• Educational material:
  • Oulu Space Physics Textbook--online material at the University of Oulu, Finland.
  • The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere--on line text.
  • Perspectives on Plasmas--Basics--general plasma science.
  • POETRY--Public Outreach, Education, Teaching and Reaching Youth, NASA site for space physics education.
  • Atmospheric Structure--page by Bob Keesee, Univ. at Albany.

• Lists of links:
  • Spacecraft and Services by Discipline--at NSSDC
  • Space Physics Links--list by Univ. of Washington ESS.
  • Space Science Web Pages--list at Univ. of Iowa.
  • Space Weather Resources--list at Rice Univ., Houston, Texas.

• Up-to-date space weather and satellite data:
  • SpaceWeather.com--up-to-date space weather.
  • Space Environment Center--NOAA National Weather Service site.
  • Today's Space Weather--another NOAA NWS site.
  • Conditions in the Ionosphere--current plot of predicted ionosphere peak altitude.
  • Heavens-Above--satellite viewing predictions, site in Germany.

• Data sources:
  • Space Physics Space Science Data--at NSSDC.
  • SPIDR--Space Physics Interactive Data Resource at NOAA.
  • Ionospheric Data Archived at NGDC--at NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center.

• Programs and groups, general:
  • William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences--at the University of Texas at Dallas (in Richardson).
  • Journal of Geophysical Research--Space Physics--journal, subscription required.
  • UCLA Space Physics Center--at UCLA.
  • CEDARweb--site for Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions.
  • CISM--at Boston Univ., Massachusetts.

• Projects, ground-based:
  • HAARP--High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program in Alaska.

• Projects, space-based:
  • Space physics links--satellites and programs--more satellite/space probe links, list on this site.
  • SOHO--Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, joint NASA/ESA space probe.
  • NSSDC Master Catalog Spacecraft Query Form--at NSSDC, catalog lookup for space physics and other satellites.

• Aurorae:
  • Aurora Borealis in Minnesota--at Univ. of Minnesota.
  • NORDLYS--by Nordlyssenteret, Norway.
  • Aurora's Northern Lights--by Jan Curtis, Univ. of Alaska.
  • Aurora Page--at Michigan Technological Univ.
  • Auroral Activity Extrapolated from NOAA POES--NOAA POES satellite data.

• Geomagnetism:
  • Geomagnetic Field Frequently Asked Questions--at NOAA National Geophysical Data Center.
  • National Geomagnetism Program--at USGS.
  • World Data Center for Geomagnetism, Kyoto--at Kyoto Univ., Japan.

© 2005, 2006 by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified 29 August 2006.
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