Useful Links
Meteorology and Climate Modeling
- The origins of computer weather prediction and climate modeling, by Peter Lynch
- Peter Lynch's web site at University College Dublin
- The computational future for climate and Earth system models: on the path to petaflop and beyond, by W.M. Washington, L. Buja, and A. Craig
- An overview of forecasting by computer, from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF)
- Numerical formulation of the ECMWF global atmospheric model
- A video showing the advection of particles in the flow past a cylinder
- Glossary of Meteorology, published online by the American Meteorological Society
- A recent article in Science Magazine regarding possible limitations of current climate models
Networks
- The Physics of Networks, by Mark Newman
- Mark Newman's web site at the University of Michigan
- A series of perspectives in Science Magazine, as part of a recent special issue on Complex Systems and Networks.
- Scale-Free Networks: A Decade and Beyond, by A.-L. Barabási
- Revisiting the Foundations of Network Analysis, by C.T. Butts
- Disentangling the Web of Life, by J. Bascompte
- Economic Networks: The New Challenges, by F. Schweitzer et al
- Predicting the Behavior of Techno-Social Systems, by A. Vespignani
- The 'New' Science of Networks, by D.J. Watts
- Wikipedia article on the 7 bridges of Königsberg
- Thinking outside the cube, by C. Hidalgo
Cell Biology
- Exploring Cells with a Centrifuge, by Christian de Duve
- Autobiography of Christian de Duve
- More about de Duve and his career, by J.P. Tricot
- Introduction to relevant cell organelles
- Cell Organelles, AP Biology, Mt. Mansfield Union High School
- CELLS alive! web site
- Introduction to enzymes and enzyme action, by W.H. Heidcamp
- The Significance of Tissue Fractionation Techniques in the Development of Cell Biology, by C. de Duve. A copy of this article is also available from the D2L course web site.
- Ultracentrifugation, by M. Loewen
Vision
- Evolution of Ideas on the Primary Visual Cortex, 1955-1978: A Biased Historical Account, by David H. Hubel
- Autobiography of David Hubel
- Introduction to the vertebrate visual system
- Wikipedia Visual System article
- WebVision web site
- Glossary of neuroscience
Order & Chaos
- Finding Order in the Apparent Chaos of Currents, by Bina Venkataraman
- Shoreline Environment Research Facility (SERF)
- efluids image gallery
- Wikipedia article on chaos theory
- Top marine predators track Lagrangian coherent structures, by E. Tew Kai et al.
Biofuels
- Biofuels, by Joel K. Bourne, Jr
- Prof. Gentile's presentation (PDF)
Integrated Science at the University of Arizona
- Integrated Science Program web site