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https://stansweather.net/chase-logs
Stan Olson's storm chasing archive covers decades of severe weather pursuits across Illinois, Indiana, Oklahoma, and beyond, with individual chase logs dating back to 1999. Each entry chronicles a specific storm chase event, including notable encounters like a tornado near Elmwood IL and a high-risk chase in North Central Oklahoma, making it a compelling firsthand record of Midwest storm chasing.
https://costajulio.tripod.com//cv/astronomy.htm
Julio Costa shares his lifelong passion for amateur stargazing, recounting memorable early encounters with telescopes and the purchase of a Celestron 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector. The page includes personal photos of the moon and Jupiter with its moons, accompanied by warm, humorous writing about the joys and quirks of backyard astronomy.
https://casonline.org/
The Calumet Astronomical Society (CAS) maintains this site for their Indiana-based astronomy club, featuring information about the Conway Observatory, a monthly star chart, open house schedules, and meeting details at the Munster Library. Members and stargazers can find membership applications, donation options, and a photo gallery documenting the club's history and activities.
https://westernsoundscape.org/
Housed at the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library, the Western Soundscape Archive offers thousands of audio recordings of animal species and ambient environments across eleven western U.S. states and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Visitors can search or browse recordings of over 570 bird species, frogs, toads, reptiles, mammals, and wild landscape soundscapes contributed by volunteers, government agencies, and conservation groups.
https://nccc.cc/
The Northern California Contest Club (NCCC) is an ARRL-affiliated amateur radio club founded in 1970, with over 300 active members dedicated to competitive radio contesting, DXing, and antenna construction. The club boasts an impressive record of contest wins including 17 ARRL Sweepstakes unlimited club competition victories and has been running the California QSO Party since 1974.
https://michaelbach.de/ot/index.html
Michael Bach's massive collection of 154 optical illusions and visual phenomena combines interactive experiments with scientific explanations grounded in vision research and perceptual psychology. Each illusion is presented with thoughtful commentary on how the brain's visual shortcuts create misleading interpretations, making this an exceptional resource for anyone curious about how human perception actually works.
https://academics.cehd.umn.edu/hatch/default.htm
Produced by the staff of the James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History at the University of Minnesota, this reference site covers the distribution and ecology of native and introduced fish species found in Minnesota. Curated by Andrew M. Simons and Jay T. Hatch, it serves as both a scientific resource and a public education tool tied to the museum's fish collection.
http://astrosurf.com/jordigallego
Jordi Gallego's deep sky astrophotography site showcases stunning images captured since 2008 from his private Fosca Nit Observatory in Àger, Spain, one of southern Europe's darkest sky locations. The site combines aesthetic long-integration imaging with technical depth, including full equipment and processing notes per image, plus a dedicated section for exoplanet transit photometry observations.
https://qsl.net/wmars
The West Marin Amateur Radio Society (WMARS) is a California ham radio club dedicated to fostering the hobby in western Marin County, with a notable public service mission to preserve the historic Marconi Conference Center, the site of Guglielmo Marconi's west coast radio operations from the early 1900s. The site includes membership info, a calendar of events, 1999 Field Day plans, and details on obtaining a commemorative QSL card from special event operations at the historic site.
https://uvminerals.org/minerals/gallery
The Fluorescent Mineral Society hosts a stunning photo gallery showcasing minerals from around the world photographed under shortwave, midwave, and longwave ultraviolet light, revealing their glowing colors. Specimens from famous localities like the Franklin and Sterling Hill mines in New Jersey, Tsumeb in Namibia, and sites across China, Australia, and Brazil are featured with photographer credits and mineral identification.