interests, and publications. [RME]