Web Links

First off, the PhD work mentioned here has been brought to you by the the letters G,M,T and F, and the number 90. In other words...

The Linux distribution formerly known as Mandrake.

For a while, this was the only fully functional free F90 compiler around (that I could find).

GMT. Does nearly everything in terms of geo-visualisation. Good for some processing too apparently (If you're a Python user you might want to check out PyGMT by Magnus Hagdorn).

Seismology Links

And until I get my seismology bookmarks properly organised, this ubiquitous link covers all sorts of useful stuff.

Seismo-surfing the internet

And the rest...

The USGS's recent earthquakes page

And another version

IRIS's version is a bit nicer though.

The British Geological Survey's Earthquakes page.

Some useful news sites in no particular order.

The BBC

The Times online

The Belfast Telegraph

The Edinburgh Evening News

The Register

Slashdot

sciencedaily.com

Wired

New Scientist

The Portadown News . Not as funny as it used to be. Still has the odd nugget though.

The Onion

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Newsmap. A nice graphical represenation of the relative level of stories picked up by google news.

Some useful sources of geophysical data (more along shortly)

Ben Horner-Johnson's GMT links page . Covers lots of GMT stuff, plus links to loads of geophysical and geographical data.

Earthquake Catalogues

ISC, CMT, NEIC, NCSN

Topography / Bathemetry

gtopo5, etopo30, gebco

Plate Boundaries

g3 paper by Bird

Plate Velocities

NUVEL / NUVEL-1A

Stress

World stress map project

Heat Flow

Global heat flow data base

Gravity / Magnetics ?

Some useful software