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https://stormandsky.com/
Storm And Sky is a storm photography and weather resource featuring hundreds of photos of supercell storms, tornadoes, and other dramatic natural phenomena. Visitors can explore trip reports, tutorials, gear recommendations, stock images, and weather and space data, making it a destination for storm chasers and weather enthusiasts alike.
https://xeno-canto.org/
Xeno-canto is a massive community-driven database of wildlife sound recordings from around the world, covering birds, frogs, mammals, bats, and more, browsable by region or taxonomy. Launched in 2005, it serves researchers, birders, and curious listeners alike with tens of thousands of freely downloadable recordings backed by an open API and active community forum.
http://pictures.ed-morana.com/
Ed Morana's personal astronomy photo and video archive documents rare celestial events including total solar eclipses, Venus and Mercury transits, ISS transits, asteroid occultations, and the Northern Lights. The collection spans events from 2006 through 2024, with time-lapse composites and an Android app for ISS transit prediction making it a genuinely useful resource for amateur astronomers.
http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/
Run by the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this site provides real-time satellite-based analysis tools and data products for tracking and studying tropical cyclones worldwide. Researchers and weather enthusiasts alike will find an impressive suite of tools including intensity estimation algorithms, microwave imagery composites, and a full archive covering Atlantic, Pacific, Indian Ocean, and South Pacific storm basins.
http://www.hawastsoc.org/
The Hawaiian Astronomical Society, founded in 1949, is a nonprofit dedicated to promoting amateur astronomy across Hawaii through monthly public star parties, school outreach, and members-only dark sky observing sessions. The site features a deep sky atlas, an astronomy newsletter, event schedules, and live solar imagery from SDO, making it a rich hub for stargazers in the islands.
https://lakeneosho.org/King1.html
Professor of Geology Norman R. King documents the Pennsylvanian-age rock exposure uncovered during I-170 highway construction in St. Louis, Missouri, with detailed photographs and technical discussion of the Altamont Formation. This site is a niche academic resource for geology enthusiasts and paleontologists interested in Carboniferous stratigraphy and fossils from the American Midwest.
https://ancient-skies.org/
Ancient-Skies is a collaborative scientific knowledgebase dedicated to documenting how human cultures across history have understood and represented the night sky. The project, launched around the International Year of Astronomy 2009, aims to gather and verify information from primary sources, making cultural astronomy accessible to both the general public and researchers worldwide.
http://meteorlab.com/
New England Meteoritical Services (meteorlab.com) is a long-running resource dedicated to everything about meteorites, including identification, appraisal, and high-resolution structural imagery through a companion site covering primary and secondary meteorite structures. The organization has been online since 1994 and served as examiner and appraiser of the historic Huss-Nininger Collection of Meteorites and Tektites, making it a notable reference for both collectors and researchers.
https://carolinabirds.org/
Created by Dick and Sandy Daniels, this site functions as a comprehensive online field guide covering over 10,000 bird species organized by genus and family, making it easy to compare related birds side by side. Entries span every major region of the world including North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, with links to additional information for each species.
https://content.lib.washington.edu/fishweb
The Freshwater and Marine Image Bank is a University of Washington Libraries digital archive containing over 16,000 historic images of fish, shellfish, marine mammals, fisheries, and aquatic subjects drawn from publications spanning 1735 to 1924. Visitors can browse richly hand-colored illustrations and photographs organized into categories ranging from limnology and aquatic botany to polar exploration and traditional fisheries from around the globe.