MY STUDENT SUCCESS TIPS:
Fail-safe study (and test-taking ) technique
Plagiarism and How to Cite Sources

SEARCH ENGINES: Google & Google Scholar | Yahoo! |
RESEARCH GUIDE TO BIOLOGY: PCC Library: Research Guide to Biology |
SUBJECT GUIDES: Wikipedia | Environmental Organization Web Directory | SciCentral | About.Com | Refdesk.com | Encyclopedia of Earth |

HOW TO FIND INFO ON WEB: Berkeley Tutorial |
HOW TO CITE SOURCES: Duke University Libraries: Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism |

COLLEGE:  | Schedule of Classes | PCC | UofA | ASU | NAU | Course Equivalence Guide |
LIBRARIES: PCC | UofA | Tucson-Pima Public |
JOBS: Student Conservation Assoc

TIME & WEATHER: Time | Tucson Weather (Yahoo) | Weather Net | Tucson Data (National Weather Service) |

NEWS: Daily Star | CNN | AJR list of news sources | U.S. News Online | NY Times | ABC news |
SCIENCE NEWS: | Science Daily | Nova Science News | SciCentral | Science News Magazine | The Why Files

HOW TO WRITE LAB REPORTS: | Labwrite | Writing Guidelines |

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES: The Whitehouse |
Federal Land Management: BLM | NPS | USFS | USFWS | Recreation.gov |
Other Federal: EPA | CDC | DOE | NASA | NMFS | NOAA | NSF | USGS | WHO |
State and Local: Arizona | AZ Dept. of Environ. Quality | AZ Dept. of Water Resources | AZ Energy Division | AZ Game and Fish | AZ State Parks | Pima County Dept of Environ. Quality -- Air Info Now | Soil, Water and Environmental Science Dept., UA | Tucson | Tucson Water | Water Resources Research Center, UA | National and International Statistics -- Gov't Docs |

SCIENCE ORGANIZATIONS/PERIODICALS: BioJournals List |
BioScience | Discover | National Academy of Sciences | Nature | New Scientist | Science | Science News | Sci American |
Environment-Related Societies, Journals, Sites from Oak Ridge National Laboratory -- Environmental Sciences Division |

ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS:  Environmental Organization Web Directory
General: EE Link | EnviroLink Library | ENN | Global Network of Environment and Technology |
Specific Organizations: Audubon | Defenders of Wildlife | Dieoff.org | Envir. Defense | Forest Guardians | Green Peace | League of Conservation Voters | Marine Conservation Biology Institute | National Geographic | National Wildlife Federation | Negative Population Growth | Population Reference Bureau | Sierra Club | The Nature Conservancy | Union of Concerned Scientists | World Conservation Union | World Wildlife Fund | Worldwatch Institute | Zero Population Growth |

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE TEXTBOOK SITES
Pearson/Benjamin Cummings | Environet (Jones and Bartlett Publ.) Cunningham and Cunningham's Environmental Science Site (McGraw-Hill) |
Prentice Hall Environmental Science | McGraw Hill | Wiley |

LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Arid Lands Newsletter | Arizona Geological Society | Arizona Native Plant Society | Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum | Boyce Thompson Arboretum | Carl Hayden Bee Research Station | Native Seeds/Search | Phoenix Zoo | Reid Park Zoo | Sonoran Arthropod Society | Center for Biological Diversity | Southwest Parks and Monuments Association | Tohono Chul Park | Tucson Audubon Society |  Tucson Botanical Gardens |

DESERT INFORMATION (see local organizations for additional resources):
Desert USA | Deserts: Geology and Resources | Chihuahuan Desert Natural History |

TEACHING RESOURCES:
Access Excellence in Biology | Action Bioscience | Arizona Virtual Science Center | BBC Education Web Guide | Environmental Education on the Internet | ERIC Search for Educational Info. | National Science Education Standards | Science and the Environment | Biology Learning Center at UofA | Biology Project: U of A | The Biology Place | Coalition for Education in the Life Sciences (CELS) | ESA EdWeb | Syllabus | Nat. Assoc. of Biology Teachers | National Association for Research in Science Teaching | EE Link | Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science | THE Journal | Cyberlearn | Online University Teaching Centers | SciEd: Science and Mathematics Education Resources | The Critical Thinking Community | Teaching Tips | RISE: Resources for Involving Scientists in Education | The Green Frog News | Links to a Better Education from the Chemistry Coach | The-Science-Lab.com | Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology |

