DLESE Will Live
The NSF announced today that the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) will continue to operate, now under the auspices of NCAR in Boulder. This is good news for, well, everybody. Although it’s true that DLESE is cluttered with junk in some places (I’m looking at you, link-out to the general USGS site search), and although it’s true that it does look a little Web .5, it’s really a rich resource for all kinds of earth science lessons, concepts, even data. They offer several feeds and I find it sort of hard to not go look at each new resource that comes in.
“Alaska’s Cold Desert? Damn straight I’d like to learn about how well arctic wolves are coping up there.”
“National Snow and Ice Data Center? I like snow, maybe I’ll go check out why it doesn’t seem like it snows anymore.” Etcetera.