Students & Public Resources
UH Libraries
Geosocieties
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Local
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State
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National
- American Association of Petroleum Geologists
- American Meterological Society
- Geological Society of America
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- National Science Foundation
- Society of Exploration Geophysicists
- Society of Sedimentary Geology
- US Department of Energy
- US Geological Survey
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International
Government, Corporate and Professional Pages
- American Geophysical Union
- American Association of Petroleum Geologists
- Department of Energy
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Geological Society of America
- International Association of Hydrogeologists
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI)
- NASA Home Page
- NASA/Johnson Space Center
- National Ground Water Association
- NSF World Wide Web Server
- Society for Sedimentary Geology
- Sandia National Laboratories
- U.S Geological Survey
- Yucca Mountain Project (YMP)
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Mapping
Geological Software
- Boss International
- Rockware
- Free Software for Mineralogy and Petrology
- Silicon Heights Computers
- SoilVision Systems, Ltd.
Hydrology
- International Association of Hydrogeologists Geo-Links
- USGS Water Resources
- Universities Council on Water Resources
Mineralogy, Crystallography, and Materials Science
Petrology and Geochemistry
Planetary Sciences
- Center for Mars Exploration
- NASA / JSC Earth Images
- NASA Planetary Data
- The Nine Eight Planets
- Project Galileo (JPL)
- Space Telescope Electronic Information Service
Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology
- American Association of Petroleum Geologists
- Web Resources for Sedimentary Geologists
- Society for Sedimentary Geology
- USGS Bedform Sedimentology
Structural Geology and Tectonics
Volcanology
- USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory
- Hawaii Volcano Observatory
- Alaska Volcano Observatory
- Michigan Tech's Volcanoes
- Space Radar Images of Earth
- U of Washington Volcano Systems Center
- Volcano World
Misc
- The National Park Service
- Geologists - Occupational Outlook Handbook
- Global Change Master Directory
- Department of Energy Office of Science and Technology Information (OSTI)
- Resources for Earth Science and Geography Instruction
- Earth and Ocean Sciences
Other Resources
- Workflow for obtaining GOM data
- Charting a course for a successful research career, 2nd Edition, Alan M. Johnson
- PetroWiki, Society of Petroleum Engineers: http://petrowiki.org/PetroWiki
- AAPG Wiki, American Association of Petroleum Geology: http://wiki.aapg.org
- SEG Wiki, Society of Exploration Geophysicists: http://wiki.seg.org/wiki
- Oilfield Glossary, Schlumberger: http//www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/en
- SEPM Stratigraphy Sepmstrata.org
- Virtual Seismic Atlas http://www.seismicatlas.org/
- Crain's Petrophysical Handbook https://www.spec2000.net/01-beginnersguide.htm
- Slides from Dr. Fred Schroeder on petroleum exploration: Archives.aapg.org/slide_resources/schroeder/
- How to get a job in Petroleum Geology (AAPG Explorer, June, 2017)
- Financial Survivor for Oil & Gas workers (free student edition)
- Program of 2016 Gulf Coast Section Imperial Barrel Award Competition_Houston
- 2016 Compensation, Recruitment, and Retention Guide to the Oil and Gas Industry
- Geosciences Careers
- Geo IT Support and available software at EAS Department
- CBTH K-12 Outreach
- AAPG Career Center: Making career connections in the world’s largest professional geological society
- AAPG UDRIL GIS Database
GIS-UDRIL (GIS Upstream Digital Reference Information Library) is an expansive project that provides digital products and services to upstream petroleum companies. It provides easy access to affordable, useful geological data in georeferenced formats for use in GIS mapping applications. - AAPG/Datapages Combined Publications Database
With the AAPG/Datapages you can search from the home page or browse content from over 40 publishers and societies. Non-subscribers may now view abstracts on all items before purchasing full text. - Background information on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) data
- EAS Self-study Report (2009-2013) (PDF)
- Funding Opportunities for all UH Undergraduates Doing Research (including EAS)
To present at meetings, contact Karen Weber at kweber2@central.uh.edu. - Glossary of Geology
- Grants for Undergrad, MS and PhD Student Research
- GOM Well Data from BSEE (PDF)
Obtaining Gulf of Mexico Geological and Geophysical Date from the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (by Sharon Cornelius, UH Phd Student, spring, 2013) - Guide to Writing Geophyscial Presentations by R. R. Stewart (PDF)
- Hallway Monitors Announcements Slideshow and Slide List *NEW*
- Making of Texas by plate tectonics (modified from Dalziel, Gahagan, UTG)
- Undergraduate Research Fellowship Travel Program
UH contact: Karen Weber ( kweber2@central.uh.edu) - Field trip guides to Houston and the Gulf Coast region
- GSA Special Papers available online through UH Library with UH ID
- GSA Memoirs available online through UH Library with UH ID
- Publicly available datasets from Gulf of Mexico through the SEG SEAM group
- Rigzone Article: "Tackling the Skills Shortage Challenge in the Oil, Gas Industry"
- Seismic Data - Compilation of publicly available seismic reflection data sets that can be used for graduate or undergraduate research.
- Software links compiled by Mineralogical Society of America (MSA)
- TerraElm - Teaching the next generation of scientists geologic concepts and reasoning
- Texas geologic and tectonic history — A 25 minute overview by Dr. Tom Ewing, Univ. of Texas BEG
- Tips on postdoc placements (Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers, National Academy of Sciences, 2000)
- Video on interviewing tips from the AAPG career center
Petroleum Geoscience Magazine (Sign up at GeoExPro with your @uh.edu email address to get free access to the digital version of GeoExPro.)
- The Encyclopedia of Earth - http://editors.eol.org/eoearth/wiki/Main_Page