BIOLOGY TOPICS:
Biology Online | Online Biology Book by M.J. Farabee, Estrella Mt CC | Animal Diversity Web | Tree of Life | The Electronic Zoo | Biology Index by USGS | WWW Virtual Library: Ecology | The Ecology Channel | The Bear Den's List of Wildlife-related Web Sites | NASA's Mission to Planet Earth | CNN Environment News | Discovery Channel | AAAS Population and Sustainable Development Program | AAAS Biodiversity Information and Research | EE Link Endangered Species | Texas Parks and Wildlife | Global Change | Woods Hole Research Center |

GEOLOGY TOPICS:
Teaching Geology at CU Resources |

EPIDEMIOLOGY: | Introduction to Microbiology | American Museum of Natural History Exhibition: Epidemics! | National Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC | Emerging Infectious Diseases J. | Infectious Disease Weblink | A Prevention Strategy for the United States CDC | Emerging Infectious Diseases: World Health Day Information - 1997 | 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic | EXCITE | The Challenge of Antibiotic Resistance: Scientific American 3/98 | Outbreak  with links | CDCs links | Evolution and the Origins of Disease: Scientific American 11/98 | The Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics |

MISCELLANEOUS:
Biodiversity of Southern Arizona | Geoscience of Southern AZ | by Denise Meeks
MapQuest's Aerial Photos on GlobeXplorer | Visible Earth |
Math and Sciences Study Skills and Overcoming Test Anxiety by PCC's Cindy Arem |
Web Page Analyzer: Dr. Watson |
Tucson Bird Count |
Dept. of Soil, Water, and Environmental Science, U. of A. |
Your Ecological Footprint Quiz | More info on Ecological Footprint
Sonoran Conservation Plan: | The Plan | Newswire | Owl Economic Impacts | How ESA affects cities |
Elephant Seal Site
A Science Odyssey: PT
Nan Schmidt's Marine Life Photo Gallery
AIBS Media Library

RECOMMENDED CLASS READINGS:
Diamond, Jared.  1995. | Easter's End | Lots more Easter Island Info |
Hardin, Garrett.  1968.  The Tragedy of the Commons.  Science 162(1968):1243-1248.
Leopold, Aldo. 1949.  Thinking Like a Mountain.
Antibiotic Resistance:
Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics (APUA): | Home | Questions/Answers | Related Websites |
CDCs website: http://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/community/
NIHs factsheet: http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/antimicro.htm
Center for Science in the Public Interest: http://www.cspinet.org/ar/
Environmental Defense: Antibiotic Resistance: Playing Chicken with Essential Drugs: http://www.environmentaldefense.org/documents/619_abr_general_factsheet_rev2.pdf
Understanding Evolution (UC Berkeley): http://evolution.berkeley.edu/: a website for teachers. See also National Assoc. for Science Education.
Evolution (PBS): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/
Paul F. Kamitsuka, M.D. essay on antibiotic resistance: http://www.livingintheenvironment.nelson.com/student/essays/Kamitsuka_current_peril.pdf
Plate Tectonics:
This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics
Volcano World's Introduction to Plate Tectonics
Western Region Geological Information USGS
Exotic/Invasive Species:
Invasive Species: The Nation's Invasive Species Information System: Invasivespecies.gov
Weeds Gone Wild: Alien Plant Invaders of Natural Areas: Plant Conservation Alliance - Alien Plant Working Group
Evolution
Berkeley: Understanding Evolution
The National Academies on Evolution
National Center for Science Education on Evolution
Tree of Life web project
PBS: Evolution
Global Warming

Misc.
Handbook of Biological Statistics: John McDonald, Univ. of Delaware
Link to video on RNAi: here
Global Warming UA Lecture Series site: http://cos.arizona.edu/climate/
Global Warming links (UA): here and also here
Link to video regarding learning seasons: A Private Universe
Link to video of bee waggle dance
Link to Biology of the Honeybee
Searchable Ornithological Research Archive (SORA): http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/
Owl pellet dissection
World Clock by Poodwaddle.com
Critters!
Link to The Corporation ch. 18 on water privatization
Links to Hernan Aubert's section of Bio105 (F 8:40-2:50): Example literature review | final report | Pacific blue shrimp article