SUBJECT GUIDE FOR URBAN COASTS

University and Private Research Organizations

This presentation evaluates Web Site resources related to Urban Coastal Research. Each site is evaluated based upon a set of criteria suggested by Jan Alexander and Marsha Tate, Reference Librarians at the Wolfgram Memorial Library. For a full description of their method see The Web as a Research Tool: Evaluation Techniques. This guide is limited to an examination of the home pages, or first page of, a Web presentation. A single presentation may contain numerous links to other pages within the same site and other sites. In the tables below there are four columns that are rated on a scale of 1 to 5. Click on one of the criteria for an explanation of the rating scale for that particular criteria. 

*Introduction
*University and Private Research Organizations
*National and International Governmental Agencies
*Miscellaneous - worthwhile sites

Name of Site and URL

Coverage

Accuracy

Authority

Objectivity

Currency

http://chs.ida.org/s04/s04.html Air Pollution Transport and Diffusion over Coastal Urban Areas

5

1

1

5

1

http://www.cas.usf.edu/coast_res/index.html Coastal Research Laboratory - Welcome to the Lab

3

1

5

5

4

http://www.utexas.edu/depts/beg/beg.html Welcome to the Bureau of Economic Geology

4

5

5

5

1

http://www.undp.org/seed/gef/guinea.htm Guinea GEF Project

4

1

5

5

1

http://www.wri.org/wri/wr-96-97/96tocful.html World Resources 96-97, Table of Contents

4

1

4

5

5

http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/src_oceanography.html Oceanography Information Server

1

5

5

5

0

http://www-ohiosg.osc.edu/OhioSeagrant/osgrant /com/shoreline/shoreline.html The Ohio State University Lake Erie Progams

2

4

5

5

1

http://www.utoronto.ca/Harvest/brokers/multienv/ Environmental Teaching and Research Search

    3

5

4

5

0

http://www.hpel.cees.edu/meerc/ Multiscale Experimental Ecosystem Research

    4

5

4

4

4

http://205.155.38.2/water_quality/urban.html Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary - Urban Runoff Essay

5

5

5

5

0

http://training.csd.sc.edu/recycle/ea_sol.htm Solid Waste

2

4

3

4

0

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