Recommended Web Sites

A guide designed to help individuals identify beaked whales based upon geography, external features, and characteristics of the skull, with images, stranding records, and more.

A site that works with others to provide the scientific understanding and technologies needed to support the sound management and conservation of our nation's biological resources.

Harvard University's Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, with links and search engines dealing with biochemistry and molecular biology.

The site for Harvard Stem Cell Institute, who is working toward a goal of ultimately understanding the disease proces and developint treatments, with research, education, events, and more.

A nonprofit medical research organization ranking as one of the nation's largest philanthropies, HHMI is working to understand the fundamental questions of human life through genes, cells, and other biomedical research.

An online biology textbook with up-to-date information on research and advances in biology.

A site aiming to share the wonders of the ocean to inspire conservation, education, research, and a sea ethic.

A collaborative program to provide data and information about the wildlife biological resources of the United States, with options to search or browse by species, ecological topic, habitat, or geographic region.

A blog put together by a group of scientists, mathematicians, and engineers dedicated to writing and releasing free and Open Source scientific software.

A federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences. The site includes discoveries, news, publications, statistics, and more from all fields.

Resources in a variety of bioscience categories, including animal health and wellbeing, botany, forestry, genetics, parasitology, whales, and more.

Links to plant distribution from all over the world, divided by region.

A database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns, and lycophytes, aiming to eliminate the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names.

A site providing standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.

A digital archive of plant anatomy, Walter T. Swingle, and other citrus and anatomy resources, including plant anatomy animations.

A site looking to promote knowledge of biodiversity and issues that affect everyone.

A site containing a variety of resources for faculty members who wish to integrate examples from Mars into a variety of undergraduate courses such as sedimentology, petrology, and hydrology.

An organization looking to bring together the people and tools needed to address some of the world's most difficult problems, from climate change and environmental degradation to poverty, disease, and the sustainable use of resources.

A site providing an easily accessible archive of high-quality images for use in educational applications.

Since almost 1.6 billion people in the world rely on forest resources for their livelihoods, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has developed an agenda to use forestry to reduce poverty.

A site, managed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group, aiming to increase awareness about invasive alien species and to facilitate effective prevention and management activities.

A site created and maintained by the National Invasive Species Information Center, serving as a reference gateway to information, organizations, and services about invasive species

A site from the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service, showing topical maps that represent wetlands and deepwater habitats. The information is then used by agencies, academic institutions, and private industry for management, research, policy development, education, and planning activities.

The Nature Conservancy is the leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people, protecting land and habitats and addressing threats to conservation.

The site of the Perkins Geology Museum with digital archives, program listings, geology resources, education resources, and more.

A database providing standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.

The Environmental Protection Agency's site on wetlands, with education and training, grants and funding, laws and regulations, pollution prevention and control, science and technology, and more.

The Genome News Network produces a lively and trusted online magazine that covers important developments in genomics research around the world, focusing on stories about genomics and human medicine, as well as the ways in which scientists are using genomics to find biological solutions to energy needs and environmental problems.

A site dedicated to genetics research, with sections for students, educators, patients, and health professionals, as well as news, issues, and career offerings.

A site from the American Museum of Natural History offering two methods of searching for Amphibian species from around the world.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Red List of Threatened Species conveys information about plant and animal species on its website, and is regarded as "the most comprehensive, objective global approach for evaluating the conservation status of plant and animal species." Visitors can learn about the ways in which the organization assesses the current status of each species, along with data sets for scientists and others.

A site dedicated to mammals and their diversity and distribution on earth from the Burke Museum's mammal collection, including carnivores, bats, rodents, primates, and marine mammals.

A database of mammalian taxonomy to be used as a convenient on-line reference for identifying or verifying recognized scientific names for taxonomic research.

A site aiming to enable users to identify crickets, katydids, and cicadas from America north of Mexico, and to attract amateur and professional biologists to the study of singing insects and to provide helpful information and access to literature.

A collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world, the Tree of Life Web Project gives information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, their evolutionary history, and images.