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Mineralogy Club of Antwerp, Belgium: Mineralogy Software. Annotated index to some mineralogy, gemmology and crystallography software and database.
ATHENA, University of Geneva: Shareware related to science. Briefly annotated list.
Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, University of Texas, Austin: Geoscience and Engineering Software. A collection of software related to various Geoscience and Engineering fields. Access to Computer Oriented Geological Society, Cornell University, Geology Department, GSLIB, Int. Association of Math. Geologists, U.S. Department of Energy codes, U.S. Geological Survey codes.
AWI, Foundation Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research and MARUM, Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen: PANGAEA. The information system PANGAEA is a public data library on the Internet aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing geocoded data with special emphasis on environmental, marine and geological research. AWI and MARUM have commited to operate PANGAEA on a long-term basis. Go to: Software. The Software on this page is provided by the PANGAEA-Network for the visualization, exploration and interpretation of scientific data. The tools are freeware.
S. Baum, Dept. of Oceanography, Texas A&M University: Software for Graphics and Data Analysis.
W. Berendsohn, Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG): TDWG Subgroup on Biological Collection Data, Software for Biological Collection Management. This page lists software which is used in collection management.
! Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, CA: Databases and Software Lists. See also: Phylogenetics Software Resources.
Bob´s Rock Shop: Software for Rockhounds. Web page provides a mineral database and identification software and compression software.
Arthur B. Busbey, Department of Geology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas: Macintosh Geological Software. Index in alphabetical order of the product name.
John C. Butler, Department of Geosciences, University of Houston: Another Node On the interNet, (ANON). Geoscience Software Resources on the Web.
Comsol: FEMLAB (in German). CD "Model Library" free of charge. Including a chemical engineering module, an electromagnetics module, and a structural mechanics module.
E.R. Crain, Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, Canada: CRAIN'S PETROPHYSICAL HANDBOOK. An Online eText Reference Manual on integrated petrophysics and well log analysis with META/LOG shareware software. Free access, registration procedure required.
dmoz open directory project: Science: Software.
earthnet online. Service provided by the European Space Agency - ESRIN, Frascati, Italy. After registration procedure various accesses, e.g. to the SOFTWARE GALLERY to download software for reading satellite products or to check satellite routing, or to images.
! Earth Science Australia, Mineral Resources (copyright by American Geological Institute): Freeware Downloads. Most programs are self-extracting .exe files, but some programs offer extra features in shareware versions.
EJGE Magazine, World Wide Web of Geotechnical Engineers: Geotechnical Software Resources on the Net.
Entrance Software, Houston, TX: BSLS Online 1.0. Biostratigraphic Lithostratigraphic Column Generator. BSLS Online facilitates the construction of biostratigraphic and lithostratigraphic column charts. Free of charge!
! FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory (a project of the
Free Software Foundation, Inc.(FSF), Boston, MA,
and United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO).
Useful free software that runs under free operating systems —
particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants.
There are 4,386 packages indexed. Go to:
Geology.
Anthony Gary and Robert Ehrlich, Center for Industrial Imaging, Energy and Geoscience Institute, University of Utah: Technical Alliance for Computational Stratigraphy (TACS). TACS is developing a biostratigraphic workstation capability by building on existing applications and technologies, and through new technology development.
The Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Software Directory. A directory of geotechnical software, engineering geology software, hydrogeology software, geoenvironmental software, data analysis software and data visualisation software. Excellent!
GeoWeb Services Inc., Houston: GeoWeb Service Interactive. The goal of the site is to provide the best possible internet resource for serving the needs of all companies and professionals. See: Search Software, or Java Resources.
gINT Software, for Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Professionals. gINT is one of the leading brand of integrated geotechnical and geoenvironmental software, with over 5,500 licensees in 45 countries and a 18-year track record of success.
Institute for Geosciences, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz: Geoscience related Software.
Daniel Marshall, Department of Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada: Some Programs/Utilities, These are programs written by Daniel Marshall for general use, please feel free to copy them and/or give them to colleagues and friends.
Institut Méditerranéen d´Ecologie et de Paléoécologie, Marseille. PSIMPOLL and GPALWIN free to download! This programs runs only on Windows 95/98 or NT4.
The Microbeam Analysis Society: Microscopy & Micoanalysis Software Library.
MinServ (Geoscience Software), Wantirna, Australia.
NOAA Paleoclimatology Program, National Geophysical Data Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, Colorado: Free Software. A link list.
Oil Survey: Geo-software, engineering resources.
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The Paleobiology Database
(originated in the NCEAS-funded Phanerozoic Marine Paleofaunal Database initiative).
This is a public database of paleontological data that anyone can use, maintained by an international
non-governmental group of paleontologists.
The Paleobiology Database has been supported by many grants over the years, mostly from the
National Science Foundation. You may navigate from the
Paleobiology
Database Guest Menu or check out the
Frequently
Asked Questions. Please also note the detailed and excellent tutorial:
!
M.D. Uhen et al. (2023):
Paleobiology
Database User Guide Version 1.0 Free access,
PaleoBios, 40: 1-56.
See also
here
(in PDF).
Yvan Pannatier, University of Lausanne (Switzerland): Geostatistical Software for the PC. This site presents Microsoft Windows and DOS software which have been found useful for teaching spatial data analysis and geostatistic.
Price Watch: Street Price Search Engine. PriceWatch provides street prices for computers, CPUs, memory, storage, multimedia, input devices, output devices, accessories, connectibity products, software and various electronic products. As a kind of "robotic" service, it scans merchant prices and posts prices.
RockWare. Geology software for civil engineering, education, environmental applications, hydrology, mining, petroleum, and structural geology. Free downloads and utilities!
! J. Schindelin et al. (2012): Fiji - an Open Source platform for biological image analysis. Open access, Nat Methods, 9: 10.1038/nmeth.2019.
Schlumberger Limited (an oilfield services provider): Free Software Utilities. Tools for viewing and customizing your data.
The Soft Earth: Part 2 - Software and Software Sites. One of the most comprehensive indexes of annotated Geoscience Software. The Soft Earth is mirrored weekly at Mikael Niklasson´s page in Sweden.
Tim Spink, The Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Software Directory: Useful World Wide Web links. This page contains links to WWW software sites, directories of software and/or links to other sites. u!
SPSS Inc.: Today, more than 250,000 organizations use SPSS, a software for desktop analysis, to create and distribute information for better decision making. Fully functional demos of SIGMAPLOT and DELTAGRAPH are available.
Evgeny Stambulchik, WIS Plasma Laboratory: Grace. Grace is a WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool for the X Window System and M*tif. Grace runs on practically any version of Unix. As well, it has been successfully ported to VMS, OS/2 and Win9*/NT.
TexaSoft: Winks. Winks makes statistical data analysis understandable and easy to perform. Available for Windows 3.1, 95, 98 and NT.
Dave Waters, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford: Geological Software. An annotated bookmark list.
Pierre A. Zippi, Garland, Texas:
PAZ Software.
Geology, biostratigraphy, earth science software,
scientific software for Macintosh computers
(with costs).
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