http://www.uic.edu/orgs/paleo/homepage.html (Einblicke ins Internet, 10/1995)

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The Paleontological Society Homepage

a WWW resource for paleontologists

Welcome to the Paleontological Society home page! This page contains information on the society and its activities and acts as a link to other paleontology resources on the World Wide Web. We will add to it as time goes by. Enjoy!

For the latest information, click here to get the PS Gopher.

Click here for a neat paleontologically related cartoon.

Here is the Society's Code for Fossil Collecting

Information on the society:

What is the Paleontological Society?

Names and addresses of officers

Society committees

Society activities:

Grants-in-aid

International Research Program

Society awards

Short Courses

Society publications:

Society special publications list

An online version of Priscum, the society's newsletter

Links to other paleontology resources:

Museums

The marvelous WWW server of the University of California Berkeley Museum of Paleontology.. Includes online exhibits, museum catalogs, and links to other resources.

The homepage of the Field Museum of Natural History" features a multimedia exhibit on dinosaurs!

The Florida Museum of Natural History is pleased to announce the third searchable database has been added to its web site. The Florida Geological Survey collection joins the Pierce Brodkorb fossil bird collection, and the Invertebrate Paleontology type collection as multi-parametered searchable on-line databases.

Homepage for the The Hunterian Museum in Glsgow.

Organizations

The Geological Society of America now maintains a homepage which includes the complete schedule, by day and discipline, for the Annual Meeting.

The homepages of the American Geophysical Union

and the Ecological Society of America.

The home page of the Morrison Research Initiative

The Web site of the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists is now online. The site has information about the Association, its publications, its activities, and how to join. It also includes the issues of the AASP Newsletter.

Information on SEPM Special Publications

A homepage maintained by the International Organisation of Palaeobotany. Contains copies of their newsletter, a plant fossil record database, and a place for discussions.

Other

For anyone interested in East Asian Earth Sciences. It includes links to radiolarian pages!

Overall Knowledge Company, Inc. has launched the Museum Online Resource Review ( MORR) on the World Wide Web. MORR is an annotated directory of museum online resources and activities on the World Wide Web and other areas of the Internet. MORR also includes a searchable listing of companies that supply products and services to museums.

The Gulf of St. Lawrence Microfossil Catalogue contains images of Late Quaternary foraminifers and ostracods from the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Links to 380 images are now available.

Information on field opportunities, as well as other paleontological links, can be found on Russ Jacobson's Earthnet Info Server

A 3-D cynodont reconstruction by Tim Rowe!

Send comments, questions, and information to:

Roy E. Plotnick

Geological Sciences

University of Illinois at Chicago

plotnick@plotnick.geol.uic.edu